Rose

Documenting the intersection of scientific curiosity, tech shifts, and the lessons of history.

[Rose @hawa2awi]

@lumidezz 😉🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻 thank you!

[Rose @hawa2awi]

Every branch of the human family tree had its own refined material culture, technical traditions, and practical artistry. We were never a lone genius species arising in an empty wilderness; we were simply the last surviving artisans of a very crowded, talented world. Homo erectus possessed capabilities far beyond simple survival. At Trinil in Java, researchers found a freshwater mussel shell engraved with intentional geometric zigzag patterns roughly half a million years ago, long before modern humans emerged. They standardized symmetrical Acheulean handaxes with mathematical precision, balancing weight and cutting edge across generations, and controlled fire to cook and soften fibrous foods.

[Rose @hawa2awi]

The old stereotype of club-wielding wildlings has crumbled with the new discoveries of the past decade. ​Neanderthals were master woodworkers and genuine chemical engineers. Wood rarely survives in the fossil record, but sites like Poggetti Vecchi in Italy revealed digging sticks crafted from dense boxwood over 170,000 years ago, where Neanderthals used controlled fire to char the outer layers so they could scrape and shape the wood to precise ergonomic tapers. The famous hunting spears from Schöningen, Germany, carved around 300,000 years ago, demonstrate an understanding of aerodynamics: they were shaped so the center of gravity sat in the front third, functioning just like modern javelins. Beyond wood, Neanderthals invented the first synthetic glue by dry-distilling birch bark in oxygen-deprived fires to extract birch pitch, an adhesive they used to haft stone points onto wooden shafts. They also twisted perennial plant fibers into three-ply cordage, wore polished eagle-talon jewelry, and built enigmatic circular stalagmite structures deep in France’s Bruniquel Cave under artificial torchlight.

[Rose @hawa2awi]

Experts already believe it is the oldest piece of jewellery of its kind in the world, crafted by an extinct branch of early humans known as Denisovans. The species is a closely related but separate hominid species to Homo sapiens and Neanderthals. https://t.co/4gzzriyCnj

[Rose @hawa2awi]

@newsfromneptune re: our earlier conversation 🙏🏻 and so much more left to uncover!

[Rose @hawa2awi]

Experts already believe it is the oldest piece of jewellery of its kind in the world, crafted by an extinct branch of early humans known as Denisovans. The species is a closely related but separate hominid species to Homo sapiens and Neanderthals. https://t.co/4gzzriyCnj

[Rose @hawa2awi]

🌍 Earth was home to multiple distinct human species living in different regions of the globe simultaneously. Around 100,000 to 120,000 years ago, anatomically "modern" Homo sapiens were established across Africa and expanding into the Levant. During that exact same window, classic #Neanderthals dominated Europe and parts of Western Asia. Meanwhile, the final surviving populations of Homo erectus held out in Southeast Asia, notably at the Ngandong site on Java, where fossils have been dated to roughly 108,000 to 117,000 years ago. #Denisovans primarily ranged across Asia, from the freezing mountains of Siberia down to the high plateaus of Tibet and into the tropical regions of Southeast Asia. In 2019, researchers identified a 160,000-year-old jawbone (the Xiahe mandible) high on the Tibetan Plateau, over 3,200 meters above sea level. This confirmed that Denisovans had adapted to harsh, low-oxygen environments long before modern humans settled there.

[Rose @hawa2awi]

@newsfromneptune @NORTH_o2 Absolutely, I agree! 🙏🏻🫀🫀🫀

[Rose @hawa2awi]

@WarSageX And the big bottom line of all the work we did and keep doing on ourselves is to be kind and grateful. To ourselves, first. After all, we all do carry a divine spark within us 💥 It feels that way! Maybe it's buried deep but it's never too late to dig it out 😉

[Carl Jung Archive @QuoteJung]

I love this quote:

[Night Sky Today @NightSkyToday]

Mathematics is the language in which God has written the universe.

- Galileo Galilei

[warrior.sage @WarSageX]

Forgiveness only ever works when you forgive yourself. Only then you'll be able to forgive those who did you wrong.

[Rose @hawa2awi]

Maybe to take that chicken apart to shreds, sautee onions in butter or olive oil, add smashed garlic, little bit of paprika and dry coriander, fresh peeled chopped tomatoes , sweet peppers, cover it and let it simmer on slow fire. Then chop some fresh coriander or whatever greenery you like, and it should be nice 🫡🙏🏻😉

[Rose @hawa2awi]

Yes, you are right. I am just saying cold pressed oils have been produced for ages. But industrial-scale production have changed it all to an unhealthy horror, not only with oils. So either we get the machines 😄 or buy cold-pressed oils. When I was a kid, my grandma only cooked on ghee. She bought a lot of butter from the farmers market from the vendors she trusted, and melted it over very slow fire for a long time. All impurities were scooped off, until the ghee starts smelling good and becomes like amber. She kept it in the dark glass jars and without refrigeration. Sometimes I do that, too. It tastes and smells like childhood ♥️

[𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐏𝐫𝐞𝐬𝐞𝐫𝐯𝐞𝐫 @ThePreserverofU]

IF YOU EVER WANT TO LEARN STRANGE CONCEPTS, LEARN THESE:

1) The overview effect
2) Pareto principle
3) Dunbar’s number
4) Survivorship bias
5) The hedonic treadmill
6) Occam’s razor
7) The Dunning-Kruger effect
8) Parkinson’s law
9) The spotlight effect
10) Second-order thinking
11) The Lindy effect
12) Antifragility
13) The mere exposure effect
14) Loss aversion

[RobLogic @RobLogic]

This is the Museum of Underwater Sculpture Ayia Napa (MUSAN), off Pernera Beach in Ayia Napa, Cyprus. Jason deCaires Taylor installed it in 2021: about 93 life-size figures and trees, 8–10 meters down, built to become a living reef

[Rose @hawa2awi]

The "known" history is becoming obsolete with the new developments 🫡 Just a couple of days ago I was reading up on the new evidence about the Neanderthals being actually very handy with woodwork, and they were not what we thought they were - wildlings. There's so much to be discovered about how Neanderthals, Denisovans, Homo Erectus, Homo Sapiens and some others existed all at the same time, had mixed up with one another, it's a rabbit hole worth visiting 😄🤫

[Carl Jung Archive @QuoteJung]

I keep rereading this one:

[Jash Dholani | link in bio has my books! @oldbooksguy]

Thinking about the Renaissance. Da Vinci and Michelangelo arguing in the streets. The Medicis turning their wealth into the prettiest cities the world's ever seen. Brunelleschi inventing new tech from scratch to lift the biggest masonry dome ever built. WHAT A TIME

[Nicholas Fabiano, MD @NTFabiano]

Repetition rewires the brain.

Neuroplasticity doesn't decipher between good and bad.

You do.

[Waken Minds 𓂀 @wakenminds]

Whatever unfolded in this world in the past is beyond our imagination.