The painting is believed to have been painted by Michelangelo in about 1545, ... The people of Buffalo could be forgiven for being unaware of this until now. Rather than hanging on a museum wall, the unfinished painting was for years stuffed behind a sofa in the house of the Kober family. Even the Kobers, who took the picture off their wall after it was hit by an errant tennis ball, weren't sure whether it was priceless or worthless. If it is a Michelangelo, it is considerably closer to the former than the latter, and, if similar works at New York'sMetropolitan Museum of Art are any guide, could be worth anything up to $300m (£190m). The quest to find out the truth was started, on his father's urging, by Lieutenant Colonel Martin Kober in 2003 after his retirement from the US Air Force. He took his job seriously, vaguely conscious that the bundle behind the couch might one day become the most important art find of the century.
He contacted auction houses, art historians and even visited a leading expert on Michelangelo in Italy, Antonio Forcellino. Hunter-Gatherer Parents: Better Than Today's Moms and Dads? When we envision parenting role models, few of us likely think of our mud-caked, animal hide-wearing early ancestors, or ask ourselves, what would a Paleolithic hunter-gatherer do? But maybe we should. After all, the human race has spent about 99 percent of its existence living this tribal, foraging lifestyle. Evolution honed our instincts, and many of the key conditions for our emotional well being—our essential humanity—were programmed into us during this time.
Can we return the souped-up Bugaboo strollers and turn off the shiny iPhone rattles in favor of simpler tools for raising a child? In three new studies out of the University of Notre Dame, psychology professor Darcia Narvaez—who’s dedicated her career to studying morality and character development—argues that, indeed, our Flintstone kin were better caregivers than some modern-day parents.
And that by incorporating some of their practices into our own childrearing, we can raise more compassionate, socially savvy, smarter kids. Chaîne de TheSecondCityNetwork. Krystal Ball: The Next Glass Ceiling. When I was fifteen-years-old, I watched Hillary Clinton during the difficult times she faced when her private life and President Clinton's private life became public.
Nevermind that the people conducting the impeachment hearings were having multiple affairs and oozed hypocrisy. Nevermind that they wanted to know every voyeuristic detail of the President's sex life under the guise of righteousness. What I remember thinking as a young woman was watching Hillary Clinton's expression after she had to face the entire country with her private life exposed for the world to see. I admired her so much. I thought she had this toughness and grit, style and pain, all at the same time. She must have been such a jumble of emotions inside, but she persisted. I am a 28-year-old wife, mother, Certified Public Accountant and small business owner, and the Democratic Nominee for US Congress in the 1st district of Virginia, where I was born and raised and where I am now raising my own daughter. Julie Burchill: Moss looks like a toothpick, Widdecombe a dinghy, but they both do as they please - Julie Burchill, Columnists. But – here's the thing – they WOULDN'T let themselves be used as either.
Because they're their own women. (As opposed to someone else's toothpick or dinghy.) What they share is an uncompromising attitude to life that has made them beacons of contentment in a sea of neurotic high-profile women, forever fretting about this straying husband or that straying silicone. They are women uncompromised. And all the mockery, in the case of Widdecombe, or monstering, in the case of Moss, simply slides off them like the proverbial H2O off a canard's back. Because, to misquote Kate, no approval looks as good as autonomy feels. They do as they please, though the things that please them are a world apart.
In modern times, men know that it would look literally mad to say that women should not be paid the same as men, say, or not have the same educational opportunities as men. (Or indeed a unicorn to bring her herL'Oreal shampoo! Child benefit: If you don't need it, taking it is scrounging. Politics News. Video. HIV-Positive Porn Star Was Gay-To-Straight. In the discussion of one porn performer testing positive for HIV, a detail has been overlooked: the performer crossed over from gay porn to straight, which matters to the extent that the two industry sectors have very different safety norms. AVN.com says that the performer who tested positive "performed in both straight and gay adult videos," generally a pretty rare phenomenon in the industry. His partners, both professional and personal, have been quarantined, but in the meantime it's reignited a longstanding debate over how best protect the health of performers. The AIDS Healthcare Foundation, which is pushing for mandatory condom use in all porn produced in California, said the performer's infection was "totally preventable" and "living proof that testing is not adequate protection against HIV/AIDS and other sexually transmitted diseases.
" In gay porn, political pressure from health and rights groups has meant that, except for a few fringe studios, condoms are the norm. Pew: Excluding cell phones biases poll results in GOP's favor. Online : DIY Waterwall from IKEA parts. BIG CAT HALLOWEEN! Bona-fide-fans-chase-rib-free-rib-sandwich: Personal Finance News from Yahoo! Finance. Lovers of Elusive McRib Pork Patty Track Their Sightings Before traveling to visit his parents in Nebraska last winter, Jeremy Duensing consulted what he always checks before a trip: the "McRib Locator" website. To his delight, he found a McDonald's (NYSE: MCD - News) restaurant near Omaha that, unlike most of the burger chain's 14,000 U.S. restaurants, had the McRib on its menu.
