Archaeologists use lasers to locate ancient settlements and artifacts on Greek Islands

“We found everything from Bronze Age cities to Medieval castles and churches, and we may even have evidence of paleolithic activity on these islands,” says Levine. “The responsible thing to do is to document all of it—from traces of exceptionally early activity to more recent archaeology like 19th century shepherd’s huts. It’s all part of the story of these places, and the work I have been doing allows us to think about how the earlier activity influences and interacts with the later activities.”

Many of their prehistoric findings are from 3000 to 1000, periods when the region was home to the Cycladic culture, Minoans from Crete, and Mycenaeans from mainland Greece. But, surprisingly, Levine and his colleagues have also found artifacts that point to an earlier human presence on the Cyclades.

Trump’s $11 Billion Farm Bailout Is Further Proof That Tariffs Aren’t Working by Eric Boehm

“Instead of farming for government checks, they can farm to feed their family, sell their products, and pass it on to the next generation,” Rollins said, at an event where the administration was literally announcing $11 billion in government checks for farmers.

But, of course, a more serious presidential administration would have learned this lesson already. When Trump hiked tariffs during his first term in office, much of the pain was felt by American farmers, who faced higher prices for equipment and fertilizer while also losing access to some key export markets. In response, the Trump administration spent $28 billion on a bailout that—like pretty much all bailouts—mostly helped the biggest and most politically connected farmers.

It Will Soon Be Curtains for the Movie Theater by Jason L. Riley

John Podhoretz, editor of Commentary magazine and longtime film critic, wrote on social media recently that Covid might have killed moviegoing for good, but that the trend of shrinking audiences was already there.

“Maybe Netflix will show Warners movies in theaters or maybe it won’t. Maybe Greta Gerwig’s NARNIA movies will triumph in theaters, and so might [Christopher] Nolan’s ODYSSEY. There will be movies that make money,” Mr. Podhoretz wrote. “But the movie theater as we have understood it will not exist in a decade. Its footprint is too large in real estate terms and there won’t be enough foot traffic to justify the space. There will probably be ten theaters in Manhattan by then. And each city will have one or two.”

I pray the skeptics are wrong, but the data are on their side. In his book “The Hollywood Economist,” Edward Jay Epstein calculated that in 1929, the year of the first Academy Awards, an average of 95 million people, or nearly four-fifths of the U.S. population, saw a film every week. Moviegoing peaked in the 1940s and ’50s but began to diminish as more people acquired television sets. By 2010 average weekly movie attendance had fallen to about 30 million. In 2019 the year before the pandemic, ticket sales numbered 1.2 billion. Last year they were just over 760 million.