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Who Discovered The Clitoris?

Sun, 09 Dec 2007 00:09:44 GMT

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The clitoris was "discovered" (at least by males) and documented for the first time by Matteo Realdo Colombo: a lecturer in surgery at the University of Padua, Italy.

In 1559 he published a book called De re anatomica in which he described the "seat of woman's delight." He concluded, "since no one has discerned these projections and their workings, if it is permissible to give names to things discovered by me, it should be called the love or sweetness of Venus."

However others made claims to have discovered it. Gabriel Fallopius - Columbus' successor at Padua - disputed the assertion that Columbus discovered claiming credit for himself.

There are also several claims that knowledge of the clitoris was widely known well before either man's 'discovery'. But Colombo's remains the earliest physical documentation of the bud that would one day become a phenomenom leading to the sexual revolution.

Tags: columbo, discovered, more, than, america

Animals Do the Cleverest Things

Sat, 08 Dec 2007 15:38:34 GMT

clipped by: invictus
clipper's remarks: Latest researches show, we are not the "mighty rulers of the animal kingdom".

Clip Source: www.alternet.org

The chimp who outwits humans; the dolphin who says it with seaweed; the existential dog -- the more we learn about other animals the harder it is to say we're the smartest species.

An elephant that never forgets its extended family, a chimp that can outperform humans in a sophisticated test of visual memory and an amorous male dolphin that likes to say it with flowers -- well, a clump of river weeds to be more precise. These are just some of the recent observations from the field of animal behaviour. They appear to show that there is no limit to the intelligence of animals, but what do we really know about the true cognitive powers of the non-human brain?

The latest studies into the unusual behaviour of a range of species suggest that we should no longer assume that animals are just the dumb creatures that we've been led to believe since the days of St Thomas Aquinas, the 13th-century Italian monk whose moral philosophy formed the basis of our modern-day ethical treatment of animals.

Tags: animals, intelligence, science

Hidden dolphins

Sat, 08 Dec 2007 11:44:51 GMT

clipped by: vickybaranwal

Clip Source: amazingillusions.blogspot.com

Hidden Dolphins

You saw a couple in an intimate pose, right?

Interestingly, research has shown that young children cannot identify the intimate couple because they do not have prior memory associated with such a scenario.

What they WILL see, however, is the nine dolphins in the picture!

So, I guess we've already proven you're not a young innocent child... now... If it's hard for you to find the dolphins within 6 seconds, your mind is indeed corrupt and you probably need help, you sicko!

Tags: dolphin, illusion, optical

SEXY (Totaly hot naked picture of a Mono-monostatic object: perfect geometric equilibrium)

Sun, 09 Dec 2007 02:18:47 GMT

clipped by: ouyangwulong
clipper's remarks: Now that I have your attention, allow me to introduce the Gomboc!

It's an object of absolutely perfect geometric equilbrium. There is only one position in which it can rest, and it will always return to the exact same posture, because the balance of its proportions all pull it to a single incredibly narrow center of gravity.

And, it is TOTALLY NAKED! I mean, just check out the curves on this one!

How did we get this Gombloc? Well, there were a few Russian mathematicians sitting around (probably stoned) who thought it would be cool. So they just sat down and did the math "for a few years" and then tested thousands of pebles (once again, STONED!) until they just decided to make one themselves.

I am so not worthy!

Clip Source: www.nytimes.com

Self-Righting Object, The

The Gomboc is a roundish piece of clear synthetic material with gently peaked, organic curves. It looks like a piece of modern art. But if you tip it over, something unusual happens: it rights itself.

The Gomboc is a result of a long mathematical quest. In 1995, the Russian mathematician Vladimir Arnold mused that it would be possible to create a “mono-monostatic” object — a three-dimensional thingy that purely by dint of its geometry had only one possible way to balance upright.

