Sunday, December 5, 2010
Michelangelo's scribbled thoughts reveal the tortured poet
The scraps of writing on about a third of the drawings include lines of poetry, memos to his assistants, explanatory notes to some of his greatest works and 'achingly personal expressions of ambition and despair surely meant for nobody's eyes but his own', according to Leonard Barkan, a professor of comparative literature at Princeton University.
In the margin of one drawing he carefully documented the money he had spent on chickens, oxen and his father's funeral.Next to a drawing of a Madonna and child he wrote a parody of a love poem that began: "You have a face sweeter than boiled grape juice, and a snail seems to have passed over it."
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Saturday, December 4, 2010
More freezing weather arriving this weekend
Large parts of continental Croatia will experience temperatures below minus 10 degrees Celsius. Various coastal areas will also not escape the sub-zero weather."
Croatian Times Online News
Friday, December 3, 2010
Australian man marries pet dog Honey
'This was just an event for my friends and I to get together,' he said. 'It really was fun. We all dressed up in suits and everything.
'But you can't actually marry a dog.'
Telegraph
Starving orangutans forced into villages to look for food as rainforest is destroyed
They were then beaten by villagers so badly one of the primates died before being locked in the tiny cage without food or water.Rainforests cover 60 per cent of Indonesia, but orangutans - which means man of the forest - have seen their habitat cut down at an alarming rate, often to fuel the need for space to grow palm oil crops.
Many adult orangutans are killed by farmers in Indonesia and Borneo to prevent them eating crops as their natural food disappears, leaving helpless orphans to die in the wild."
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Thursday, December 2, 2010
Moonlanding for Croatia in 2012
The robotic vehicle is the brainchild of Zeljko Mogorosa who has been working on its prototype for the past two years. "Histrohod" is expected to land at the same spot where Apollo 17 – the latest manned mission to the Moon – landed in 1972.
Through a group of mobile devices, "Histrohod" will send televised segments down to Earth.
"This is a big challenge for our society and we are extremely proud that our association and our small Istria will become a part of space exploration," said the Society’s president Marino Rumpic."
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Police 'ate court evidence'
Prosecutors said the pizzas were ordered by a gang who had lured their drug dealer victim to the house in Baldock, Herts, where Anthony Costello, 42, lived.
The victim, who cannot be named for legal reasons, was then subjected to horrific abuse before escaping through a window on April 21. The jury heard the two constables were sent to the house after receiving a tip-off from the kidnap victim that he had been held against his will and tortured."
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Juvenile great whites 'too weak' to stalk big mammals
Scientists in Australia found that because the fish grow so quickly the cartilage takes a long time to harden.
That means until they reach maturity at around 15 years old they have to make do with a diet of small fish rather than their traditional larger prey."
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How Many Stars?
This undercounting, of cool, dim dwarf stars in certain galaxies, could throw a monkey wrench into astronomers’ understanding of how galaxies formed and grew over the eons."
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Croatians see Internet as best value-for-price media source
GfK agency’s 'Best Buy Award' survey shows that 24.8 per cent of Croatians prefer Internet to other media when it comes to the best value for money invested. Internet is followed by television, with 15.4 percent."
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Wednesday, December 1, 2010
WikiLeaks website pulled by Amazon after US political pressure
The main website and a sub-site devoted to the diplomatic documents were unavailable from the US and Europe on Wednesday, as Amazon servers refused to acknowledge requests for data."
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Has Nasa found little green men?
"In a press conference scheduled for tomorrow evening, researchers will unveil the discovery of a microbe that can live in an environment previously thought too poisonous for any life-form to survive.The bacteria has been found at the bottom of Mono Lake in California's Yosemite National Park which is rich in arsenic – usually poisonous to life.
Somehow the creature uses the arsenic as a way of surviving and this ability raises the prospect that similar life could exist on other planets, which do not have our benevolent atmosphere.
Dr Lewis Dartnell, an astrobiologist at the Centre for Planetary Sciences in London, said: "If these organisms use arsenic in their metabolism, it demonstrates that there are other forms of life to those we knew of.
"They're aliens, but aliens that share the same home as us."
The space agency will announce the full extent of the findings at a press conference titled “astrobiology finding which will impact the search for evidence of extraterrestrial life”. By Richard Alleyne
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Somehow the creature uses the arsenic as a way of surviving and this ability raises the prospect that similar life could exist on other planets, which do not have our benevolent atmosphere.
Dr Lewis Dartnell, an astrobiologist at the Centre for Planetary Sciences in London, said: "If these organisms use arsenic in their metabolism, it demonstrates that there are other forms of life to those we knew of.
"They're aliens, but aliens that share the same home as us."
The space agency will announce the full extent of the findings at a press conference titled “astrobiology finding which will impact the search for evidence of extraterrestrial life”. By Richard Alleyne
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