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* The President of the CAR has resigned at a regional meeting intended to stop the violence, as a result of him not being able to put an end to it.

* I'm not going to get into military specifics in either country at this point, but the results are that the refugee crisis in both the Central African Republic and South Sudan continues to worsen as more and more civilians flee for their lives from the fighting.

Want to help?
Doctors Without Borders: refugee camps: http://www.doctorswithoutborders.org/
The Red Cross (South Sudan): http://www.redcross.ca/where-we-work/worldwide/africa/sudan-and-south-sudan
Central African Red Cross: http://www.ifrc.org/en/what-we-do/where-we-work/africa/central-african-red-cross-society/
The World Food Program for South Sudan: http://www.wfp.org/countries/south-sudan/food-security
or for Central African Republic: http://www.wfp.org/countries/central-african-republic

* TW: Child Abuse. "The Pakistani servant girl tortured to death:" http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-25588565

* This is the best explanation for why the Christie Administration caused that traffic jam I saw all week. "An alternate theory of the Christie scandal:"

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* "America's real problem: Too much bipartisanship:" http://www.cnn.com/2014/01/06/opinion/zelizer-too-much-bipartisanship/

* Bill Nye Explains Climate Change and Defends Evolution/Science in General:

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* "Should Men’s Products Fear a Woman’s Touch?" http://hbswk.hbs.edu/item/7149.html

"Recent research shows that loyal customers often get upset when a brand associated with men expands to include products perceived as feminine. "

* "Bullied Trans Teen Girl Being Charged For Defending Herself:" http://transgriot.blogspot.com/2014/01/bullied-trans-teen-girl-being-charged.html

* "Jahaira's Mission- Let's (Not) Talk About My Crotch:" http://transgriot.blogspot.com/2014/01/jahairas-mission-video-lets-not-talk.html

* "UH-Downtown SGA Unanimously Passes Gender Neutral Restrooms Resolution:" http://transgriot.blogspot.com/2014/01/uh-downtown-sga-unanimously-passes.html

* "Holder propelling the country toward equality:"

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* Rule of three time again. The brain is an organ. We do not expect people to justify their arthritis or will away a heart murmur. We do not stigmatize a broken leg. Depression happens. I think we'd all be better off if we stopped treating mental illnesses as somehow less legitimate than kidney disease. All this extra baggage makes it harder for people to get the help and support they need when they most need it. Let's not make things harder for people who are already using pretty much everything they have just to hang on, okay? Let's all try to be gentler to ourselves and each other.

* I actually packed a massive amount of stuff today. Progress!

* The fighting is continuing in South Sudan even as they are getting ready to start the peace talks in Ethiopia. Meanwhile, conditions for the refugees are appalling, while the fighting making it hard for any food or clean water to reach them. It's looking like your best bet to help right now is either the Red Cross (The Red cross has just started reaching some of the cut off camps): http://www.redcross.ca/where-we-work/worldwide/africa/sudan-and-south-sudan
Or the World Food Program (They've been mostly handling the ongoing refugee crisis for Sudanese and South Sudanese, and were already in country with supplies and personnel so sound like they have infrastructure in the pre-existing camps).: http://www.wfp.org/countries/south-sudan/food-security

* O.o "Amazing details from the drunken Moscow bender that got an Air Force general fired:" http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/worldviews/wp/2013/12/19/amazing-details-from-the-drunken-moscow-bender-that-got-an-air-force-general-fired/

* TW: Rape Culture. "The Myth Of Western Civilization:" http://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2013/12/the-myth-of-western-civilization/282704/

* "For Team Jonah, the Bible condemns interracial marriage:" http://www.patheos.com/blogs/slacktivist/2013/12/28/for-team-jonah-the-bible-condemns-interracial-marriage/

* "Study: Plants Might Lack Traits Needed to Cope With Climate Change:" http://www.voanews.com/content/study-plants-might-lack-traits-needed-to-cope-with-climate-change/1818866.html

* "In the Human Brain, Size Really Isn'€™t Everything:" http://www.nytimes.com/2013/12/26/science/in-the-human-brain-size-really-isnt-everything.html?emc=eta1&_r=1&

* "Ochre hand imprint of Homo erectus revealed:" http://www.pasthorizonspr.com/index.php/archives/12/2013/ochre-hand-imprint-homo-erectus-revealed

* The first illuminated manuscripts may have been from Ethiopia. "Research uncovers lost African school of painting:" http://www.theartnewspaper.com/articles/Research-uncovers-lost-African-school-of-painting/31139

