Dating back more than 60,000 years ago, humans in southern Africa were engraving ostrich eggshells with intricate geometric patterns that—the longer we study them—look more organized than we previously realized.

A new analysis of the markings found on hundreds of eggshell fragments has revealed our ancestors' remarkable ability to organize visual space according to abstract principles.

Hundreds of the highly unusual egg fragments were found at several archaeological sites where, researchers believe, they were engraved by groups of Homo sapiens who lived in that region.

The investigation team from the University of Bologna concluded for the first time that these engravings on ostrich eggshells were not random or improvised, but followed recurring and surprisingly organized geometric rules, according to the study published in the journal PLOS One.

"We are talking about people who did not simply draw lines, but organized them according to recurring principles — parallelisms, grids, rotations and systematic repetitions: a visual grammar in embryo," says Professor Silvia Ferrara, from the University of Bologna's Department of Classical Philology and Italian

A University of Toronto study is offering new evidence in support of full-fat dairy consumption.

The findings from a 12-week study demonstrate that three daily servings of full-fat dairy can be incorporated into a person's diet without negatively affecting their body weight (or composition), energy metabolism, or blood lipid levels.

In fact, the results, published recently in The Journal of Nutrition, show that participants who ate more dairy saw improvements in blood pressure and had higher intake of calcium, protein and vitamin D.

You may ask, why the literature keeps changing around the 'dangers' of dairy. It turns out, when the scientists reveal more, we all learn more.

Dairy products contain saturated fats, which contribute to an increased risk of cardiovascular disease, which is why dietary guidelines around the world have traditionally recommended fat-free or low-fat dairy foods.

However, Professor Harvey Anderson, in the nutritional sciences field at the Toronto University's Faculty of Medicine, says despite these concerns, numerous human studies have found no association between full-fat dairy consumption and negative health outcomes.

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A woman was able to help a partially disabled airport worker retire after she witnessed him hobbling across the tarmac on a flight out of Los Angeles.

Heartbroken watching him limp up to the plane she was sitting on, she captured a video of the man for her TikTok account and posted it with a caption asking if anyone knew who he was.

The footage went viral, and soon, a fundraiser did to.

James Blair is a Navy veteran, working in the military between 1980 and 1990 before reentering civilian life as a fuel mechanic. Since 2006 he's worked at John Wayne Airport despite hardly being able to walk from a pair of deteriorated knees.

Having recently turned 64, and therefore not far from social security and presumably a military pension, he cannot retire as his income helps support his elderly mother's hospice care.

Knowing none of this, Thackery proceeded to watch as comments piled up asking her how someone might be able to help the poor man, until finally a commentor identified him as Blair, at which point she was able to get in

It's been almost 20 years since Argentina launched what was at the time the world's first attempt at reintroducing the giant anteater to a landscape it had disappeared from.

19 years later, and the initiative has been nothing if not successful, with the local population growing from 0 to around 200 individuals.

La Fundación Rewilding Argentina initiated the project in 2007 in the Iberá Wetlands, in the province of Corrientes.

The species, locally known as yurumí, had disappeared from Corrientes in the mid-20th century due to poaching, fires, and habitat degradation.

Over the course of the operational stage of the project, 110 giant anteaters were rescued or rehabilitated for release into the wilds of Corrientes. These individuals might have been orphaned, or rescued after having wandered too close to civilization.

Of those 110 individuals, many procreated, leading to steady population growth and multiple generations of wild-born, wild-raised animals well suited to the wetlands. There are now 200 anteaters living wild there.

The Fundación said that the methodology applied

240 years ago today, Poems, Chiefly in the Scottish Dialect by Robert Burns, the National Poet of Scotland, was published in Kilmarnock. It was a hit, and catapulted him to Scottish Stardom. Among the collection is one of his two most famous poems, To a Mouse, which is actually called To a Mouse, on turning up her nest, with the plough, November. Of Burns' reputation as the "ploughman poet" who writes about rural life, this title is typical, but not as dramatic as The auld Farmer's new-year-morning Salutation, to his auld Mare, Maggy, on giving her the accustomed ripp of Corn to hansel in the new year. READ some of these poems… (1786)

To a Mouse includes the famous line "The best laid plans of mice and men oft go awry." In the poem about Maggy the mare, he opens in his classic rhyming pattern, this one in Scotts:

A Guid New-year I wish thee, Maggie!
Hae, there's a ripp to thy auld baggie:
Tho' thou's howe-backit now, an' knaggie,
I've seen the day
Thou could hae gaen like ony staggie,
Out-owre the lay.

Other poems include To a Louse, proving there is no "beastie" so insignificant as to

The rapid adoption of heat pumps in the United States is becoming little short of a revolution, such that these clever HVAC devices in a few years will effectively replace previous systems.

Indeed of all new homes built last year, 46% were completed with heat pumps, just 1% below other more recognizable systems like water boilers, gas furnaces, and air conditioners.

Heat pumps use the process of changing a liquid to a gas and back again to cool and heat air that's pumped into the house or building they service. They generate substantially fewer greenhouse gas emissions than a gas furnace or burning heating oil, and because they rely on electricity, can take advantage of renewable energy.

Previous generations relied on the kinds of refrigerants that were 2,000-times more capable of creating a greenhouse effect than CO2, but modern EPA regulations are seeing that previous fluid exchanged for ones with lower global warming potential, or even propane.

In the first quarter of this year, there were 32% more heat pump sales in the US than older home heating systems, according to a new

Miraculously, all 11 souls walked away with their lives after a seaplane both crashed and caught fire in the Puget Sound.

Operator Kenmore Air said in a statement that one of its planes, a de Havilland DHC-3 Otter, was on route out of Seattle with 10 passengers and a pilot when "an accident" saw the seaplane go down at 5:15 p.m. local time last Thursday.

Going down on the water, the plane also caught fire, and had already sunk in the frigid water by the time the US Coast Guard first responders arrived on scene.

Again, as if by a miracle, all 11 souls on board were rescued alive; some having sustained injuries like broken bones, lacerations, and head injuries.

"The pilot probably did a really good job to set it down gently enough to give everybody a chance," Coast Guard Lt. Commander Marshall Burtt told CBS Evening News. "A lot of things went right to get everybody out of the plane."

3 air ambulances arrived to rush the injured, including one who was in critical condition, to safety.

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