Whaling may have started 1,500 years earlier than already known

Whale hunting began far earlier — and much farther south — than scientists previously suspected. Five-thousand-year-old whalebone harpoons and other artifacts along Brazil’s southern coast suggest that Indigenous communities actively hunted whales at least 1,500 years before the earliest evidence to date, researchers report January 9 in Nature Communications. The findings not only rewrite the…

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Tim Cook calls for de-escalation but avoids criticizing Trump after Minneapolis death

Apple’s internal letter called for ‘de-escalation’ but stopped short of admonishing the president, sparking anger among employees in the wake of the recent Minnesota shooting. President Trump is facing a rare bipartisan backlash after a group of federal agents shot and killed protester Alex Pretti in Minneapolis on Saturday. But tech industry leaders—once some of…

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