tingilinde

portraits from tsarist russia

Some remarkable portraits

 

I've been using Blogsy to post many of the recent posts from the iPad. A bit convoluted at times, but overall it works well and people seem to think it is the best client.

new natural history museum at the u of utah

wow - via the NY Times

I'm familiar with the old one, which did excellent work but was in a terribly crowded and outdated facility

diy evs

A 30 minute video on homebuilt electric vehicles .. the "hotrod" of these days...  worth watching if you have any interest in this area



I'm convinced that ultimately the EV will win - it will probably be able to compete on unsubsidized price in some niches within the decade.

tacocopter

I'm guessing tacocopter can't be real ... FAA rules don't permit this sort of activity and the tech isn't quite there yet at the low end,

...but give it a decade

 

advice to young women in the early 1950s

From a romance advice comic book in the early 1950s (thanks for the link Sara)

beauty first

smiling

talking

marriage (the only goal)

and ending with some realism

bioengineering - ho hum ... Been there, done that

John Hawkes argues in Slate that we've already been through some bioregineering to make ourselves more sustainable..

snip

    ...

When the climate warmed by several degrees around 8,000 B.C., it must have seemed at first like a wonderful dream. The glaciers melted. The human population grew and grew. There were more people than ever before, using a broader range of resources and eating a broader range of foods, and they invented beautiful and complex cultures.

That's when these people of the early Holocene did something truly bizarre. They reacted to all this climate change by engineering a new, more sustainable ecology. And they began to foster mutant children who would flourish in an alternate, globally warmed future.

And with lactase persistence and amylase duplications, nature took a different course:

When it comes to cutting meat, natural selection has acted more like an entrepreneur than a eugenicist. Instead of giving us an aversion to meat, it lures us away from meat by offering a milkshake sweetened with corn syrup.

...

 

His paleoanthropology blog is great if you like learning a bit about where we came from.

 

 

mobile carriers and apple

Intereting commentary by Jean-Louis Gassée

(tip of the hat to John)

 

It would be nice if the carriers to compete much more strongly on service and pricing than they currently do...  Perhaps this will happen when AT&T comes closer to Verizon in quality - something that seems to be happening in my neck of the woods.

where fat is seen as the female ideal

Jheri notes this piece on a very non-Western view.   It sounds incredibly unhealthy...

a warm mid march

if it was warm where you were in the US it turns out you had company - check the link for the scale.  You'll be astonished.

Note - this is just weather rather than climate.  It doesn't show climate change, but a higher percentage of events like this does and we've been seeing that for about two decades.  So this is an artifact of global warming - as is an increased number of serve storms ... including heavy snowfalls.

sweating the details

Greg notes a site with some details of user interface elements - some subtle...