I’ve Moved!
November 20, 2008
So I’m sure that most people have noticed that the site has been offline for a few days. There’s a reason for that, which I will get to shortly. But first, let me just say this:
In fact, I am blogging at a new site I have just finished setting up: kennethhynek.net. A full explanation for the reasons behind the move can be found here
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That said, this is not the end of Time Immortal. My wife Grace has expressed interest in taking over blogging at this domain, and I am working to make sure that she gets set up here as soon as possible.
Also, my profound apologies for the modification to the site face; the move was not as seamless as I would have hoped, and many of the image files for this theme, and in the gallery, were corrupted during the course of their evacuation from my previous web host’s servers. Until such time as I have repaired them, I’ve put a clean-looking template in place of the previous one.
Update: for the purposes of further traffic shaping, new posts from kennethhynek.net will be excerpted below. Full articles can be read at the new blog.
The ‘noble savages’ myth suffers another blow
January 26, 2007
I mean, that myth has been dead for a long while, but every so often another discovery comes along that adds another nail to the coffin.
An underground trove of fossil skeletons found in Australia suggests humans, not climate change, drove the continent’s large land animals to extinction 40,000 to 50,000 years ago.
Given sufficient time, I’m sure someone will think of a creative way to associate at least a measure of the blame for these extinctions with Bush’s foreign policy planning. Other than that, there’s not much to say: the ancient, ancient peoples were obviously less civilized than we are now, and not as conscious of the interaction between animal species and the world as us modern folk have, in the past, been led to believe. They hunted or, by their settlement patterns, drove away these animals to the point of extinction.
Not a news flash.
I can see how a discovery like this might hurt the position of the climate change nutters a little bit, but I think in practice any positive gain in that direction that it might bring will be offset by the boost it gives to PETA instead.
