Previously, scientists and linguists thought that Uto-Aztecan languages spread into California through the spread of maize farming, but a new study questions that idea.
Tags: america, language, history, science
The 16th-century “Florentine Codex” offers a Mexican Indigenous perspective that is often missing from historical accounts of the period.
Tags: history, books
the hottest temperature our planet has experienced in something like 125,000 years
Tags: climate, disaster
On a particularly bad day for digital media, a thought about where we should go next. Hint: Let’s stop talking about scale.
Tags: social media, economics
We’ve talked about it before, but this has been a year of strikes - and successful ones, at that. Today we chronicle some of these.
Tags: america, work