Apart from the acetabulum guy being a literal pile of steaming feces, his science is also off. On the whole, the female acetabula are smaller. Oh, and this has absolutely nothing to do with flexibility or the requirement to spread ones legs apart. The acetabulum is the half-circle-shaped notch on the pelvic girdle where the femoral head attaches in a socket-like fashion. As a socket joint, this area provides some of the widest range of motion in the human body (a similar joint can be found at the shoulders). Sitting with your legs closed or open will have little to no affect on the comfort of this joint.
I work in a bone lab, and I am literally resting my feet on a box of human pelves right now.
Recorded circa March 1931 in Grafton, Wisconsin. Geeshie Wiley on vocals and lead guitar, Elvie Thomas on second guitar. This bouncy, raggy tune opens with the chilling lines: "I picked poor robin clean, picked poor robin clean
Picked his head, picked his feet, would have picked his body but it wasn't fit to eat."
They definitely do not hoot! This is just one of their many calls. This is a sound we hear often. Barn Owls have the most blood curdling scream, they often sound like this during their examinations, and also, in the wild. They have been recorded at 92 decibels! In no way, was this Barn Owl being hurt, this is a natural defensive call, to try and scare us. If you were to run into a Barn Owl at night in cold dark barn, this is what you would hear!
If you are one of the many people who are upset at Brandeis University’s withdrawal of an honorary degree from Ayaan Hirsi Ali, you can leave a message with the President, Fred Lawrence. He has a public Facebook page, on which I’ve left the following message (you have to “like” the page first). My message will probably be removed quickly , but perhaps if many people left messages, they’d get the message (note: as of a few minutes ago, my message was still there, along with others).
I wish to dissociate myself from the university’s statement, which implies that I was in any way consulted about this decision. On the contrary, I was completely shocked when President Frederick Lawrence called me—just a few hours before issuing a public statement—to say that such a decision had been made.
. . . Having spent many months planning for me to speak to its students at Commencement, the university yesterday announced that it could not “overlook certain of my past statements,” which it had not previously been aware of. Yet my critics have long specialized in selective quotation – lines from interviews taken out of context – designed to misrepresent me and my work. It is scarcely credible that Brandeis did not know this when they initially offered me the degree.
What was initially intended as an honor has now devolved into a moment of shaming. Yet the slur on my reputation is not the worst aspect of this episode. More deplorable is that an institution set up on the basis of religious freedom should today so deeply betray its own founding principles. The “spirit of free expression” referred to in the Brandeis statement has been stifled here, as my critics have achieved their objective of preventing me from addressing the graduating Class of 2014. Neither Brandeis nor my critics knew or even inquired as to what I might say. They simply wanted me to be silenced. I regret that very much.
Not content with a public disavowal, Brandeis has invited me “to join us on campus in the future to engage in a dialogue about these important issues.” Sadly, in words and deeds, the university has already spoken its piece. I have no wish to “engage” in such one-sided dialogue. I can only wish the Class of 2014 the best of luck—and hope that they will go forth to be better advocates for free expression and free thought than their alma mater.
Damn, did she deserve that degree! Brandeis’s behavior is reprehensible and cowardly. President Lawrence, are you not ashamed of your university?
I couldn’t resist posting this comment, from a Brandeis graduate, that appeared on President Lawrence’s page. I don’t know who Sam Hilt is, but good for him!
BERKELEY, CA—Challenging long-held views on the origins of divinity, biologists at the University of California, Berkeley, presented findings Thursday that confirm God, the Almighty Creator of the Universe, evolved from an ancient chimpanzee deity. ...
In the spirit of fast-rising white Republicans who say dumb things about race, Mississippi State Sen. Chris McDaniel can now add his name to the list after Mother Jones uncovered a 2006 tape where the Tea Party darling bragged about not wanting to pay slavery reparations and only knowing how to hit on girls and find the bathroom in Spanish. (The Wall Street Journal reported on tape on Thursday.) McDaniel is challenging fellow Republican Thad Cochran for his U.S. Senate seat.
"If they pass [slavery] reparations, and my taxes are going up, I ain’t paying taxes," McDaniel said during a late 2006/early 2007 broadcast. McDaniel wasn't through. He went on to explain how poor Mexico was, and how he could live like a king there since "a dollar bill can buy a mansion in Mexico."
He was then asked if that meant learning Spanish. "Yes, regrettably…You’ll have to learn just enough to ask where the bathroom is. Baños. Baños. That’s what you say," McDaniel explained.
