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Sunday, March 15, 2026
TopicBronze Age

Topic: Bronze Age

Where not to punch an asteroid hurtling towards Earth & Bronze Age Brits enjoyed potlucks too

ScientiFix, our weekly feature, offers you a summary of the top global science stories of the week, with links to their sources.

Making fake jewels isn’t a new thing. It happened 43,000 years ago too

Manufacturing imitation beads became a widespread practice, with rare or exotic jewellery items copied in shape and colour in various prehistoric cultures.

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Menstrual leave doesn’t work in ‘real world’. And that real world is designed by, for men

When a woman menstruates, when/if she decides to marry, when/if she decides to have kids, should not be factors when looking at a woman’s potential from a hiring standpoint.

US strike on Iran’s key oil export island Kharg raises fears of wider supply disruption

President Trump said the US had bombed military targets on Kharg Island in the Persian Gulf, but spared oil infrastructure.

Supreme Leader Mojtaba, the man Iran must keep alive & the secret force ‘tasked with it’—all about NOPO

The Nirouyeh Vijeh Pasdaran Velayat, or NOPO, was the only force Ali Khamenei trusted.It was founded in 1991 and is more feared than the Revolutionary Guards.

Peaceful power transfers followed uprisings in India’s neighbourhood. It’s a sign of mature democracies

Rating democracies is a tricky business. I am only using the simple metric of who in the Indian subcontinent has had the most peaceful, stable, normal political transitions and continuity.