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I'd not heard of Fengkai Group before I saw their LinkedIn advert. They're offering paid positions to be a guest editor for special issues in SCI- and Ei Compendex-indexed journals (the latter is Elsevier's engineering index). That's weird, I thought.
Csaba Szabo has heard of them: he commented on his guest post on Leonid Schneider's blog about uncovering paper mill activity, at forbetterscience.com/2025/05/1…, to note the worrying approach Fengkai made to him in May.
Remarkable survey of archaeobotanical evidence for early processing of plant foods. Florin and Ramsey emphasize that theirs is a cautious approach to the evidence, but the conclusion is very clear: humans were extracting food from a wide variety of plants in ways that required grinding, leaching, and lots of tool use tens (if not hundreds) of thousands of years before the supposed emergence of sedentary agriculture.
Their discussion of crossing Wallacea is fascinating. They demonstrate the prior existence of a early, culturally transmitted bundle of adaptive skills for identifying, processing, and managing plant foods in new landscapes, including stone tools and fire, but equally, a capacity to discover, utilize, and steward unfamiliar food plants.
They firmly upend the assumption that the archaeology of food is just about eating animals, and open up the question of how old agriculture really is.
Plants have often been considered peripheral to the human story until the relatively recent past, only starting to become significant to human diet in the Epipaleolithic when hunter-gatherers were thought to incorporate a range of previously ignored …
Parce que GPT-5.2 n’est pas qu’un modèle “plus fort” : c’est une base plus cohérente pour construire des agents IA qui tiennent la distance, avec un vrai gain sur la qualité des…
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A sample NASA brought back from an asteroid contained amino acids, yet showed no signs of life. But how will we know what is alien life?
A new machine learning approach could help scientists distinguish between chemistry that merely looks alive and chemistry that actually is. theconversation.com/can-scient…
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