The remains of the city were found in an ecological reserve in a mostly unexplored area of jungle.
Proposed discoveries of humanlike activities by these ancient, small-brained hominids have elicited skepticism from some researchers.
An international team of archaeologists, ethnographers and historians has found a pendant that may be the earliest known example of a carved phallus. They have published their findings in the journal Scientific Reports.
Dylan Gebbia-Richards' colourful wall installations
Dylan Gebbia-Richards is an artist based out of Boulder, CO.
Dougie Wallace - Road Wallah
The once ubiquitous Premiere Padmini Taxis that were introduced in the 60s are due to disappear from the Mumbai streets in 2015. The decree to replace over 20-year old cars with modern alternatives sounds the death knell on a black and yellow Indian icon, a primary source of living for thousan
A 2,000-year-old collection of medical tools, recently unearthed in Hungary, offer insight into the practices of undaunted, much-maligned Roman doctors.
The paper touches on this in its introduction. I can't explain how they did it, because the details are too technical for me.
However, the method they used comes from this paper here, where they reconstructed an extinct archosaur's legs by using an extant crocodile species. If I understood it correctly, they were able to verify the technique by then applying it to a gorilla's shoulder.
Digital modelling of legendary fossil's soft tissue suggests Australopithecus afarensis had powerful leg and pelvic muscles suited to tree dwelling, but knee muscles that allowed fully erect walking.
Baboons with strong social bonds added 2.2 years to their lives, no matter what adversity they had faced in their earlier years.
Request a community here
To avoid hosting duplicate communities across instances and curate this instance a bit, I've restricted the creation of communities.
However, you are free to request one and if it more or less fits the theme described in the sidebar, or if you want a geographic community that isn't represented elsewhere, I'll be happy to create one.
Welcome! Read this if you're new to Lemmy
Hello! I'm glad you made it here.
As you may have already gathered, Lemmy is an open-source news aggregator that works similarly to Reddit and other sites, with the key difference that it utilizes federation. Instead of a single entity controlling the entire system centrally, there are several distinct nodes that are networked with each other using the ActivityPub protocol. This means that you're able to sign up on one server, then visit and contribute to communities on other servers.
All this happens without having to leave the site you create your account on. For example, I am able to visit /c/lotrmemes, hosted on midwest.social, as if it was part of this instance.
You might have noticed that the front page is somewhat bare-bones at the moment. This is because the 'local' tab only shows communities hosted on this instance. However, if you click the 'all' tab you will see communities on other federated instances that you'll be able to contribute to. When you subscribe to one of them, they will show up on the local feed as well.
Therefore it is not necessary to use the larger Lemmy instances for the full experience, in fact the creators of Lemmy discourage doing so. To distribute the load, it makes sense to create an account on smaller instances, like this one.
An archaeologist explains how recent archaeological finds in Egypt expand our knowledge of a violent revolt described on the Rosetta Stone.
Can't forget about the first website ever
http://info.cern.ch/ for more info
There's a "Goldilocks Zone" when it comes to amounts of users that Lemmy is still pretty far from IMO. A few hundred thousand people would already make the place feel alive without losing the communal feeling, like what Reddit had around a decade ago or more.
Good thing about Lemmy being open-source is that any Lemmy Enhancement Suite type improvements could go right into the source code.
Can't see posts on own instance
Basically title.
I'm able to post something on my instance and access it directly through the link, but I won't be able to see it on the front page. However, it does appear in a private window.
This link appears to me, logged in, as follows:
Is there a setting or something that is causing this? I've previously posted something that did appear, in a community I've since purged, but yet another post does not.
as a hint it begins with M and ends with ass effect
we're friends if you know what mine is
Removing communities as admin
Apologies if there's an obvious way to do it, but I couldn't find it. Is there a way to remove communities using the web interface, without having to touch the server?
My shitposts are pretty terrible too, but you gotta start somewhere, right? :D
I just created a [email protected], now to actually post some content...
Linux already exists, there's [email protected]