But one does not live on baños alone, McDaniel explained. He told his audience that you also have to know how to cat call a good-looking woman. "Mamacita works. ... I’m an English-speaking Anglo. I have no idea what it means, actually, but I’ve said it a few times, just for, you know, fun. And I think it basically means, 'Hey, hot mama.' Or, you know, 'You’re a fine looking young thing.'"
McDaniel's spokesman didn't deny that he made those remarks and somehow blamed it on the liberal press. Mind you, McDaniel was on a conservative talk show when he said these things. "The liberal press clearly loves to attack conservatives of all types. When Chris got into this race he knew they would throw mud, so it’s no surprise they’d dredge up decade-old comments made on conservative talk radio," his spokesperson Noel Fritsch said. Curiously, Fristch did not say if McDaniel still held those beliefs.
McDaniel has his sights set on Mississippi's Senate seat held by Sen. That Cochran. McDaniel has been endorsed by the Club for Growth and Sarah Palin, among others.
The original version of this piece ran on April 10, 2014, when news first broke that Stephen Colbert would be taking over The Late Show. We are republishing it as part of our series of Colbert tributes. Earlier this week, we published an Irish Wake of sorts for The Colbert ... More »
“CBS has just declared war on the heartland of America. No longer is comedy going to be a covert assault on traditional American values [and] conservatives. Now, it’s just wide out in the open. What this hire means is a redefinition of what is funny and a redefinition of what is comedy,” – Rush Limbaugh, losing his shit over a practicing Catholic and Sunday school teacher taking over from David Letterman.
I am struck by the way the recent issue of Early Music devoted to the early romantic guitar provides a timely reminder of how little is known about even the recent history of what is today the most popular musical instrument in existence. With millions of devotees worldwide, the guitar eclipses the considerably more expensive piano and allows a beginner to achieve passable results much sooner than the violin. In England, the foundations for this ascendancy were laid in the age of the great Romantic poets. It was during the lifetimes of Keats, Shelley, Byron, and Coleridge, extending from 1772 to 1834, that the guitar rose from a relatively subsidiary position in Georgian musical life to a place of such fashionable eminence that it rivalled the pianoforte and harp as the chosen instrument of many amateur musicians.
What makes this rise so fascinating is that it was not just a musical matter; the vogue for the guitar in England after 1800 owed much to a new imaginative landscape for the guitar owing much to Romanticism. John Keats, in one of his letters, tellingly associates the guitar with popular novels and serialized romances that were shaped by the interests of a predominantly female readership and were romantic in several senses of the word with their stories of hyperbolized emotion in exotic settings. For Byron, a poet with a wider horizon than Keats, the guitar was a potent image of the Spanish temper as the English commonly imagined it during the Napoleonic wars and long after: passionate and yet melancholic, lyrical and yet bellicose in the defence of political liberty, it gave full play to the Romantic fascination with extremes of sentiment. For Shelley in his Poem “With a Guitar,” the gentle sound of the instrument distilled the voices of Nature who had given the materials of her wooded hillsides to make it, but it also evoked something beyond Nature: the enchantment of Prospero’s isle and a reverie reaching beyond the limitations of sense to “such stuff as dreams are made on.” As the compilers of the Giulianiad, England’s first niche magazine for guitarists, asked in 1833: “What instrument so completely allows us to live, for a time, in a world of our own imagination?”
Given the wealth of material for a social history of the guitar in Regency England, and for its engagement with the romantic imagination, it is surprising that so little has been written about the instrument. It does say something about why England is widely regarded as the poor relation in the family of guitar-playing nations. The fortunes of the guitar in the early nineteenth century are commonly understood in a continental context established especially by contemporary developments in Italy, Spain, and France. To some extent, this is an understandable mistake, for Georgian England received rather more from the European mainland in the matter of guitar playing than she gave, but it is contrary to all indications. But we may discover, in the coming years, that the history of the guitar in England contains much that accords with that nation’s position as the most powerful country, and the most industrially advanced, of Western Europe at the close of the Napoleonic Wars.
There is so much material to consider: references to the guitar and guitarists in newspapers, advertisements, novels, short stories, poems and manuals of deportment, the majority of them published in the metropolis of London. The pictorial sources encompass a great many images of guitars and guitarists in a wealth of prints, mezzotints, lithographs, and paintings. The surviving music comprises a great many compositions for guitar, both in printed versions and in manuscript together with tutors that are themselves important social documents. Electronic resources, though fallible, permit a depth of coverage previously unattainable. Never have the words of John Thomson in the first issue of Early Music been more relevant: we set out on an intriguing journey.
