Benjamin Franklin

#Anthropology roundup: “The Case for Rethinking the Calendar…”What Did the Voice of Neanderthals Sound Like?

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What Did the Voice of Neanderthals, Our Distant Cousins, Sound Like?: Scientists Demonstrate Their “High Pitch” Theory  Open Culture by Dan Colman Scholars have made informed, educated guesses at what Shakespeare sounded like in the original pronunciation. The same applies to what Old Norse sounded like from the 9th through the 13th centuries. And even to Beowulf read in … Read more

Americana roundup: U.S. migration… Doctors and nurses complicit in US torture…101 objects that made America

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Six decades of U.S. migration We know that millions of Americans move to different counties every year, and when you look at the net totals, you see a pattern of people migrate from the midwest to the coasts. However, look at migration across demographic categories, and you see more detailed movement. This was the goal of researchers at the … Read more