Jari-Pekka Vuorela

Jazz, Sociology, Jazz, Biology, Jazz, Journalism, More Jazz

[PaleoAnthropology @Qafzeh]

Some of the last Neanderthals were surprisingly genetically diverse
https://t.co/LdyRwtqATU

[Heikki Sormunen @HeikkiSormunen]

@JuhaRistamaki Julkisen talouden lama kestää kuitenkin sen miljardin aukon, jonka yhteisöveron alennus tuo ensi vuoden budjettiin.
Julkisen talouden lama kestää puolustusmäärärahojen nostamisen Trumpin mieliksi 5%:iin bkt:sta.
Tutkimusta ja kansalaisjärjestöjä se ei kestä.

[Saganism @Saganismm]

How to Confront a Fascist?

Bertrand Russell’s powerful and dignified refusal to debate Sir Oswald Mosley, Britain’s most prominent fascist leader.

…

Dear Sir Oswald,

Thank you for your letters and for your enclosures. I have given some thought to our recent correspondence. It is always difficult to decide on how to respond to people whose ethos is so alien and, in fact, repellent to one’s own. It is not that I take exception to the general points made by you but that every ounce of my energy has been devoted to an active opposition to cruel bigotry, compulsive violence, and the sadistic persecution which has characterised the philosophy and practice of fascism.

I feel obliged to say that the emotional universes we inhabit are so distinct, and in deepest ways opposed, that nothing fruitful or sincere could ever emerge from association between us.

I should like you to understand the intensity of this conviction on my part. It is not out of any attempt to be rude that I say this but because of all that I value in human experience and human achievement.

Yours sincerely,
Bertrand Russell

[Sarrah Bellus @sarrah_bellus]

Donald Trump will go down in history as the only US President to be outwitted by a single-celled organism.

[PaleoAnthropology @Qafzeh]

A 286,000-year-old hominin skull found in Petralona Cave in Greece still has no clear identity, and the gap reopens the puzzle of who lived in Europe before Neanderthals
https://t.co/u4NjqVKNjH

[Jari-Pekka Vuorela @jpvuorela]

Well, in 5 seconds it looks like 5, but I haven't read the thread.

[Track Phantom @TrackPhantom]

@Mimiiben1 I solved this in 15 seconds in my head. I thought to myself, this hardly makes me a genius (although I wish it did). Then I reviewed the responses. I'm quite possibly a genius.

[Joyce Carol Oates @JoyceCarolOates]

why are these people pretending that Covid didn't exist? did not 1 million Americans die of Covid? their accusation is that Democrats/ scientists needlessly closed schools for a year & vaccinated people just for fun.
were teachers considered irrelevant? expendable? public school teachers in particular? I knew just one, terrified of being infected with Covid & dying. now, GOP is pretending there was no health crisis. brazenly revising the history we lived through.

[Joyce Carol Oates @JoyceCarolOates]

so funny to find myself in that list of distinguished writers of another era. a girl from Millersport, NY between Fitzgerald & Steinbeck (!).
proof that life is absurd & Twitter the entertainingly distorting mirror of the absurd.

[Jari-Pekka Vuorela @jpvuorela]

Could we just, mmm... admit? pretend?... accept Neanderthals and Denisovans as subspecies of Homo sapiens.

[Chris Stringer @ChrisStringer65]

'The 85 year old secret that just solved a Denisovan mystery' https://t.co/iPBQLbveUN

[Joyce Carol Oates @JoyceCarolOates]

Vance resembles one of those characters in Dostoyevsky who has been humiliated by life in his youth & seeks out forever afterward circumstances that instead of elevating him will humiliate him again; his humiliation then frees the resentment, rage, spite he would otherwise suppress. even if he becomes the next US president, the prediction is the same cycle repeated endlessly.

[Richard Corbett @RichardGCorbett]

An early message for Andy Burnham : join our local union, the European Union 🇪🇺

[Sabine Hossenfelder @skdh]

no it doesn't, the arms trail behind. fwiw, this is wrong in most galaxy stock footage as well

https://t.co/RlAX7WY6Pe

[Garry Kasparov @Kasparov63]

Everyone knew she was a huge security threat at the time but the GOP confirmed her anyway.

[Sonny Rollins Bridge @RollinsBridge]

Iconic photos of Sonny Rollins and the Williamsburg Bridge, from 2005, taken by Jimmy & Dena Katz. Our great thanks to them for allowing us to share

#SonnyRollinsBridge

[Jari-Pekka Vuorela @jpvuorela]

@niles_eldredge Oh man, yes... Met the man a few times. Memorable interview and concert in Tampere 40 years ago.

[Mark Stryker @Mark_Stryker]

Hard to believe but discographies say that engineer Rudy Van Gelder recorded two all-time great LPs on 6/10/65--61 years ago today--in his studio in Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Bobby Hutcherson's Components and John Coltrane's Transition. Dear Lord! https://t.co/nM7aXtdZMI

[PaleoAnthropology @Qafzeh]

Europe’s “untouched” wilderness was shaped by Neanderthals and hunter-gatherers https://t.co/YjmNc4R3b5

[Niles Eldredge @niles_eldredge]

This looks very promising as we work together to integrate paleo with modern-world evolutionary patterns and processes.@JamesAl0410008 !

[PaleoAnthropology @Qafzeh]

New study strengthens idea that humans evolved from knuckle-walking ancestors https://t.co/dCnaGuxBhm

[PaleoAnthropology @Qafzeh]

The whole story of human evolution – from ancient apes via Lucy to us https://t.co/K8oeTXMPzc