* "Medieval Crypt Holds 7 Male Mummies:" http://www.livescience.com/42017-medieval-crypt-holds-7-male-mummies.html

* "Children’s Books and Segregation in the Workplace:" http://thesocietypages.org/socimages/2013/12/28/inequality-and-segregation-in-the-workplace-lessons-from-richard-scarrys-what-do-people-do-all-day/

* "It's Over:" http://talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/its-over

* "New Utah AG: Cost to defend same-sex marriage ban worthwhile:" http://www.sltrib.com/sltrib/news/57332678-78/state-court-utah-attorney.html.csp

* "Holy Bullies and Headless Monsters: The ugly collusion between 'religious faith' and bigotry:" http://holybulliesandheadlessmonsters.blogspot.com/2013/12/the-ugly-collusion-between-religious.html#.UsZhj7SQMf5

* Today there was yet more bureaucracy along with the packing and housework. The thing I find particularly frustrating is that at the end of the night, one wouldn't be able to tell I've done any housework at all. The pile of things to leave gets bigger and more exhausting. I wish had more people to help as I am seriously worried we won't clear the mess in time for game Sunday. I've started moving things I don't like to be without in the hopes I'll be sleeping ver there Monday. My room and the bathroom are down to things that need to go with me or things I need to move later for particular reasons.

Tomorrow I've got more bureaucracy and errands. I can see the sleep time draining away. Saturday should be the bed and Greenwick and I moving stuff and unpacking stuff. Sunday, we hopefully move fish, with me and the cats following early Monday morning into the increasing chaos over there.

* The Clockwork Scarab was charming and a fast read. I'm too consumed with moving to write a sensible review, so I'll link you the Slatebreaker one instead. "Review: The Clockwork Scarab by Colleen Gleason:" http://slatebreakers.com/2013/11/25/review-the-clockwork-scarab-by-colleen-gleason/

* There's a lot of foreign policy stuff I should write about at length, but sitting upright long enough to feed and hydrate is a whole lot of challenge just now. Short form for key events: 1. Remember those disputed islands between Japan and China? China declared it Chinese airspace and ordered the world to notify them if they were going to fly there. It's right on the flight path for a whole lot of Pacific rim airlines. Japan, US, and S. Korea are defying the notification rule and have flown over. It's getting ugly. 2. There are ongoing protests in Ukraine. It's looking like Putin strong armed the Ukrainian government and a lot of people are unhappy with that. There is also worry that the EU may be pissed that they backed out at the last minute. 3. Protests continue in Thailand, with protesters entering the army headquarters for a peaceful rally, after which they left. 4. In Egypt, the crack down on free speech and protests involves beating, sexual assault, and imprisonment of often young women in the hopes of intimidating women into being too afraid to participate in political activities. I am no friend of the Muslim Brotherhood, but I believe in free speech and the right of women of any political stripe to move freely and express opinions without fear.

* "Residents shocked that DeKalb County, Georgia, juror form lists ‘slave’ as occupation:" http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2013/11/27/residents-shocked-that-dekalb-county-juror-form-lists-slave-as-occupation/

* "Woman Shot Heading to See 'Hunger Games':" http://www.nbcphiladelphia.com/news/local/Gun-Goes-Off-at-SEPTA-Station-Shrapnel-Hits-Rider-233068631.html

* "Their Old Kentucky Home: Ken Ham, Al Mohler and Big Bone Lick:" http://www.patheos.com/blogs/slacktivist/2013/11/27/their-old-kentucky-home-ken-ham-al-mohler-and-big-bone-lick/

* "Gynecologists May Treat Men, Board Says in Switch:" http://www.nytimes.com/2013/11/27/health/gynecologists-may-treat-men-board-says-in-switch.html?_r=2&

* "24,000-Year-Old Body Shows Kinship to Europeans and American Indians:" http://www.nytimes.com/2013/11/21/science/two-surprises-in-dna-of-boy-found-buried-in-siberia.html?hp&_r=2&

* "Little man with huge potential:" http://www.theartnewspaper.com/articles/Little-man-with-huge-potential/30885

* "Early uses of chili peppers in Mexico:" http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2013-11/plos-euo111213.php

* "New Clues About Human Sacrifices at Ancient Peruvian Temple:" http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2013/11/131119-moche-human-sacrifice-war-victims-burials-archaeology-science/

* "Study of Mixtec woman shows the illnesses she had and how they affected her daily life:" http://artdaily.com/index.asp?int_sec=11&int_new=66172#.Uplbx-KQMf4

* ""Niccolo' Machiavelli: The Prince and its Era 1513-2013" opens in Washington:" http://artdaily.com/index.asp?int_sec=11&int_new=66198#.Upl4H-KQMf4

* Confession time: I sometimes wonder of Machiavelli's crush on Cesare Borgia wasn't more than simply political.

