A few days ago, Facebook quietly introduced a “Lite” version of its Facebook app for iOS devices, but only in a single market, Turkey. The app had been previously available only on Android. Today, the company is following suit with a launch of Messenger Lite on iOS, again just in …

Chocolate Therapy Cakes tend to be, well, “therapeutic” in the sense that the cake will immerse you into a deep, food- and sugar-induced coma.  Therapy Cakes tend are pretty much the unhealthiest types of cakes out there so I understand if you rolled your eyes when you read “healthy” in the post …

What’s got a chewy, cakey cookie crust and a soft, sweet, and figgy filling?  These Healthy Homemade Fig Bars of course, made with Truvia® Natural Sweetener — my favorite zero-calorie, natural sweetener (it’s made from the stevia leaf)! This easy Fig Bar recipe is 100% whole grain, gluten free, and vegan, …

Fat bombs are the not-so-secret secret to maintaining your keto diet. And while this blog might not be a dieters dream with so many desserts around, I’m dedicating some time to some much needed sweet treat options for those following specific diets or lifestyles.  Read on for my chocolate cheesecake fat bomb …

Archaeologists in Greece have discovered what they think is the oldest written record of Homer’s poem Odyssey. The clay tablet contains 13 verses from the Odyssey’s 14th rhapsody. Image credit: Hellenic Ministry of Culture and Sports. The clay tablet, inscribed around 200-300 CE (Roman era), was unearthed near the Temple …

At the Gault archaeological site in central Texas, archaeologists have unearthed a projectile point technology never previously seen in North America, which they date to be 16,000-20,000 years old. The findings, published in the journal Science Advances, suggest humans occupied the North American continent prior to Clovis — considered the …

Archaeologists from the Universities of Copenhagen and Cambridge, and University College London have unearthed the charred remains of a flatbread baked by Natufian hunter-gatherers 14,400 years ago. The results, published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, provide the earliest empirical evidence for the production of bread, and …

New research published in the journal Scientific Reports provides clear evidence that Neanderthals made fire by striking a piece of pyrite, the yellow mineral sometimes known as fool’s gold, against flint tools called bifaces. The occasional use of stone tools as ‘strike-a-lights’ was a technocultural feature shared among Neanderthals in …

A team of scientists in Australia has uncovered new evidence that suggests dingoes (Canis familiaris dingo) arrived on the continent around 3,500 years ago, more recently than previously thought. Balme et al present the results of direct dating of dingo bones from their oldest known archaeological context, Madura Cave on …

In one of the largest studies of its kind, an international team of researchers conducted organic residue analysis of almost 800 ceramic vessels from 46 Jomon culture archaeological sites, dated to between 13,000 and 6,000 BC, in Japan to identify their contents. The results, published in the Proceedings of the …