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Pompeii shows its true colours | Science | The Guardian

Pompeii shows its true coloursPompeiian red was created when gases from Vesuvius reacted with yellow paint, research reveals

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 via Pompeii shows its true colours | Science | The Guardian.

At the Crossroads: When Humans met Neandertals

At the Crossroads: When Humans met Neandertals.

sorry had to remove the imbedded flash, just follow the link (I hate flash)

Human Skulls Mounted on Stakes Found at Stone Age Burial Site

Creepy old Lysol ad – Boing Boing

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The History Blog » Blog Archive » Kickstart the search for lost da Vinci mural

The History Blog » Blog Archive » Kickstart the search for lost da Vinci mural.

Kickstart the search for lost da Vinci mural
In 1504, the Gonfalionere of Justice, leader of the Florentine Republic, Piero Soderini commissioned Leonardo da Vinci to decorate a wall in the newly built Hall of Five Hundred, the room where Florence’s Great Council met in the Palazzo Vecchio.

 

 

Rubens copy of Leonardo

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BETWEEN THE NAVEL AND THE KNEES | Madame Pickwick Art Blog

BETWEEN THE NAVEL AND THE KNEES | Madame Pickwick Art Blog.

There is an ongoing paranoia, a dread that high culture will be corrupted if new cultural manifestations will be permitted to enter the gene pool- even in the shallow end, ”no jews, negroes and dogs” could be permitted to question the dominance of the mentality of precious object in a gilted frame that separated the cultures through monetary exclusiveness.

london : read them the riot act? | Madame Pickwick Art Blog

 

 

Brian Alexander:Psychologist and social scientist Dacher Keltner says the rich really are different, and not in a good way: Their life experience makes them less empathetic, less altruistic, and generally more selfish.In fact, he says, the philosophical battle over economics, taxes, debt ceilings and defaults that are now roiling the stock market is partly rooted in an upper class “ideology of self-interest.”“We have now done 12 separate studies measuring empathy in every way imaginable, social behavior in every way, and some work on compassion and it’s the same story,” he said. “Lower class people just show more empathy, more prosocial behavior, more compassion, no matter how you look at it.” Read More:http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/44084236/ns/health-behavior/t/rich-are-different-not-good-way-studies-suggest/?fb_ref=.TkLUSw51rS5.like%3B.TkK415dmJdV.like&fb_source=home_oneline#.TkXrEIJJLfJ

via london : read them the riot act? | Madame Pickwick Art Blog.

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