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I've written here before about the monumental difficulty of translating written text when you (1) don't know what the character-to-s...

Today we're back to the subject of cool archaeological discoveries, thanks to a couple of loyal readers of Skeptophilia  who sent me lin...

A recent discovery of a proto-hominid has been raising eyebrows in the paleoanthropology circles, for a variety of reasons. Called Rudapit...

Two of my biggest interests are genetics and linguistics, so when there's a study that combines the two, it makes my little heart go thu...