Billion Skills

The First Billion Years Comes Into View

Rebecca Boyle | Quanta | 9th October 2024

The "firehose" of new, bright images from the James Webb Space Telescope is not even fully open yet. Much of what we have seen so far is strange. "Galaxy size, brightness, mass and shape are all weird. Black holes are weird. The efficiency of star formation is weird; the correlation between brightness, astronomical power and an object’s mass are not as astrophysicists expected" (3,900 words)

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The Survival Skills Of Helena Valero

Tove K | Wood From Eden | 30th September 2024

Valero is "one of the most important anthropologists of the 20C". Of indigenous and European ancestry, she was kidnapped at the age of 11 in 1937. For the next 19 years she survived among sometimes violent uncontacted tribal groups in the Amazonas. She emerged in 1956 with her four sons and told her story to an Italian anthropologist. A decade later, she returned to live in the forest (6,000 words)

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