Our Tribal Minds Can Badly Distort Our Perception of Reality

Click Here to Read: Our Tribal Minds Can Badly Distort Our Perception of Reality: How ancient, evolved adaptations fuel modern political tension by Eric Haseltine Ph.D. on  his Long Fuse, Big Bang blog on the Psychology Today blogs on October 2, 2026.

Neanderthal Flintworkers, Le Moustier Cavern, Dordogne, France (cropped) mage: American Museum of Natural History.  Public Domain via Wikimedia Commons.

‘He would have been the center of everything’: the art exhibition imagining if Emmett Till lived.

Click Here to Read:  ‘He would have been the center of everything’: the art exhibition imagining if Emmett Till lived. Dedicated to the boy whose  lynching partially ignited the US civil rights movement, the new exhibition celebrates Black creativity and invites audiences to reckon with racism in America by Briana Ellis-Gibbs on The Guardian website on September 13, 2026.

Emmett Till in 1954 Image: Mamie Till Bradley.  Public Domain via Wikimedia Commons.

The invention of writing on Rapa Nui (Easter Island). New radiocarbon dates on the Rongorongo script

Click Herfe to Read: Ferrara, S., Tassoni, L., Kromer, B. et al. The invention of writing on Rapa Nui (Easter Island). New radiocarbon dates on the Rongorongo script. Sci Rep 14, 2794 (2024).

The rongorongo script of Easter Island. A closeup of the verso of the Small Santiago tablet G, showing parts of lines 3 (bottom) to 7 (top). The glyphs of lines 3, 5, and 7 are right-side up, while those of lines 4 and 6 are up-side down.  Image: Unknown Author.  Public Domain via Wikimedia Commons.