Wednesday, July 8, 2026
There is no such thing as settled science
13,000-year-old bones found near SoCal coast could rewrite human history
Findings from a mysterious remote chain of islands off the coast of California are rattling bones in the science community as bone-pickers find traces of a “vanished world.”
The Golden State’s Channel Islands, located several miles off the SoCal coast, are home to the remnants of revelational lost civilizations intriguing enough to make Indiana Jones blush.
A banner finding in the area has been the 13,000-year-old remains of the “Arlington Springs Man,” the earliest dated adult found on the continent.
A new documentary highlighted the extraordinary discovery, which has changed science’s thinking around where and when humans first migrated to North America. Because of the finding of the “Arlington Springs Man,” scientists believe humans could have been on the continent earlier than the Clovis culturerecognized as landing in the area first.
The “Arlington Springs Man” was found on Santa Rosa Island among the four northern Channel Islands, which also include San Miguel, Santa Cruz and Anacapa. Other major islands in the archipelago include the Southern Channel Islands of Santa Catalina, Santa Barbara, San Clemente and San Nicolas.
Bones of the man were discovered 37 feet below sand, mud and gravel in 1959.
Evidence found on the Channel Islands suggests humans could have arrived via boat instead of crossing an inland ice corridor. If true, it would overturn the conventional thinking that Americans crossed a land bridge from modern-day Siberia and traveled south.
Instead, ancient humans could have used “kelp highways” to assist them in traveling by boat along the Pacific shoreline to settle in the Channel Islands.
“This connects with the whole idea of a coastal migration, an ancient coastal migration where people would have been using watercraft and going around glaciers when they encountered them and working their way down until they came to California,” UC Santa Barbara anthropology professor John Johnson said.
Johnson believes the people who arrived on the Channel Islands evolved into the Chumash tribe, native to California’s central and southern coast.
“People showed up on this island 13,000 years ago or thereabouts and evolved through time into the group we know as the Chumash,” he said.
Other findings from the Channel Islands include the bones of pygmy mammoths, a type of dwarf mammoth native to the northern Channel Islands. The tiny mammoths were much smaller than the popular woolly mammoth, coming in at around 4.5 to 7 feet high at the shoulders and weighing about 2,000 pounds.
Wooly mammoths were several times bigger, coming in at 14 feet tall and weighing about 20,000 pounds.
The mini mammoths are thought to have gone extinct around the time that humans arrived on the Channel Islands and when worldwide climates began changing. No exact cause has been determined for their disappearance.
Europeans arrived on the islands in 1542, with Portuguese explorer Juan Rodríguez Cabrillo making landfall. Cabrillo chose to winter on the islands after storms forced his ships to turn back before sighting the San Francisco Bay.
“This was the furthest projection of Europe into a world that they knew nothing about,” one historian said.
Cabrillo would die there after shattering a limb during a skirmish with indigenous tribes and dying from the complications of the injury in January 1543.
The sewer that is the Democrat Party
Leftist Group Reveals Troubling Allegation Against Potential Platner Replacement
The far-left group Progressive Victory is unveiling a troubling allegation against a potential candidate to replace Democrat Graham Platner in Maine’s U.S. Senate race, alleging that this individual “struck a female colleague with a bottle he threw at her” during a disagreement, corroborated by several witnesses.
Platner is facing more than an uphill battle after yet another controversy bubbled up. This time, a woman alleges that Platner broke into her home and sexually assaulted her. Jenny Racicot, 41, the alleged victim, told Politico that she was dating Platner on and off. In 2021, she alleges, he came into her home “uninvited” and reportedly “forced himself on her while she repeatedly told him to stop.”
You cannot negotiate with a cancer
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The EU, AI and Orwell
European Cars Now Must Track Drivers’ Eye Movements In Name Of Safety
It became mandatory Tuesday for citizens of the European Union’s 27 member states to allow their cars to track their movements using artificial intelligence.
The European Union’s General Safety Regulation mandated Advanced Driver Distraction Warning (ADDW) systems that track drivers’ body movements, such as eye and head movements, in every new vehicle sold after July 7, according to Access Newswire.
“This is a driver support system,” Martin Krantz, CEO and Founder of Swedish AI company Smart Eye, told the Daily Caller News Foundation in an interview. “It’s a life-saving technology. It really helps to prevent accidents. It’s probably gonna be just like with the seat belt and the airbag.”
Smart Eye is one of the leading suppliers of eye-tracking and driver monitoring AI that is compliant with ADDW systems.
“The tracking [has] quite a high accuracy … So if you sit in your car and you’re driving your car, and then you look at the speedometer, then what happens is that the tracking realizes that this is the speedometer that you’re looking at,” the CEO added. “And then you’re allowed to take your eyes away from the road for a certain time period. Let’s say, for example, two seconds … You have a time … that you can spend on different objects [in your car].”Cell phone use while driving is “a forbidden thing to do in most jurisdictions,” Krantz explained.
