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The Most Violent Era In America Was Before Europeans Arrived

There's a mythology about the native Americans, that they were all peaceful and in harmony with nature - it's easy to create narratives when there is no written record. But archeology keeps its own history and a new paper finds that the 20th century ...

Article - News Staff - May 5 2025 - 3:13pm - 0 attachments

As Hunting Declines, So Do Conservation Efforts

President Obama recently got some ridicule for hastily claiming he loved skeet shooting and therefore was not against sportsmen when he wanted to tell Americans they couldn't be trusted to decide how many bullets to buy for their guns. That he was&n ...

Article - Hank Campbell - Feb 7 2025 - 10:13am - 0 attachments

Acid Raid And Ozone Depletion 250 Million Years Ago

... modern problems but it has been connected to the Permian extinction 250 million years ago, a mass die-off so severe in Earth's history ... Their work is published in Geology . The mass extinction included the sudden loss of more than 90 percent of marine species ...

Article - News Staff - Sep 18 2024 - 2:13pm - 0 attachments

Sexiest Vegan: PETA Objectifies Women Again

The People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA) is continuing its long-standing policy of defending dead animals by exploiting live human women. Well, clearly it works, since I am giving them free publicity by hammering on their lack of ethics i ...

Blog Post - Hank Campbell - Apr 24 2024 - 8:08am - 0 attachments

Civilization (And Beer): An Enormous Improvement On The Lack Thereof

Fermentation Came First Evidence mounts almost daily that beer started humans on the path to civilization even before the invention of agriculture some twelve thousand years ago. A paper in Evolutionary Anthropology says that, based on tests of ...

Article - Norm Benson - Apr 8 2024 - 3:33pm - 0 attachments

Evolutionary Psychology Can't Be Wrong, Says Evolutionary Psychologist

If a crime occurs, asking the criminal what happened is unlikely to give you the most accurate picture of events.  This is why police interview the victim first.    So an evolutionary psychologist outlining how great evolutionary psychology ...

Blog Post - Hank Campbell - Dec 14 2023 - 10:58am - 0 attachments

Ray Kurzweil Pushes Singularity Back To 2045

Last year I attended a singularity conference and Ray Kurzweil's avatar predicted it was 25 years away.   Well, it's been 25 years away for a long time.  It's a nice, safe number, close enough that no one gives up and stops buying books (global ...

Article - Hank Campbell - Mar 13 2023 - 6:51pm - 0 attachments

Why Resilient Humans Would Survive Giant Asteroid Impact - Even With Over 90% Of Species Extinct

... who warns: “But on the other hand they are the extinction-level events, things like dinosaur killers, they’re 50 to 60 ... scientist. Although there is a risk of “mass extinction” if a large asteroid hit Earth, “mass extinction” there ...

Article - Robert Walker - Dec 24 2022 - 10:53am - 0 attachments

End Of All Life On Earth - A Billion Years From Now - Can It Be Avoided - And Who Will Be Here Then?

... go extinct. Some future version of the Voluntary Human Extinction Movement - not much likelihood I think of that happening at ... from humans. Especially if we do have a massive extinction, there would be many niches in the ecosystem, and some may be filled ...

Article - Robert Walker - Jun 14 2022 - 8:33pm - 0 attachments

Apocalypse 1957: On The Beach

... reprieve for the human species. In the face of certain extinction, the residents of Australia are remarkably stoic. Society does not ...

Article - Michael White - Oct 13 2021 - 12:48pm - 0 attachments