Christopher Page is a long-standing contributor to Early Music. A Fellow of the British Academy, he is Professor of Medieval Music and Literature in the University of Cambridge and Gresham Professor of Music elect at Gresham College in London. In 1981 he founded the professional vocal ensemble Gothic voices, now with twenty-five CDs in the catalogue, from which he retired in 2000 to write his most recent book, The Christian West and its Singers: The first Thousand Years (Yale University Press, 2010).
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Long story short: Lime prices remain high and there’s no relief in sight, though some restaurateurs say that prices are slowly decreasing under the $100/case mark. That’s obviously still a big difference from the usual ~$20/case.
That said, given the sustained shortage, restaurateurs who were hoping to ride out the storm are having to make changes. Case in point: The Mecca of Margaritas — Tommy’s Mexican Restaurant in the Richmond — is raising prices this week.
Owner Julio Bermejo said two weeks ago that he wouldn’t compromise on the quality of the cocktails, but if the high prices kept up for a few more week, he would have to raise prices. That day is here. Later this week, Tommy’s will slightly bump up the price of their famous house margarita 50 cents, from $8.50 up to $9. All other margarita drinks will increase $1.
“I still believe we offer the best value for any two-ounce margarita made with 100 percent agave Tequila and lime juice squeezed on demand,” Bermejo adds.
Meanwhile, Tacolicious has switched up its compromise, too. They’re not doing the two margaritas anymore (one with pasteurized juice, one with freshly squeezed juice), instead opting for a even freshly squeezed blend of limes and Meyer lemons, available for the normal price ($9.50).
Following the hunters and poachers, servers and saviors of the little-known pangolin—a scaly, endangered creature sold by the thousands on the black market.
June 1943. Arlington County, Virginia. "Arlington Farms, war duration residence halls. Sunbathers on the sidewalk in the back of Idaho Hall." Photo by Esther Bubley for the Office of War Information. View full size.
It has the look and feel of a fast-paced and riveting science documentary.
The trailer opens with actress Kate Mulgrew (who starred as Capt. Janeway in Star Trek: Voyager) intoning, "Everything we think we know about our universe is wrong." That's followed by heavyweight clips of physicists Michio Kaku and Lawrence Krauss.
Kaku tells us, "There is a crisis in cosmology," and Krauss says, "All of these things are rather strange, and we don't know why they are occurring right now."
And then, about 1:17 into the trailer, comes the bombshell: The film's maker, Robert Sungenis, tells us, "You can go on some websites of NASA and see that they've started to take down stuff that might hint to a geocentric [Earth-centered] universe."
The film, which the trailer promises will be out sometime this spring, is called The Principle. Besides promoting the filmmaker's geocentric point of view, it seems to be aimed at making a broader point about man's special place in a divinely created universe.
None of this sits well with Krauss, who is well-known for his writings and lectures. He tweeted early Tuesday: "For all who asked: Some clips of me apparently were mined for movie on geocentricism. So stupid does disservice to word nonsense. Ignore it."
In a post later in Slate.com's Future Tense blog, titled "I Have No Idea How I Ended Up In That Stupid Geocentrism Documentary," the physicist elaborates:
"The notion that anyone in the 21st century could take seriously the notion that the sun orbits the Earth, or that the Earth is the center of the universe, is almost unbelievable. I say almost, because one of the trials and tribulations of being a scientist with some element of popular celebrity is that I get bombarded regularly by all sorts of claims, and have become painfully aware that ideas as old as the notion that the Earth is flat never seem to die out completely."
Kaku, who is a perennial in science documentaries, has not commented.
And, as for actress Mulgrew, astronomer Phil Plait, also writing for Slate, wonders aloud:
"About the trailer, yes, it's narrated by Kate Mulgrew, aka Captain Janeway from Star Trek: Voyager. Some people are lamenting this, wondering if she's a geocentrist. I doubt it, and you can't necessarily judge an actor for the work they do. Mitch Pileggi (from The X-Files) narrated an episode of Exploring the Unknown debunking the Apollo Moon hoax, yet he also narrated Conspiracy Theory: Did We Land on the Moon? So you can't jump to any conclusions here."
But, really, an Earth-centered universe?
If you thought Aristarchus of Samos, 15th century mathematician Nicolaus Copernicus and (a century later) Galileo put an end to all that, you'd be wrong. Still, it's hard to tell just how many people we're talking about.
