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Jan Bruegel - The Underworld (more Soehnee)

Thu, 03 Apr 2008 22:38:31 GMT

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More Soehnée

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Jan Provost - The Last Judgement

This painting made from oil on oak panel dated at 1525 presents a Bosh influenced opening into hell. You can see the rest of the painting here.

Daniel Hopfer

The above etching is titled "Three Old Women Beating a Devil On The Ground." You can see more works by Hopfer at the great post on his etchings at BibliOdyssey and the gallery page at Wikipedia.

Art of Charles-Frederic Soehnee

Thu, 03 Apr 2008 22:31:57 GMT

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Between May 1818 and May 1819, Charles-Frédéric Soehnée filled three albums with an extraordinary series of watercolour paintings and sketches. These, together with a single lithograph, ‘as far as we know, […] make up the bulk, if not the entirety of Soehnée’s œuvre.’ Some details from these watercolours, scanned from the catalogue of his work published last year, follow below.

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Matter-Antimatter Split Hints at Physics Breakdown

Thu, 03 Apr 2008 21:22:50 GMT

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Nature may have handed scientists a new clue in a longstanding mystery: how matter beat out antimatter for dominance of the universe. Early data from twin experiments at the Tevatron, the world's reigning particle accelerator at Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory (Fermilab) in Batavia, Ill., suggest an unexpected chink in the hugely successful standard model of particle physics.

MATTER AND ANTIMATTER annihilate each other on contact. Experiments hint at a subtle difference between them that may explain why antimatter is so rare.

The twist comes from odd behavior in a particle called the B_S, which flips back and forth between its matter and antimatter forms three trillions times per second. Researchers believe that such a breakdown, known as CP violation, is required to explain why matter is so abundant.

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Aztec Math Used Hearts and Arrows

Thu, 03 Apr 2008 21:21:36 GMT

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The Aztecs had more numbers than we do, or at least symbols denoting numerical concepts. When it came to measuring land—critical for levying the proper tax or tribute—these medieval Mesoamericans used arrows, hearts, hands and other units representing fractions, according to a new study in Science.

To figure this out, mathematician Maria del Carmen Jorge y Jorge of the National Autonomous University of Mexico (U.N.A.M) channeled the mind of an Aztec land surveyor. That meant retraining herself to use a different numerical system and combing through the Codex Vergara, one of two remaining books that record Aztec land surveying.

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Make ur own ceiling cat!

Thu, 03 Apr 2008 20:59:37 GMT

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He is watching you right now so please make
this model^-^ You can tape it to your ceiling,
his rightful place. Print and cut out the pattern
and stick it together, this one it quite easy to
make I think though I cried a little designing
it. lolcats are nice. meow^-^
Click on the image to make it bigger...

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Saint Orlan: ultimate body art

Thu, 03 Apr 2008 10:29:15 GMT

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-Kalu Singh

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Orlan is a performance artist who uses her own body and the procedures of plastic surgery to make "carnal art". She is transforming her face, but her aim is not to attain a commonly held standard of beauty. Orlan is the only artist working so radically with her own body, asking questions about the status of the body in society.

she has since May 1990 undergone a series of plastic surgical operations to transform herself into a new being, modelled on Venus, Diana, Europa, Psyche and Mona Lisa.

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Orlan is the only artist to use plastic surgery as her medium of choice. Since 1990, she has undergone a series of choreographed "performances" during which her face is surgically morphed through the use of plastic surgery. Her intention is not to become "beautiful" but rather to suggest that the "objective ( beauty) is unattainable and the process horrifying."

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This Human Being is a Guest House

Thu, 03 Apr 2008 10:05:36 GMT

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THE GUEST HOUSE

This being human is a guest house.
Every morning a new arrival.

A joy, a depression, a meanness,
some momentary awareness

Welcome and entertain them all!
Even if they’re a crowd of sorrows,
who violently sweep your house
empty of furniture,
still, treat each guest honorably.
He may be clearing you out
for some new delight.

The dark thought, the shame, the malice,
meet them at the door laughing,
and invite them in.

Be grateful for whoever comes,
because each has been sent
as a guide from beyond.

- Jelaluddin Rumi (Sufi poet, 1207-1273)

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Eros and Thanatos, Life and Death

Thu, 03 Apr 2008 09:41:39 GMT

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I’ll follow thee and make a heaven of hell,
To die upon the hand I love so well.
- A Midsummer Night’s Dream

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Oh, no, he’s got my toe,
O gee, he’s up to my knee,
Oh, my, he’s reached my thigh,
O fiddle, he’s up to my middle,
Oh heck, he’s up to my neck
O dread, He’s got my . . . (gulp!)
I’m being swallowed by a boa-constrictor, a boa-constrictor, a boa-constrictor,
I’m being swallowed by a boa-constrictor,
And I don’t like it one little bit.
O dread, He’s up to my . . . (grand and glorious slurp!)

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EROs's job is to arouse and to stir up.. create chaos.. a potentially creatove space .. where something can be born.

Like Dionysus, he was sometimes referred to as Eleutherios, "the liberator". His Roman equivalent was Cupid, "desire", also known as Amor, "love".

EROS and THANATOS work together.

Eros - Life force
Thantatos - Death

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Tags: eros-thanatos. freud, art, death in life, eroticism

Coffee Cuts Risks of Brain Disorders

Thu, 03 Apr 2008 08:12:12 GMT

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Coffee may cut the risk of dementia by blocking the damage cholesterol can inflict on the body, research suggests.

The drink has already been linked to a lower risk of Alzheimer's Disease, and a study by a US team for the Journal of Neuroinflammation may explain why.

A vital barrier between the brain and the main blood supply of rabbits fed a fat-rich diet was protected in those given a caffeine supplement.

UK experts said it was the "best evidence yet" of coffee's benefits.

The "blood brain barrier" is a filter which protects the central nervous system from potentially harmful chemicals carried around in the rest of the bloodstream.

Other studies have shown that high levels of cholesterol in th

Caffeine is a safe and readily available drug and its ability to stabilise the blood brain barrier means it could have an important part to play in therapies against neurological disorders

Dr Jonathan Geiger
University of North Dakota

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Lips That Touch Liquor Shall Not Touch Ours

Thu, 03 Apr 2008 06:06:00 GMT

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