http://www.popsci.com/science/article/20...moth-blood

Quote:"(This) opens the way to being able to study all sorts of proteins from the past, and to study many physiological characteristics," Cooper said. "It's really paleobiology; you're studying how extinct species function, and how they adapted to climate change and other past environmental conditions that we can't get at in the fossil record."

Riiiight. And humans went to the moon. *rolls eyes*

nest0r Wrote:Riiiight. And humans went to the moon. *rolls eyes*

Oh, you're just jealous. You probably had this exact story queued up and ready to post, all sourced to some journal and spruced up with a tenuous connection to language learning, but then here comes big bad Smackle with his PopSci and sensationalistic reporting to rain on your parade.

Drinking woolly mammoth blood makes you better at language learning.

haha

I wasn't going to say anything, but I was working on a post based on this story, incorporating the NYC endangered languages thing and a previous thread I started on an atlas of endangered languages, with some loose metaphors regarding invasion biology. Ah well. Next time, Smackle.

Oh, and I also didn't say anything yet, but I was thinking of a Jurassic Park quote on chaos.

Maybe I could have also referenced arche-fossils (Meillassoux) and evolutionary linguistics (by way of endangered languages) and language-shaped conceptions of geologic time.

Also: The code within the code

Mcjon01 Wrote:

nest0r Wrote:Riiiight. And humans went to the moon. *rolls eyes*

Oh, you're just jealous. You probably had this exact story queued up and ready to post, all sourced to some journal and spruced up with a tenuous connection to language learning, but then here comes big bad Smackle with his PopSci and sensationalistic reporting to rain on your parade.

LOL. Granted, I'm drunk atm but this made me laugh really hard!

Offshore Wrote:

Mcjon01 Wrote:

nest0r Wrote:Riiiight. And humans went to the moon. *rolls eyes*

Oh, you're just jealous. You probably had this exact story queued up and ready to post, all sourced to some journal and spruced up with a tenuous connection to language learning, but then here comes big bad Smackle with his PopSci and sensationalistic reporting to rain on your parade.

LOL. Granted, I'm drunk atm but this made me laugh really hard!

Laugh it up. -_-

Ah ha! Found a connection to Japanese. Uh, we can now determine how mammoths dated! http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/8646236.stm (MSM cutting edge as always.)

Some background: http://books.google.com/books?id=ZwPrhiF...22&f=false

nest0r Wrote:

Offshore Wrote:

Mcjon01 Wrote:Oh, you're just jealous. You probably had this exact story queued up and ready to post, all sourced to some journal and spruced up with a tenuous connection to language learning, but then here comes big bad Smackle with his PopSci and sensationalistic reporting to rain on your parade.

LOL. Granted, I'm drunk atm but this made me laugh really hard!

Laugh it up. -_-

If it makes you feel any better, you're still awesome nest0r

Offshore Wrote:

nest0r Wrote:

Offshore Wrote:LOL. Granted, I'm drunk atm but this made me laugh really hard!

Laugh it up. -_-

If it makes you feel any better, you're still awesome nest0r

Too late. I won't forgive you!

You were all 100 years too early to post these comments.