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an exploding star caused us to walk upright?

the journal of Michael Werneburg

twenty-seven years and one million words

Toronto, 2019.05.29

It's pretty amazing to see what we can work out these days, such as a distant supernova leading to humanity's ancestors walking upright. Or so we're learning this morning. Pity that we're making such a hash of both the opportunity we've been given and the geologic record at the same time.

rand()m quote

There are two kinds of people in this world: Those that enter a room and turn the television set on, and those that enter a room and turn the television set off.

—-"Raymond Shaw", The Manchurian Candidate