“Who We Are: #3 Neanderthals | West Hunter

Gratuitous, but fun:Ernst Mayr, a prominent figure in biology had opined that hybridization was an unimportant factor in evolution, as far as I can tell for no particular reason at all. For equally mysterious reasons, people paid attention to him.

As I start work on my monthly ...

As I start work on my monthly review, it occurs to me that despite having signed up for @belle’s excellent roundup of reviews, and checking my spam folder, I’ve never received a single one.

From a thread on Hackernews

I  have a sneaking suspicion that if tomorrow Apple or Google just subscribed everyone to 99% Invisible and waited, FM radio would be dead in a year. Sweet thought, but unlikely.