The Tube Open Movie is inspired by the expiration poem of Gilgamesh, and is an experiment in distributed collaboration. Furthermore, it also is a continuation in thought of the open movie. This includes, above all, crowdsourcing to help the project off the ground.
(Source: lockergnome.com)
THE GIST God, also known as Yahweh, had a wife named Asherah, according to a British theologian. Amulets, figurines, inscriptions and ancient texts, including the Bible, reveal Asherah’s once prominent standing. (via God’s Wife Edited Out of the Bible — Almost : Discovery News)
THE GIST God, also known as Yahweh, had a wife named Asherah, according to a British theologian. Amulets, figurines, inscriptions and ancient texts, including the Bible, reveal Asherah’s once prominent standing.
(Source: news.discovery.com)
According to Biblical tradition, the ancient Isrealites’ belief in one God and their ban on human and animal figures set them apart from their neighbors. However, it hasn’t been clear when these distinct practices arose. The discoveries offer a clue to the timing, since they contain none of the human or animal figurines common at other sites. No bones from pigs showed up here or elsewhere in the city. “This suggests that the population of Khirbet Qeiyafa observed two Biblical bans — on pork and on graven images — and thus practiced a different cult than that of the Canaanites or the Philistines,” Garfinkel said in a press release issued by the university. The discoveries also offer support for the Biblical depiction of King David, he said.
(Source: news.discovery.com)
By Robert Schroeder, MarketWatch WASHINGTON (MarketWatch) — The U.S. government in April posted its first monthly budget surplus since September 2008, the Treasury Department said Thursday, as tax receipts climbed and spending on education, Medicare and certain defense programs fell.
(Source: marketwatch.com)
From Design Seeds
In the provocative new cover story of its May 21 issue, TIME Magazine has tapped into a two-decade-long parenting conversation that has boiled over in recent months. Journalist Kate Pickert reports on the rise of attachment parenting, a set of techniques popularized by Dr. Jim Sears in “The Baby Book,” his 767-page treatise published in 1992. Yet, while Pickert delves into who Sears is and why controversy surrounds his theories — the three biggies advocate baby-wearing, extended breastfeeding and co-sleeping — the magazine’s decision to illustrate this story with photographs of real mothers breastfeeding their toddlers is what has everyone talking. (Scroll down for reactions on Twitter.)
(Source: The Huffington Post)
Just two weeks after the huge “supermoon” wowed skywatchers around the world, the heavens will offer up another observing treat — a solar eclipse on May 20 that should be visible from much of western North America.
(Source: The Huffington Post)
Transient orcas, which feed primarily on marine mammals, are more commonly found off Monterey and points north. They’re known to ambush gray whale cow-calf pairs as the leviathans are migrating from Baja California breeding and nursing grounds to Arctic home waters. In a phone interview, Schulman-Janiger identified the orcas as belonging to family groups known as the CA 51s and CA 27s. The CA 51s, which include a mom with four offspring, including a daughter with two offspring, have in recent years become fairly frequent visitors to Southern California waters. They’re also specialists in gray whale calf predation. “They are very efficient gray whale feeders,” the researcher said. ” A half-hour calf kill is very fast.” When her crew left the scene in the hope of reaching port before sunset, the orcas were still feeding on the calf, dragging it slowly as they swam.
(Source: petethomasoutdoors.com)
Nearly 200 MIT students, alumni and local residents form MIT’s Science Fiction Society, which curates an enormous library containing more than 90 percent of all English language science fiction ever published. The library’s impressive stacks make it one of the top three largest publicly available collections of science fiction in the world (via Science Fiction Society’s massive library is out of this world - MIT News Office)
Their research shows that the extinct wild ancestor of domestic horses, Equus ferus, expanded out of East Asia approximately 160,000 years ago. They were also able to demonstrate that Equus ferus was domesticated in the western Eurasian Steppe, and that herds were repeatedly restocked with wild horses as they spread across Eurasia.
(Source: sciencedaily.com)
Warning: This feature contains specific plot details regarding Marvel’s The Avengers. If you haven’t seen the movie yet, then what in the name of Mephisto’s fiery Hell-realm are you doing? Seriously.
(Source: geeksofdoom.com)
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