Tag: paleontology
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Links van 5 tot 13 april 2026
Why Modern Chinese is Just ‘English with Hanzi’ – by JingYu Looking at the fundamental architecture of language. Traditional Chinese is a language of parataxis (意合, idea-joining). It is like a traditional landscape painting; elements are placed side by side, and the relationship between them is inferred by context, intuition, and white space. There are…
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Links van 31 januari tot 9 februari 2026
5,500-Year-Old Sumerian Star Map Recorded the Impact of a Massive Asteroid – Archaeology Worlds With modern computer programs that can simulate trajectories and reconstruct the night sky thousands of years ago the researchers have established what the Planisphere tablet refers to. It is a copy of the night notebook of a Sumerian astronomer as he…
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Links van 7 tot 13 december 2025
rePalm – Dmitry.GR Pixter was quite popular, as far as kids' toys go, in USA in the early 2000s. A friend brought it to my attention a year ago as a potential rePalm target. The screen resolution was right and looking inside a "Pixter Color" showed an ARM SoC – a Sharp LH75411. The device…