The challenge intrigued two scientists — Gabor Domokos and Peter Varkonyi, both of the Budapest University of Technology and Economics. They spent a few years doing the math, and it seemed as if a mono-monostatic object could, in fact, exist. They began looking to see if they could find a naturally occurring example; at one point, Domokos was so obsessed that he spent hours testing 2,000 pebbles on a beach to see if they could right themselves. (None could.)

Tags: sexy, hot, naked, pictures, pot, marijuana, mono-monostatic, theoretical geometry

Beautiful Large Format photographs

Sat, 08 Dec 2007 14:10:58 GMT

clipped by: mickfinn

Clip Source: www.largeformatphotography.info

These photographs celebrate the magnificence of nature in all seasons. I have provided images of higher resolution than usual to give a glimpse of the quality which can be achieved with Large Format photography. If you have a large screen, you might like to try the [Big] images. Because even those images don't come remotely close to the actual high-definition of the photographs, I have provided a few selected details so that you can check their sharpness for yourself.

Cathedral Rocks, Yosemite NP
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Sequoias in storm, Kings Canyon NP
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Rododendrons and Redwoods, Redwood NP [Big]

Temples of the Sun and Moon, Capitol Reef NP
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Sunrise, Havasu NWR, Nevada
[Detail] [Big]

Autumn reflections, Green Mountains, Vermont [Big]

Delicate Arch, Arches NP
[Detail] [Big]

Cliffs and trees, Yosemite NP
[Detail] [Big]

Sunrise, Bryce Canyon NP
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Tags: landscape photography

We Are Not Really Here: it is all an illusion

Sun, 09 Dec 2007 09:04:43 GMT

clipped by: abailart

Clip Source: wittingshire.blogspot.com

"Scientific reductionists reduce everything to parts," he said. "They say that everything that exists is nothing but atoms--so life is a collection of atoms we happen to find interesting, but it has no ontological status. Life is nothing but a phenomenological category."

"So we aren't really alive, we just look like we are?"

"More or less--according to the reductionists. That's what Richard Dawkins thinks, for instance."

So you're saying Dawkins thinks the same thing about life itself? That it isn't real? That it's just bits and parts bumping around?"

"Right. And the linguistic turn in philosophy says that the categories we perceive as real are more or less just linguistic categories--that we differentiate between things for convenience's sake, but that really everything bleeds together."

"Life and death?"

"Yeah. And even tangible things like sheep and cows--ultimately they're just aggregates of atoms and energy. You remember the sheep, don't you?"

Tags: linguistic predicament

Easter Island stone heads are dying

Sat, 08 Dec 2007 15:43:25 GMT

clipped by: invictus

Clip Source: www.sfgate.com

Sloping slightly sideways on the grassy hills beneath the Ranu Raraku volcano, a giant stone head known as a moai shows the wear and tear of time on this triangular 64-square-mile island.

On the right side of the oblong rectangular face with male features, the rock is lighter in color and its long, carefully sculpted ear and nostril are clearly visible. But on the statue's left side, the sun and wind have eroded the nose, lip and ear.

"The moai are dying by natural causes," said archaeologist Sergio Rapu, a lifelong researcher of this isolated South Pacific island of hills and extinct volcanoes also known as Rapa Nui. "The prehistoric Rapa Nui people noted it would take 300 to 400 years for the statues to become completely eroded."

Tags: archaeology, easter island, rapa nui

Temple for a Lost Love

Sat, 08 Dec 2007 19:33:10 GMT

clipped by: vickybaranwal
clipper's remarks: One of the best architecture in the world.
this is Taj Mahal ( crown castle)
A symbol of immortal love.

Clip Source: archaeology.about.com

Temple for a Lost Love

India's Taj Mahal

Truly one of the world's greatest architectural feats, the Taj Mahal complex in Agra, India was built by the Emperor Shah Jahan in honor of his wife Arjuman Banu Begum, between 1630 and 1653. The seat of the Mughal Empire, the Taj's buildings together combine Indian, Persian, and Turkish architecture.

