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Riehl offers a very nice introductory summary of the neolithisation process but with one big omission. While citing an outsider hypothesis by Watkins, requiring a coincidence of timing, that reminds of Old Testament miracles and acts of G-d, Read the rest of this entry »
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Reading Livio & Silk strengthens my gut feeling – admittedly substantiated by nothing but the size of the gut – that neither dark energy nor dark matter exist, the Hubble constant is an artefact Read the rest of this entry »
Für die Weltmacht Rußland ist seit jeher der Zugang ihrer Marine zu den Weltmeeren strategisch unverzichtbar. Da alle anderen Häfen im hohen Norden liegen und mit Ausnahme von Wladivostok im Winter zugefroren sind, kommt dabei der Krim als einzigem Warmwasserhafen eine besondere Bedeutung zu. Read the rest of this entry »
„Schäuble präsentiert schuldenfreien Haushalt 2015“ [Der Spiegel]; „Haushalt ohne neue Schulden“ [Tagesspiegel]; „Schäuble plant ohne neuen Schulden“ [ZDF]; „Bund will nächstes Jahr ohne neue Schulden auskommen“ [FAZ]
So viel Einigkeit quer durch das gesamte Spektrum von Rundfunk und Presse – und alles ist gelogen. Richtig ist, Read the rest of this entry »
So far nothing substantial is known about the missing flight from Malaysia and all a sensible blogger can do is shut up and wait. Of course that’s quite the opposite of what our mainstream media are doing. There is however one very important side aspect that’s turned up and about which enough is known Read the rest of this entry »
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Seemingly Stanford & Bradley are increasingly being disproved by the growing number of new aDNA determinations. On the other hand we should keep in mind the problems of finding remains of Anglo-Saxon invaders in the archeological record – so far all individuals tested have turned out to be acculturated Britains. The whole area where Solutréen immigrants may have settled, all of eastern USA, is known for its extremely bad bone preservation. To my mind Stanford & Bradley’s arguments are convincing. Read the rest of this entry »
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Of course a single study, even if a sizeable one like Burkert et al., is not sufficient for general conclusions and even less for determining the direction of causality. It is however strikingly divergent, in fact the opposite, of what current mainstream consensus tends to claim. So one thing we can say is that things are not as simple and monocausal as vegetarian propagandists would have us believe. Read the rest of this entry »
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I wanted to rubbish Alcock et al. but again found Feynman’s rule on primary sources confirmed. From the Nature’s research highlights through the abstract to results the interpretation better fits the data moving from utter nonsense to quite a sensible analysis. That said their data are open to an alternative analysis. Both groups Read the rest of this entry »
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If someone tells me, his result “was achieved through Microsoft Excel 2003’s summation function”, which is more or less what Jennings & Waters do, I know, he has not understood simple addition. What they offer is junior high school stuff: Throwing a dice n times, what is the probability never to get a single six? Like not finding a rare tool in a small sample this too rapidly diminishes with sample size. Read the rest of this entry »
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Although Rhodes & Churchill’s data all point towards Neanderthals throwing things, they strangely conclude the opposite in their discussion. Admittedly there are some surprising elements Read the rest of this entry »
