gwydion: (Etherite)
* One of the men accused of raping a medical student to death on his bus in Delhi hanged himself in jail.

* "Siberian fossil revealed to be one of the oldest known domestic dogs:" http://phys.org/news/2013-03-siberian-fossil-revealed-oldest-domestic.html

* "Ancient settlement discovered in Azerbaijan:" http://en.apa.az/news/188982

* "LIFE at the Vatican: Unearthing History Beneath St. Peter’s:" http://life.time.com/culture/the-vatican-unearthing-history-beneath-st-peters-1950-photos/#ixzz2NIizRG8B

* "Flight of the valkyrie: the Viking figurine that's heading for Britain:" http://www.guardian.co.uk/culture/2013/mar/04/viking-valkyrie-figurine-british-museum

* "What Vikings really looked like:" http://sciencenordic.com/what-vikings-really-looked

* I know if they actually find them, there'd likely be no soft tissue, but I'd be fascinated to see if they could find signs of what killed him, as you can sometimes tell disease and the like from bones. However I suspect even if they find bones they'll have a hard time authenticating them. "Hunt for bones of King Stephen:" http://www.express.co.uk/news/uk/383117/Hunt-for-bones-of-King-Stephen

* Much of the commentary on this Medieval anatomical specimen is annoying, (See there were no "Dark Ages" Rant), but the find is interesting so I'm linking it. http://www.livescience.com/27624-mummy-head-middle-ages-anatomy.html

* "Death and diet: Peru’s sacrificial victims:" http://www.pasthorizonspr.com/index.php/archives/03/2013/death-and-diet-perus-sacrificial-victims

* "Crystal Skulls Deemed Fake:" http://cen.acs.org/articles/91/i9/Crystal-Skulls-Deemed-Fake.html

* "Van Dyck painting 'found online':" http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-21712209

* "Why Did Bach Go Blind?:" http://www.psmag.com/blogs/news-blog/why-did-bach-go-blind-53250/

* Today when I woke up I could breath. Not just breath, but fill my lungs for the first time in four or five months. I'm still coughing, but it's high in the lungs instead of deep. My sinuses and ears are still messed up, but the miracle of enough oxygen is enough for now.

* There keep being hold ups with the inheritance. We've been waiting over a week for the lawyer to answer a phone call from my bank. She's been a terrible disappointment to my sister. She was a personal friend of my mother's since college and was johnny on the spot when my mother was alive, but "has lost interest in settling our case" now that she's taken her share of the money as payment. Where is the wonderful hard working feminist who did pro bono sexual abuse by professionals cases when I was a teenager, I wonder? Sigh. My sister has hired a financial guy to take over and my one simple question falls between the cracks. We can't do anything on a bunch of decisions until it's sorted.

* This is from a discussion of gardens from the comments on someone else's journal, but I'm cross posting it here as I was planning to write something like it here anyway:

My mom had rotating vegetable gardens all my growing up. (She had to rotate the corn. She'd let fallow a year after corn, then plant regular vegetables, then move the corn there the third year.) The asparagus we inherited with the house right before I started high school. She'd cut spears and cook them just enough to bring out the flavour. It was less than half an hour from live plant to table. Oh, do I miss them, and my mother's cherry pie. When we moved, we got pie cherry trees. I'd come home from work and wait for just enough light to see and go out to pick what'd ripened in the night. I'd pit them before bed and there would be fresh hot pie when I woke up so I could have some before work.

There was no snow here this winter and the crocuses are not yet ready to bloom, but close to it. The green shoots remind me me of my dad and I coming home from school when I was little. It would be close to dark and we'd take a tour of the yard to see if the crocuses were coming up through the snow. He would squat down and grin, as happy as a little kid when they first stared poking through.

Spring in the midst of Winter.

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gwydion: (Etherite)
* One of the men accused of raping a medical student to death on his bus in Delhi hanged himself in jail.

* "Siberian fossil revealed to be one of the oldest known domestic dogs:" http://phys.org/news/2013-03-siberian-fossil-revealed-oldest-domestic.html

* "Ancient settlement discovered in Azerbaijan:" http://en.apa.az/news/188982

* "LIFE at the Vatican: Unearthing History Beneath St. Peter’s:" http://life.time.com/culture/the-vatican-unearthing-history-beneath-st-peters-1950-photos/#ixzz2NIizRG8B

* "Flight of the valkyrie: the Viking figurine that's heading for Britain:" http://www.guardian.co.uk/culture/2013/mar/04/viking-valkyrie-figurine-british-museum

* "What Vikings really looked like:" http://sciencenordic.com/what-vikings-really-looked

* I know if they actually find them, there'd likely be no soft tissue, but I'd be fascinated to see if they could find signs of what killed him, as you can sometimes tell disease and the like from bones. However I suspect even if they find bones they'll have a hard time authenticating them. "Hunt for bones of King Stephen:" http://www.express.co.uk/news/uk/383117/Hunt-for-bones-of-King-Stephen

