Research revealed that a famous 3,700-year-old Babylonian clay tablet is inscribed with accurate trigonometry.
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How a ’70s Anthropological Experiment Turned into the “Sex Raft”
In Marcus Lindeen’s documentary The Raft, the subjects of the disastrous study reenact its strange events.
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Not the Man We Used to Be: An Anthropologist’s View of the New Weaker Sex
According to a recent book, Manthropology: The Science of Why the Modern Male is Not the Man He Used to Be, by Peter McAllister, modern men are basically fucked. McAllister, an archeologist and science writer, has analyzed the iron men of yore — the Neanderthals and Wodabees, the Tahitian seducers and Mongol bowmen — and concluded that in every meaningful department the Homo modernus is a deplorable wreck.
