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Tue. 03/22 - Competitive Water Drinkers On YouTube: One of the Internet's Last Friendly Places?

Cool Stuff Daily

Reggie Risseeuw and Marques Pfaff

Tech News, News, Science, Society & Culture

4.6739 Ratings

🗓️ 22 March 2022

⏱️ 18 minutes

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Turns out humans have been cooking and enjoying carbs for much longer than we initially thought, and the experiments some archaeologists have been conducting to lend credence to their hypotheses are very cool. Plus, welcome to the weird and wonderful world of competitive water drinking on YouTube. And a startup that wants to make earth-bound deliveries by taking a shortcut through space. Sponsors: Shopify, Get a 14-day free trial at shopify.com/kottke Indeed, Get a free $75 credit at Indeed.com/goodnews Links: How ancient people fell in love with bread, beer and other carbs (Nature) Ancient Ales (Dogfish Head Brewery) Inside the Super Positive Community of Competitive YouTube Water Drinkers (Vice) HydroHomies (Reddit) This Stick Of Butter Is Left Out At Room Temperature; You Won't Believe What Happens Next (ClickHole, YouTube) DAVID LYNCH THEATER (David Lynch, YouTube) Dreaming of Suitcases in Space (NY Times) A company is planning to give you orbital deliveries from outer space (Interesting Engineering) 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 cotkey ride home for for Tuesday, March 22nd, 2022. I'm Jackson Bird today.

0:42.3

Turns out humans have been cooking and enjoying carbs for much longer than we initially thought, and the experiments some archaeologists have been conducting to lend credence to their hypotheses are very cool.

0:55.6

Plus, welcome to the weird and wonderful world of competitive water drinking on YouTube.

1:02.0

And a startup that wants to make earthbound deliveries by taking a shortcut through space.

1:07.8

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

1:13.2

So I don't really know why, but a few months ago, I decided to start making my own bread

1:18.3

instead of buying it. I guess I was really feeling those early pandemic vibes, or maybe I was

1:23.5

getting in touch with a much earlier period in our humanity, one that, it turns out,

1:28.3

even predates the Neolithic Revolution and the domestication of crops. And while it's usually

1:34.2

assumed that ancient humans living over 10,000 years ago subsisted mostly on animals they hunted,

1:39.9

recent research suggests that they relied far more on grains in the form of things like

1:45.1

porridge, stew, and more than we previously thought, even if those grains may not have been

1:50.9

domesticated. Further research indicates that early humans were eating starchy plants

1:55.6

100,000 years ago, which, as a recent write-up in nature, kind of throws shade at, would undermine

2:01.9

the thesis of the paleo diet. All of this new research in recent years comes a lot from

2:07.2

DNA analysis and the examination of microscopic markings on artifacts. Much of it is being

2:12.5

led by Laura Dietrich from the German Archaeological Institute in Berlin. Quoting nature, in archaeology,

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