I am now picturing Machiavelli gushing about Cesare Borgia's perfect, perfect hair. Dammit! Night Vale has completely colonized my brain.

* "Victoria University recreates traditional Māori vegetable garden:" http://phys.org/news/2013-11-victoria-university-recreates-traditional-mori.html

* "Photos Reveal Harsh Detail Of Brazil's History With Slavery:" http://www.npr.org/blogs/parallels/2013/11/12/244563532/photos-reveal-harsh-detail-of-brazils-history-with-slavery

I think it's important to look at the faces of people in the past. So often, people abstract people in other periods, as if they were all one thing, as if they were somehow less than we are because they had less technology and different options and experiences. When I see photos of 19th Century people, they become more real to me as individuals. It is harder to forget that they were individuals with feelings and experiences.

That goes a hundred times more for photographs like these. All that anger and strength and living through some of the worst things there are to live through on faces that could belong to a neighbor or the person in line with me at a super store. I think it's important to never forget that were are real people like us who hurt and loved and tried to survive.

* "Yeah, Alec Baldwin Really Is a Bigot:" http://www.theatlantic.com/entertainment/archive/2013/11/yeah-alec-baldwin-really-is-a-bigot/281911/

* "I Repeat, Can Y'all Stop Hatin' On Transwomen During This 2013 Holiday Season?:" http://transgriot.blogspot.com/2013/11/i-repeat-can-yall-stop-hatin-on.html

* Glee 5.7: Puppet Master

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* I know pedophiles spend money too and it's a bad economy for luxury goods, but it is so creepy that Kay Jewelers continues to target them specifically with an add showing a man grooming his future step daughter with their product. It seems to me that marketing targeting active pedophiles is a way of condoning it and normalizing it. Every time they run that add it makes my skin crawl.

* In case you missed it, we have not only been spying on regular citizens in allied countries for no reason, but we've gone out of our way to spy on Angela Merkel's diplomatic communications. Germany has joined France (our oldest and best ally) in protests. Yep, we are exactly that arrogant and assholeish as a country.

* "Genomics England Will Sequence 100,000 National Health Service Patients to Improve Clinical Care:" http://www.technologyreview.com/news/520571/why-the-uk-wants-a-genomic-national-health-service/

* It turns out that the North Dakota State government has been systematically covering up hundreds of oil spills.

* Multiple Republican Officials in North Carolina go all out on the extreme racism as part of the roll out of their outreach to African Americans:

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I think Aasif Mandvi put it best when he asked Don Yelton, a North Carolinian precinct captain, "You know we can hear you, right?"

Side note, congratulations to the handsome and clever fake news correspondent, Aasif Mandvi, for breaking real news.

* "NC GOP official fired after bragging voter ID law would ‘kick the Democrats’ butt’:" http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2013/10/24/nc-gop-official-fired-after-bragging-voter-id-law-would-kick-the-democrats-butt/

* "GOP Candidate Sentenced for Felony Fraud After Changing Party Affiliation of 300 Democratic Voters, Casting Absentee Ballots in Their Name:" http://www.bradblog.com/?p=10186

* Pro-choice Republicans alienated by new GOP

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* "Case Explores Rights of Fetus Versus Mother:" http://www.nytimes.com/2013/10/24/us/case-explores-rights-of-fetus-versus-mother.html?_r=2&

* First they came for the breast cancer screening. Then they came for the right to have life saving emergency medical procedures if a woman is having a miscarriage. Now they are coming for birth control and the right to vote for women. This is the Republican mainstream, folks. This is is how much they hate women: they want them to die from cancer, or blood poisoning, or bleed to death. They want to deny them the right to take birth control and the right to vote.

They do this in the name of Life and Love, but it's really about power.

* "This 419-Million-Year-Old Fish Has the World’s Oldest Known Face:" http://blogs.smithsonianmag.com/science/2013/09/this-419-million-year-old-fish-has-the-worlds-oldest-known-face/

* My belief that we needed the battery in the car replaced was confirmed, with an added helping of a small part needing replacing. The part was free, but it meant it took a whole lot longer. I came home to another stupid bit of paperwork from Bank of Evil to sign and an email from my Realtor saying that we ought to close by the 31st, but they are now illegally demanding we pay for the resale cert, despite State Law requiring they do. He's going to try to sort that out. Sigh.