“Then it can warn immediately, ‘keep your eyes on the road,’ because it’s actually illegal to do that,” he told the DCNF. “And then if you, for example, spend time on the navigation display or on the radio, that’s also allowed, but not for too long … eventually it will tell you to move back your attention [sic] to the road. You have different distraction limits depending on the speed.”
“No one’s going to call the authorities, and no one’s going to tell on you and send along [sic] to the police or anything like that … but it’s going to be different for different car makers,” Krantz added.
NASA, Boeing, Harvard University and “28 percent of the Fortune Global 500 companies” are among the company’s customers according to Smart Eye’s official website. (RELATED: Companies Find Out AI Robots Can’t Replace All Humans Just Yet)
An employee of Japan’s camera venture Nac Image Technology displays the eye-tracking system “EyeSeeCam”, which can track eye movement with one camera and two infra-red cameras on the glasses, during the annual Automotive Engineering Exposition at Yokohama on May 22, 2014. (Photo by YOSHIKAZU TSUNO / AFP)
“July 7 is a landmark day for road safety in Europe,” Krantz said, Access Newswire reported. “For Smart Eye, this is a moment we have been working toward for years. Together with our industry peers, we have achieved something significant: driver monitoring is now a required part of vehicle safety across Europe. But what matters most is that more lives will be saved on Europe’s roads. We believe this regulation will set a precedent for other parts of the world.”
The AI company is “the global leader in Human Insight AI, technology that understands, supports and predicts human behavior in complex environments.”
“Our industry-leading eye tracking systems and iMotions biosensor software enable advanced research and training in academic and commercial sectors. Affectiva’s facial coding provides … a deeper understanding of how consumers engage with their content, products, and services,” the company describes on its website. Affectiva is a U.S.-based subsidiary and former competitor of Smart Eye which it acquired in 2021.
Platner Proves Dems Will Put Up With Anything, Except Losing
Platner Proves Dems Will Put Up With Anything, Except Losing
For all the moral preening about Donald Trump’s character flaws, Democrats have shown in the past few months that there is no character flaw too great for them to endorse a candidate. Except one.
For today’s Democrats, It’s OK to be a communist. To sport a Nazi tattoo. Or to be a serial abuser of women.
Did you call on people to assassinate your opponent? No problem. Lie under oath? So what. Recently suffer a debilitating stroke? Don’t worry, we’ll all look the other way.
There is one and only one thing that Democrats cannot abide. And that’s being unelectable. (Well, two things, actually. As Sen. John Fetterman has shown, Democrats don’t care if your brain is scrambled, but they won’t abide you having an independent mind, since they are now, after ignoring Fetterman’s mental trauma during the campaign, trying to oust him for not toeing the party line.)
When Eric Swalwell faced the same sudden comeuppance as Graham Platner in the California gubernatorial primaries in April, we noted that his fall from grace had nothing whatsoever to do with sexual indiscretions. (See: “Swalwell’s Sudden Collapse Isn’t About ‘Sexual Misconduct’.”)
Democrats (and the media covering him) knew full well that Swalwell was a reprobate. But he looked like he had the best chance to win in the state’s primary, so all was forgiven, and he racked up endorsements from Democrats across the country.
When it appeared that he wasn’t doing so well in the polls, and that his poor showing in the primary could — because of California’s bizarre open primary rules — end up with two Republicans and no Democrats on the November ballot, in a nanosecond, Democrats who’d heartily endorsed him one day ran away the next. Based on nothing more than an unproven accusation of sexual misconduct.
As we said at the time: “Swalwell just learned that the most dangerous place for a Democrat to be is between another Democrat and a seat of power.”
Joe Biden suffered the same fate. Democrats and the press turned a blind eye to his dementia and all his other flaws until it was obvious that he’d lose to Donald Trump. So they ditched Biden at the last minute, and the White House press corps started claiming that the administration had bamboozled them.
Now it’s Platner’s turn. He also had lots and lots of skeletons. Every Democrat knew about them. But he looked like a winner to party officials, who lined up to sing his praises while the media downplayed his scandal-ridden past. All that mattered was that Platner hated Trump and was doing well in the polls against incumbent Sen. Susan Collins.
But once the polls showed him slipping, he had to go. The stories that had previously been buried or downplayed suddenly became front-page news (the New York Times was told about the “new” assault claim months ago), and people who’d been singing Platner’s praises yesterday were suddenly shocked! shocked! to learn that he was a disgusting human being.
As CNN’s Scott Jennings observed, “People knew all these things and a whole bunch of Democrats in Maine showed up and voted for him anyway. And a bunch from around the country sent him money anyway. What changed? Why are you bailing on Graham Platner now? You already signed off on Nazi tattoo, self-described communist, rape fantasies… and on, and on, and on, and on and on.”
OK, this is how politics is played, right? People like to back winners, warts and all, and will find reasons to dump losers. It’s hardball. We get that.
But Democrats take the prize for their breathtaking displays of moral flexibility. They will do and say anything to get and keep power.
— Written by the I&I Editorial Board
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