Mirabilis @mirabilis@octodon.social

How Neolithic farming sowed the seeds of modern inequality 10,000 years ago

https://www.theguardian.com/inequality/2017/dec/05/how-neolithic-farming-sowed-the-seeds-of-modern-inequality-10000-years-ago

#inequality #history #agriculture #farming #neolithic #paleolithic #agriculturalrevolution

@SlowRain That's frustrating, isn't it?

@SlowRain Perhaps.

Mostly I'm disappointed. There was an independent discussion space, and now it's gone. I guess the assumption is that everybody is already on FB, or will join for this. That says sad things about the state of the internet, IMHO.

@bradlibum Learn by doing. Make posts. Edit them. Publish them. If you get stuck, do a web search to see if you can find the answer yourself. Rinse, lather, repeat.

@gannet It is. I've just spent a few minutes removing all links from sites of mine to that site. A clean break is best, I think.

@segfault Nothing, except the desire to keep Facebook out of my life altogether.

This article explains some of the problems with #Facebook:

Get your loved ones off Facebook
http://www.salimvirani.com/facebook/

There's lots more, here:
https://www.reddit.com/r/AntiFacebook/

So, yeah. I want no part of any Facebook thing.

A website I have loved just announced that it is shutting down its forum, and moving the discussion to #Facebook. Sigh.

Well, I guess that's the end of my relationship with that site.

@wim_v12e Wow. That's gorgeous!

@stephastated OK, I wrote this for you: A public service announcement on how to get rid of leg cramps.

http://mirabilis.ca/2017/12/04/leg-cramps/

This is what worked for me, anyway.

@stephastated What causes them?

@FuzboleroXV

Yeah, that's Facebook for you. Give them another few years, and they'll be asking for a DNA sample before letting you into your account.

And still, what do most people do? Complain about it, yet continue to use #Facebook.

Study finds reading information aloud to yourself improves memory

"...the study determined that it is the dual action of speaking and hearing oneself that has the most beneficial impact on memory."

https://uwaterloo.ca/news/news/study-finds-reading-information-aloud-yourself-improves

#memory #learning #studying #education #pedagogy

@photopuck I agree. In the meantime, you might try a browser extension like Stylish, which lets you customize the way a particular website looks in your browser.

@thor What kind of musical instruments were in your house when you were a kid?

Explorers find massive ice-age cavern beneath Montreal

"Cathedral-like chamber, formed more than 15,000 years ago, features underground lake"

http://www.cbc.ca/beta/news/canada/montreal/montreal-underground-passage-1.4428833

#Montreal #aquifer #cave #cavern

@venetianblond Wow.

@venetianblond That sounds like an ambitious project!

@venetianblond

Got any crochet projects underway?