Saturday, September 25, 2010

Photos you might have missed



Chariot racer, at Makefaire Detroit.

Looks like the Hittites didn't go extinct, they just emigrated and became good old boys.
PDF on an ancient Hittite text on how to train chariot horses HERE.

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Retired UK Cardinal (WTF? Although "Irish", he uses the "double name" meme of the British aristocracy) complains of "Taliban Catholics" who dare to be "...critical of the bishops for compromising too much with modernity and not promoting Catholic truth " to the ever liberal NCR.


So the ever helpful Father Z produced the picture of the "enemy":


Related item: It' missing a photo of this ever so politically incorrect Catholic warrior:


(image of Potawanami warrior by Tom Shropshire)

and don't forget the atheist branch of the Pope's defenders:


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You heard about that idiot Teaparty lady talking about "mice with human brains" ?
attention class, it wasn't idiocy, it was from Scientific America.

"...No one knows what the consequences will be as the proportion of human cells in an animal increases. Weissman and others, for example, have envisioned one day making a mouse with fully "humanised" brain tissue. The lawyer developmental programme and tiny size of this chimerical mouse fairly guarantee that its mental capacities would not differ greatly from those of normal mice. But what if human cells were instead put in the foetus of a chimpanzee? The birth of something less beastly could not be ruled out...."


calling Doctor Moreau ...calling Dr. Moreau..


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What would happen if you put your hand in a Hadron Collider?

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