Just over a year ago, I wrote a piece about the 2012 discovery of a group of early hominins, the Denisovans, from a cave in Siberia. All that was initially found was a finger bone, from which was extracted some DNA, which showed the owner as not belonging to the Neanderthals. This finger bone belonged to the first group of archaic humans to be revealed solely by their DNA and associated proteins, rather than the morphology of their fossilised bones. Subsequently another sample of Denisovan DNA was extracted from another specimen from the same cave1.
I'm making a note to myself—and maybe a quiet public declaration—that I will never cook traditional Bolognese sauce on a workday again. I have my own recipe, of course, because it's the national dish of Australia, so there are already about 25 million-plus variations on the traditional Bolognese ragu. It normally takes me about an hour to cook my version, but Jane wanted me to follow the Marcella Hazan recipe, which I knew involved three hours of simmering. I figured I’d put it together over lunch and just let it cook through the afternoon.
Yeah, nah, not so much.
Asian share markets are green across the board in a very quiet session as macro news is dominated by Trump getting played by Putin over the weekend while his regime tries to bully India and China with little result. The moves to watch this week will be the Jackson Hole conference on Friday with Fed
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Ukrainian leader Vladimir Zelensky could bring the fighting with Russia to a halt “immediately” by agreeing to a settlement that rules out NATO membership and entails territorial concessions, US President Donald Trump has said.
According to a 2022 survey conducted by the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, Indian migrants much prefer Labor to the Coalition. The survey suggested that in the 2022 federal election, Indian migrants voted 58:34 for Labor over the Coalition. Chinese-Australians also appear to prefer Labor. The Tally Room discovered that in the 2022 federal election,
CovertAction Magazine co-founder Philip Agee was one of the best known whistleblowers of the 1970s, writing a tell-all book exposing CIA crimes and the influence of multi-national corporations in driving illegal covert operations.
The Market Ear with more. The bull is on ketamine Here are the craziest charts from the week that truly make us believe that bull is on serious drugs. OH MAN! (MSFT + AAPL + NVDA) Nvidia, Microsoft, and Apple now make up over 21% of the S&P 500, the highest weighting for any three
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Amidst the ongoing debate over the right level of migration into Australia, there have been attempts to dismiss the impact of high migration on housing, with one notable example coming from SBS, which provided readers with a guide on how to counter arguments from Australians concerned about the issue. An absolutely defining part of the
In the fast-evolving Communist self-censorship public forum of Australia, a man has broken ranks with the enforced media consensus. His name is Salvatore Babones, an American sociologist based at the University of Sydney. If being an American was not enough to invoke cancellation Article One, his arguments certainly are. Buried deep in an ashamed AFR is
Deutsche with a wrap of Chinese data: China’s economy activity slowed in July. We estimate real GDP growth droppedby 0.8ppt, to 4.9% YoY in July from 5.7% in June. Leading the slowdown was a sharp drop in fixed asset investment which declined by est. -5.2% YoY across the board, including a notable drop in manufacturing
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