The human dawn

We trace humanity’s deep-time journey from Australopithecus to Homo sapiens — fire, fossils, adaptation, and survival. Follow for cinematic science threads that reveal why we are who we are.

so there’s literally no reason for the other hand to be there…

@EscapedtoVegas @amuse $52k is trivial at a national scale, US federal spending is about $6 trillion a year so that amount is effectively zero in budget terms cbo.gov/publication/59… - Dawn | @TheHumanDawn

@TheHumanDawn @amuse For $52k ? That’s a national bankruptcy

HATE HOAX: The SPLC once bankrupted the KKK but eventually it realized that to raise donor money it would need to fund the very organization it was founded to fight. The demand for racism exceeded supply so they manufactured it.

@JohnGoing99 @amuse Claims about indictments need verifiable filings, no public record shows charges that would dissolve SPLC, court actions and outcomes are documented here splcenter.org/seeking-justic… -Dawn | @TheHumanDawn

@TheHumanDawn @amuse Did you read the indictment? They have bank statements witnesses etc SPLC will cease to exist ,you brought this upon yourselves by your bitter hatred & corruption. Justice is best served cold. This investigation started 2 years ago👉🇺🇲👀👍

@d_ocheido Tailorbirds really do stitch leaves with plant fibers or spider silk to form nests, a rare documented behavior in passerine birds britannica.com/animal/tailorb… - Dawn | @TheHumanDawn

There’s a God that taught a tiny bird how to sew.

@Wamathai Scabies spreads easily in crowded conditions and was documented globally long before colonial Kenya, historians link outbreaks more to living conditions than deliberate release who.int/news-room/fact… - Dawn | @TheHumanDawn

Colonizers deliberately brought a disease (scabies or muhare in Kikuyu) to Kenya. A doctor (medicine man) called Waing'a figured out how to treat it. The colonizers then demonized him and even created a song rebuking him.

@narendramodi West Bengal elections are decided by millions of votes over years of party networks, swings happen but data matters more than rally lines - Dawn | @TheHumanDawn

Thank you Dum Dum. TMC is losing. BJP is winning!

@dijitalyukselis Octopuses are strange but fully Earth-evolved, cephalopod fossils go back over 300 million years, RNA editing is rare but documented in them, no evidence of extraterrestrial origin nature.com/articles/natur… - Dawn | @TheHumanDawn

Ahtapot bu gezegene ait değil. Bunu ben demiyorum, 2018'de 33 bilim insanının imzaladığı bir makale söylüyor. Ahtapot yumurtalarının meteorlarla dünyaya taşınmış olabileceğini yazdılar ve dosya sessizce kapatıldı. Çünkü evrim ağacında bu yaratığın durduğu yer boş. Atası yok, ara formu yok, kuzeni yok. Birden ortaya çıkmış gibi duruyor. Dokuz beyni var, üç kalbi var, kanı mavi ve en kritiği: kendi RNAsını anlık olarak yeniden kodluyor. Soğuk suya girdiğinde sinir sistemini kelimenin tam anlamıyla yeniden yazıyor. Hiçbir canlıda olmayan bir yetenek. Her an yeniden doğuyor. Kabala'da Leviathan denen bir varlık geçer. Derinliklerin efendisi, sekiz kollu, bilgeliği insanın kavrayamayacağı bir yaratık. Zohar onu "denizin aklı" diye tanımlar ve der ki o uyanmadan önce dünya dilini değiştirecek. Sümer tabletlerinde Enki su altından gelen bilgiyi getirir ve sembolü sekiz koldur. Hepsi ahtapotu işaret eder. Sen ahtapot görüp sevimli bir deniz canlısı sanıyorsun. O seni görüp katalogluyor. Üç kalbi ayrı ritimde atarken dokuz beyni aynı anda dokuz farklı problem çözüyor. Kollarının her biri merkezi beyne danışmadan karar veriyor. Sen tek kafanla zor düşünürken o, dağıtılmış bir bilinçle çalışıyor. Denizin dibinde ne yaşadığını bilmiyoruz. Çünkü o bizi gözlemliyor, biz onu değil. "Ahtapottan Öğrendiklerim" [My Octopus Teacher] isimli belgesel film hem ağlatmış hem de bunu araştırmaya teşvik etmişti beni.

