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Jul. 23rd, 2012 09:39 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
gwydion* The Arab League Foreign Ministers are calling on Assad to go and talking with Opposition leaders about how best to transition. Opposition footage seems to contradict some of the government's claims of how things are going. The government is using helicopter gunships and tanks to level civilian neighborhoods in Damascus. Assad claims they will olny use their chemical weapons against foreign invaders, but given what he's ordered done to civilians to this point, there is a question of credibility.
* Approximately 80 people were killed and 130 wounded in various attacks in Iraq yesterday.
* The flooding in China continues. 37 drowned in Bejing yesterday.
* Melissa Harris-Perry and Alek Wek discuss the conflict in Sudan and South Sudan: http://video.msnbc.msn.com/melissa-harris-perry/46419672#48276115
* Africa and the Americas: http://video.msnbc.msn.com/melissa-harris-perry/46419672#48276115
* How the EU could fix the the European economic crisis right now if they wanted to, but of course, they don't. http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/26315908/#48294987
* Neanderthals used medicinal herbs: http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2012/07/120720-neanderthals-herbs-humans-medicine-science/
* What Neanderthal and early human injury patterns say about life style: http://blogs.smithsonianmag.com/hominids/2012/07/neanderthals-werent-stone-age-rodeo-riders/
* "Reconstructing the Diet of African Hominid Australopithecus Anamensis:" http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2012/07/120717084813.htm
* Interesting Three Kingdoms Tomb: http://www.livescience.com/21610-three-kingdoms-tomb-holding-warrior-discovered.html
* Medieval bras: http://www.spiegel.de/international/zeitgeist/austrian-archaeologists-announce-discovery-of-medieval-bras-at-castle-a-845397.html
* The black community in Elizabethan London: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-18903391
* "Archaeology Researcher Found Dead in Turkey:" http://www.bu.edu/today/2012/archaeology-researcher-found-dead-in-turkey/
* Revising the Titanic sinking with science: http://phys.org/news/2012-07-grappling-titanic-mystery.html
* On Rabies: http://www.nytimes.com/2012/07/17/science/searing-narrative-of-rabies-and-the-desperation-to-forget-it.html?_r=1
Long time readers know that I consider rabies the scariest of all real life diseases.
* They are studying the descendants of the Bounty mutineers to see if they can unlock the genetics of myopia, as the islanders have once of the lowest myopia rates in the world. http://www.newsdaily.com/stories/bre86j080-us-myopia-bounty/
* The Butt and the phone conspired to deprive me of proper sleep, so only half of the things I was meant to do today got done. I'm also headachey and dizzy. I see an early bed time in my near future.
* Stuff: http://il-volpe.livejournal.com/33839.html
* Exam howlers: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/education/9411182/Exam-howlers-reveal-Stalins-sausage-roll-plan.html
* This is beautiful: http://big-wired.livejournal.com/295311.html
* Approximately 80 people were killed and 130 wounded in various attacks in Iraq yesterday.
* The flooding in China continues. 37 drowned in Bejing yesterday.
* Melissa Harris-Perry and Alek Wek discuss the conflict in Sudan and South Sudan: http://video.msnbc.msn.com/melissa-harris-perry/46419672#48276115
Visit NBCNews.com for breaking news, world news, and news about the economy
* Africa and the Americas: http://video.msnbc.msn.com/melissa-harris-perry/46419672#48276115
Visit NBCNews.com for breaking news, world news, and news about the economy
* How the EU could fix the the European economic crisis right now if they wanted to, but of course, they don't. http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/26315908/#48294987
Visit NBCNews.com for breaking news, world news, and news about the economy
* Neanderthals used medicinal herbs: http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2012/07/120720-neanderthals-herbs-humans-medicine-science/
* What Neanderthal and early human injury patterns say about life style: http://blogs.smithsonianmag.com/hominids/2012/07/neanderthals-werent-stone-age-rodeo-riders/
* "Reconstructing the Diet of African Hominid Australopithecus Anamensis:" http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2012/07/120717084813.htm
* Interesting Three Kingdoms Tomb: http://www.livescience.com/21610-three-kingdoms-tomb-holding-warrior-discovered.html
* Medieval bras: http://www.spiegel.de/international/zeitgeist/austrian-archaeologists-announce-discovery-of-medieval-bras-at-castle-a-845397.html
* The black community in Elizabethan London: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-18903391
* "Archaeology Researcher Found Dead in Turkey:" http://www.bu.edu/today/2012/archaeology-researcher-found-dead-in-turkey/
* Revising the Titanic sinking with science: http://phys.org/news/2012-07-grappling-titanic-mystery.html
* On Rabies: http://www.nytimes.com/2012/07/17/science/searing-narrative-of-rabies-and-the-desperation-to-forget-it.html?_r=1
Long time readers know that I consider rabies the scariest of all real life diseases.
* They are studying the descendants of the Bounty mutineers to see if they can unlock the genetics of myopia, as the islanders have once of the lowest myopia rates in the world. http://www.newsdaily.com/stories/bre86j080-us-myopia-bounty/
* The Butt and the phone conspired to deprive me of proper sleep, so only half of the things I was meant to do today got done. I'm also headachey and dizzy. I see an early bed time in my near future.
* Stuff: http://il-volpe.livejournal.com/33839.html
* Exam howlers: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/education/9411182/Exam-howlers-reveal-Stalins-sausage-roll-plan.html
* This is beautiful: http://big-wired.livejournal.com/295311.html