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Chimeras: The mantis problem: why do people clasp their hands when praying?
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In the end, we are all chimeras. Wednesday, August 12, 2015. The mantis problem: why do people clasp their hands when praying? The thoughts of a praying mantis may not be beyond all conjecture and we may not even completely exclude that when the creature stays in this position it is really praying to an all-powerful Mantis God. However, it may be safer to assume that in defining this insect as "praying" we simply engaged in an exercise of. If mantises were to give a name to praying humans, they might fall.
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Chimeras: Of his return: a Roman patrician tells of how he lived the collapse of the empire.
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In the end, we are all chimeras. Friday, May 29, 2015. Of his return: a Roman patrician tells of how he lived the collapse of the empire. The 5th century saw the last gasps of the Western Roman Empire. Of those troubled times, we have only a few documents and images. Above, you can see one of the few surviving portraits of someone who lived in those times; Emperor Honorius, ruler of what was left of the Western Roman Empire. Meaning "of his return" that we can still read today, almost complete. Probably ...
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Chimeras: The head of Cellini's Medusa
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In the end, we are all chimeras. Sunday, November 2, 2014. The head of Cellini's Medusa. Image by Ugo Bardi. Reproduce it as you like, if you cite the source, it is appreciated). For a more detailed examination of Cellini's "Perseus and Medusa", see this previous post. Posted by Ugo Bardi. November 3, 2014 at 12:28 AM. February 8, 2015 at 8:47 PM. When I see this head I do get that guttural feeling similar to the one from the ancient statues. February 7, 2016 at 11:58 AM. It is kept by Ugo Bardi. The man...
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Chimeras: David and Medusa
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In the end, we are all chimeras. Sunday, November 30, 2014. A very curious image, found by chance while navigating the web. It needs to be explained: it was clearly inspired by the " Piazza della Signoria. Square in Florence, Italy, where you have two major pieces of statuary, Michelangelo's David and Cellini's "Perseus and Medusa" standing more or less in the position shown in the image. Square is three meters tall, but it is just a detail. Book published by them. Posted by Ugo Bardi. 160; The 5th centu...
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Chimeras: God rides a golden tank. A comment on "White Tiger"
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In the end, we are all chimeras. Friday, April 3, 2015. God rides a golden tank. A comment on "White Tiger". Screenshot from "White Tiger", a 2012 movie by Karen Shakhnazarov. In this crucial scene, ' tankist. Naydenov (right) tells his. You cannot understand "White Tiger", the 2012 movie by Karen Shakhnazarov, if you don't understand the fascination that Russians have for battle tanks and, in particular, for the T-34 tank, the backbone of the Soviet Army during the second world war. Soviet countries oft...
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Chimeras: An Interview with Cassandra
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In the end, we are all chimeras. Thursday, April 9, 2015. An Interview with Cassandra. The prophetess Cassandra was cursed to be always right in her prophecies, but never to be believed. That places. Her on a par with modern climate scientists. ( image. Cassandra a s interpreted by Marvel comics. That this story came to my mind, nearly complete, while I was mounting some bookshelves at home; maybe I have to consider it as a gift from the Goddess Ikea. Platypus' whiskers, bat's earwax. Oh, where am I?
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Chimeras: Remembering the Eastern Front, 70 years ago
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In the end, we are all chimeras. Sunday, June 14, 2015. Remembering the Eastern Front, 70 years ago. In this scene of " White Tiger. 2012 movie by Karen Shakhnazarov, tankist. Naydenov (right) tells Lieutenant Sharipov (left) that the crews of German tanks are "Fascists, of course, but all the same. people. A few days ago, I published a guest post by Tatiana Yugay. For those years, is that of "La Stampa." As an archive, it is truly an example of how not to make an internet site, but, with some work, ...
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Chimeras: Ama-gi: the Sumerian Solution to the debt crisis
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In the end, we are all chimeras. Saturday, February 7, 2015. Ama-gi: the Sumerian Solution to the debt crisis. These two Sumerian cuneiform characters stand for "Ama-gi"; literally "return to the mother (ama)". According to Samuel Noah Kramer, they can be interpreted as the first known instance of a term that we can translate in our language as "freedom". Freedom means first of all "Redemption," the action of periodically erasing all private debts. Apparently, in our age, we are so dazed by the concept o...
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Chimeras: The Chimera Myth in Modern Figurative Art
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In the end, we are all chimeras. Saturday, November 15, 2014. The Chimera Myth in Modern Figurative Art. This post was originally published in 2002 - it is reproduced here with minimal modifications. A modern version of the Chimera, by Arturo Martini. Transformed from a female into a male, this piece conveys all the rage and madness of our times. In comparison, Chimeras. Of the great goddess Inanna, the giver of joy and the mistress of fertility. That lion, later to become a chimera, was one of the many ...
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Chimeras: The future of human sex: gorilla, gibbon, or bonobo?
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In the end, we are all chimeras. Saturday, June 27, 2015. The future of human sex: gorilla, gibbon, or bonobo? Sex at Dawn, a 2010 book published by HarperCollins. I stumbled into this book almost by chance and, at first, I hated it. The authors start with creating a true army of straw men and then proceed to attack almost everyone who has been saying something on the topics of human sexuality. They start with Darwin, poor guy, he was always faithful to his wife, what could he know about sex? Of the rema...