Tue. 12/29 - How Humans Began to Read and Write

How is it that humans figured out how to read? New cosmological findings that may finally solve the Hubble tension. And, more monoliths continue to pop up, a look at two of the more interesting ones from this past week. Sponsors: Skillshare, get a free trial of Premium Membership at skillshare.com/kottke  BitTrust IRA, Waive your signup fee BitTrustIRA.com/kottke Links: Reading, That Strange and Uniquely Human Thing (Nautilus) Language is a tool, a technology (NomeDaBarbarian, Twitter) Astronomers Get Their Wish, and the Hubble Crisis Gets Worse (Quanta) Mysterious monolith appears in Pittsfield (WCAX) Photos of gingerbread monolith (Alexis Gallagher, Twitter) Christmas Day Wonder: Gingerbread Monolith Mysteriously Appears at SF Park (KQED) Gingerbread monolith delights San Francisco on Christmas Day (AP) Kottke.Org Jackson Bird on Twitter See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices