Stars Dressed As Famous Women In History
Alexis Bledel as Rosie the Riveter
America’s Stonehenge
America’s Stonehenge
Medieval Suits of Armor
via Dark Roasted Blend
Kellogg’s hatred for porcine
http://www.giveshare.org/Health/porkeatdanger.html Not so sure about the religious slant on this one, but Kellogg’s descriptions can be, at times, delightfully grotesque.
Maniatis Bottier
The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
5 famous Artist from 19th Century
http://thefamiliarstrangers.com/5-artists-part1/ These fucking lists are getting more and more stupid.
Most at NYU say their vote has a price – Washington Square News
http://www.politico.com/news/stories/1107/6892.html Just wow. Unbelievable. And to think that so many people have fought to ensure that even imbeciles such as these would have the right to cast their vote. It sickens me. “anyone who’d sell his lifelong right to vote should be deported.” Amen to that! By the way, votes for women were first seriously proposed in the United States
Boston Molasses Disaster
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boston_Molasses_Disaster Coincidence, perhaps, but definitely worth noting how I happened upon this page about a week ago and then again today when my husband showed it to me during an interesting discussion about sugar, molasses, and treacle. He is so brainy. Make my geek heart swell. From the page: “A large molasses tank burst and a wave of molasses rushed
Women in Art
The morphing faces of famous female portraits in Western Art over the last 500 years.
Medieval Islamic Tile-Makers Were Master Mathematicians
Link no longer available. Historians have long assumed that sheer hard work with the equivalent of a ruler and compass allowed medieval craftsmen to create the ornate star-and-polygon tile patterns that cover mosques, shrines and other buildings that stretch from Turkey through Iran and on to India. Now a Harvard University researcher argues that more than 500 years ago, math
300 Brings History to Bloody Life
http://www.wired.com/news/culture/0,72775-0.html Snyder: That’s the crazy part. We learned how to create a pristine image and now we are working to fuck it up again. Part of the technology now is used to make it look like you didn’t use the technology.
Munch’s "The Scream" Found
“The Scream” and another stolen masterpiece by Norwegian artist Edvard Munch were recovered by police today, two years after it was stolen from an Oslo museum. “'The Scream' and 'Madonna' are now in police possession,” police chief Iver Stensrud told a news conference. “The damage is much less than we could have feared.” This just in time to ruin Mars'
Genetics Tool Inspires New Method for Dating Old Art
“A molecular biologist has borrowed a technique from genetic science to date hand-printed art. The so-called print clock method, developed by Blair Hedges of Pennsylvania State University, could help historians and collectors pinpoint when thousands of undated, hand-printed materials were created.” – Scientific American, June 21, 2006 Soooo cool!