RT @caramumfordfilm: nativeamericannews: Anonymous Creates Map of Turtle Island’s Missing and Murdered Aboriginal Women
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Humans reveal dark side in turtle experiment
An unnerving number of people swerve in order to kill small animals when driving, according to the findings of a student at South Carolina’s Clemson University. As the AP reported, Nathan Weaver, 22, inadvertently witnessed the sadism in action when he placed rubber turtles on a busy road and observed as part of a project intended to help box turtles — a species in the decline — to safely cross the road. One in 50 cars purposefully aimed to kill the fake creature — which, Weaver noted, is a significant number given that a real turtle can take around 10 minutes to cross the street.”This was a bit shocking,” said the student.According to the AP, Weaver’s observations align with a study by Western Carolina University psychology professor Hal Herzog, who found that 34 people out of his class of 100 had intentionally run over a turtle or been in a car with someone who had at some point. Two-thirds of those who admitted this were male.”They aren’t thinking, really. It is not something people think about. It just seems fun at the time,” Herzog said. “It is the dark side of human nature.”Continue Reading… … Read More
The Family That Nests Together, Rests Together
Fossils tell stories. I?ve written about this beautiful fact over and over again, but the multiple perspectives on prehistoric life afforded by even the most mundane petrified scrap never cease to impress me. Fossils are not merely individual facts of nature that educate us simply by their identification and accumulation. They are more than that – primeval touchstones that can send us down any number of pathways as we trace evolutionary history. Such ancient inspirations can be as simple as a fragment of turtle shell or a shed trilobite exoskeleton, and, as recently shown by paleontologist Gareth Dyke and colleagues, as grand as the remnants as a drowned bird colony.
Horrifying Steve Jobs Bobblehead Sculpture Wants to Beat You With an iPhone
“Think Different” by XVALA (cacanet.com)
It’s not every day that we find ourselves sympathetic to Apple’s attorneys but a weird bobblehead-like plastic sculpture of Steve Jobs, created by a sculptor with the deeply obnoxious handle XVALA (we suspect XVALA’s last name is CAPSLOCK), might just have us rooting for the legal eagles from Cupertino. Apple’s lawyers are famous for squashing attempts to co-opt or appropriate any aspect of the Apple brand, and this certainly qualifies.
As Slashgear reports, the sculpture is of Jobs in his trademark mock turtle and jeans wielding an iPhone and standing on Apple’s classic bitten apple logo.
As seen in photos it’s an almost comically creepy image but the press release about the show featuring the sculpture claims the real twist is in the materials used to create the… thing:
Coated in an “Apple White finish,” the sculpture is cast in the artist’s patented plastic porcelain, mixed with a recycled resin made up of Steve Job’s residential trash which the artist collected from the tech icon’s home several months before his death.
XVALA’s motives for creating the sculpture will likely get more attention than the piece itself. In the press release from Cory Allen Contemporary Art, the artist says, “Either waiting in line or in an assembly line, Apple is to die for.”
XVALA also promises an upcoming series of pieces “coated in Apple Black” that will “serve as a motif for the past suicides at the Foxconn factories.”
The pieces will be part of a gallery show in Los Angeles on October 13.
It’s probably no surprise that XVALA calls the work “Think Different.” … Read More
