Anthropologists Find New Species of Human

In Nov, the news broke that Australian and Indonesian anthropologists discovered the homo florensensis I enthusiastically wrote about it, then failed to post. Duh… Since then there has been ANOTHER huge evolutionary discovery also. Fossil find may be the father of us all It’s all very exciting. (At least I think so) —- They foundContinue reading “Anthropologists Find New Species of Human”

Suicide of Acclaimed Author, Iris Chang.

Iris Chang wrote bestselling ‘Rape of Nanking," "Chinese in America" and "Thread of the Silkworm" Thursday, November 11, 2004 Posted: 1435 GMT (2235 HKT) LOS GATOS, California (AP) — Iris Chang, a best-selling author who chronicled the Japanese occupation of China and the history of Chinese immigrants in the United States, was found dead inContinue reading “Suicide of Acclaimed Author, Iris Chang.”

Saturday Night Fever Isn’t Really a Dance Movie…

Glutter Plugs and Doodles I watched Saturday Night Fever for the first time. It was not what I expected at all. Family fighting, making your mom cry, date/gang rape, drug use, suicide, priests quitting the church. I thought it was a dance movie. Something like Ballroom Dancing or Dirty Dancing,   it wasn’t. It was so hardContinue reading “Saturday Night Fever Isn’t Really a Dance Movie…”

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William Gibson Blogs Again..

The author of Pattern Recognition, Neuromancer, Idora etc… started his blog up again last month. According to him: Why? Because the United States currently has, as Jack Womack so succintly puts it, a president who makes Richard Nixon look like Abraham Lincoln. And because, as the Spanish philospher Unamuno said, “At times, to be silentContinue reading “William Gibson Blogs Again..”