Tue. 12/29 - How Humans Began to Read and Write
Dec 29, 2020•15 min
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Episode description
How is it that humans figured out how to read? New cosmological findings that may finally solve the Hubble tension. And, more monoliths continue to pop up, a look at two of the more interesting ones from this past week.
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Links:
- Reading, That Strange and Uniquely Human Thing (Nautilus)
- Language is a tool, a technology (NomeDaBarbarian, Twitter)
- Astronomers Get Their Wish, and the Hubble Crisis Gets Worse (Quanta)
- Mysterious monolith appears in Pittsfield (WCAX)
- Photos of gingerbread monolith (Alexis Gallagher, Twitter)
- Christmas Day Wonder: Gingerbread Monolith Mysteriously Appears at SF Park (KQED)
- Gingerbread monolith delights San Francisco on Christmas Day (AP)
- Kottke.Org
- Jackson Bird on Twitter
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