As you probably noticed, I've been slightly obsessed with Neanderthals lately so when this one popped up I jumped in.
It's an easy to watch documentary that starts with a nice reconstruction of how the bones in the Neanderthal were found.
Pretty soon the documentary starts explaining that the idea of the dumb cave dwelling savage is nonsense.
YES, that's exactly what I like to hear.
Go Neanderthals.
Humans really like thinking everybody who came before them was worse than they were.
Interesting to read about how the Nazis claimed the Aryan Ubermensch annihilated out the subhuman Neanderthal.
Another reason to like the Neanderthals.
I did not know the Nazis closed down the first Neanderthal museum, we're lucky the bones survived!
I so want to visit the modern Neanderthal museum and meet the Feldhofer sculpture made by the Kennis brothers.
The documentary reminds us that the Neanderthal would probably beat all humans during the Olympics... now that might make me watch sports ;)
The bit on modern science, like VR and DNA being used is quite amazing.
The things we can learn from bones, rock and stone splinters is mind blowing.
Neanderthals looked after the disabled.
The scene showing a Neanderthal fancying a homo sapiens is hilarious.
I love the scientist saying that the Neanderthals are us and that we can be proud of having their DNA in our blood.
Neanderthals did make art though, but I guess they didn't know that yet when the documentary was made; sapiens.org/archaeology/ne…
I enjoyed this documentary, it makes me happy that the more we learn the more biased outdated myths vanish.
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Sailors of HMS Rattlesnake bathing, drawing made by their captain Owen Stanley in the late 1840s while under orders to survey the inner route along the Great Barrier Reef and to chart the southern coast of New Guinea.
He made many drawings, a few in this thread:
This is how conspiracies are born.
Someone who doesn't understand old art (and may have problems seeing) thinks that this painting shows that Queen Mary I was brown and the painting later (literally) whitewashed to hide that but they forgot one hand... tiktok.com/@kingsmonologu…
Thinking that for a second is fine, but actually believing it and making a whole CSI video about it... that's daft.
Here's the biggest version of the painting I could find.
If we take a closer look at her brown hand...
We see that she's just wearing & holding a folded glove.
Claiming that famous historical figures, especially royals, were not the skin colour everybody thinks they had is quite popular online.
It's weird.
Nice to see an online paper that reaches so many people talk about this subject.
But seeing healthy people during the Black Death would have been very normal.
Not everyone looked sick right away or at the same time.
A thread.
I think this person describes these kind of ai videos very accurately, brilliant, what a wonderful insight, who is this wonderful lady, oh wait, hang on.
Sigh, the "It's not a documentary" excuse is so tiresome.
It's just a slightly less silly sounding way of saying "I couldn't bother to do research", "I don't really care about history" or "Ai do bleep bloop beep boop and its cool and I make money so yay".
They've done it again.
The internet is flooded with history themed Ai nonsense and people are loving it.
The History revived page has 600k followers and they're all about posting ai generated history themed rubbish.
Some of it is fun & interesting, but most of it is... well...
Lesson one every child learns: to go potty, you have to partially undress.
Romans didn't know that.
Also the sponge on a stick story is possibly nonsense.
The ghosts of Pompeii roll in their graves.
Check out the nice street lanterns and oh no, the volcano is exploding, let's all run towards the clouds of ash...
The other painting of Jean-Paul Marat's murder is more famous but this one is interesting.
It was painted by Johann Jakob Hauer (1751–1829).
Let's look at a couple of details.
Here's Neil DeGrasse Tyson talking about history with Joe Rogan.
Mr. Tyson claims that tallest thing humans built after the pyramids is the Eiffel tower... but is it?
Let's watch & check:
Let's pretend this show did what it should and had someone correcting things being said.
Even a quick google could have stopped millions of people hearing & believing this claim.
Anyway:
Tallest pyramid:
Khufu at Giza c.2570 BC: (originally) 146.7m
Eiffel tower 1889AD: 312m.
So we're supposed to believe that it took homo sapiens over 4000 years to be able to built something taller than the pyramids.
For this to be true, no building built between 2570 BC and 1889AD could have been taller than 146.7m.