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Every genre features some instruments more than others. But when it comes to most contemporary songs‚ nowadays‚ it’s much rarer to hear a pan flute take center stage. Then there’s Raimy Salazar. This Ecuadorian is an incredible musician‚ something he showcases on his social media accounts. No matter what song he’s playing‚ you can count on him utilizing a beautiful wind instrument. Although he does renditions of all sorts of songs‚ one of his most popular has to be The Colors of the Wind from Disney’s Pocahontas. In it‚ Raimy plays a pan flute. To best match the overall energy of the music‚ he stands at the peak of a mountain called Chimborazo. The result? Pure magic! With total ease‚ Raimy does this classic song justice on pan flute. It’s like the gentle yet powerful melody was made for this exact scenery. And thanks to the multiple shots we get of Raimy as he plays‚ we can more easily picture what it was like to experience this performance live. In fact‚ people from all around the world can’t stop raving over this peaceful video. This Cover of The Colors of the Wind Will Make You Want More Songs With Pan Flutes “This is so beautifully done‚” one person comments. The landscape‚ the instruments‚ and the tune all perfectly aligned!” “This has touched my heart and brought me home‚” another shares. “Absolutely beautiful. I can’t stop watching this.” You can find the source of this story’s featured image here! The post Man Plays “Colors Of The Wind” From “Pocahontas” In Magical Pan Flute Cover appeared first on InspireMore.

60 years ago today‚ Beatlemania was in full bloom as the band held every one of the top five spots on the US singles chart. The Beatles packed the Billboard Hot 100 with Please Please Me‚ I Want To Hold Your Hand‚ Roll Over Beethoven‚ Love Me Do—and at No.1 Can’t Buy Me Love. The […] The post Good News in History‚ April 4 appeared first on Good News Network.

NASA is set to create a new "Coordinated Lunar Time" ahead of upcoming missions by the US and others to the Moon.Currently‚ there is no agreed time zone on the Moon. Uncrewed missions generally use the time corresponding to the craft's country of origin‚ while the crewed Apollo missions used Ground Elapsed Time (GET)‚ counting from the moment of launch. As the Moon becomes more full (of robots‚ and then‚ fingers crossed‚ humans) this could pose some problems that the US hopes to overcome by establishing a Coordinated Lunar Time.The idea is not like adding a new time zone‚ nor the problem as simple as having to translate a robot working on GMT to one working on PST. Though coordination of time is a goal‚ part of the problem is how time works on the Moon."Due to general and special relativity‚ the length of a second defined on Earth will appear distorted to an observer under different gravitational conditions‚ or to an observer moving at a high relative velocity‚" Arati Prabhakar‚ Assistant to the President for Science and Technology and Director‚ Office of Science and Technology Policy‚ wrote in a memorandum instructing NASA and other agencies to work together to create the new Moon time system. "For example‚ to an observer on the Moon‚ an Earth-based clock will appear to lose on average 58.7 microseconds per Earth-day with additional periodic variations. This holds important implications for developing standards and capabilities for operating on or around the Moon."While annoying to sync to Earth‚ this alone might not be enough to push humans toward creating a new time system for the Moon. However‚ just as special relativity has to be taken into account for GPS satellites around Earth‚ there are practical problems as humanity attempts to set up permanent bases on the Moon."Additionally‚ the navigation accuracy a system can achieve with signals from multiple space-based assets‚ such as a person navigating on Earth with signals from Global Positioning System satellites‚ depends on the synchronization of those assets with each other‚" Prabhakar continued. "At the Moon‚ synchronizing each lunar asset with an Earth-based time standard is difficult – due to relativistic effects‚ events that appear simultaneous at the Earth (e.g.‚ the start of a broadcast signal) are not simultaneous to an observer at the Moon.""Failing to account for the discrepancy between a transmitter clock on the Earth and how it is perceived by a receiver on the Moon will result in a ranging error. Precision applications such as spacecraft docking or landing will require greater accuracy than current methods allow."According to the document‚ the new lunar time may follow UTC time‚ with offsets to co-ordinate the two‚ with a number of atomic clocks placed on the Moon to set lunar time. We will have to see the exact system that they come up with. One thing that NASA is clear on already‚ however‚ is that the Moon‚ with its  29.5 Earth days-long days‚ will not have to endure daylight savings time.

Why did humans take over the world while our closest relatives‚ the Neanderthals‚ became extinct? It’s possible we were just smarter‚ but there’s surprisingly little evidence that’s true. Neanderthals had big brains‚ language and sophisticated tools. They made art and jewellery. They were smart‚ suggesting a curious possibility. Maybe the crucial differences weren’t at the individual level‚ but in our societies. Two hundred and fifty thousand years ago‚ Europe and western Asia were Neanderthal lands. Homo sapiens inhabited southern Africa. Estimates vary but perhaps 100‚000 years ago‚ modern humans migrated out of Africa. Forty thousand years ago Neanderthals disappeared from Asia and Europe‚ replaced by humans. Their slow‚ inevitable replacement suggests humans had some advantage‚ but not what it was. Anthropologists once saw Neanderthals as dull-witted brutes. But recent archaeological finds show they rivalled us in intelligence. Neanderthals mastered fire before we did. They were deadly hunters‚ taking big game like mammoths and woolly rhinos‚ and small animals like rabbits and birds. They gathered plants‚ seeds and shellfish. Hunting and foraging all those species demanded deep understanding of nature. Neanderthals also had a sense of beauty‚ making beads and cave paintings. They were spiritual people‚ burying their dead with flowers. Stone circles found inside caves may be Neanderthal shrines. Like modern hunter-gatherers‚ Neanderthal lives were probably steeped in superstition and magic; their skies full of gods‚ the caves inhabited by ancestor-spirits. Then there’s the fact Homo sapiens and Neanderthals had children together. We weren’t that different. But we met Neanderthals many times‚ over many millennia‚ always with the same result. They disappeared. We remained. The hunter-gatherer society It may be that the key differences were less at the individual level than at the societal level. It’s impossible to understand humans in isolation‚ any more than you can understand a honeybee without considering its colony. We prize our individuality‚ but our survival is tied to larger social groups‚ like a bee’s fate depends on the colony’s survival. Modern hunter-gatherers provide our best guess at how early humans and Neanderthals lived. People like the Namibia’s Khoisan and Tanzania’s Hadzabe gather families into wandering bands of ten to 60 people. The bands combine into a loosely organised tribe of a thousand people or more. These tribes lack hierachical structures‚ but they’re linked by shared language and religion‚ marriages‚ kinships and friendships. Neanderthal societies may have been similar but with one crucial difference: smaller social groups. Tight-knit tribes What points to this is evidence that Neanderthals had lower genetic diversity. In small populations‚ genes are easily lost. If one person in ten carries a gene for curly hair‚ then in a ten-person band‚ one death could remove the gene from the population. In a band of fifty‚ five people would carry the gene – multiple backup copies. So over time‚ small groups tend to lose genetic variation‚ ending up with fewer genes. In 2022‚ DNA was recovered from bones and teeth of 11 Neanderthals found in a cave in the Altai Mountains of Siberia. Several individuals were related‚ including a father and a daughter – they were from a single band. And they showed low genetic diversity. Because we inherit two sets of chromosomes – one from our mother‚ one from our father – we carry two copies of each gene. Often‚ we have two different versions of a gene. You might get a gene for blue eyes from your mother‚ and one for brown eyes from your father. But the Altai Neanderthals often had one version of each gene. As the study reports‚ that low diversity suggests they lived in small bands – probably averaging just 20 people. It’s possible Neanderthal anatomy favoured small groups. Being robust and muscular‚ Neanderthals were heavier than us. So each Neanderthal needed more food‚ meaning the land could support fewer Neanderthals than Homo sapiens. And Neanderthals may have mainly eaten meat. Meat-eaters would get fewer calories from the land than people who ate meat and plants‚ again leading to smaller populations. Group size matters If humans lived in bigger groups than Neanderthals it could have given us advantages. Neanderthals‚ strong and skilled with spears were likely good fighters. Lightly built humans probably countered by using bows to attack at range. But even if Neanderthals and humans were equally dangerous in battle‚ if humans also had a numeric advantage they could bring more fighters and absorb more losses. Big societies have other‚ subtler advantages. Larger bands have more brains. More brains to solve problems‚ remember lore about animals and plants‚ and techniques for crafting tools and sewing clothing. Just as big groups have higher genetic diversity‚ they’ll have higher diversity of ideas. And more people means more connections. Network connections increase exponentially with network size‚ following Metcalfe’s Law. A 20-person band has 190 possible connections between members‚ while 60 people have 1770 possible connections. Information flows through these connections: news about people and movements of animals; toolmaking techniques; and words‚ songs and myths. Plus the group’s behaviour becomes increasingly complex. Consider ants. Individually‚ ants aren’t smart. But interactions between millions of ants lets colonies make elaborate nests‚ forage for food and kill animals many times an ant’s size. Likewise‚ human groups do things no one person can – design buildings and cars‚ write elaborate computer programmes‚ fight wars‚ run companies and countries. Humans aren’t unique in having big brains (whales and elephants have these) or in having huge social groups (zebras and wildebeest form huge herds). But we’re unique in combining them. To paraphrase poet John Dunne‚ no man – and no Neanderthal – is an island. We’re all part of something larger. And throughout history‚ humans formed larger and larger social groups: bands‚ tribes‚ cities‚ nation states‚ international alliances. It may be then that an ability to build large social structures gave Homo sapiens the edge‚ against nature‚ and other hominin species. Nicholas R. Longrich‚ Senior Lecturer in Paleontology and Evolutionary Biology‚ Life Sciences at the University of Bath. This article is republished from The Conversation under a Creative Commons license. Read the original article. The post Why did modern humans replace the Neanderthals? appeared first on Anomalien.com.

Two replicas of the gilded silver Roman cavalry helmet found at Hallaton have been created‚ one by silversmith Rajesh Gogna using computer aided-design and 3D printing‚ the other by archaeologist Francesco Galluccio using traditional tools Roman smiths would have used. They are now both on display‚ one at the Hallaton Museum‚ the other at the Harborough Museum in Market Harborough alongside the original helmet. An important Iron Age British shrine was discovered outside the village of Hallaton in Leicestershire in 2000. Dating to around the time of the Roman invasion of Britain in 43 A.D.‚ it was a ritual enclosure of great significance to the local Corieltavi tribe who held feasts there and made offerings of animals and valuables. In 2001‚ excavations unearthed more than 5‚500 British and Roman coins‚ jewelry and animal bones as well as a helmet which would have been worn by a Roman cavalry officer. The helmet was in thousands of pieces when it was found embedded in thick mud. Archaeologists weren’t even sure what it was until they excavated the soil block in a conservation laboratory and uncovered the larger fragments‚ including a cheekpiece adorned with a relief of an emperor trampling a barbarian under the hooves of his horse while a winged Victory holds a laurel wreath over his head. Conservators worked for ten years to excavate the fragments from the soil block. In 2011‚ the conservation team revealed they’d found seven cheekpieces (obviously not all from a single helmet) and a helmet bowl. The fragments were painstakingly conserved and pieced back together and today the helmet is 80% complete with some gaps filled to give it structural support. It was made of an iron sheet covered with a thin sheet of gilded silver. The decorative designs — a laurel wreath encircling the bowl‚ a scrolling foliate pattern on the neckguard‚ swags and the high-relief bust of woman flanked by lions and rams on the browguard — were made with the repousse technique‚ ie‚ hammered into the surface from the back. The raised decorations were gilded and would have stood out against the silver background. Only a handful of silver Roman cavalry helmets are known‚ and so early an example in a freshly-conquered part of the empire is a unique find. Two thousand years buried in mud corroded and damaged its once-shiny surface. It looks sort of lumpy and brown today and the details of the decoration are hard to make out with the naked eye. In order to create the replicas‚ museum curators‚ art historians‚ illustrators and conservators worked together to re-examine the helmet‚ photographing it under bright light looking for shapes and motifs that were then cross-referenced with other art pieces from the mid-1st century. The archaeological illustrator used the annotated pictures and 3D scans as a guide to recreating the areas where the decoration was missing. The process revealed a previously-undetected pair of griffins holding an amphora between them on the rear of the helmet bowl. Rajesh Gogna transformed the archaeological drawing into a 3D model and then 3D printed it in resin. He used modern techniques of copper electroforming‚ silver-plating and gilding to recreate the helmet‚ adding hand-crafted elements (brass fastening loops‚ rivets‚ hinge pins). Thanks to the 3D printing‚ he was able to create an identical second copy. Meanwhile‚ Rome-based archaeologist and replica maker Francesco Galluccio went old school‚ utilizing his expertise in recreating Roman armor to manufacture a replica with traditional tools the original maker of the helmet would have recognized. The original helmet is now being exhibited in a new case‚ with both cheekpieces reattached. The other five cheekpieces found at the Hallaton ritual site are on display with it.

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SurvivalBlog presents another edition of The Survivalist’s Odds ‘n Sods. This column is a collection of news bits and pieces that are relevant to the modern survivalist and prepper from JWR. Our goal is to educate our readers‚ to help them to recognize emerging threats‚ and to be better prepared for both disasters and negative societal trends. You can’t mitigate a risk if you haven’t first identified a risk. In today’s column‚ we look at the upcoming release of the A24 Productions near-future film Civil War. USPS Police Issue Warning on Mailed Check Theft USPS Police Issue Warning on Mailing … The post The Survivalist’s Odds ‘n Sods appeared first on SurvivalBlog.com.

“And I heard a voice in the midst of the four beasts And I looked‚ and behold a pale horse And his name that sat on him was death‚ and hell followed with him.” – Johnny Cash‚ from the lyrics to The Man Comes Around (2002)‚ paraphrasing Revelation 6:8 In this article I will discuss the philosophy of melee weapons‚ defined as hand-held non-projectile firing weapons‚ in what has been called the “multigenerational scenario” of social or civilizational collapse‚ spanning a number of generations. [1] The article will first outline why it is highly likely that modern civilization is well … The post Dark Age 2.0: Melee Weapons – Part 1‚ by Dr. Joseph appeared first on SurvivalBlog.com.