Archaeology of India
Explore the Taj Mahal, which includes a panoramic view of the interior
The Taj Mahal, an architectural study from Great Buildings

Tags: monument, ancient history, crown castle

Drug Companies Invent Mental Illneses

Fri, 07 Dec 2007 18:17:51 GMT

clipped by: abailart

Clip Source: edstrong.blog-city.com

Chalmers Johnson said about the
US military-industrial complex:
"I guarantee you when war becomes that profitable,
you are going to see more of it"
In exactly the same way,
as mental illness has become extremely profitable,
we are seeing more of it

Not too long ago, a child who was irritable,

moody, easily distracted and who at times

sounded grandiose or acted without regard

for consequences was considered a "handful"

In the U.S. by the 1980s, that child was labeled

with a "behavioral disorder"

Today that child is being diagnosed

as "bipolar" and "psychotic"

and prescribed expensive anti-psychotic drugs

Similar to the Bush administration, which knew it is was far easier to sell a war when Americans believed they were threatened by weapons of mass destruction, antidepressant manufacturers know it is much easier to sell serotonin-enhancer drugs when people believe depression is caused by a deficiency of serotonin.

Tags: mental illness, pharmaceutical industry, exploiting ignorance

500,000-year-old TB case 'found'

Sun, 09 Dec 2007 12:29:50 GMT

clipped by: Fast T friend
clipper's remarks: The American Journal of Physical Anthropology details the find by a team from the US, Germany and Turkey.

Clip Source: news.bbc.co.uk

Scientists say they have discovered in Turkey the most ancient evidence of tuberculosis in a 500,000-year-old human fossil.

Experts had thought TB emerged several thousand years ago - based on the remains of mummies from Egypt and Peru.

The skeleton is of a young man believed to belong to the first human species to migrate out of Africa - Homo erectus.

By looking at the skull, John Kappelman, professor of anthropology at the University of Texas, and his international team saw tell-tale signs of the disease.

They found a series of small lesions etched into the bone of the cranium whose shape and location they claim are characteristic of the Leptomeningitis tuberculosa, a form of TB that attacks the meninges lining of the brain.

The researchers believe the man's circumstances may have made him susceptible to the infection.

Tags: tb, homo erectus, fossil

Cure for the Failed Credit Card Swipe: It’s in the Bag

Sat, 08 Dec 2007 13:15:59 GMT

clipped by: shunyax

Clip Source: popsci.typepad.com

If you’ve ever stood at a checkout line and frantically swiped your credit (debit) card again and again, only to see error messages, try this little trick:

Slip your bashful card inside a plastic shopping bag (typically hanging right next to the card swipe reader). Smooth out all wrinkles and ensure that the bag is tight and taut on the magnetic stripe side of the card. Now swipe your card/bag combo through the card reader. Success! The plastic bag adds just enough thickness to your card for a persnickety card reader to accept. —Dave Prochnow

Tags: tips, trick, credit card

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Who Discovered The Clitoris?

Animals Do the Cleverest Things

Hidden dolphins

Hidden Dolphins

SEXY (Totaly hot naked picture of a Mono-monostatic object: perfect geometric equilibrium)

Beautiful Large Format photographs

We Are Not Really Here: it is all an illusion

Easter Island stone heads are dying

Temple for a Lost Love

Temple for a Lost Love

Drug Companies Invent Mental Illneses

Chalmers Johnson said about the US military-industrial complex: "I guarantee you when war becomes that profitable, you are going to see more of it" In exactly the same way, as mental illness has become extremely profitable, we are seeing more of it

500,000-year-old TB case 'found'

Cure for the Failed Credit Card Swipe: It’s in the Bag

Chalmers Johnson said about the
US military-industrial complex:
"I guarantee you when war becomes that profitable,
you are going to see more of it"
In exactly the same way,
as mental illness has become extremely profitable,
we are seeing more of it