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Here's a map of Mars if, like Earth, it were covered by water on 71% of its surface.
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Der Polytropos-Diskurs ist zwar schon beendet, ich wollte aber nur nochmal darauf hinweisen, was sich die Leute, die Wilsons Neuerung, was eine drastische Divergenz von der Forschungsmeinung ist, hätten machen müssen. Sie hätten nicht den LSJ bemühen dürfen, sondern im Wörterbuch für Homer schlechthin, dem Lexikon des frühgriechischen Epos, nachschauen müssen, wie es das diskutiert, bevor sie ihr seichtes Geschwafel ablassen. Diesen Artikel anzuführen wäre das mindeste, was man in der Wissenschaft "Referat der bisherigen Forschungsmeinung" nennt und in Qualifikationsarbeiten von Bachelorarbeit bis Habilitation erwartet wird. Wenn meine Studenten mir mit dem LSJ kommen und damit dann filigran Homer erklären versuchen zu wollen, dann haben sie für Homer das falsche Mittel benutzt. Ich erlaube mir mal, den GEMSAMTEN Lexikon-Artikel für das Lemma πολύτροπος zu kopieren. Also cf. LfGrE 3, 1432f. Cuypers vertritt in 1433, 16–34 übrigens selber die modernistische Auffassung, die schon bei Eustath eine feige Harmonisierung ist. Aber um sich das kritische Urteil erlauben zu dürfen, muss man eben viel Homer und viele Homerinterpretation der letzten 2700 Jahre, die in diesen Artikel kulminieren, gelesen haben. Da reicht es nicht, ne Minute im LSJ zu wühlen und sich dann einen Tweet-Thread mit 10 Einträgen aus den Fingern zu saugen. Wenn man die Frage also nach 2700 Jahren nicht klären konnte und jeder, der sich wissenschaftlich dazu äußern muss, feige Kompromisse vorschlägt, damit man ihm nichts vorwerfen kann, dann sollte man vielleicht nicht so steil behaupten, dass 'complicated' entweder Forschungsmeinung ist, oder eine richtige neue Alternative. Nein, man sollte dann so ehrlich sein, dass es eine modernistische und politische Entscheidung ist, wie es die Übersetzerin ja selbst andeutet. Einfach ehrlich sein. Es ist eine Nachdichtung und sie wollte nicht πολύτροπος übersetzen, sondern hat dieses schwierige Wort als übersetzerische Lizenz gebraucht, Odysseus so zu zeichnen, wie sie ihn gerne zeichnen will.
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People who say math is painful
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How an Ancient Alchemist Accidentally Invented Summer Ice
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Malcolm Guite is quickly becoming one of my favorite people

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This line is crucial for Greek and Postmodern philosophy, shedding invaluable light on all the talk of Odysseus as “polytropos” and “polymetis” The adjective “terribly [αἰνῶς]” is “deinos,” its noun is “deinoteta” — which Aristotle singles out (!) in the Ethics (EN 6.12) 1/3
Homer never describes what Helen looked like. The closest he comes is: αἰνῶς ἀθανάτῃσι θεῇς εἰς ὦπα ἔοικεν 'Terribly like the immortal goddesses she seemed as to her face.' Iliad 3.158
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I know I keep retweeting all these posts about Reich's paper but it is confusing and hard to understand, so different explanations of what he's saying are useful, imo.
Very unusual new paper by David Reich on Neanderthal origins & HS-Neanderthal split: Neanderthals were actually modern humans, but with ~95% archaic admixture. biorxiv.org/content/10.64898… ~300 ka, early HS w/ Levallois tech expanded into Europe & extensively interbred w/ local Eurasian archaics (Sima de los Huesos/Denisovan-like). Minimal reproductive barrier → massive introgression: resulting pop. ~95% archaic nuclear DNA, but retained HS culture (Levallois), Y-chr & mtDNA. This admixed group = Neanderthals. Meanwhile, remaining HS expanded into Africa & mixed w/ deeper-divergent African archaics (~1.5 Ma split, stronger barrier), acquiring ~20% archaic ancestry & becoming contemporary HS. Neanderthals & modern HS formed by parallel admixture ~300–200 ka. Unusual. OOA followed by 60 ka, both groups met again.
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The reason people think this is because this photo gets shared around so much as "real / accurate bronze age armour" and everyone thinks this is what it actually looked like.
Actual Bronze Age armor is so odd-looking it would (ironically) completely ruin the audience immersion. It looks like something from a bad 80s fantasy film. Normal people have been "vibe-coded" to expect a certain style in films about Ancient Greece, whether Homeric or Classical
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Dangerous hiking route: Three Gorges Dragon Ridge, China
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Human population density around the world. 📽: Tyler Morgan-Wall

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European place names containing Celtic *brigantī-, *brigiōn- reddit.com/user/Can_sen_dono…
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The speed of light visualized on a cosmic scale. 📽: Dr James O'Donoghue
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This is why you tap immediately. A BJJ practitioner demonstrating the breaking mechanics of an ankle lock on 3 baseball bats

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In my memoirs I am detailing how and why Gary and I designed the many dungeon levels we used during and after the play-tests of D&D. A master class is forthcoming.
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5 Dec 2025
Purple is purely a mental construct of the human brain. We invented the color because of a lack of a sensor signal.
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11 Sep 2025
Chinese girl uses make up to transform into whoever she wants to

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There will be a lot of vacant and worthless real estate in Poland, Italy and Spain, in 10 - 20 years, not in 2100. And don’t assume that you will be able to live from your pension, there are not enough people to pay for it. Most people don’t understand what’s coming yet.
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17 Nov 2025
Beautiful map of the Middle East at the end of the last ice age. The modern Persian Gulf is simply the half of Mesopotamia lost to the waves. Underwater archeology would reveal startling new finds here.
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17 Nov 2025
When you think of the stone age you shouldn't think of "cave men" rather of great wooden forts and long-distance trade over rivers. There is a lost world of the ice age that has never been presented to the public to be found in neglected archeological papers.
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Locke, Marx, and 20th century anthropologists imagined mythical "noble savages" singing kumbaya were our forefathers. But the genetic and archaeological record shows, instead, violent population replacements, great treks over land and sea, and even settled communities.
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> be founder > do media interview > show the interviewer your sword > ?? > profit?? can someone please explain this
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