* Things needing doing this weekend: 1. Paper Bureaucracy. 2. Notes review for my Table Top. 3. Optional: Start Solstice Readings.

* Attn: il_volpe: http://lettersfromtitan.tumblr.com/post/50955560257/greenlust-bubblejam-the-incredibly-intricate

* I've got a Hot Drinks Circular Swap up at BPAL if anyone is interested: http://www.bpal.org/topic/82111-autumn-drink-swap-sign-ups-open/#entry2363114

* TW. In Delhi, they have found four men guilty of raping that medical student to death on a bus. Protesters are calling for the death penalty. The lawyers of the rapists are planning an appeal.

* "Gasim threatens violence unless declared winner:" http://minivannews.com/politics/comment-gasim-threatens-violence-unless-declared-winner-65199

* "More Climate Change Nonsense As The Mail on Sunday Gets Reality All Wrong:" http://www.slate.com/blogs/bad_astronomy/2013/09/10/climate_change_sea_ice_global_cooling_and_other_nonsense.html

* "Texas still seeing attempts to limit evolution in school textbooks:" http://arstechnica.com/science/2013/09/texas-still-seeing-attempts-to-limit-evolution-in-school-textbooks/

* "Language and tool-making skills evolved at the same time:" http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2013/09/130903102003.htm

* "Tuberculosis Hitched A Ride When Early Humans Left Africa:" http://www.npr.org/blogs/health/2013/09/04/218969677/tuberculosis-hitched-a-ride-when-early-humans-left-africa

* "Archaeologists Unearth 10,400-Year-Old Settlements in Bolivia:" http://www.sci-news.com/archaeology/science-settlements-bolivia-01343.html

* "Slaughtered bodies stripped of their flesh - a gruesome glimpse of Iron-Age massacre at UK’s largest hill fort:" http://www.independent.co.uk/news/science/archaeology/exclusive-slaughtered-bodies-stripped-of-their-flesh--a-gruesome-glimpse-of-ironage-massacre-at-uks-largest-hill-fort-8798680.html

* "House adorned with mosaics discovered in ancient Lycian city of Aegean province:" http://www.hurriyetdailynews.com/house-adorned-with-mosaics-discovered-in-ancient-lycian-city-of-aegean-province.aspx?pageID=238&nID=53685&NewsCatID=375

* "Valuable findings of Polish archaeologists in Sudan:" http://www.naukawpolsce.pap.pl/en/news/news,396831,valuable-findings-of-polish-archaeologists-in-sudan.html

* "Richard III suffered from roundworm:" http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-23878424

* "Cooking an 18th Century 'prison pie':" http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-23794247

* "Men's height 'up 11cm since 1870s':" http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-23896855

* "When Your (Brown) Body is a (White) Wonderland:" http://lettersfromtitan.tumblr.com/post/60868236864/androphilia-when-your-brown-body-is-a-white

* Fan Fiction Foreign Policy:

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* I am improved, but still ick. I completely failed to start game planning. I'm just focusing on catching up on random stuff tonight.

* "Extraordinary Photos From A 1972 Rothschild Surrealist Dinner Party:" http://sobadsogood.com/2013/08/20/extraordinary-photos-from-a-1972-rothschild-surrealist-dinner-party/?ref=nf

* Greenwick found, "The 1951 East High School Yearbook Is Better Than Yours:" http://www.buzzfeed.com/jenlewis/34-unbelievable-senior-quotes-from-a-1951-high-school-yearbo

* Fobok was kind enough to send me links rounding up various Canadian political scandals going on. I was so swamped this week it took a while to give them the proper attention. Here they are in case you are curious what else is going on besides the crack scandal.

Senate scandal (though there's hundreds of other news stories, this one covers the basics pretty well): http://ca.news.yahoo.com/harper-remains-mum-dealt-unfolding-expense-scandal-last-182111187.html

The robocalls stuff: http://ca.news.yahoo.com/head-elections-canada-confirms-witnesses-not-co-operating-175116320.html

The CBC scandal: http://www.thestar.com/opinion/commentary/2013/05/30/canadian_budget_bill_contains_rude_shock_for_the_cbc.html

and related: http://www.theglobeandmail.com/report-on-business/economy/economy-lab/will-omnibus-bill-influence-bank-of-canadas-independence-flaherty-should-explain/article12212675/

Adding on, a few weeks ago this was in the news: http://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/story/2013/04/30/pol-auditor-general-spring-report-federal-spending.html

and this:
http://www.thestar.com/news/investigations/2013/05/08/star_investigation_millions_in_taxpayerfunded_consulting_work_kept_secret.htm

* Fobok also writes this, "For the first time ever, a Canadian military base (CFB Edmonton) raised a gay pride flag for Edmonton's Pride week."

