Kristina Killgrove

I talked to experts to understand why people across time and space have shaped their kids’ heads. 🏺🧪

TV: Archaeologists are on the hunt for priceless treasures. Let’s see what they’ve found. 🏺

Actual archaeologists, buzzing with excitement:

Awww, look at my home state, learning from all the Lost Cause bullshit that echoed in I was taught in school in the '80s.

Harper to the judge: "Your driver's license doesn't list your height and weight at birth. It doesn't list where you used to live. It identifies who you are now."

I helped edit this super cool story of a dude from India who wrote his name on Egyptian tombs 2,000 years ago! 🏺🧪

We use Asana and it's... fine. (Recently moved from AirTable, which was easier to use; not as many bells and whistles.)

Yeah, "looks cool" is always a potential reason!

Ancient 'alien-like' skulls have been found on every continent but Antarctica. Anthropologists are starting to figure out why. Humans have practiced head shaping for tens of thousands of years, and anthropologists are beginning to uncover clues as to why.

"In the same way that some people swaddle their children, the same way that there's religious circumcision, you bind the heads of your children because that is what we do to our children." -- bioarchaeologist Christina Torres 🏺🧪

Growing up in Charlottesville, it didn't bother me when outsiders called Rio "ree-o", but when people mispronounced Monticello (as mont-i-sell-o), it drove me nuts!

What, no love for Staunton, Buena Vista, or McGaheysville? (Love my central VA shibboleths!)

Prosciutto di Portici: A ham-shaped portable sundial likely owned by Julius Caesar's father-in-law — before it was buried by Mount Vesuvius This small bronze sundial was a portable way of telling time, but it may have made you hungry.

Yessss, I wrote about the Prosciutto di Portici last summer! Such a fun artifact. 🐷

www.livescience.com/archaeology/...

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Creator of Heated Rivalry sets series on Alexander The Great and Aristotle Creator of Heated Rivalry sets series on Alexander The Great and Aristotle

See also 😮

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Influencers are promoting peptides for better health. What does the science say? The latest wellness craze involves injecting these molecules for athletic performance, longevity and more. Scientists say the research isn't keeping pace with the health claims.

I don't understand how we have to beg people to get vaccinated while other people are fine shooting themselves up with untested compounds for unproven "gains" risking god knows what

CNN: Approval for President Trump's East Wing ballroom project – from a government commission that oversees planning for federal buildings and land in the nation's capital – is delayed after it received over 32,000 comments from the public overwhelmingly opposing the construction.

Sorry boss, I can't work, I'm watching Kristi Noem do a press conference and she doesn't know she's been shitcanned

There it is: Noem out, Mullin in

This list is about changes that affect the skeleton (and can be seen by archaeologists centuries or millennia later). Castration is the only genital surgery that archaeologists have found past evidence of.

Chart showing in many countries, people see their fellow citizens as morally good.

We asked people around the world to rate the morality and ethics of others in their country.

The U.S. is the only place we surveyed where more adults describe the morality and ethics of others living in the country as bad than good. See our full morality report here: www.pewresearch.org/...

Marsupials previously thought extinct for millennia discovered in New Guinea The chances of finding one mammal species thought to be lost was ‘almost zero’ and finding two is ‘unprecedented’, biologist Tim Flannery says

"Two charismatic marsupial species that had been thought extinct for 6,000 years are alive in rainforest in remote West Papua."

Oh yeah this is super cool as both the pygmy long-fingered possum and ring-tailed glider were previously only known from fossils 🤯🧪🐀
www.theguardian.com/environment/...

The sword in the sea: How one lucky graduate student found his second Crusader sword while taking a swim off Israel's coast A 12th-century sword spotted jutting out of the seabed in Israel was designed for one-handed combat during the Crusades.

The sword in the sea: How one lucky graduate student found his second Crusader sword while taking a swim off Israel's coast www.livescience.com/archaeology/...

🧪 So if de-extincted 'mammoths' really are "about two years" away, then they need to be implanting embryos right now, as @toriherridge.bsky.social pointed out in 2024.

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Biotech investor set to lead US National Science Foundation If confirmed by the US Senate, Jim O'Neill would be the first non-scientist or engineer to lead the agency, a big funder of US basic research.

O'Neill, an investor in anti-aging technology who worked on HHS policy, would be the first non-scientist or engineer to lead NSF. His background will be a 'major concern' to the science and technology community, former NSF director Neal Lane told me.

@maxkozlov.bsky.social and I report:

Screenshot of a press release titled “How much sleep do teens get? Six-seven hours. And that is definitely not enough.”

Well played, UConn PIO. 😂

Stand Up for Science plans second rally on March 7 Public health chaos and research funding cuts are inspiring nationwide pro-science protests against the Trump administration

Stand Up for Science will hold second rally against Trump administration www.scientificamerican.com/article/stan...

9 ways people have modified their bodies since the dawn of time, from foot binding to castration Many types of body modification date back hundreds or thousands of years, revealing our ancient ancestors were not that different from us.

We’ve always been looksmaxxing. 🏺🧪

Climate disasters caused societal upheaval 3,000 years ago in China, study of 'oracle bones' hints Some civilizations in inland China underwent dramatic changes and population drops 3,000 years ago. Now, researchers are using oracle bones, archaeological evidence and climate modeling to find out why.

Climate disasters caused societal upheaval 3,000 years ago in China, study of 'oracle bones' hints www.livescience.com/archaeology/...

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CSI: Moss! 😎

"In this case study, a common moss, Fissidens taxifolius, played a pivotal role in revealing the duration of the desecrated human remains and potential evidence for the location from which they had been disinterred."

Maternal grandfather: Factory worker with an 8th grade education. Paternal grandfather: POW in WWII then literal rocket scientist at JPL.