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Understand your kinship connections

by 1389AD ( 164 Comments › )
Filed under Open thread at June 27th, 2014 - 2:00 pm

Kinship is vital to understanding human relationships, and each language expresses kinship in its own way.

CGP Grey explains the concepts and vocabulary of kinship in the Anglosphere. If your first language is not English, your kinship classifications will differ in many respects.

Your Family Tree Explained

Published on Jun 4, 2014 by CGP Grey
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Shaun May
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Parallel and Cross Cousins Explained

Published on Jun 6, 2014 by CGP Grey
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Herd of Indricotheria Discovered

by Bunk Five Hawks X ( 91 Comments › )
Filed under Environmentalism, Evolution, Humor, Open thread, Satire, Science at December 14th, 2010 - 11:00 pm

Cerro Gordo, California (Strutts News Services) –
Long believed to be extinct, a small herd of female Indricotheria was discovered Thursday by two amateur Porphyrophobic scientists at a local watering hole.

Ms. Tooncie Crumbler of the Cerro Gordo Oceanic Institute described the find as “…something so incredibly awesome! We saw them in their natural habitat before we corralled them. They were so docile.”

“They had the distinct odor of unglazed, unfired pottery, and showed pink scars where they had been injured from fighting for dominance,” added Mr. Lannie Foosers, Ms. Crumbler’s assistant and mentor. “We found no males in the herd, but they must be around somewhere.”

The herd, eleven in all including one juvenile, was transported without incident to the Inyo County Fairgrounds, where they will be fed and sheltered until their rightful owners show up to claim them.

I enjoy reading news & science reports that aren’t all doom and gloom and  end on a positive note, especially when we get to discuss them on The Overnight Open Thread.

Paleocheesecake

by Bunk Five Hawks X ( 261 Comments › )
Filed under Art, Evolution, History, Humor, Open thread, World at June 5th, 2010 - 11:00 pm

Now really. Which silhouette is hotter?

Despite what the modern mind might think, The Ancients weren’t oblivious to the power of suggestive images. Lacking cameras or other modern recording equipment, they made many such representations of female anatomy (such as the one above left). Undoubtedly they knew that straw, sand or mud images wouldn’t last.

The only difference between The Ancients and us is that developing such images took weeks instead of mere seconds. On the other hand, their images lasted thousands of years, and they’re STILL hawt, in a paleolithic kinda way.

One can only imagine the surprise when Bhugah took Mokrhah aside to show him his stone equivalent of teh pron. “Dude! Check it out! Looks just like that slut from the Ptkusu clan across the wash! Give it back to me in an hour.” Of course, Bhugah never got it back, and was forced to hunt down and kill Mokrhah for being a profligate neolithic wanker.

Hell, they were just teenage boys with a tad too much time on their hands, and each likely died of an errant fleabite infection at the old age of 23, long before serious diseases were invented. But their rock-porn survived.

Fertility goddesses? Nah. Those were wanking stones.

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