Angela Chen
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Neanderthals Ate Each Other And Used Their Bones As Tools
For over a century, paleoanthropologists have been fascinated by a gory question: were Neanderthals cannibals? In recent years, we’ve found remains that suggest cannibalism did exist in various parts of southern Europe but new remains found in northern Europe add further evidence to the “yes” answer and tell us more about why cannibalism was practiced.
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You Can Contract Fatal Bacteria Just By Sniffing
James St. John, a lead researcher on the study. Image: EurekaAlert Everything is dangerous. Sitting too much is bad, washing machines are infestation sites for E. coli and now the simple act of sniffing can infect you with a bacteria that has a 50 per cent chance of killing you.
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Spotify Wants You To Discover Music From People’s Out-Of-Office Emails
Do you remember those birthday cards that played a song when you opened them? Do you remember how they were sort of cool, but everyone closed the card immediately out of embarrassment? That is how I feel about Spotify’s new feature, which lets you create a personalised playlist to go with your out-of-office email.
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Churches Offer Free Wi-Fi To Lure Back Young People
It’s been over a quarter-century since the fall of the Berlin Wall, but God has not returned to East Germany. Protestant churches, getting worried about the declining popularity of Christianity, have come up with a plan. Spiritual advising couldn’t bring people back, but maybe free Wi-Fi will.