Tag: QI
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Gone Fishing (Neanderthals Shown to Have a more Diverse Diet)
Findings in two coastal sites in Gibraltar — Vanguard Cave and Garhams Cave — has shown that Neanderthals enjoyed dining on sea food. the mass accumulation of remains of mollusks, fish, seals, and dolphins that litter the caves show that they routinely dined on the sea creatures for a few thousand years. This discovery proves…
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HIV Older than First Thought
Recent discoveries in HIV research have revealed that the virus is at least a decade older than originally thought. Scientists did a biopsy of a lymph node of a woman from what is now Kinshasa, Democratic Republic of the Congo, in 1960, contained traces of the HIV-1 genome. Compared with existing HIV sequences suggest that…
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Interesting Stuff about 9
The number nine was consecrated to the Spheres and the Muses. It is the sign of every circumference; because a circle of 360 degrees is equal to 9, that is to say, 3+6+0=9. Nevertheless, the ancients regarded this number with a sort of terror: they considered it a bad presage; as the symbol of versatility,…