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- Sat Apr 24, 2010 8:37 pm
- Forum: The Art of Science, Fantasy and Science Fiction
- Topic: Gems and Elementals
- Replies: 12
- Views: 133085
Dear Heather, I'm very excited to see the Elemental series completed -- and the final companion is as beautiful and evocative as the rest. Earth is Classical, Air Archaic, Fire Gandharan... and Water is Hellenistic! In addition to embodying the merfolk of myth, he also carries the Botticelli referen...
- Thu Apr 08, 2010 10:43 am
- Forum: The Poetry and Prose of Science and Science Fiction
- Topic: When Worf embarks on a journey of discovery...
- Replies: 1
- Views: 39458
- Wed Apr 07, 2010 11:28 pm
- Forum: Musings and Chats
- Topic: Ancient families, ancient genes
- Replies: 11
- Views: 97277
Kathryn, here are some books and links that I found interesting and informative: Books (both available from Amazon): Luigi Cavalli-Sforza, The Great Human Diasporas Bryan Sykes, The Seven Daughters of Eve Links -- both Wikipedia, very detailed and with many excellent additional links: Ötzi, integrat...
- Wed Apr 07, 2010 8:42 pm
- Forum: Musings and Chats
- Topic: Ancient families, ancient genes
- Replies: 11
- Views: 97277
I think that, in this particular case, we haven't learned anything for certain that we didn't already know until/unless a truly independent analysis is done, with proper mindsets and controls. Genetic testing of this kind, of course, has given us amazing insights even in cases of non-related specime...
- Wed Apr 07, 2010 8:03 pm
- Forum: Musings and Chats
- Topic: Ancient families, ancient genes
- Replies: 11
- Views: 97277
I can understand national pride -- Egypt, like my country, was systematically plundered for archeological booty. However, in his case this is overlaid with personal ambition and professional sloppiness. Like Evans, Hawass skews his data to fit preconceived desired outcomes and denies access to anyon...
- Wed Apr 07, 2010 5:27 pm
- Forum: Literature and Cinema
- Topic: Castle
- Replies: 34
- Views: 357137
- Wed Apr 07, 2010 1:43 pm
- Forum: Musings and Chats
- Topic: Ancient families, ancient genes
- Replies: 11
- Views: 97277
- Wed Apr 07, 2010 1:01 am
- Forum: Literature and Cinema
- Topic: Castle
- Replies: 34
- Views: 357137
- Tue Apr 06, 2010 11:57 pm
- Forum: Musings and Chats
- Topic: Ancient families, ancient genes
- Replies: 11
- Views: 97277
Kathryn, I may have access to JAMA. I plan to take a look into this tomorrow and reply at length. In the meantime, two items: my skimming of the summaries indicates that the detractors may be right; and Hawass is an ambitious publicity hound who's monopolizing everything Egyptological and who kept s...
- Wed Nov 18, 2009 1:59 am
- Forum: The Poetry and Prose of Science and Science Fiction
- Topic: When science fiction becomes hard science...
- Replies: 1
- Views: 41140
- Fri Nov 06, 2009 7:07 pm
- Forum: Literature and Cinema
- Topic: Castle
- Replies: 34
- Views: 357137
- Tue Oct 27, 2009 10:15 am
- Forum: Literature and Cinema
- Topic: Castle
- Replies: 34
- Views: 357137
Many thanks, Eloise! That was incredibly funny but also bittersweet, including the point about moving on. I love the fact they show the glimpses of him putting the clothes on, like the traditional shot of heroes putting on greaves, etc. Then the swashbuckling swagger combined with the self-mocking b...
- Tue Oct 27, 2009 1:36 am
- Forum: Literature and Cinema
- Topic: Castle
- Replies: 34
- Views: 357137
- Sun Oct 25, 2009 12:30 pm
- Forum: Literature and Cinema
- Topic: Castle
- Replies: 34
- Views: 357137
- Wed Oct 07, 2009 5:57 pm
- Forum: The Art of Science, Fantasy and Science Fiction
- Topic: Gems and Elementals
- Replies: 12
- Views: 133085
Estraven and Genly Ai
Here's my rendition from, oh, 25 years ago: http://i25.photobucket.com/albums/c56/AAndreadis/Misc/Darkness002.jpg Estraven is a Gethenian. They're androgynous hermaphrodites who spend most of the time being neither female nor male (somer). When they go into estrus (kemmer), they temporarily become e...