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Complex disease transmission patterns could explain why it took tens of thousands of years after first contact for our ancestors to replace Neanderthals throughout Europe and Asia. via Snapzu : Places, Culture & Travel

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Anyone making the journey to Westminster by public transport will be confronted by a series of posters warning them about the state of British media. The word ‘redacted’ is in large letters, and… via Snapzu : Places, Culture & Travel

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Dorothy Parton's Imagination Library now mails more than one million books per month across the U.S., Australia, Britain, Canada and Ireland via Snapzu : Places, Culture & Travel

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A wildlife centre in Leicestershire says it is "overwhelmed" with the numbers of underweight hoglets. via Snapzu : Places, Culture & Travel

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There is general agreement that getting rid of the time switch twice a year would be a good idea via Snapzu : Places, Culture & Travel

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"We've got these incredibly warm seas." via Snapzu : Places, Culture & Travel

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Humanity's homeland found in ancient Botswana via Snapzu : Places, Culture & Travel

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A giant open-pit copper and gold dig above Alaska's Bristol Bay could yield sales of more than $20 billion in two decades, but Pebble Mine would place the world's greatest wild salmon run at risk forever. via Snapzu : Places, Culture & Travel

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Serikjan Bilash signed a plea deal after Kazakh officials charged him with "inciting ethnic tensions" for his work documenting repression against Kazakhs and in China's Xinjiang region. via Snapzu : Places, Culture & Travel

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On the ground in the vast world of Chinese gaming. via Snapzu : Places, Culture & Travel

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China’s use of technology for social control of its citizens is extensive – but it could affect users elsewhere too, says security analyst Samantha Hoffman via Snapzu : Places, Culture & Travel

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Smartphones are driving major changes in North Korean lifestyles, several Daily NK sources in Pyongyang recently reported.  via Snapzu : Places, Culture & Travel

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Forecast suggests rainforest could stop producing enough rain to sustain itself by 2021 via Snapzu : Places, Culture & Travel

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Eímear Noone got into composing and conducting video game music by accident. One day, while studying music at Trinity College Dublin, a fourth-year student came to the bar she was drinking in with members of the college chapel choir and offered them a few quid to help with the orchestration on a project of his. via Snapzu : Places, Culture & Travel

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Rare, submerged tool suggests Neanderthals had mastered the complex technology of tarmaking via Snapzu : Places, Culture & Travel

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Scientists have discovered what may be the oldest written records of auroras to date. They were hidden in ancient cuneiform tablets from the Middle East. via Snapzu : Places, Culture & Travel

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The problem with literature is that there's so much of it. Books go back a long time (like at least ten or fifteen years, I'm thinking), and if you're a student taking an English class, you're supposed to be familiar with basically all of them. But that's impossible. Allow us, then, to suggest an alternate strategy: you fake it. The following literary movements and periods span whole centuries, numerous cultural milestones, and multiple historical turning points, but we have taken the liberty of reducing them all to a single sentence. This should be more than sufficient to convince your teacher you actually did the reading. So, without... via Snapzu : Places, Culture & Travel