He bought six of the pork sandwiches, ate one right away at the restaurant, and carried the rest home to Burnsville, Minn., in an ice-packed cooler. "Either you find places that have them or you're out of luck for the rest of the year," says Mr. Duensing, 34 years old. The McRib actually has nothing to do with ribs. But McRibs are almost never available at all McDonald's restaurants at the same time.
[Burger Fans Have Beef With Biggest Chains] The sandwich's elusiveness has created a fan base of people who go to considerable lengths to munch on a McRib. "It has a ghostly quality," says Mr. Popular Stories on Yahoo! Broadcast Yourself. Echobazaar.failbettergames. BIG CAT HALLOWEEN! Chaîne de BigCatRescue. Dad makes world's most incredible pancakes - Food on Shine. For anyone who's been showing off their smiley-face or heart-shaped pancakes, it's time to step up your game because jimspancakes.com has set the bar mighty high. "Just trying to make some cool pancakes for my daughter" is the tagline of his site, which chronicles the special breakfasts he makes for his extremely cute 3-year-old.
How has Jim changed the game? First of all, he uses colored pancake batter. Second, as the art director of his own small ad agency he knows how to draw. Third, he works in three dimensions. From the pictures we gather that Allie gets a kick out of her dad's edible antics, but he admits with some of the more intricate designs, like his crowning achievement, the Ferris wheel pancake, she may go in the other room to watch morning cartoons. [Related: Sweet gallery: Husband creates food art for wife on bed rest] Although the Ferris wheel looks like it necessitated graph paper and an X-Acto knife in addition to pancake batter, Jim says it's all about squeeze bottles. Most Tennesseans Say Muslims Should Get Full Rights, Back Construction Of Murfreesboro Mosque Expansion. By Zaid Jilani "Most Tennesseans Say Muslims Should Get Full Rights, Back Construction Of Murfreesboro Mosque Expansion" As ThinkProgress has previously reported, for months, conservatives have led a hateful campaign against the expansion of a local Islamic center and mosque in Murfreesboro, Tennessee.
This campaign has been endorsed by high-ranking Republicans such as the state’s Lt. Governor, Ron Ramsey, who last month, wondered aloud whether Islam was a religion or a “cult.” The center was the target of an arson attack in August. Now, a new poll conducted by Middle Tennessee State University finds that the majority of Tennesseans reject this far-right, hateful campaign and side with the right of Muslims to build the mosque expansion.
Sixty-seven percent of Tennesseans polled said Muslims deserve the same rights as any Americans and only 14 percent disagreed. “We’ve had a wonderful experience in Nashville. Change, Reaction, And Conservatism: Reading The Tea Leaves - The Daily Dish | By Andrew Sullivan. Noah Millman uses gay equality to make a larger point: It gets worse before it gets better – indeed, it gets worse even as it’s getting better. That’s the way the politics of these sorts of issues goes, issues that appear to present very fundamental challenges to an entire worldview. At the outset, the worldview has a variety of sources of support: longstanding traditions and patterns of behavior; a larger societal consensus on the rightness of a position; the support of scientific authorities; etc.
But as these supports fall away, as patterns of behavior change, as the question becomes contested rather than settled, as the scientific consensus dissolves or even switches to the other side, the defender of the traditional understanding is left with only one actual argument: if I give this up, I will have surrendered everything. I think that's exactly right about the dynamics of certain aspects of change. He is not, after all, the first black president. From-a-maine-house-a-national-foreclosure-freeze: Personal Finance News from Yahoo! Finance. Psychology majors might want to put themselves on the couch.
Only 26% of psychology majors are "satisfied" or "very satisfied" with their career paths, the lowest in a sampling of popular majors included in a Wall Street Journal study. The psychology majors the survey captured had a satisfaction rate 14 percentage points lower than the next lowest majors, economics and environmental engineering. [Click here to find an online degree program] The survey, which was conducted by PayScale.com between April and June of this year, only included respondents with jobs, but could include people who went on to earn a graduate degree. Part of the reason for the psych majors' low scores might be that few professions recruit for psychology undergraduate degrees specifically, said R. [Old Jobs Now Require New Skills] Undergraduate psychology majors who don't go to graduate school tend to move to an unrelated field within a year, said St.
