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[strangebiology]

My newest article for LiveScience is about a ton of Pleistocene bones found in a cave in Siberia!

We're talking:

Mammoths

Horses

Wooly Rhinos

Wooly Bison

Brown Bears

Wolves

Yaks

Deer

Gazelles

Rodents

Birds

Fish

Frogs

and of course, cave hyenas! Including baby ones!

All the bones are chewed up too

(Image credit: V. S. Sobolev Institute of Geology and Mineralogy)

[briery]

‘Gigantic jet’ that shot into space may be the most powerful lightning bolt ever detected.

[rubikx107]

Finally we can say that Netflix will work with oda on 6 more seasons on one piece Netflix .. great news tho

[phoenix-joy]

Author & Timestamp: Jennifer Nalewicki for LiveScience.com, published April 25, 2024

Note: the headline is ever so slightly misleading, though in the same way that most news headlines written for the general public tend to be.

Extract:

(Image credit: Italian National Research Council)

The decipherment of an ancient scroll has revealed where the Greek philosopher Plato is buried, Italian researchers suggest.

Graziano Ranocchia, a philosopher at the University of Pisa, and colleagues used artificial intelligence (AI) to decipher text preserved on charred pieces of papyrus recovered in Herculaneum, an ancient Roman town located near Pompeii [...].

[...]

One of the scrolls carbonized by the eruption includes the writings of Philodemus of Gadara (lived circa 110 to 30 B.C.), an Epicurean philosopher who studied in Athens and later lived in Italy. This text, known as the "History of the Academy," details the academy that Plato founded in the fourth century B.C. and gives details about Plato's life, including his burial place. 

Historians already knew that Plato [...] was buried at the Academy, which the Roman general Sulla destroyed in 86 B.C. But researchers weren't sure exactly where on the school's grounds that Plato, who died in Athens in 348 or 347 B.C., had been laid to rest. 

[The application of] techniques including infrared and ultraviolet optical imaging, thermal imaging and tomography [have allowed researchers] to read the ancient papyrus, which is now part of the collection at the National Library of Naples.

So far, researchers have identified 1,000 words, or roughly 30% of the text written by Philodemus.

"[...] we read that Plato was buried in the garden reserved for him (a private area intended for the Platonic school) of the Academy in Athens, near the so-called Museion or sacellum sacred to the Muses," researchers wrote in the statement. "Until now it was only known that he was buried generically in the Academy."

The text also detailed how Plato was "sold into slavery" sometime between 404 and 399 B.C. (It was previously thought that this occurred in 387 B.C.)

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[guy60660]

Andrew Ostrovsky | LiveScience

[alexandraaurore-blog]

Everythings happen for a reason, no matter how hard it is, it will take time.

Focus on your dream, do what make you happy.

[michaelroofian]

Giant phallus-shaped iceberg floating in Conception Bay surprises residents of Dildo, Canada

A phallus-shaped iceberg hovered off the coast of Dildo, Newfoundland in Conception Bay before collapsing. from Livescience https://www.livescience.com/planet-earth/giant-phallus-shaped-iceberg-floating-in-conception-bay-surprises-residents-of-dildo-canada via IFTTT

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[accessible-tumbling]

ID: A screenshot of an article from LiveScience titled: "1st preserved dinosaur butthole is 'perfect' and 'unique,' paleontologist says", written by Laura Geggel and dated January 19, 2021.

Below is a subtitle reading: "This was a multipurpose hole."

End ID.

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