Archaeoacoustics MALTA: 1902 A construction worker unexpectedly broke through the bottom of a household cistern. A dark man-made cavity lay below. Descending over stone barriers into shadows, he found underground rooms opening up before him -- three stories of sculpted man-sized burrow suggesting some fantasy realm of Mother Earth. On the ceiling, painted tendrils and disk patterns of red ocher spin out from the entrance, ending just above the chin-level niche in the side wall. Sixty miles south of Sicily, in the middle of the Mediterranean Sea, lies a small cluster of islands known today as Malta. The “Temple Period” spanned more than a thousand years of continuous building and elaboration, from about 3700 BC until around 2400 BC when the monuments seem to have been abruptly abandoned without explanation. There are more than thirty sites on the islands where it is known that megalithic temples once stood. Something was born here on these islands. Dr.
A Healthy Garden With Half the Work Choose veggies that you can seed directly into the ground or into containers, such as peas, beans, radishes, carrots, lettuce, and Swiss chard. All are great growers that require minimal maintenance. Tomatoes, on the other hand, are picky when they're young. You're better off buying starters from a reliable supplier instead of seeding your own. Buy indeterminate varieties—they keep fruiting for as long as they want, whereas determinate varieties put out a fixed number and then call it quits. Some plants, such as asparagus and rhubarb, and some herbs, such as mint, oregano, and parsley, just keep growing year after year. Not-so-easy choices: roses, grapes, cane berries, raspberries, and blackberries, which all require pruning to fruit well the following season.
How to Design Our Neighborhoods for Happiness Republished from yesmagazine.org By Jay Walljasper Neighbors in Conover Commons in Redmond, Washington, share an open field as their community gathering spot. This photo originally appeared in Jay Walljasper's book, How to Design Our World for Happiness. Biology is destiny, declared Sigmund Freud. But if Freud were around today, he might say “design is destiny”—especially after taking a stroll through most modern cities. The way we design our communities plays a huge role in how we experience our lives. You don’t have to be a therapist to realize that this creates lasting psychological effects. Of course, this is no startling revelation. One of the notable solutions being put into practice to combat this problem is New Urbanism, an architectural movement to build new communities (and revitalize existing ones) by maximizing opportunities for social exchange: public plazas, front porches, corner stores, coffee shops, neighborhood schools, narrow streets, and, yes, sidewalks.
Christina Hoff Sommers: School Has Become Hostile to Boys As school begins in the coming weeks, parents of boys should ask themselves a question: Is my son really welcome? A flurry of incidents last spring suggests that the answer is no. In May, Christopher Marshall, age 7, was suspended from his Virginia school for picking up a pencil and using it to “shoot” a “bad guy” — his friend, who was also suspended. A few months earlier, Josh Welch, also 7, was sent home from his Maryland school for nibbling off the corners of a strawberry Pop-Tart to shape it into a gun. At about the same time, Colorado’s Alex Evans, age 7, was suspended for throwing an imaginary hand grenade at “bad guys” in order to “save the world.” In all these cases, school officials found the children to be in violation of the school’s zero-tolerance policies for firearms, which is clearly a ludicrous application of the rule. (MORE: Your First-Grader Is Going to Be a High School Dropout) On the other hand, millions of boys are struggling academically.
'Unforgiven' Trailer: Now with More Samurais, Less Clint Eastwood | I Watch Stuff Japanese director Lee Sang-il has remade Unforgiven, Clint Eastwood's 1992 Best Picture-winning Western, as a samurai movie starring Inception Ken Watanabe. But hey, John Sturges already redid Kurosawa's Seven Samurai as The Magnificent Seven, so fair enough, everyone. Let's call it square. The film screens at TIFF, so reviews should soon make clear whether this remake is truly deserving of being Unforgiven, or if this is just someone being petty about grudges. Disneynature--Walt Disney Studios' independent documentary offshoot that gave us such breathtaking films as Oceans: What's Going on in There?
Community Forum - Hand Drill for Beginners Failure can be caused by many variables such as wood types, combinations, technique and so on. I often hear people talk about this or that combination of materials or technique (which are all relevant) but not many mention stamina. I will not deal with wood types in this tutorial as there is enough information on this already. There are 3 things which are directly related to success with the materials. Hopefully if you try this method, after a week or so you will have strengthened the relevant muscles and can then discard one of the training aids.
Wool Blanket Bushshirt (pic heavy) Hi guys, iv finally pulled my finger out and got the misses and her handy camera work, out into the woods for a Photo shoot I wont bore you all to death about how i made it and all that lark.. Ill just explain what i did and why. Hope you enjoy!!..If you have any questions feel free to ask! Right to start things off the main reason i wanted to have a bash at making a bush smock was for the same reasons everyone elts wants one.. Great in winter/cold environment, great insulator, fire retardant, semi water proof, robust and finally too naturally blend in a bit better i think.I started off with a BELGIAN / DUTCH 100% WOOL BLANKET, purchased from an army surplus shop in York for the grand total of £14. Cheers,cowboy
iron age shoes: a tutorial, sort of EDIT march 2011: due to tons of comments (over at instructables.com) on the historical correct period for this shoe, i've changed the name from 'viking' to 'iron age' shoes. i've also closed the comment section here, due to spam. by following the description, you should end up with something that looks like this (above. never mind the red dots in the picture - they will be explained later). the uncut shoe is my left foot (wrong side out), but the cut, dark one is my right foot shoe (right side out). (i'm sorry for the bad quality photos. i don't know what's wrong with my camera - the top photo was taken about two years ago; crisp, clear and fine. all the photos i take these days come out pale and grainy). look through all the photos before you start drawing! then mark the center point under your forefoot; the part that you use to kick off when you walk. draw a line about 1 cm outside the foot line, around the toe area. omit the bumps (your toes...) start cutting. shoe tutorial; part 2
What makes us human? Nazia aside, the Pakistan government has banned microcephalics from the shrine. Yet women still go there to petition the saint. At least some of them still believe the myth. Educated Pakistanis know better. Dismissing the Curse of Shua Dulah as mere superstition, they have a better theory: that chuas aren't born, but made. Priests, chua-masters, or perhaps even parents, they say, purposefully deform healthy infants by placing pots or metal clamps on the heads of healthy infants and so retard the growth of the brain. The Bonsai theory of microcephaly is at least 100 years old. There are several reasons for believing that microcephaly in the Punjab is not caused by clamping. But the strongest reason for dismissing the Bonsai account of microcephaly is that the disorder occurs among British Pakistanis as well. In 1967, Pakistan dammed the Jhelum River that forms the frontier between Punjab and Kashmir. Microcephaly is a rare disorder in Britain. But genomes are vast.
It's a Bird! It's a Plane! It's a Flying Wind Turbine! A new generation of renewable energy entrepreneurs are currently developing turbines to harness the wind in the upper layers of the atmosphere, where some believe as much as 870 terawatts (or 87 trillion watts) of energy lurks. The question is how bring it back down to Earth. NASA aerospace engineer Mark Moore has proposed tethering floating turbines with nanotube cables that would double as transmission wires. Photo courtesy NASA Moore will study all the proposals private companies have begun to float, such as Italian startup TWIND’s paired balloons with sails attached and California-based Makani Power‘s glider wing concept. However it works, every tethered turbine would require a swath of no-fly zone around it, something the airline industry would surely resist. Via PopSci Lead photo courtesy Makani Energy