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...jewels, body paint and burials the only evidence for Neanderthal ingenuity. Several years ago, German scientists published a study saying that Neanderthals were manufacturing tarlike pitch out of tree resins, which they then used to affix stone points to wooden shafts. "This isn't an easy thing to do," says Zilhão. "It involves several hours of processing at 400 degrees. These guys made the first artificial raw material in the history of mankind...
...Imran Qureshi's disjunctive, miniature paintings from his Moderate Enlightenment series, in which Pakistanis are shown doing everyday things. These gouache portraits, an old Mughal genre Akhlaq helped to revitalize, are seductively simple at first - one figure, apparently a writer of some kind, is depicted musing tranquilly beneath a tree with a notebook. But a closer look reveals his camouflage socks, suggesting he's no entranced poet but perhaps a scribbler of terrorist screeds...
...Partridge in a Pear Tree...
Ihor Ševčenko once said that some historians, in their compulsion to ponder the same questions repeatedly, were like mindless dogs who urinated on the same tree in a forest—leaving other trees unexplored for no specific reason. But according to one colleague, this metaphor—called Ševčenko's law—did not apply to Ševčenko himself, who never sought to follow just one trail, both as a historian...
...brain-function tests from people taking placebo pills. The team, which published its results Tuesday, Dec. 29, in the Journal of the American Medical Association, tested volunteers on a range of tasks, including memory, attention, language, and visual and spatial constructions, and found that the extract from the ancient tree did little to slow the decline of these functions. (See the top 10 medical breakthroughs...