Resilient Human

The First Settlers Weren’t Human

Sophie Holloway | New Lines | 5th September 2025

The tourism boom on Greece's islands has resulted in major strides forward in prehistoric archaeology. As digs raced to capture knowledge from ancient sites before the developers started pouring concrete, experts uncovered startling evidence that early humans had settled there as far back as 200,000 years ago. The Aegean islands could have been used for migration from Africa to Europe (3,000 words)

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Wikipedia Is Resilient Because It Is Boring

Josh Dzieza | Verge | 4th September 2025

Wikipedia is "basically the only place on the internet that doesn’t function as a confirmation bias machine". It provides "factual ballast to an increasingly unmoored internet" and is a major reason why search engines and AI products are functional. Hostile governments and groups attack it for bias, but make little headway because the site runs on an engine of painstaking, earnest procedure (9,700 words)