Ms. Popular Stories on Yahoo! • Where Renting Is Better Than Buying. Neolithic milk fog. Razib points today to an article in Der Spiegel about the revival of folk migration as an explanation for the Neolithic in Europe. His post ("Vlkerwanderung back with a vengeance") is worth reading. The general issues here are very interesting right now because the increase in data has made it possible to propose and test more and more complex scenarios. The simple scenario, gradual demic diffusion, appears wrong in many details. Archaeological cultures appeared and spread in spurts, which we now know were often composed of people genetically very different people. The article in Der Speigel is titled, "How Middle Eastern Milk Farmers Conquered Europe". The main idea of the article is that our understanding of the spread of Neolithic cultures into Europe has been revolutionized by ancient DNA and more sophisticated chemical analysis of artifacts.
Problem is: from the standpoint of ancient DNA samples, the lactase persistence mutation was also absent within the early Neolithic! Restaurant Menus: Pizza, Chinese Food, Sushi Menu Guide - Order Food Online. A Canadian line of Campbell's soups has activists stewing over Islamic connection. Andy Warhol found artistic inspiration in a can of Campbell's tomato soup. These days, some activists are finding sinister Muslim connections in the same can. Campbell Soup Co., the Camden, N.J., food giant, has been fighting a grass-roots boycott of its products after its Canadian subsidiary rolled out a line of soups certified as halal, meaning they're prepared according to Islamic dietary laws. Campbell Co. of Canada introduced the soups in a few Canadian markets in January, although American bloggers didn't catch up to the news until earlier this month.
That's when the tempest in a tomato-soup can started. Blogger Pamela Geller began calling for a boycott earlier this month via her widely read site, Atlas Shrugs. The halal soups, designated with a special label, are available only in Canada. In an interview, Geller, who was instrumental in whipping up opposition to an Islamic community center and mosque in Lower Manhattan, said she has no objection to the halal certification itself. What The Fuck Is My Transmedia Strategy? by Dan Hon and some other people. 99 Problems But a Cape Ain't One: Conservatives Attack Islamic Superheroes - ComicsAlliance | Comics culture, news, humor, commentary, and reviews.
Superhero fans, especially those old enough to have opinions, are often divided by their views on the appropriateness of real-world politics in their escapist literature. While many of us regard Dennis O’Neil and Neil Adams’ socially relevant run on “Green Lantern/Green Arrow” to be a superlative example of costumed heroes confronting the hard-hitting issues of the day, just as many readers dismiss it as didactic and inappropriate given the characters’ roots in benign adolescent power fantasies.
But what about when real-world issues encroach upon the mild escapism? What happens then? These issues are being confronted again with “The 99,” a comic about a group of multi-ethnic superheroes with a basis in Islamic culture and faith. An animated series based on the comic was meant to debut last week, but it’s been pushed back to January of next year (unlike DC’s “JLA/The 99” crossover miniseries, which debuts next week with issue #1). Hide your face and grab the kids. Why shouldn’t Mr. Four Loko Company Defends Caffeinated Booze After Washington Students Sickened at Party.
<br/><a href=" US News</a> | <a href=" Business News</a> Copy The company behind a controversial caffeinated alcoholic beverage that's believed to have caused the sickening of dozens of Central Washington University students said it was the mixing of alcohol and possibly drugs that made the students seriously ill. The aftermath of the party, at which police found students passed out all over the house and rushed nine to the hospital, has renewed calls for bans on the drink Four Loko, which combines as much alcohol as a six-pack of beer and the equivalent of one cup of coffee.
"One girl was sitting on a bench and she fainted, and my friend and I were like, 'Oh my god, oh my god.' We rushed out to help her and I gave her CPR," said one freshman who was at the Oct. 8 party but asked not to be identified. "These people were still fighting for consciousness almost," the student said. Fly, Ryan Murphy! Be Free! Dear Ryan Murphy: Be crazy. By crazy, I mean unhinged, unpredictable and inspired. Think Bob Clampett going full-tilt surreal in Porky in Wackyland. Or Chuck Jones starting out spoofing opera in What's Opera, Doc? , then building to a climax of thunderous spectacle and heartfelt emotion that wipes the smile off your face (until Bugs Bunny restores it with, "Well, what did you expect in an opera...a happy ending?
") Think Frank Tashlin building a live-action cartoon around his already-cartoony leading man, Jerry Lewis. Or Bob Fosse directing an autobiographical musical fantasia while he was still alive, and structuring the entire thing as a deathbed flashback, and devoting the film's final third to musical hospital staff and equipment as bits of mise-en-scène. What stones. These shows had imagination. And they went all the way. They never would have put their names on a travesty like last night's Rocky Horror Picture Show-themed episode of Glee. What was wrong with that episode? And Jesus H. Another theory about Neandertal-modern interbreeding.
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