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Cool Stuff Daily

Thu. 08/26 - What If All Food Was Square?

Cool Stuff Daily

Reggie Risseeuw and Marques Pfaff

Tech News, News, Science, Society & Culture

4.6739 Ratings

🗓️ 26 August 2021

⏱️ 16 minutes

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The 7,200 year old skeleton of a teenage girl is shaking up what we thought we knew about ancient human migration. The creative solution an Oregon hospital has come up with to support its overworked staff, and what we can do to help lessen their load. And a new startup that wants to disrupt the way we eat our meals, specifically by making all of our food look like identical little bricks. Sponsor: Upstart, upstart.com/kottke Links: ‘Genetic fossil’: intact DNA from woman who lived 7,200 years ago discovered in Indonesia (The Guardian) Who were the Toaleans? Ancient woman's DNA provides first evidence for the origin of a mysterious lost culture (The Conversation) 7,200-Year-Old Human DNA With Unique Denisovan Ancestry Has Been Found in Indonesia (Science Alert) First ancient human DNA found from key Asian migration route (Nature) Oregon, once a virus success story, struggles with surge (AP) Oregon hospital workers smash plates to relieve stress (Upworthy)  WHO says Covid misinformation is a major factor driving pandemic around the world (CNBC)  Covid: CDC study shows unvaccinated people 29 times more likely to be hospitalized (CNBC) Facebook moms' Vaccine Talk group is fighting misinfo and persuading skeptics (Washington Post) New start-up presents a selection of weird little food cubes (A/V Club) This Startup Wants You To Eat All Your Food In Cube Form (Vice) Are you ready to eat your delicious nutrient square? Yum, yum, yum (The Verge)  What is SquarEat? 'Modular squared food' company is taking over Twitter (Today) How I Experience Web Today (h/t Garbage Day) Kottke.Org Jackson Bird on Twitter See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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Welcome to the Kaki Ride Home for Thursday, August 26th, 2021. I'm Jackson Bird today.

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The 7,200-year-old skeleton of a teenage girl is shaking up what we thought we knew about ancient human migration.

0:51.6

The creative solution in Oregon Hospital has come up with to support its

0:56.7

overworked staff and what we can do to lessen their load. And a new startup that wants to

1:03.0

disrupt the way we eat our meals, specifically by making all of our food look like identical

1:09.0

little bricks. Here are some of the cool things from the news today.

1:15.8

A recently analyzed fossil of a young woman who lived 7,200 years ago,

1:21.4

is shaking up what we've long since thought we knew about human migration

1:25.2

and has provided the first genetic evidence of a certain

1:29.0

ancient culture. So the Tualian people were hunter-gatherers who lived on the Indonesian island of

1:35.0

Sulawesi before Neolithic farmers from mainland Asia migrated there about 3,500 years ago.

1:40.9

Many artifacts and cave drawings from the Toalians have been found, the oldest of which

1:45.1

date to around 8,000 years ago, but no artifacts have been found after the 5th century, a few thousand

1:51.0

years after those Neolithic farmers arrived. In 2015, archaeologists working in Sulawesi

1:56.7

found the skeleton of the roughly teenaged young woman that they named Bersek, a nickname for

2:02.4

young princesses. A new analysis published this week in the journal Nature of Bissex's DNA has

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