Archaeology · Science · Palaeontology

Aberdeen researchers find Neanderthals used rhinoceros teeth as tools

Researchers from the University of Aberdeen have analysed marks on the teeth of the narrow-nosed rhinoceros Stephanorhinus hemitoechus from two Middle Palaeolithic sites in Spain and France, dating to some 100,000 years ago. The grooves, notches, sliding marks and scratches proved to be precisely what repeated percussion leaves

Archaeology · Museums

A walker finds a Scandinavian gold fitting of the Migration Period on the ground

In south-western Norway a tourist accidentally picked up a gold mount from a sword scabbard of the first half of the sixth century. Not a treasure hunter, not an illicit digger, not an amateur archaeologist, but simply a walker found a badly worn little piece of gold lying on

The East · Science · Society · People

In 2022 a Swiss programmer from Lausanne, Solal Pirelli, while going through the proceedings of conferences held under the aegis of the Association for Computing Machinery, discovered systematic anomalies in volumes published under the chairmanship of the

In 2022 a Swiss programmer from Lausanne, Solal Pirelli, while going through the proceedings of conferences held under the aegis of the Association for Computing Machinery, discovered systematic anomalies in volumes published under the chairmanship of the Jordanian computer scientist Shadi Aljawarneh of the Jordan University of Science and Technology.

NB! · Architecture

The Firewall Remembers Everything

Black-and-white photograph of a soldier with a submachine gun on his back, reaching up to write on a wall covered with inscriptions and bullet marks.

Archive · Society

A soldier writes on a wall in Anatoly Morozov's photograph of 9 May 1945

Happy Victory Day! Photograph by Anatoly Morozov, 9 May 1945

Black-and-white photograph: a serviceman in a peaked cap stands on a snowy slope before a pile of twisted machinery and wagon wreckage.

NB! · Archive · Society

Heaps of destroyed German equipment in Sevastopol in May 1944, photographed by Yevgeny Khaldei

Smashed German equipment in Sevastopol, May 1944. Photograph by Yevgeny Khaldei

Observations · Society

Restrictions on Soviet symbols in Berlin and the USSR's role in defeating the Third Reich

On the anniversary of the end of the Second World War, Germany introduces restrictions on displaying Soviet, Russian and Belarusian symbols at a number of memorials. The Germans, of course, might be reminded that the Soviet Victory Banner and the hammer and sickle are the chief reason why Berlin today

NB! · Observations · Humour

When You Have Counted How Many Days Off Lie Ahead

Cinema · Humour

Vladimir Alenikov's film “Bindyuzhnik i Korol” about Babel's Odessa and the change of generations

Andrey Urgant, Roman Kartsev and Zinovy Gerdt on the set of "The Drayman and the King" in Odessa in 1989. The Soviet musical is, of course, quite the oxymoron. But Vladimir Alenikov's "The Drayman and the King" is a rare case in which the

Black-and-white photograph of a tiger walking along a pebble sea shore among chunks of ice.

Geography · Nature

Tiger on a sea shore among ice in a 1980s photograph by Viktor Voronin

Amur Tiger in the Sikhote-Alin Nature Reserve, on the Coast of the Sea of Japan. Photo by Viktor Voronin, 1980s

Archaeology · Geography · Science

At Nauwalabila I, in Kakadu National Park in the north of Australia, what may be the world's oldest evidence of the heat treatment of flint has been found

Patrick Schmidt and Peter Hiscock have re-examined flakes from the deep layers of this rock shelter and found on them traces of deliberate heating dating from 45 to 60 thousand years ago. The technique is as follows: a piece of flint is buried in hot sand beneath a fire,

Architecture · Observations · Society

The Russian pavilion and the Trans-Siberian Railway at the 1906 World’s Fair in Milan

1906 in Russia was, frankly, a bad year. Especially for self-presentation abroad. In January the first attempt at revolution was bleeding out. The country had not yet recovered from Bloody Sunday, the mutiny on the Potemkin, the December fighting on the Presnya, the dreadful Treaty of Portsmouth and the

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