{"id":196,"date":"2007-01-12T15:54:04","date_gmt":"2007-01-12T21:54:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.universalem.org\/homo_aestheticus\/?p=196"},"modified":"2012-11-09T23:56:11","modified_gmt":"2012-11-10T05:56:11","slug":"myday-iday-we-all-make-way-for-friday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.universalem.org\/homo_aestheticus\/2007\/01\/12\/myday-iday-we-all-make-way-for-friday\/","title":{"rendered":"MyDay, iDay, we all make way for Friday …"},"content":{"rendered":"

The story is nearly two years old, but it doesn’t get any less interesting or amusing: Russian Man Grows Penis on Arm<\/a>: “Russian doctors have conducted an 11-hour operation to replace a patient’s deformed penis with one grown on his forearm, the Moskovskiy Komsomolets<\/em> daily reports.”<\/p>\n

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Elsewhere a newly pregnant acquaintance commented about drinking ginger root tea (“The tea is like a miracle – it really takes the edge off my nausea.”), and another acquaintance warned, “Be careful with the ginger. […] it can induce miscarriage. My doc wouldn’t let me drink it.” Google states that there is no scientific evidence to back up that fear\/warning\/claim, though various alternative\/herbal-medicine, New-Agey pages<\/a> argue the position. A “practicing master herbalist” (probably AD&D 2nd Edition rules …) provides another perspective<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The non-scientific nature of most of these claims leaves me skeptical, but at the same time I would be interested in more scientific studies into the (bio-)chemical aspects of these herbs, compounds, etc.<\/p>\n

In other “scientific news” we have: Earliest Evidence Of Modern Humans In Europe Discovered: Artifacts May Date Back 45,000 Years<\/a> (“The evidence consists of stone, bone and ivory tools discovered under a layer of ancient volcanic ash on the Don River in Russia some 250 miles south of Moscow, said John Hoffecker, a fellow of CU-Boulder’s Institute of Arctic and Alpine Research.”) and Skull Supports Theory of Human Migration<\/a> (“Until now, however, paleontologists had been frustrated by the absence of fossils to test the hypothesis of most geneticists that the people of sub-Saharan Africa and in Eurasia at that time were one and the same — modern humans. The human fossil record in Africa from 70,000 to 15,000 years ago had been virtually blank.”).<\/p>\n

Last night I finished off three aging eggs by making two more loaves of carrot-nut bread<\/a>. I had photo-documented ten cooking\/baking events last year, so I figured I should continue in 2007. I bought yeast packets in the fall so I could bake some bread, but haven’t gotten around to it. I find it a lot of fun when I’m doing it<\/em> but I have a hard time getting motivated to start the process.<\/p>\n

I also got around to revisiting Maria William<\/a>‘s website last night; I hadn’t seen it for a few years and the layout has changed a bit. I think of her as a good example of a self-taught artist who has made it in the profession. She had some rather negative commentary on the state of art schools \/ art degree programs, especially with regard to the state and status of drawing, which has been echoed recently in some blogs I’ve seen and by some artist acquaintances.<\/p>\n

It has been popular recently to look back at the illustration work of Andrew Loomis, much of whose work can be found for free <\/a>online<\/a>. There is much to be said for technical drawing skill; I like to think, too, of Escher, who combined skill and precision with imagination.<\/p>\n

Illustrator of the day: Autumn Whitehurst<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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