Once known as the child cowboy star “Howdy Doody” the now all grown up Ron Paul announced he is creating an exploratory committee for a presidential run. Representative Paul, still a cowboy from Texas even though his famous freckles are faded and the once red hair is now peppery g[...]
Posts Tagged ‘Art’
May 19th, 2011 - 7:39 am § in Schools & Colleges
UT … $1000000000 in gold bars
By David Mildenberg and Pham-Duy Nguyen – Apr 16, 2011 2:45 AM PT Sat Apr 16 09:45:57 GMT 2011 Ed. As we debate taxes, would someone tell me how owning gold (0r art, yachts, houses) stimulates the US (or any) economy? The University of Texas Investment Management Co., the second-largest U.S. a[...]
May 12th, 2011 - 10:12 pm § in Science
Designing Man: How Beautiful Faces Are Made!
Wonderful video. Read more here.[...]
Flowering of Science, 1687 in Tibet
Seventeenth-century Tibet witnessed a blossoming of medical knowledge, with the construction of a monastic medical college and the penning of several influential medical texts. Tibetan anatomists counted a total of 360 bones in the human body—significantly more than the 206 bones described in West[...]
April 12th, 2011 - 1:46 pm § in Misc.
Michael Jackson Statue Erected in London
from the Independent: Michael Jackson – Fulham’s chairman Mohammed al Fayed says that fans can “go to hell” if they don’t like the new statue of the pop legend Ed. Seattle has Lenin and London has the successor to the Beetles. Makes sense to me! [...]
Governor LePage can’t erase history
“Maine Governor Paul LePage has ordered state workers to remove from the state labor department a 36-foot mural depicting the state’s labor history. Among other things the mural illustrates the 1937 shoe mill strike in Auburn and Lewiston. It also features the iconic “Rosie the Riveter,”[...]
March 29th, 2011 - 4:05 pm § in Uncategorized
Pritzker Prize
Eduardo Souto de Moura wins 2011 Pritzker Prize for Architecture. More images here:[...]
March 15th, 2011 - 1:07 am § in Misc.
VIDEO: TRINIDAD’S FESTIVAL
Video from NY Times about the commercialization of the bands in Trinidad’s traditional spring frestival. “Our oil will run out. Our gas will run out, but the creativity of our people will never run out.”[...]