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Month: December 2025

Article About Prison Baseball

Article About Prison Baseball

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I came across this really interesting article in the New York times today about a baseball team from San Quentin (the prison near San Francisco). The article describes the benefit to the incarcerated in their rehabilitation through baseball.

One of the big points that really hit me was this:

For almost all the players on the team, it was also in the weeks or months after their final youth baseball seasons that their lives went downhill.

I really do recommend this article.

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/11/24/us/san-quentin-prison-baseball-team.html?unlocked_article_code=1.708.6q29.rGAvs7ZOdeJ6&smid=url-share

New origin date of human fire-making discovered

New origin date of human fire-making discovered

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I think this is fascinating. Archaeologists have found the earliest known instance of human-created fire, in the village of Barnham in England, which they have determined occurred 400,000 years ago. This pushes the origin of human fire-making back by more than 350,000 years.

This is a pretty extensive article, delving into how they propose this site is so old and how they know the evidence of fire is human in origin.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/resources/idt-b9da7a6d-165b-492a-8785-235cd10e2e8e