Human sacrifice

When you die, what story will your teeth hold for the geneticists of the future? Hopefully the tale will be more uplifting than that of Vittrup Man, a forager-turned-farmer whose skull was smashed in over 5,000 years ago in what is now Denmark.Nvidia’s Almost Worth 2 Trillion. Is It a Bubble, or Is It Just Getting Started?A team of researchers recently scrutinized the isotopes locked away in Vittrup Man’s teeth, and they were able to reconstruct his life history from his childhood until his death. They determined that the…

At a boarding school in the early 1970s, a student who’s been eagerly awaiting winter vacation gets a call with bad news: they’ll be spending Christmas at school instead of with their family. Is it Alexander Payne’s new Oscar-buzz movie The Holdovers—or Jenn Wexler’s new Shudder release The Sacrifice Game? Zillow Says You’ll Buy Your Next House With… AI? | AI UnlockedSuffice to say, similarities between the two don’t extend much beyond that broad set-up, which manages to envelop both a coming-of-age drama and an eerie yet…