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 From - Knowable Magazine, By - Diana Kwon, Edited by - Amal Udawatta,          Women and children of the Hadza tribe in Tanzania head out to dig tubers. Studies of the Hadza diet reveal that they eat a seasonally changing variety of meat, fruit, tubers and honey — a far cry from today’s meat-heavy “Paleo diet.”       CREDIT: © MATTHIEU PALEY hat did people eat for dinner tens of thousands of years ago? Many advocates of the so-called Paleo diet will tell you that our ancestors’ plates were heavy on meat and low on carbohydrates — and that, as a result, we have evolved to thrive on this type of nutritional regimen. CREDIT: JAMES PROVOST (CC BY-ND) Evolutionary anthropologist Herman Pontzer Duke University The diet is named after the Paleolithic era, a period dating from about 2.5 million to 10,000 years ago when early humans were hunting and gathering, rather than farming. Herman Pontzer, an evolutionary anthropologist at Duke University and author of  Burn , a book about the science o

From - Mongabay for  kids, Edited by Vinuri Randhula Silva , Artist’s impression of Nombe Rockshelter megafauna, showing the Nombe kangaroo on the right. Illustration courtesy Peter Schouten. The animals that live in the world today also have extinct relatives that lived thousands or millions of years ago. We know about these extinct species because we find their fossils. A team of paleontologists from Flinders University in Australia has used a fossil to identify a previously unknown type of primitive giant kangaroo. This giant kangaroo lived in the rain forests of New Guinea. This is an artist’s impression of the new kangaroo: Can you find this kangaroo in the forest scene below? About 5 – 8 million years ago, the island of New Guinea was connected to mainland Australia by a land bridge. At that time, sea levels were lower than they are now.  Today, the islands of New Guinea and Australia are separated by a body of water called the Torres Strait. There are no longer large kangaroo sp

  Mathew Lyons  | Published in  History Tod ay Edited by  - Vinuri Randhula Silva John Payne Collier died on 17 September 1883, after a lifetime of creating deliberate fictions, falsehoods and forgeries. ‘An inquiry into the genuineness of the manuscript corrections in Mr. J. Payne Collier’s annotated Shakspere, folio, 1632: and of certain Shaksperian documents likewise published by Mr. Collier’, by N.E.S.A. Hamilton, 1860. Special Collections, University of Delaware Library.  John Payne Collier: three words sure to chill the heart of any early modern English literary scholar. Why? Because Collier was that most interesting of phenomena: a fine scholar who was also a first-class fraud.  Aside from including deliberate fictions and falsehoods in printed records of archival material, he also introduced forgeries into the archives themselves, faking official documents, adding information to letters and diaries, falsifying registers and inventories and more. While connoisseurs of Collier’s

From -  Science News Staff (Science Magazine) Edited by - Amal Udawatta, European satellite duo will study oceans and warming The European Space Agency (ESA) last week approved the $420 million Harmony mission as the next in its Earth Explorer line of science missions, following a competition. Harmony’s two satellites will carry infrared sensors and radar receivers to observe the turbulent waves, winds, and eddies that govern the interchange of heat and gases between the oceans and atmosphere. Scientists know oceans soak up more than 90% of the excess heat of global warming, but they need Harmony’s finer scale observations to explain how—and to calibrate climate models that predict the evolution of these dynamics decades ahead. “We want to study how the oceans and the atmosphere are talking to each other,” says principal investigator Paco López-Dekker, a remote sensing scientist at the Delft University of Technology. After launch in 2029, the Harmony satellites will fly in formation wi

  By -Jessica Murphy BBC News, Toronto Edited by- Amal Udawatta, IMAGE SOURCE, REUTERS Image caption, Prince Charles of Wales during his visit to Canada in 1977, when he was given an honorary chieftainship by the Kainai Nation In recent years Canada has worked to advance reconciliation with indigenous people in the country. What does the accession of a new King of Canada mean for that process? Earlier this year, at a reception in Canada's national capital, King Charles - at the time the Prince of Wales - was asked for an apology. The request came from Assembly of First Nations National Chief RoseAnne Archibald, who told him that the Crown needs to make amends for the "assimilation and genocide" of indigenous schoolchildren at residential schools run by the Anglican Church - of which Charles is now the head - and for its role in colonisation. The three-day visit was Charles's nineteenth official tour in the country, and his last as the Prince of Wales. Charles did not