Domesticating fire is another major milestone in the development of the Homo species creating significant advances in our development. The exact date or period when humans first used fire is not known, as it occurred long before recorded history. However, it is generally accepted that humans began using fire between 1.5 and 2 million years ago during the Lower Paleolithic period. The evidence for early human use of fire includes the presence of charred bones and stone tools found at early human sites, as well as the discovery of hearths and ash deposits in caves and other areas where early humans lived....

One characteristic that all human species shared was a large brain. For example, a pig weighing 133 pounds has a brain size of 200 cc. A modern human weighing the same has a brain size of 1200-1400 cc. The brain is not only awkward to carry around, but it requires a lot of food/energy intake. While only weighing about 2% of the total body weight requires 25% of the total food/energy consumed....

In the first section of the Coursea course Dr Harami started with the timeline of everything. About 13 billion years ago was the Big Bang where matter came into being. Physics examines how matter, energy, time, and space interact. About 300,000 years after that matter and energy started combining to form atoms which then formed complex molecules and this becomes Chemistry. About 4 billion years ago even more complex structures started to form call organisms “living” which is Biology....

Brief History is a course that I took taught by Dr. Yuval Noah Harari back around 2013 and since then a book “Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind” was produced and has been translated into several languages. It is about human history from around 70,000 years ago to the 21st Century. As Dr Harami himself says it is both superficial and controversial. The course is divided into 20 segments and even with the book there is no way that it can explore any subject in any detail....

Anthropology is a subject that has always interested me from an early age. Remember being fascinated by a book written by Desmond Morris titled “The Naked App” which was slanted to a more general audience rather than a scientific tome. I then became infatuated by the aquatic ape theory, championed by Elaine Morgan for years that made its way into the scientific mainstream, contends that some of our ancestors dwelled primarily in water....

Tribute for Andi who had 14 wonderful years being part of my sisters family. Unfortunately she passed away February 7 2023 and is deeply missed.

I am ChatGPT, an AI language model developed by OpenAI. I am designed to help people by providing concise and accurate answers to their questions, in natural language. My training data consists of a large corpus of text, which enables me to respond to a wide range of questions on various topics, such as history, science, geography, and more. The goal is to assist users by providing relevant information quickly and efficiently, making it easier for them to find the information they need....

Livecode Server is the engine that uses Livecode Script in a Full Stack web application. The server engine works just like PHP where you can place tags in a web page in line with HTML. The server exectues the tags and outputs the results. Livecode’s high-level language is easier to get the job done than many lower level languages such as PHP, Python, C++, PERL, etc. Livecode built solution is easier to write and generally takes less code than these languages....

Using App on Digital Ocean is a newer service that they have started where it is possible to build, deploy, manage, and scale apps. Digital Ocean handles the infastructure, app runtimes, so that code can be pushed to production in just a few clicks. It has support for Node.js. Python, Go, PHP, Ruby, Static sites, and Docker. Below is the cost structure for using Digital Ocean’s App platform. As you can see it does seem to be a fairly reasonable cost structure and ceratinly being able to get started for free is something....

Post Addition is some documentation for add content to this site. A real simple way for doing this is using something like Netlify along with GitHub and a new post is automatically uploaded and published once the post is saved in the local text editor or it can be tied in with Netlify CMS and a post can be created live and pushed back to the GitHub repository and the local site....