There have been a couple this week … check this thing out from the Telegraph:
Patrick White is one of the great novelists of the 20th century, on a par with his fellow Nobel laureates William Faulkner, Halldór Laxness and Thomas Mann; and yet, 100 years after his birth, his name seems temporarily and inexplicably lost in the immense desert spaces to which he introduced a new generation of readers, buried like one of those Roman legions of Herodotus, beneath the glare and flies and red Australian sand. [...]
… and one with no Classical content, but which will keep you busy for hours as you try to parse it (and my head is still shaking after John McMahon sent it to me a couple days ago):
In an assessment of the nasal floor configurations of the available and sufficiently intact, if still incomplete, paleoanthropologists from Institute of Vertebrate Paleontology and Paleoanthropology (IVPP), Chinese Academy of Sciences, Washington University and University of Missouri, found that archaic Homo maxillae from eastern Eurasia seem to have a prevalence of the bi-level pattern similar to that seen in the western Eurasian Neandertals, while early modern humans from eastern Eurasia mostly exhibit the level floor pattern predominant among early and recent modern human populations, indicating that bi-level nasal floors were common among Pleistocene archaic humans, and a high frequency of them is not distinctive of the Neandertals as thought before. Researchers reported online 21 September 2012 in the scientific journal of Anthropological Science. [...]
… as I commented on Facebook, I hope to meet a sufficiently intact, if still incomplete paleoanthropologist some day …
