Archives for February 18, 2009
If You Build It, They Will Fly Away
Posted by Greg Laden on February 18, 2009 … continued … In a couple of more days, a DC-3 would be landing at the old airstrip near Ishango, loaded up with equipment and people, including all three principal investigators, and then fly away. Biker, Joan and I would be the only bazungu (foreigners) left behind, and Zorba and his crew and Kununzu, one…
LIFE Photo Archive available on Google Image Search
Posted by Greg Laden on February 18, 2009 The Zapruder film of the Kennedy assassination; The Mansell Collection from London; Dahlstrom glass plates of New York and environs from the 1880s; and the entire works left to the collection from LIFE photographers Alfred Eisenstaedt, Gjon Mili, and Nina Leen. These are just some of the things you’ll see in Google Image Search today.…
Race, Gender, IQ and Nature
Posted by Greg Laden on February 18, 2009 Nature, the publishing group, not the Mother, has taken Darwin’s 200th as an opportunity to play the race card (which always sells copy) and went ahead and published two opposing views on this question: “Should scientists study race and IQ? The answers are Yes, argued by Stephen Cici and Wendy Williams of the Dept of…
Charles and Willie
Posted by Greg Laden on February 18, 2009 I never knew her name, but I knew she worked in the cafeteria. We talked about a wide range of topics, including (and possibly mainly) the weather. A week or so earlier, we had an especially interesting conversation. “He’s my nephew, you know.” “Who?” “That Bennett boy. We live on the same street. We’re blood,…
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