Tue. 12/29 - How Humans Began to Read and Write

How is it that humans figured out how to read? New cosmological findings that may finally solve the Hubble tension. And, more monoliths continue to pop up, a look at two of the more interesting ones from this past week.

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Links:

• Reading, That Strange and Uniquely Human Thing (Nautilus)
• Language is a tool, a technology (NomeDaBarbarian, Twitter)
• Astronomers Get Their Wish, and the Hubble Crisis Gets Worse (Quanta)
• Mysterious monolith appears in Pittsfield (WCAX)
• Photos of gingerbread monolith (Alexis Gallagher, Twitter)
• Christmas Day Wonder: Gingerbread Monolith Mysteriously Appears at SF Park (KQED)
• Gingerbread monolith delights San Francisco on Christmas Day (AP)
• Kottke.Org
• Jackson Bird on Twitter