Click Here to Read: An Unprecedented Trove of Ancient Wooden Tools Uncovered at a Rock Shelter in Spain Shows Neanderthals Were Skilled Woodworkers by Sara Hashemi in the Smithsonian Magazine on October 13, 2026.
Reconstruction of the physical aspect of a Neandertal man. Museo arqueologico de Asturias (Spain) Image: Hispalois Public Domain via Wikimedia Commons.
Click Here to Read: My Family’s Dark, Hidden History With Institutionalization: My great-great-grandfather was the namesake of an infamous institution for the disabled. From long-neglected records of the property, the lives of forgotten people were uncovered on the Nation Magazine substack on October 17, 2026.
Walter E. Fernald State School, now the Walter E. Fernald Developmental Center, Waltham, Massachusetts, USA. Image: Daderot. Public Domain via Wikimedia Commons.
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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.
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.
