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| Saturday, September 26th, 2009 | | 2:22 pm |
Pathos It seems quite likely that the species we call Australopithecus afarensis - Lucy's species - included our ancestors of three million years ago. Other fossils have been placed in different species of the same genus, and it is virtually certain that our ancestors were members of that genus. The first Australopithecine to be discovered, and the type specimen of the genus, was the so-called Taung Child. At the age of three and a half the Taung Child was eaten by an eagle. The evidence is that damage to the eye sockets of the fossil are identical to marks made by modern eagles on modern monkeys as they rip out their eyes. Poor Taung Child, shrieking on the wind as you were borne aloft by the aquiline fury, you would have found no comfort in your destined fame, two and a half million years on, as the type specimen of Australopithecus africanus. Poor Taung mother, weeping in the Pliocene.
(p189, The Greatest Show on Earth, which I'm enjoying immensely (although it's probably a good thing that most of it is much drier than this!) I've read quite a few books lately that I've meant to write about, but this will have to do for now. | | Saturday, June 20th, 2009 | | 2:35 pm |
| | Saturday, May 23rd, 2009 | | 4:22 pm |
PSA Freerice still exists, and now it has lots of other subjects as well as just vocabulary. | | Wednesday, January 28th, 2009 | | 1:23 pm |
| | Thursday, November 27th, 2008 | | 9:28 pm |
Home cinema projectors?
Has anyone, by any chance, any experience with using or better still choosing a projector for use with a DVD player? Currently we only have a portable DVD player with a tiny screen. We don't want to have a television, because that would make us liable to pay the licence fee every year, and because it'd be too hard to put away. But a projector seems like a better idea, especially given that we have white walls! Prices have fallen dramatically over the last few years so that there seems to be a lot of choice in the 300-500 pound range which is where I'd like to be, unless there's a really good argument for going higher. ( Too much choice, in fact... )Anyone have any opinions or experience? | | Wednesday, November 12th, 2008 | | 7:05 pm |
| | Monday, June 2nd, 2008 | | 6:24 pm |
Meme: share a poem that means something to you
Instructions: Reproduce a poem that means something to you. Please, try to make it a poem which is out of copyright! If you really must violate copyright, at least buy the book and include a link to Amazon or similar, so that others can too. If you like, do this every day for a month. My French teacher introduced us to this when I was 13 or so (good choice for a class of adolescent girls!); it's been important to me ever since. Imagine every third line indented - I can't quickly work out how to do that. I don't guarantee to post every day for a month, but I might post a few more.Chanson d'automne Les sanglots longs Des violons De l'automne Blessent mon coeur D'une langueur Monotone. Tout suffocant Et blême, quand Sonne l'heure, Je me souviens Des jours anciens Et je pleure, Et je m'en vais Au vent mauvais Qui m'emporte Deçà, delà Pareil à la Feuille morte. Paul Verlaine, Poèmes saturniens (1866) | | Monday, April 21st, 2008 | | 10:49 am |
| | Wednesday, April 2nd, 2008 | | 1:09 pm |
| | Tuesday, March 18th, 2008 | | 9:33 pm |
| | Tuesday, January 8th, 2008 | | 6:02 pm |
Who he? 80% Dennis Kucinich 79% Chris Dodd 78% John Edwards 77% Mike Gravel 77% Barack Obama 76% Hillary Clinton 73% Bill Richardson 72% Joe Biden 35% Rudy Giuliani 25% Tom Tancredo 23% John McCain 23% Ron Paul 21% Mitt Romney 21% Mike Huckabee 10% Fred Thompson 2008 Presidential Candidate Matching Quiz | | Wednesday, November 14th, 2007 | | 9:02 pm |
| | Sunday, October 7th, 2007 | | 6:07 pm |
book meme
These are the top 106 books most often marked as "unread" by LibraryThing's users. Bold what you have read, italicize those you started but couldn't finish half-strike through those you started but couldn't finish, and strike through what you couldn't stand. Add an asterisk to those you've read more than once. Underline those on your to-read list. ( I've read 47, but this makes me feel old ) | | Saturday, October 6th, 2007 | | 10:14 pm |
My top spots
Can you tell I said I like cities? Curious that it didn't give me Philadelphia (anywhere in the list), the only place I know well enough to have an opinion on (and I could live there, I think). Boston, Massachusetts Providence, Rhode Island New Haven, Connecticut Worcester, Massachusetts Hartfoot, Connecticut San Francisco, California San Jose, California Baltimore, Maryland Washington, District of Columbia Albuquerque, New Mexico (ah, one I've been to at last. No, couldn't live there.) Portland, Oregon Baton Rouge, Louisiana etc. etc. http://www.findyourspot.com | | Friday, September 21st, 2007 | | 10:40 pm |
| | Tuesday, September 11th, 2007 | | 8:26 pm |
happy birthday to you happy birthday to you happy birthday dear Sidheag happy birthday to you ETA: typed by Colin at his insistence. It isn't my birthday! | | Friday, August 10th, 2007 | | 4:45 pm |
Sob http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/education/6940585.stmSome 80% of pupils reached the expected standard in English, 77% in maths and 88% in science.
- good, about 4/5 of children pass each subject, well done schools! But they also showed that four out of 10 children failed to achieve the expected level in at least one subject.- terrible, sack all the teachers, something must be done! Hint: 4/5 * 4/5 * 4/5 = 64/125, or approximately 1/2... | | Saturday, August 4th, 2007 | | 7:42 pm |
Formuspermula
I don't know who wrote this, or I'd credit them. Since it seems not to be out there any more (either under the name I misremembered or in the real one), in the public interest I give you ( Formuspermula ) | | 5:08 pm |
| | Thursday, August 2nd, 2007 | | 1:00 pm |
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