Humans are master meaning generators

A hashtag in the sky above a school at dusk in southern Rhode Island.   Was it put there intentionally? What does it mean? For as long as we...

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Can you throw with half a brain?

Homo erectus had half the brains that we have. This guy's got even less. ( source ) This being at least my third post about the evoluti...

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A Prehistory of Throwing Things

A long post in honor of Major League Baseball’s upcoming World Series… Music, language, and calculus have always kept us atop the animal kin...

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