A few species of primates have been using stones as hammers to crack open nuts and shells for the past few thousand years. Can we expect their tool use to diversify and , if so, how quickly.
Here are a diverse set of scientific facts that will probably never come up in your life again. But you can still use them to amaze your friends. For example: the wholly mammoth coexisted with the pyramids of Egypt for a millennium. Or, to raise a rope wrapped around the earth by one foot you'd need only 6.3 more feet of rope and you'd need the same amount if you used a basketball instead.
It's the anniversary of Jurrasic Park, 24 years ago, so for July Sixth Park day Tom got together with Chris and Jack to make a dinosaur video, Here you will probably meet a dinosaur, or other creature, you didn't know before and learn something a bit unusual about it.
Here is Tom's perspective on the Dunning-Kruger Effect. If you're not familiar with this effect you have a long way to go. The effect is demonstrated by a graph of your experience versus confidence which shows over-confidence comes quickly following a major loss of confidence as your knowledge grows and reality sinks in.