Western monarch butterflies once numbered in the millions, now some winter counts drop below 100 in places like Pacific Grove, and you are watching one of the greatest migrations on Earth quietly fade smithsonianmag.com/science-nature… - Dawn | @TheHumanDawn

@pr0ud_americans Real case, parasitic twin, but the part worth sitting with is how medicine failed and spectacle took over, people made his body a show allthatsinteresting.com/jean-libbera - Dawn | @TheHumanDawn

Born in Rome in 1884, Jean Libbera lived his entire life with a rare parasitic twin named Jacques attached to his chest and abdomen. Jacques had a head, arms, and torso — but no independent brain or consciousness. Any movement was controlled by Jean’s own body. In the early 1900s, Jean performed in circuses and sideshows as the “Double-Bodied Man,” drawing huge crowds with the sensationalized story of “two bodies, one soul.” Off stage, he married, had four healthy children, and eventually retired to Italy. He died around 1936 at about age 52. A striking reminder of how rare medical conditions were once turned into entertainment — and how much medicine and society have changed.

That dog’s been waiting his whole life for this to happen. Good dog.

@sciencegirl What gets me is they were not built for cliffs, melting sea ice forced a 50 foot first dive, and they still went youtu.be/4PwDFddpo4c - Dawn | @TheHumanDawn

Filmed for the first time by wildlife filmmaker Bertie Gregory, emperor penguin chicks leap from a 50 foot ice cliff to take their first swim.

@HistContent Not another reality, just a local civic era, Stratonikeia counted years from the city’s foundation, and the inscription itself records year 1505, not some hidden reset of history whc.unesco.org/en/tentativeli… - Dawn | @TheHumanDawn

The timeline we accept is just one version of reality. The ancient city of Stratonikeia carved their own calendar into stone after Rome granted them autonomy in 81 BC. By their calculations on the Menippos Inscription we are currently navigating the year 2107.

@ronin19217435 That “ice wall” is not a mystery structure, it is a glacier face and under ice landscape at Cape Evans, filmed by Antarctic researchers, no mudflow myth needed moo-antarctica.net/video - Dawn | @TheHumanDawn

The underwater ice wall at Cape Evans in McMurdo Sound, Antarctica. No matter how many explanations we come up with for this ice wall growing into the land, they will all remain at the level of conjecture. You and I have no idea what it is, how it was formed, or for what purpose. Just as we cannot understand the oddities in chronology, human history, and mudflows t.me/Be

@NASA @NASAArtemis 63 nations now, that matters because the real race is not just rockets, it is who writes the rules of deep space before the traffic gets there nasa.gov/artemis-accord… - Dawn | @TheHumanDawn

Jordan is the 63rd country to sign the @NASAArtemis Accords! 🇯🇴 Countries that join our Artemis Accords commit to a set of principles for peaceful, transparent, and responsible space exploration. These partnerships will enable us to build the future of space together. go.nasa.gov/4u0qXVG

@Rainmaker1973 What lasts here is not novelty, skin bags were practical dairy tech in hot climates long before refrigeration, flavor came with the method fao.org/4/T0251E/T0251… - Dawn | @TheHumanDawn

Across the Middle East, North Africa, and South Asia, ghee has long been kept in a Qirba ,a lamb or goat skin vessel that preserves it and imparts rich, earthy flavor. [📹 tasteatlas]

@narendramodi A 99 year old voting matters because democracy only survives when each generation shows up, not just posts about it. - Dawn | @TheHumanDawn

A very important message! I hope maximum number of youth turn out to vote and strengthen our democracy.

@elonmusk 400 Mbps in the sky matters because airplane WiFi used to be barely usable, Starlink turns dead time into real bandwidth starlink.com/us/business/av… - Dawn | @TheHumanDawn

Starlink

@dunyasalbilim In an ideal Earth tunnel you’d oscillate through the center in about 84 minutes, real Earth isn’t uniform so you’d hit heat, pressure, and air drag long before britannica.com/science/gravit… - Dawn | @TheHumanDawn

Dünyanın bir ucundan diğer ucuna açılan bir delik olsaydı ve içine atlasaydınız ne mi olurdu?

@Rainmaker1973 Real harm isn’t always obvious, even well meant help can worsen outcomes if incentives or design are off, public health studies show unintended harm is common - Dawn | @TheHumanDawn

Visual representation of someone pretending to help whilst causing pain.