* Much of the commentary on this Medieval anatomical specimen is annoying, (See there were no "Dark Ages" Rant), but the find is interesting so I'm linking it. http://www.livescience.com/27624-mummy-head-middle-ages-anatomy.html

* "Death and diet: Peru’s sacrificial victims:" http://www.pasthorizonspr.com/index.php/archives/03/2013/death-and-diet-perus-sacrificial-victims

* "Crystal Skulls Deemed Fake:" http://cen.acs.org/articles/91/i9/Crystal-Skulls-Deemed-Fake.html

* "Van Dyck painting 'found online':" http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-21712209

* "Why Did Bach Go Blind?:" http://www.psmag.com/blogs/news-blog/why-did-bach-go-blind-53250/

* Today when I woke up I could breath. Not just breath, but fill my lungs for the first time in four or five months. I'm still coughing, but it's high in the lungs instead of deep. My sinuses and ears are still messed up, but the miracle of enough oxygen is enough for now.

* There keep being hold ups with the inheritance. We've been waiting over a week for the lawyer to answer a phone call from my bank. She's been a terrible disappointment to my sister. She was a personal friend of my mother's since college and was johnny on the spot when my mother was alive, but "has lost interest in settling our case" now that she's taken her share of the money as payment. Where is the wonderful hard working feminist who did pro bono sexual abuse by professionals cases when I was a teenager, I wonder? Sigh. My sister has hired a financial guy to take over and my one simple question falls between the cracks. We can't do anything on a bunch of decisions until it's sorted.

* This is from a discussion of gardens from the comments on someone else's journal, but I'm cross posting it here as I was planning to write something like it here anyway:

My mom had rotating vegetable gardens all my growing up. (She had to rotate the corn. She'd let fallow a year after corn, then plant regular vegetables, then move the corn there the third year.) The asparagus we inherited with the house right before I started high school. She'd cut spears and cook them just enough to bring out the flavour. It was less than half an hour from live plant to table. Oh, do I miss them, and my mother's cherry pie. When we moved, we got pie cherry trees. I'd come home from work and wait for just enough light to see and go out to pick what'd ripened in the night. I'd pit them before bed and there would be fresh hot pie when I woke up so I could have some before work.

There was no snow here this winter and the crocuses are not yet ready to bloom, but close to it. The green shoots remind me me of my dad and I coming home from school when I was little. It would be close to dark and we'd take a tour of the yard to see if the crocuses were coming up through the snow. He would squat down and grin, as happy as a little kid when they first stared poking through.

Spring in the midst of Winter.
gwydion: (Jack)
* Mississippi just officially ratified the 13th Amendment to abolish slavery this month. O.o They just moved into the later part of the 19th century.

* Yet more innocent young girls murdered in Chicago:

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* Re: the head of Henri IV. I'm not taking a side at this point. I think it's quite possible that it is the French King's head, since there is no evidence that is inconsistent with it being his head, but it looks like it's not actually proved. In particular, I do not consider facial reconstruction to be proof, as it's not uniformly replicable. Too much is left up to the artist and it's easy prey to biases. The DNA side looks promising, but it sounds like the actual DNA experts are in dispute. I'm waiting until the preponderance of expert opinion takes a side as I'm not qualified to evaluate the DNA evidence myself.

* "Pentillie Castle: Body found in knight's grave hunt:" http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-cornwall-21412875

* "The 'Baby Dolls' Of Mardi Gras: A Fun Tradition With A Serious Side:" http://www.npr.org/2013/02/16/172165237/the-baby-dolls-of-mardi-gras-a-fun-tradition-with-a-serious-side

* "Why Gender Equality Stalled:" http://www.nytimes.com/2013/02/17/opinion/sunday/why-gender-equality-stalled.html?pagewanted=all&_r=2&

* On Melissa Harris-Perry, they were all saying how much they missed Dave Chapelle, ho much they wished he was performing through the whole Obama Presidency. Damn, I miss that too.

* "What Fandom Can Learn From Onyxcon:" http://neo-prodigy.livejournal.com/1106360.html

* "InCryptid Q&A, Part III: Race and gender issues:" http://seanan-mcguire.livejournal.com/495451.html

* I never took to Once Upon a Time. I tried a few episodes, but it was not for me. This is not any kind of criticism of all the folks who love it; tastes vary and I know the show is much loved. I am waaaaay behind on tumblr, but a lot of folks I read ship Swan Queen so I've been aware of how intensely people feel about it. My ship isn't being sunk here as I don't watch the show and frequently can't remember which person is Ginnifer Goodwin and which is Michelle Williams unless they are clearly labelled. I'm linking the following both because it might be of interest to OUAT fans, but lso because of the way it talks about things of more general interest such as homophobia and why people are so hungry for QUILTBAG content. Big Wired looks at "Sinking Ships - The Ginnifer Torpedo:" http://big-wired.livejournal.com/319479.html

* "The Darwinian Dead:" http://www.rifters.com/crawl/?p=3935
gwydion: (Nef)
* On Leonardo's Anatomical drawings: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-17907305

