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Archaeology · Observations · Science · Humour
History teacher Adrian Targett shares a maternal ancestor with Cheddar Man
Read in a newspaper 19 years old how a British history teacher, Adrian Targett, learned that he shares mitochondrial DNA with Cheddar Man, found in Gough's Cave in 1903 and some 10,000 years old. What is more, Targett and his family had lived all their lives literally
NB! · Art · Moscow · Observations · Humour
Something Strange at the Institute of Art History
Something strange at the Institute of Art History. No one will own up to whose brushes these are
Art · Paris · Humour
Erik Bulatov painted “Paris. Kremlin” in 1992
The Best View in Paris Is, of Course, of the Kremlin. Erik Bulatov, “Paris. Kremlin”, 1992
NB! · Faith · Humour
The main thing with this hairstyle is that the Philistine woman does not creep up on you
NB! · Books · Observations · Humour
In Case You Didn't Know, Larisa Ogudalova Invented Cringe
In case you didn't know, Larisa Ogudalova invented cringe. Or rather, Alexander Nikolayevich Ostrovsky did.
NB! · Books · Observations · Pop Culture · Humour
Found an Alla Pugacheva Easter egg in a 1990s edition of "Crocodile Gena and His Friends"
NB! · The East · Books · Mores · Humour
Gaspard Drouville observes that Persian women, though they wear the chador, and even when covered from head to foot, possess a peculiar art of recognising one another from a great distance, whereas their husbands often walk right beside them and cannot te
NB! · Books · Moscow · Humour
Quotations from Great Men
Quotations from Great Men. The Lenin Library
Art · Observations · New York · Humour
Mosaic of typical characters at Prince station on the New York subway
Saw a great big station, Stretched and said: "What station is this? Dibuny or Yamskaya?" And from the platform they said: "This is the city of New York. This is the city of New York, they say." Literal translation And, accordingly, a mosaic in the New
NB! · Art · Observations · Nature · Humour
Pyotr Konchalovsky's painting is called "Begonias", but actually there is a gloxinia standing beside the begonias, and behind them, it seems, some alocasias
Observations · Science · Ethnography · Humour
Misiak and Tureček build a model of cannibalism as an economic practice
A Polish-Czech team of scholars investigates the complexities of cannibalism. They are, of course, careful to stipulate that they are merely modelling, not conducting fieldwork. The aim is to explain why cannibalism never took hold as a regular strategy, and why a taboo arose in different cultures. Why, indeed?