Mirabilis @mirabilis@octodon.social
Spain cracks King Ferdinand's 500-year-old secret code
Laser scans reveal Maya "megalopolis" below Guatemalan jungle.
English mass grave contains remains of Viking Great Army
http://sciencenordic.com/english-mass-grave-contains-remains-viking-great-army
@Zoonie Thanks! Maybe I'll take a look at that book - it sounds interesting.
Black Death spread by human fleas and lice, research shows
http://www.cbc.ca/news/technology/black-death-fleas-lice-1.4485664
#plague #yersiniapestis #bubonicplague #blackdeath #history #disease #pandemic
Unique Viking runes discovered in Denmark
http://sciencenordic.com/unique-viking-runes-discovered-denmark
Phone security settings we wish we had: https://xkcd.com/1934/
@RexfordGTugwell Oh, cool! Thanks for pointing this out.
Dual Migration Created Genetic 'melting Pot' of the First Scandinavians
https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2018-01/p-dmc010218.php
#history #archaeology #Scandinavia #geneticvariants #DNA #adaptation
@clhendricksbc Congratulations! Your smiles make me happy.
A search for a lost hammer led to the largest cache of Roman treasure ever found in Britain.
This makes total sense to me: give opiod users clean drugs, so that they don't need to take street drugs that are laced with fentanyl and god knows what else.
#opiod #fentanyl #heroin #hydromorphone #overdose
#Vancouver #BC #Canada
@seanmunger Ah. As a non-twitter user, I didn't know that was a thing.
@seanmunger Why not just use #history? Seems that it would work just as well, without having the disadvantage of excluding all those who don't know the newly-coined term.
In the Bones of a Buried Child, Signs of a Massive Human Migration to the Americas
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/01/03/science/native-americans-beringia-siberia.html?_r=0
A Norwegian University Student Used a Spy Camera in This Amazing Example of 19th Century Street Photography
http://www.thisiscolossal.com/2018/01/19th-century-norwegian-street-photography/
Pope said "no thanks" to Norwegian coins
http://sciencenordic.com/pope-said-no-thanks-norwegian-coins
@interlinked Wordpress and a form plugin works fine for my data collection needs.
@interlinked That's a cool idea, but the use of google forms makes me sad.
I think I'm doing ok with cardboard if I can get it folded into a tidy heap for recycling day. Meanwhile, Warren King is creating amazing life-size cardboard sculptures of Chinese villagers. How, even?
