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• How Many Humans Does It Take to Make Art?

  
  Blogs — Authority: 159
  With an oil lamp for light and crude pigments (charcoal and ochre), the creators of Paleolithic art crawled into the darkness of deep caves and drew all sorts of animals and signs on the rocky walls and ceilings. Some anthropologists have postulated that the art was done as a kind of good luck "hunting magic" (draw ...
  2 days ago

• Outrunning Wildebeest?

  
  Zoe Weil — Authority: 119
  A recent New York Times article, “ The Human Body is Built for Distance ,” (which follows several recent deaths of marathoners), has this to say about running: “Most mammals can sprint faster than humans — having four legs gives them the advantage. But when it comes to long distances, humans can outrun ...
  1 week ago

• Outrunning Wildebeest?

  
  Humane Connection — Authority: 128
  A recent New York Times article, “ The Human Body is Built for Distance ,” (which follows several recent deaths of marathoners), has this to say about running: “Most mammals can sprint faster than humans — having four legs gives them the advantage. But when it comes to long distances, humans can outrun ...
  1 week ago

• tweeting Walt & other day topics

  
  Al Filreis — Authority: 431
  Here s your link to the cartoon. Im fascinated of course by the constraint borne upon Whitmans cornucopian language. (Thanks for Kristina Baumli for alerting me to this.) To subscribe to "your daily Al," click here .
  1 week ago

• Humans Evolved to Be Long-Distance Runners

  
  Horse Racing Tips and Horse Racing Results — Authority: 158
  Tara Parker-Pope writes in The New York Times about the conclusions of some medical researchers that long-distance running is a major evolutionary advantage for humans. The ability to remain cool by sweating instead of panting and a foot structure ideal for running helped early humans hunt: Most mammals can sprint ...
  2 weeks ago

• Been there, done that

  
  The Goat Rope — Authority: 125
  The Gadarene swine take a dive in this Anglo-Saxon tapestry. Well, I guess I can scratch "contract swine flu" off my to-do list. My case must have been a mild one, but it seems to have passed and Ive been fever free since Friday (sorry about the alliteration in the last part of that sentence, although Anglo-Saxons ...
  3 weeks ago

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