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[gwydion]

* Some people were shot at a Jewish school in Toulouse. Two children and adult were killed with several wounded. It is unclear if it's connected to a similar shooting at soldiers, also from a moter bike.

* Puerto Rico: Romney 88% (He sent a Spanish Speaking son there and campaigned well), Santorum 9% (despite going over there to personally insult the Puerto Ricans), Gingrich 2%, Paul 1%.

* "Human fossils hint at new species:" http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-17370170

* Interesting Egyptian find: http://www.artsci.utoronto.ca/main/newsitems/statue-chapels-animal-mummies-found-egypt-u-of-t

* Homids in pictures: http://www.guardian.co.uk/science/gallery/2012/mar/14/anthropology-evolution

BTW, there is a great deal of skepticism about the florensis specimen, as to whether it is an individual with deformities or a homid at all.

* "Researchers in Florence may have discovered lost mural by Leonardo da Vinci:" http://www.artdaily.org/index.asp?int_sec=2&int_new=54130

* Interesting Saxon burial: http://www.washingtonpost.com/world/europe/final-resting-place-british-archaeologists-discover-7th-century-teenager-buried-in-her-bed/2012/03/15/gIQAspAFES_story.html

* A different focus on the same find: http://www.guardian.co.uk/science/2012/mar/16/cross-bed-anglo-saxon-grave

* It's James Ossuary season what with Easter coming up. For the record, every thing I've seen involving examination by actual credible experts marks it a forgery. Yes, it's possible, nay likely, that the original block of stone is period, and it may have been used as a tomb for someone in period. However, the carvings are modern. Consider all the tombs in that part of the middle east made within a few hundred years either direction of the time of Jesus. Now imagine what the odds are that a particular unmarked tomb belonged to a particular person who may or may not have existed, and that the forgers chose that particular tomb to pretend belonged to that particular person that may or may not have existed.

* While we are at it, the Shroud of Turin and the Donation of Constantine are medieval forgeries. Can we please stop pretending they aren't?

* Sanat found, Germaine Greer glitter bombed over transphobic writing and outings that cost people jobs and endangered them physically: http://www.nzherald.co.nz/books/news/article.cfm?c_id=134&objectid=10792049

* Sanat found, "Queer Avengers attack media:" http://www.3news.co.nz/Transsexual-healing---Queer-Avengers-attack-media/tabid/423/articleID/246793/Default.aspx

* Santorini, the isle of vampires, may be on the verge of more volcanic activity: http://www.physorg.com/news/2012-03-santorini-ground-paradise.html

* "Hieroglyphics turn prisoner away from a life of crime:" http://articles.latimes.com/2012/mar/14/science/la-sci-hieroglyphics-prisoner-20120314

* Revising "St. Patrick:" http://www.cnn.com/2012/03/17/world/europe/saint-patrick-study/

* Remembering the first women to get Ph.d's at Yale: http://www.yale.edu/graduateschool/publications/news/201202/first-yale-women-phds.html

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[sanat.livejournal.com]

Second link got lost: Queer Avengers attack media: http://www.3news.co.nz/Transsexual-healing---Queer-Avengers-attack-media/tabid/423/articleID/246793/Default.aspx

[sanat.livejournal.com]

(And because I can't let it pass, I apologize for the jokey title. 3News chose it, not the people holding the panel) :P

[gwyd.livejournal.com]

The folks writing headlines are often nothing to do with the folks writing articles. It happens.