a national geographic documentary about prehistoric man. i love anthropology and this doc is one i think of constantly!
May 14, 2024
Related Recs
đź’«
This new limited series on Netflix is causing a lot of controversy in the archaeological community. Graham Hancock, the host, loves to say, “Human beings are a species with amnesia.” To prove this he travels around the world to pre-historic sites and makes the argument that an advanced human civilization existed during the last Ice Age before being wiped out by asteroid strikes around 12,800 years ago. I’m a natural born skeptic, but I’ve read several of Hancock’s books and they raise a lot of questions that archaeologists haven’t, or can’t, sufficiently answer.  Sometimes I wonder why I’m so interested in the mysteries of prehistory. The conclusion I’ve come to is that they calm me by making my own problems—finishing my Perfectly Imperfect, writing the next book, death—feel less significant.
Apr 3, 2023
đź•ł
Not the most recent bc this was before the Russian invasion of Ukraine but I had some time off work and rewatched the HBO series and then watched every piece of media I could find on it and then got obsessed with how radiation effects the human body and now I have iodine pills because you simply never know. We should honestly be spending so much more energy and money on figuring out how to handle nuclear waste instead of stupid shit like banning tik tok and killing each other for dominance :(
Mar 17, 2024
Top Recs from @alismiles
🎼
the whole album. i have been obsessed with learning the story and dissecting the lyrics! it’s dark but so genius! my favourites are televangelism and strangers.
May 3, 2024
đź“š
i found this book at my school library this morning and decided to start to read it. it’s set in ireland, which is somewhere i’ve always wanted to visit. under 100 pages, short and sweet, and i’m really liking it!
Apr 29, 2024
🪟
i love the combination of my sleep music playing softly while i have my window open, it’s free white noise! it’s raining right now and i genuinely cannot wait to go to bed and listen to it accompanied by my adrianne lenker (sleep playlist recs: real house - adrianne lenker, hard times - ethel cain, cherry wine - hozier).
Apr 30, 2024