Looks like progress to me!

* "Mountain Populations Offer Clues to Human Evolution:" http://www.nytimes.com/2013/05/30/science/mountain-populations-offer-clues-to-human-evolution.html?ref=science&_r=0

* "Medieval Readers Had Eclectic Tastes:" http://news.yahoo.com/medieval-readers-had-eclectic-tastes-205053358.html

* "WWII Drug: The German Granddaddy of Crystal Meth:" http://www.spiegel.de/international/germany/crystal-meth-origins-link-back-to-nazi-germany-and-world-war-ii-a-901755.html

* What is it with me and my distress about the destruction of some of the manuscripts of Timbuktu and the threat that many others are in the process of crumbling away? I am not Muslim, I will never learn Arabic. These are words I'll never read, library after library, I'll never explore. Simply put, these manuscripts are irreplaceable. Windows to thoughts from the past and by extension into lives we'd otherwise never get a glimpse of. Timbuktu has a unique history and culture. It is incredibly comforting to know those precious manuscripts are there. Only they might not be much longer.

Want to save the equivalent of the library of Alexandria from burning and crumbling away? Here is your chance to save something priceless: knowledge. http://www.indiegogo.com/projects/timbuktu-libraries-in-exile

* Sensible talk about education. "If I Were a Black Kid ...:" http://www.theatlantic.com/national/archive/2013/06/if-i-were-a-black-kid/276655/

* "Dr. Z -On Being A Good Black Man:" http://transgriot.blogspot.com/2013/06/dr-z-on-being-good-black-man.html

* "Unjust Arizona Bathroom Bill Dead For This Session:" http://transgriot.blogspot.com/2013/06/unjust-arizona-bathroom-bill-dead-for.html

* "Same Person, Different Pronouns:" http://transgriot.blogspot.com/2013/06/same-person-different-pronouns.html

* "Trans Class Of 2014, Start Planning Now To Beat Your Trans Oppressors:" http://transgriot.blogspot.com/2013/06/trans-class-of-2014-start-planning-now.html

* "Isaak Still Standing, Still Getting Dissed On His Way To Graduation Day:" http://transgriot.blogspot.com/2013/06/isaak-still-standing-still-getting.html

* What have I been doing? trying to speed read another QUILTBAG anthology that needs to go back, trying to catch up on the avalanche of archeology and political links backed up, and trying to do research for Thursday and discovering I was up the wrong tree for what I hope is the week after because I need to start over with a different book. I also did a proof of concept for something I want to bake in the near future. It was delicious.

* The Clutch:

* "New GOP plan: Guns for domestic abusers:" http://www.salon.com/2013/04/01/gop_gets_even_more_clueless_on_guns/

* "The Falsity of Living Fossils:" http://www.the-scientist.com/?articles.view/articleNo/34927/title/The-Falsity-of-Living-Fossils/

* The truth about Ponce de León: http://www.nytimes.com/2013/04/02/opinion/ponce-de-leon-exposed.html?_r=1&

* "Dr. King's I've Been To The Mountaintop Speech:" http://transgriot.blogspot.com/2013/04/dr-kings-ive-been-to-mountaintop-speech.html

* "Google and white Christians’ search for ‘persecution’:" http://www.patheos.com/blogs/slacktivist/2013/04/02/google-and-white-christians-search-for-persecution/

* "GOP Homobigot Attacking Texas Collegiate LGBT Centers Again With Unjust Amendment:" http://transgriot.blogspot.com/2013/04/gop-homobigot-attacking-texas.html

* "The Pageant and Ballroom Community Girls Are #GirlsLikeUs, Too:" http://transgriot.blogspot.com/2013/04/the-pageant-and-ballroom-community.html

* "Least visited countries in the world:" http://travel.yahoo.com/ideas/least-visited-countries-in-the-world-201146242.html

* John Stewart and Stephen Colbet's Round ups of incredibly offensive things Republicans are saying as part of their rebranding effort as not the party of hate:

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* Louis Gohmert: Living down to stereotypes of ignorant white southerners every change he gets.

* You Stuck What Where Now?

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* RNC Young Voters Survey

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* New Rule: No one ought to play Ice cream truck music unless they are selling actual ice cream from a truck. Having it play in a coffee commercial every ten minutes makes me want to gouge my ear drums.

* Japanese Ghosts and Monsters: http://www.retronaut.com/2012/03/monsters-from-the-kaibutsu-ehon-1881/

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* 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