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Ashley Bardhan April 18 2022
 
 
Artifacts are lonely. Imagine being centuries past your prime, spending all that time living oceans away from your home country, or buried down in dirt, or in sand. It’s tough out here for an artifact. The next time you come across one in a museum, or if you’re lucky, on your next seashell hunt, take a moment to reflect on these things that have been in the world much longer than you.

And if a museum trip is just not in this week’s cards, then look no further than today’s newsletter to ponder the past. Today’s email has incredible footage of a 186-year-old shipwreck, information about the start of human evolution, Mayan calendars, and more. But before you time travel, vote for Inverse Daily in this year’s Webby Awards β€” we are so grateful for your support.
 
 
 
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Shipwreck Science
 
 
See the deteriorated remains of a 186-year-old whaling ship found in the Gulf of Mexico
 
β€œCommercial whaling was once a booming industry in New England,” writes Inverse card story editor Jennifer Walter. β€œIn the 17th and 18th centuries, people hunted whales and used their blubber as a lubricant for machinery, and their bones to make various light-but-sturdy objects.”

Even at the height of an industry, when you’re out on stormy waters, accidents happen and ships sink. One lost whaling ship includes Industry, a brig built in 1815 that lived out its purpose for 20 years. It reached a brutal end in 1836, when a storm tore its body apart, but now Industry gets a shot at ghosthood β€” the National Oceanic and AAtmospheric Administration just found its remains in the Gulf of Mexico.

β€œAll the wooden remains of Industry have deteriorated,” Walter notes, β€œbut significant pieces, such as a cast iron stove called a tryworks, are still intact.” You can see the gnarled metal artifacts the ship left behind and learn more about its crewmates (who survived the wreck!) by clicking through the card story.
 
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Origins of Humanity Science
 
Where and when did humans evolve?
 
While we’re time traveling, let’s revisit the top of Homo sapiens history. Though researchers have struggled to answer why humans seem to dominate Earth, a new study suggests climate shifts played a role in our ascension.

β€œThe study identified three overarching conclusions about how climate shaped where and when ancient hominins settled, helping determine the evolution of our species,” writes Inverse nature reporter Tara Yarlagadda. First, climate β€œhelped determine where and when humans settled.” Then, species shifts correlated to climate shifts, and climate stress led to Homo sapiens outpacing the Homo Heidelbergensis species.

While there are β€œcompeting theories of human evolution,” writes Yarlagadda, β€œthe new research offers significant support for the variability selection hypothesis, which proposes that early hominin evolution and speciation were influenced by significant shifts in temperature and precipitation levels.”
 
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HUMBLE BEGINNINGS Science
 
The Mayan calendar is older than we thought, researchers say
 
Let’s move forward in time β€” β€œwriting in the journal Science Advances this week, researchers analyzed painted plaster fragments from an ancient Maya pyramid in modern-day Guatemala,” writes Jennifer Walter. β€œThey discovered the earliest evidence of a written calendar date, along with intricate calligraphy that sheds light on the evolution of Maya writing systems.”

Radiocarbon dating places that date fragment, β€œ7 Deer,” somewhere between 300 and 200 B.C, making it the β€œearliest confirmed example of a calendar date found at a Maya site,” Walter writes. Since the artifact was found in the crumbs of San Bartolo, an early Mayan town but not a bustling capital, experts believe it indicates that Mayan calendars were around for centuries prior to its creation.

β€œThe origins of the Mayan calendar provoke many mysteries, some of which could be cleared up through further research of the 7000 fragments,” writes Walter. β€œFor the time being, we know that the Maya were far more capable in the Preclassical period than we might give them credit for.”
 
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Remember when? Science
 
Three years ago, we got the first-ever image of a gargantuan black hole
 
Just three years ago, β€œthe first black hole image to ever be taken stunned the world,” writes Inverse science reporter Doris ElΓ­n Urrutia. β€œIn the picture β€” painstakingly constructed by 200 researchers from eight telescopes performing four nights of research to capture six petabytes (1 million gigabytes) β€” we see a glowing ring and stark shadow marking an edge of no return.”

β€œBeyond this threshold, known as the event horizon, the black hole produces a dark region in space where not even light can escape its grasp,” Urrutia continues. Photographing a black hole is as impressive as it is rare. For the blazing image, Event Horizon Telescope researchers had to take signals from eight, globally-located radio telescopes and synthesize the data for an image.

β€œThis Earth-scale is necessary because while black holes are frighteningly powerful and massive, they are physically very small,” writes Urrutia. β€œThe bigger the telescope, the smaller the object that scientists can observe.” Next, scientists hope to capture the Milky Way’s pinprick black hole, Sagittarius A*.
 
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Meanwhile ...
 
NASA takes a stunning view of Mars' "prime meridian"
SETI astronomers just simulated what an alien message might look like
'Better Call Saul’s Tony Dalton reflects on playing Lalo Salamanca
Zack Snyder’s best superhero movie is finally streaming on HBO Max
 
 
 
 
On this day in history: Today in 1916, American chemist Irving Langmuir patented his design for an incandescent lamp. The umbra of Langmuir’s influence can still be found around lamp designs we use today (P.S. Later in history, Albert Einstein sadly died on this day in 1955).

Song of the day: β€œBurning of the Midnight Lamp” by Jimi Hendrix.

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