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Thursday, March 08, 2012
83 Best Pictures Winners: 1927/28 to 2010
I couldn’t pass up on this great montage I found on my friend Vittorio’s blog:
Wednesday, March 07, 2012
KONY 2012
The following video is fairly long (30 minutes), but it’s very important that everyone watches it. You should too.
KONY 2012 from INVISIBLE CHILDREN on Vimeo.
Monday, March 05, 2012
Early humans likely not mass murderers
New evidence would seem to show that our human ancestors were not responsible for the disappearance of the Neanderthals after all:
An international team of researchers has concluded that most of the Neanderthals in Europe died off about 50,000 years ago — some 10,000 years before the arrival of modern humans.
It has generally been assumed that modern humans caused the demise of the Neanderthals, either by killing them directly or by simply out-competing them, claiming the best hunting territories, or surviving more effectively under Ice Age conditions. This new study suggests that none of those scenarios is correct.
[…] On that basis, they concluded that most of the Neanderthals in Europe died out as early as 50,000 years ago. Just a small group survived and had managed to spread out through central and western Europe before modern humans showed up.
[…] It has also been established recently that that although all non-Africans carry a small amount of Neanderthal DNA, Asians have just as much of it as Europeans. This would seem to indicate that any interbreeding took place when modern humans first left Africa, and that the people who migrated from the Middle East tens of thousands of years later had little or no additional contact with Neanderthals once they reached Europe.
Carnival do Brasil
Via Towleroad, a great tilt-shift, time-lapse view of Rio de Janeiro and it’s beautiful carnival celebration.
The City of Samba from Jarbas Agnelli on Vimeo.
I’m sure that being in Rio during the carnival season must be an unforgettable experience.
Maybe some day…
Sophia Bush
Star of the TV series One Tree Hill and of several movies, when asked to comment on George Clooney’s assertion that gay rights are “the final leg of the civil rights movement”:
“When we’re talking about the ’60s, when my best friend couldn’t drink out of the same water fountain as I can because his skin is a different color than me … now, you’re talking about a different best friend of mine who can’t get married even though I could get married seven times in my life and he can’t do that because he is a different sexual orientation than me?! That’s absolutely a civil rights issue. Anyone who says that it isn’t is misinformed.”
George Clooney
Oscar, SAG, and Golden Globe winner, star of countless movies and TV shows, now an established writer and director as well, on the rights of gays and lesbians in America:
"It’s always been this albatross that stood out to me as the final leg of the civil rights movement. It really came to a head during the 2004 elections, when it was used as a wedge issue, and it was a very effective tool to keep the Republicans in office and to avoid talking about other issues. Well before Prop. 8, I’ve made the point that every time we’ve stood against equality, we’ve been on the wrong side of history. It’s the same kind of argument they made when they didn’t want blacks to serve in the military, or when they didn’t want blacks to marry whites. One day the marriage equality fight will look as archaic as George Wallace standing on the University of Alabama steps keeping James Hood from attending college because he was black. People will be embarrassed to have been on the wrong side. So it’s encouraging to know that this too will seem like such a silly argument to our next generation."
Friday, March 02, 2012
And then there were 8
Even though, once again, it might just be temporary…
Last Thursday, Maryland Governor Martin O’Malley signed a bill legalizing same-sex marriage, passed by the legislature the week prior, into law. However, the forces of evil were at work trying to undo the positive change even before the governor held the signing ceremony.
Governor Martin O'Malley will make Maryland the eighth state to legalize same-sex marriage when he signs a marriage equality bill today, the Baltimore Sun reports:
Gov. Martin O'Malley is set for a victory lap today when he signs into law his hard fought measure to legalize same-sex marriage. The signing is set for 5 p.m. in the State House.
There will be waiting, however:
But even with the governor's signature, same-sex couples won't get Maryland marriage certificates until the law goes into effect in January 2013 -- at the earliest.
Given the likelihood that the signature collection effort will be successful, let’s hope that the people of Maryland choose equality over bigotry.
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