You came for the slapfights, stay for the geekery.

Hello to all the new folk who’ve arrived here because of a certain other post. This is normally a quiet little group linkblog – well, I say normally, but we’ve only been going a month – devoted to what our editorial groupmind thinks is cool and dorky at any given moment. Such as, for instance, the latest update on those real-world “Hobbits” whose bones were discovered in 2004 on the island of Flores. (Summary: we’re still not sure if “homo floresiensis” is a real new species, but we have a lot more data.)