Luke 🕯️

Entrepreneur and angel (mostly climate, energy, AI), surrounding himself with ambitious and creative people, for a stronger Australia and better world.

[Luke 🕯️ @c28why]

My internal monologue

[Palmer Luckey @PalmerLuckey]

@thenellvh Stupid tweet, use your brain or stay in your lane

[Luke 🕯️ @c28why]

@electricfuture5 @elonmusk On the flip side I would definitely like to be able to access conversations from my car, on my phone

[Luke 🕯️ @c28why]

As someone who believes in the potential of the UN, this delegitimises the entire organisation for me

[Andrew Fox @Mr_Andrew_Fox]

Great article.

“ The UN has become one of the most dangerous instruments in modern geopolitics. Authoritarian regimes are using the UN’s prestige to normalise their behavior, conceal their crimes and peddle anti-Western propaganda. It should terrify all of us that the world’s most trusted watchdog has been successfully leveraged as a PR firm for tyrants.”

https://t.co/scgJQ6REmR

[Hugo @lowlandsapien]

$10billion investment for Bundey, SA

[MrBujok @BujokMr]

Do you guys not see what is clearly going to happen

[Luke 🕯️ @c28why]

Baha’i is the best religion you never heard of

[2001 Live @25YearsAgoLive]

The new Baha’i Terraces open in Haifa, Israel, as a religious site for the Baha’i faith.

[Rachel Moiselle @RachelMoiselle]

This is where we are at in Ireland apparently.

[Caolan @CaolanReports]

Every sign at this refinery in Ireland is in russian. The official website is a .RU domain.

There’s no reason to hide it because local politicians are openly doing it for them.

[Luke 🕯️ @c28why]

@AmitSegal @JacobALinker Sayeret Matkalot

[Luke 🕯️ @c28why]

actually so true

[Open Source Intel @Osint613]

Reporter: How do you define ceasefire?

Trump: In that part of the world, ceasefire is when you're shooting in a more moderate manner

[Luke 🕯️ @c28why]

@zoecabina 💯

[Luke 🕯️ @c28why]

Hunter Biden’s paintings are actually good

[Hunter Biden @HunterBiden]

@JackDon0 Check them out at https://t.co/4SDCGJ4i2Y. They’re all there. And thank you for your interest.

[Rachel Moiselle @RachelMoiselle]

Ireland now provides Russia with 99% of all alumina from the EU. The utter shame of it. Where is the outrage?

[Teddy Blank @teddypowday]

Your CEO should be strong.

Your CTO should be wise.

Your COO should be wicked, cunning, of mysterious origins, fluent in the dark arts, blurry in pictures,

[ツッコミ待ち案件 @ushijimanvoice]

【困惑】猫にヨガパンツ履かせたら、
想像以上に人間だった。

もう後ろ姿が
ジム通い始めたOLなんよ。🐱

[Antipodean Macro @AntipodeanMacro]

Holy moly. 80% illegal for tobacco.

[Luke 🕯️ @c28why]

@MarkDiStef Bizarre mistake but that's all it is. On reading in full he is right: We should not allow people to abort girls in favour of boys because of some sexist preference

[Luke 🕯️ @c28why]

Reminder fuel crisis is not yet over. Markets adapted exceptionally well but buffers remain diminished and production of other commodities may reduce also

[Luke 🕯️ @c28why]

Something special about Aboriginal Australian history

[Archaeo - Histories @archeohistories]

A study of ancient Aboriginal hair samples has revealed distinct Aboriginal populations were present in Australia with little geographical movement for up to 50,000 years.

The discovery of such a long, continuous presence in the those regions emphasised why land was so sacred to Aboriginal people, researchers said.

The results emerged after researchers led by the University of Adelaide’s Australian centre for ancient DNA analysed the mitochondrial DNA from 111 hair samples collected during anthropological expeditions in the early to mid-1900s. The samples are stored at the South Australian Museum.

Mitochondrial DNA is the powerhouse that drives the conversion of food into energy, and is useful to researchers because it carries genetic material passed exclusively between a mother and her children, allowing maternal ancestry to be traced.

Despite the age of the hair samples and the fact that they were collected under harsh environmental conditions, the researchers were surprised to find high concentrations of good quality mitochondrial DNA.

Their analysis found Aboriginal Australians are the descendants of a single founding population that arrived in Australia 50,000 years ago, while Australia was still connected to New Guinea. Populations then spread rapidly – within 1,500 to 2,000 years – around the east and west coasts of Australia, meeting somewhere in South Australia.

One of the researchers, the geneticist Dr Ray Tobler, said the samples meant Aboriginal ancestry could now be genetically traced back in time to a point that pre-dated European colonisation, when Aboriginal people were still living in their traditional areas, supporting what the archeological evidence already shows.

Having the genetic information was crucial because after colonisation Aboriginal people were forced off country or forcibly removed from their families and scattered all over Australia, Tobler said. “If you want to do historical research on the connection between people and land you can’t do it using modern Aboriginal people because of that disconnection,” he said.

“I have Aboriginal ancestry through my granddad but he never spoke about it because he was removed from his family. A lot of people in my situation interested in recording their history can do so through this project.”

The hair samples identified four main distinct types of maternal DNA, which they labeled “P”, “O”, “S” and “M”. Those in the O group were overwhelmingly found on the west and south coast of Australia, the researchers found. Those with the other three types mainly stuck to the east coast.

The researchers know this because the sample collectors kept detailed information about birthplaces, family history and family trees, and this – combined with film, audio and written records – allowed the researchers to create a map of movement and reconstruct history.

The project leader, Prof Alan Cooper, said it was “amazing” that the team had found Aboriginal communities have remained in discrete geographical regions. “This is unlike people anywhere else in the world and provides compelling support for the remarkable Aboriginal cultural connection to country,” he said.

“During that period of time, with massive climate changes and massive environmental shifts, you might therefore have expected people to respond by moving all over the place.

“Clearly the environment did change significantly but nevertheless they were able to survive in one area with a fixed set of resources for up to 50,000 years. Nowhere else in world have humans been able to demonstrate an ability to do that. We don’t have a great record of living in balance with anything.”

It illustrated the enormous amount of respect, knowledge and affinity Aboriginal people must have had with the land, and to specific areas of land, to survive, Cooper said.

© The Guardian

#archaeohistories