CSM – Al Qaeda and its affiliates are moving onto social media after years of relying largely on chat rooms to spread their doctrine online.
BBC – South Africa’s President Jacob Zuma has condemned the gang rape and mutilation of a 17-year-old girl who later died.
Strait Times – Year of Snake sees serpent sales soar in Hong Kong. related and Lunar New Year message from the POTUS
CSM -Horse meat in lasagna, burgers, meatballs.
scoop.co.nz – Ubiquitous Encryption – The Promise Of Kim Dotcom’s MEGA.
xinhua – Iran says U.S. talks “not possible” currently.
and as the USA says goodbye to Friday:
Spiegel online – Adorable Killers: The Shocking Truth about Cats.
You should resize that before I coat it in chocolate and eat it.
It autoresizes for me, but if it is not for everybody, very happy too. And don’t you dare coat it in chocolate and bite it. A little 9yo girl is taking much care of it. It’s back leg is missing
Ancestor of humans and other mammals was small furry insect eater
Scientists reconstruct the animal that gave rise to every placental mammal following the extinction of the dinosaurs
Take a look at your ancestor. Eeeeeeeeew!
Der Spiegel is going to get reported to Bertum Thumbcat
He won’t be happy.
Wow, Adrena fascinating! And that led me to this These faces from the ice age give the lie to our idea of civilisation
Just incredible to think how long humans have created art works. video: 40,000 years young the oldest portrait of a woman and more
You beat me to it.
The article reminded me of Edvard Rutherfurd’s Sarum: The Novel of England. In it this small ice aged stone carved female keeps popping up through the story.
I saw this in connection with an earlier article – cute, no?
Wax Neanderthal and girl.
Graham, the female figurine from the ice age resembles the Venus of Willendorf, which represents one of many commonly referred to as the Venus figurines. In most of these statues, the abdomen, breasts, hips, thighs and vulvas are exaggerated while the arms and feet are absent. The heads are small and the faces show no detail. From a historical perspective the Venus figurines, and their off shoots, occupy a large expanse of time within human history. The idea of a fertility goddess or mother goddess is found throughout most (if not all) cultures of the world. Source
The images of large animals are similar to those discovered in the caves of Lascaux and Chauvet, which are from a later era. This further supports Gregory Curtis’s belief (“The Nature of Paleolithic Art”), which I’ve mentioned before but that cannot be repeated often enough:
Are you saying the ‘deep satisfaction’ and ‘stability’ which endured 25000 years was due to the worship of a fertility/mother goddess or because women were viewed as brainless, faceless body parts?
(Sorry, adrena, but those quotes were too good to pass up).
I bet you had a lot of fun writing that but no, that’s clearly not what I’m saying