Arkaeology

Holy Crap!! was my reaction in February when I read that one of the world's leading marine archaeologists, Robert Prescott of St Andrews University, was "quietly confident" that he and his team had found Charles Darwin's ship, HMS Beagle buried in the Essex marshes. Holy Crap (without the exclamation marks) was also my reaction yesterday… Continue reading Arkaeology

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Let's Not Call Them Hobbits

The discovery of the remains of a previously unknown member of our own genus, Homo, on the remote Indonesian island of Flores is creating quite a stir. And rightly so: Homo floresiensis is a genuinely delightful find. Measuring a mere one metre in height, the remains of the first H. floresiensis to be uncovered were originally… Continue reading Let's Not Call Them Hobbits

A Far More Satisfactory Theory

The legendary American folk singer Pete Seeger sounds like a thoroughly good chap: not only did he actively participate in the American civil rights movement of the 1960s, and inspire an excellent album by Bruce Springsteen, but, according to a recent story in the Guardian newspaper, nowadays he'll spend hours in [the Beacon Sloop] club,… Continue reading A Far More Satisfactory Theory

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