Life in the Burning Age.

Swiss Re was making noises about this back in the 90s.

It was like that here in Calgary a couple of weeks ago. There’s still an overall haze, even though a lot of the fires up north have died back.

They’ve also exhausted their own aquifers. So they’re exporting the costs of their own inability to curb their water use.

The Sima de los Huesos site in Spain has been proposed as a deliberate mortuary site - it’s about 430,000 years old, older than the Rising Star site. But the species that used it (Homo antecessor, I think) has a bigger brain than H. naledi.

Eating fish, especially oily fish, is a good idea at those latitudes - a source of vitamin D.

The intention might be to keep her in one place until the authorities can come up with something more long-term.

Professor Challenger assures us that when the Earth screams, you’ll know it.

The title’s misleading. You can be perfectly functional and still have a lousy sex life.

Sorry to see you go, Molly - you’ve done good work here. Best of luck in future endeavours.

Unfortunately that sort of shorthand can be misinterpreted by any layman hearing it. In my field (evolutionary biology) we often talk about “design” when we’re discussing morphological adaptation, and this has been taken as a tacit admission that we do believe in design, and of course a Designer, but we just won’t…

Where is here?

Oh dear. You’re on to us.

I got an e-mail yesterday from a guy down in the Black Hills, telling me that the smoke from the Alberta wildfires was detectable down there.

“Stew Peters”?

There’s a theory that the invasion of Europe by Indo-European speakers (the Yamnayans) was facilitated by their carrying the plague into Europe - the indigenous inhabitants had no immunity, whereas the Yamnayans, coming from an area where plague was endemic, had evolved some resistance.

Those are all in tech support.

The ones we call killer whales?

Diatoms make their shells from silicon as well.

Just the start: