Neo says, “Whoa.”
Excavations an ancient cemetery in Mongolia uncovered a man's skull yielding genetic evidence of Indo-Europeans reaching eastern Asia at least 2,000 years ago.
Late last week, Science News reported that the remains of an Indo-European man were found in a 2,000-year-old Mongolian cemetery.
This long-dead individual possessed a set of genetic mutations on his Y chromosome, which is inherited from paternal ancestors, that commonly appears today among male speakers of Indo-European languages in eastern Europe, central Asia and northern India .
Today, Scientific American reports the discovery of the body of an Asian man, buried on an Italian estate in Puglia about 2,000 years ago – his ethnic identity also determined by analysis of mitochondrial DNA. Neither report can determine whether each man had traveled on his own, or was the descendant of an emigrant family, but the two reports together are an astonishing confirmation of travel, communication and cultural exchange between Roman Europe and East Asia in the ancient world.
An extraordinary music video by WeWereMonkeys for Land of Talk’s “It’s Okay.” It may be slow, but give it a go, because odd beautiful things happen.
Heh. That’s all I have to say.
At one minute in, you will lose your shit. In the best way, of course.
One minute, 32 seconds of pure adrenaline rush. If you loved playing the Afterburner F-15 game at the arcade when you were a kid, you’re gonna go dropmouthed at this one.
Zone out to some excellent melodic techno + CG-neon imagery.
by Eduardo Omine
RUN RUN RUN RUN RUN
by Tommy and Markus Vad Flaaten
Here, have a little warp soup for your brainstem.
