WEIRD HISTORY
Hunter Biden embraces his father, President Joe Biden, and his stepmother, Jill, at Biden’s 2021 inauguration. Drew Angerer/Getty Images – By Shannon Bow O’Brien, Associate Professor of Instruction, The University of Texas at Austin Published: 2023 Jun 22 – Hunter Biden, the younger …
The practice of putting images of only deceased or allegorical people on U.S. stamps dates back to 1847. Schulte Productions/iStock via Getty Images Plus – By Richard Handler, Professor of Anthropology, University of Virginia And Laura Goldblatt, Assistant Professor of English, University of …
An illustration of the new dinosaur, a master of migration. Mauricio Álvarez View gallery – 3 images – By Bronwyn Thompson 2023 Jun 19 – Scientists have been able to name a new species of dinosaur that roamed the river plains of Chile’s Patagonia …
Animals that shared the landscape with humans disappeared as the ice age ended. Mauricio Antón/Wikimedia Commons, CC BY – By Christopher R. Moore, Research Professor and Director of the Southeastern Paleoamerican Survey (SEPAS) at the South Carolina Institute for Archaeology and Anthropology, University …
A woman teaches a dance form, known as bhangra, during a 3HO gathering. Gurumustuk Singh/Flickr, CC BY-NC-SA – By Simranjit Khalsa, Assistant Professor of Sociology, University of Memphis Published: 2023 Jun 14 – Throngs of people, most wearing white clothing and many adorned …
Wiping away tears, Nita Battise, vice chairperson of the tribal council of the Alabama-Coushatta Tribe of Texas, reacts to the Supreme Court ruling upholding a law that gives Native American families priority in adoptions and foster care placements of tribal children. Mandel Ngan/AFP …
Has he got news for you … Bryan Cranston stars as the Host in Asteroid City. Photograph: Pop. 87 Productions/Focus Features – Movies Interview – By Xan Brooks His role as The Host in Wes Anderson’s Asteroid City sees the actor return to …
An AI-generated image constructed by the researchers illustrates what the lifeforms in the “Protosterol Biota” may have looked like. Orchestrated in MidJourney by TA 2023 – By Michael Irving 2023 Jun 14 – Scientists have discovered evidence of a “lost world” of previously unknown …
Olmec culture deeply shaped later Mesoamerican civilizations like the Aztecs. Danny Lehman/The Image Bank via Getty Images – By Karl Taube, Distinguished Professor of Anthropology, University of California, Riverside Published: 2023 Jun 07 – An extremely important 1-ton sculpture, sometimes referred to by …
Fossil vanished shortly afterwards and was found again after a social media callout and donated to museum in Santa Cruz. The mastodon tooth is less than 1m years old, which is ‘new’ by fossil standards. Photograph: Jennifer Schuh/AP – Associated Press Last modified …