* Ancient Germans adopting Eqyptian style chairs: http://www.spiegel.de/international/zeitgeist/a-830958.html

* They think they've figured out the mutation that allowed for bigger brains; http://esciencenews.com/articles/2012/05/03/scripps.research.institute.scientists.show.how.a.gene.duplication.helped.our.brains.become.human

* Blond Hair paralegal evolution: http://articles.latimes.com/2012/may/03/news/la-heb-blond-hair-gene-solomon-islands-20120503

* Improved carbon dating is leading to a whole lot of rethinking about early humans in Europe: http://www.nature.com/news/archaeology-date-with-history-1.10573

* They found red blood cells in Oetzi (Lots of links available so I'm just posting one): http://rsif.royalsocietypublishing.org/content/early/2012/04/26/rsif.2012.0174.full

There's also folks weighing in on the side of a lingering rather than quick death based on the blood work, and claims he had brown hair and eyes and was lactose intolerant based on DNA. I am now picturing him as a somewhat butcher prehistoric Leonard Hofstadter...

* For the record, while I think facial reconstruction has a place in helping people see people from the past as real people, it's not a science. It will not be a science until two reconstruction artists taking the same set of skulls but not seeing each other's work or communicating make the same face. Science needs to reproducible. Facial reconstruction is not. It's art. It makes for pretty museum exhibits, but it's not real forensics like DNA matching.

* Censoring Leda and the swan: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/art/art-news/9232512/Mythical-swan-photo-taken-down-after-bestiality-fears.html

* Civil War Medicine: http://opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/04/27/william-hammond-and-the-end-of-the-medical-middle-ages/

* A Slice of gender Presentation history: http://lettersfromtitan.tumblr.com/post/22453480589/calumet412-evelyn-jackie-bross-and-catherine

* Watching Mythbusters tonight, I kept thinking about the steam cannons on Riverworld. It's nice to know they are kind of plausible, given the different engineering set up. (The fictional Riverworlders are mounting theirs on a Riverboat with a steam engine, so they have water close to temperature. There is still delay.)

* "Roman Emperors, Up To AD 476 And Not Including Usurpers, In Order Of How Hardcore Their Deaths Were:" http://www.theawl.com/2012/05/roman-emperor-deaths

* Clever Middle Schooler corrects the Met: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/05/04/teen-points-out-inaccurat_n_1477094.html

* Mostly Movie cakes: http://www.cakewrecks.com/home/2012/5/6/sunday-sweets-take-it-away-movie-guy.html
gwydion: (Etherite)
* On Leonardo's Anatomical drawings: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-17907305

* Ancient Germans adopting Egyptian style chairs: http://www.spiegel.de/international/zeitgeist/a-830958.html

* They think they've figured out the mutation that allowed for bigger brains; http://esciencenews.com/articles/2012/05/03/scripps.research.institute.scientists.show.how.a.gene.duplication.helped.our.brains.become.human

* Blond Hair paralegal evolution: http://articles.latimes.com/2012/may/03/news/la-heb-blond-hair-gene-solomon-islands-20120503

* Improved carbon dating is leading to a whole lot of rethinking about early humans in Europe: http://www.nature.com/news/archaeology-date-with-history-1.10573

* They found red blood cells in Oetzi (Lots of links available so I'm just posting one): http://rsif.royalsocietypublishing.org/content/early/2012/04/26/rsif.2012.0174.full

There's also folks weighing in on the side of a lingering rather than quick death based on the blood work, and claims he had brown hair and eyes and was lactose intolerant based on DNA. I am now picturing him as a somewhat butcher prehistoric Leonard Hofstadter...

* For the record, while I think facial reconstruction has a place in helping people see people from the past as real people, it's not a science. It will not be a science until two reconstruction artists taking the same set of skulls but not seeing each other's work or communicating make the same face. Science needs to reproducible. Facial reconstruction is not. It's art. It makes for pretty museum exhibits, but it's not real forensics like DNA matching.

* Censoring Leda and the swan: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/art/art-news/9232512/Mythical-swan-photo-taken-down-after-bestiality-fears.html

* Civil War Medicine: http://opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/04/27/william-hammond-and-the-end-of-the-medical-middle-ages/

* A Slice of gender Presentation history: http://lettersfromtitan.tumblr.com/post/22453480589/calumet412-evelyn-jackie-bross-and-catherine

* Watching Mythbusters tonight, I kept thinking about the steam cannons on Riverworld. It's nice to know they are kind of plausible, given the different engineering set up. (The fictional Riverworlders are mounting theirs on a Riverboat with a steam engine, so they have water close to temperature. There is still delay.)

* "Roman Emperors, Up To AD 476 And Not Including Usurpers, In Order Of How Hardcore Their Deaths Were:" http://www.theawl.com/2012/05/roman-emperor-deaths

* Clever Middle Schooler corrects the Met: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/05/04/teen-points-out-inaccurat_n_1477094.html

* Mostly Movie cakes: http://www.cakewrecks.com/home/2012/5/6/sunday-sweets-take-it-away-movie-guy.html

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