What we do know is that when asked whether the Earth revolves around the Sun or the other way around, 1 in 4 Americans got the wrong answer in a recent survey compiled by the National Opinion Research Center.
Update at 5:50 p.m. ET:Mulgrew: 'I Am Not A Geocentrist'
Actress Mulgrew writes on her Facebook page Tuesday afternoon:
"I understand there has been some controversy about my participation in a documentary called THE PRINCIPLE. Let me assure everyone that I completely agree with the eminent physicist Lawrence Krauss, who was himself misrepresented in the film, and who has written a succinct rebuttal in SLATE. I am not a geocentrist, nor am I in any way a proponent of geocentrism. More importantly, I do not subscribe to anything Robert Sungenis has written regarding science and history and, had I known of his involvement, would most certainly have avoided this documentary. I was a voice for hire, and a misinformed one, at that. I apologize for any confusion that my voice on this trailer may have caused. Kate Mulgrew"
"I understand there has been some controversy about my participation in a documentary called THE PRINCIPLE. Let me assure everyone that I completely agree with the eminent physicist Lawrence Krauss, who was himself misrepresented in the film, and who has written a succinct rebuttal in SLATE. I am not a geocentrist, nor am I in any way a proponent of geocentrism. More importantly, I do not subscribe to anything Robert Sungenis has written regarding science and history and, had I known of his involvement, would most certainly have avoided this documentary. I was a voice for hire, and a misinformed one, at that. I apologize for any confusion that my voice on this trailer may have caused. Kate Mulgrew"
Um, so, wait, what, who? Who what now? Did when? Why? What!? The beloved and iconic Kate Mulgrew—of Star Trek: Voyager and Orange Is the New Black—has reportedly narrated a new documentary, produced by virulent anti-Semite and Holocaust denier Robert Sungenis, promoting the idea that the sun revolves around the earth. What does it all MEAN!?!?!?
Does your in-flight drink lack that certain something, a bit of citrus formerly provided by a lime? While I’m sorry for your loss, there are bigger problems than that out there, like drug cartels waging war with each other and natural disasters wreaking havoc with farmers’ crops. You can blame those issues for a temporary lime shortage that’s prompting many airlines to make do without lemon’s green sibling.
According to the Associated Press, there’s a lime shortage in the Mexican state of Michoacan after growers cut down their supply due to unrest caused by drug cartels, as well as flooding from heavy rain. Both are no good for lime lovers, and of course, even worse for the people living there.
Add in the drought in California and the price of limes is spiking, leading some airlines to drop limes from their beverage services — for now. The average price of a lime is about $0.56 as of last week, up from $0.31 during the same period a year ago.
“We temporarily pulled limes about two weeks ago, due to skyrocketing lime prices,” says an Alaska Airlines spokeswoman, noting that the airline usually goes through about 900 limes a day.
United Airlines is making do with lemons in some cases, citing the California drought. But alas, lemons won’t do it for everyone in the lime-loving set.
“We still serve limes, though they’re more difficult to source. So, on some flights we’re substituting with lemons,” says a United spokesman. The airline says it expect to be back to normal lime supplies by late May.
Over at Delta Air Lines and American Airlines, limes are still in full effect, the companies report. And JetBlue won’t be making changes either — it uses crystallized citrus additives instead of real fruit already.
We can get through this together, believe me. It’s a whole lot easier to do than dealing with drug cartels and floods destroying where you live, after all [steps down from soapbox].
The anti-vaccination movement has grown increasingly vocal in recent years, with a variety of organizations and public figures attempting to convince parents that immunizing their children presents more risks than benefits. Here are the cases for and against vaccinating children:
PROS
Helps out pharmaceutical industry Get to puncture child with needle Old family syringe shop depends on it Habituates children to the pain of existence Flies in face of science by discrediting single unanimously refuted paper from 10 years ago Healthier children equals friendlier waiters at Chili’s down the line Could save a few million children’s lives CONS
You have to go to a place Chance of developing autism 100 percent Puts the onus of character-building entirely on sports Without suffering through diphtheria, the flu, and measles, American children will become effete, pampered do-nothings Free lollipops promote unhealthy eating habits Child won’t get to be kindergarten’s Typhoid Mary Bullies parents into slavishly following actions recommended by decades of physicians’ peer-reviewed research that establishes an irrefutable scientific consensus
Here are the cases for and against vaccinating children
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