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A Chimp, a Congressional Rep, and a Mirror
Election day photo: chimp art. (Or … holding your Congressional Rep up to a mirror.) No, we didn’t really buy into the old (and false) urban legend that some group of baboons is called a congress. (They’re not. A group of baboons is a troop.) However, Congress is up for election today (when this was originally posted on our IG feed). We’ve done several articles discussing the science around why democracy is important (not everyone in the world believes it is), and are likely to do more in the future. So, if you’re in the US, don’t let the urban legend make a monkey out of you: vote if you’re eligible! (Political science and economics are important applications of data science. This is Hugo Rheinhold’s famous 19th century sculpture of a politician’s closest living relative, the common chimpanzee. That chimp has political skills! He shares 99% of this DNA with members of Congress — and also all the rest of us.… Read the restThanksgiving post: Boston colonial law book
Our Thanksgiving post: This is a Boston Colonial law book. This is the printed law book used by the pilgrims. Publication Boston 1685. (If you look at the text of the first section, however, it says the laws were announced 1626 and revised 1671). So this brings together a lot of recent themes: book printing, navigation (the Mayflower, right?) — more on that in bit — the Conquistadors, and, of course, Thanksgiving. Wait, did we say Conquistadors? Well, look at that date on this law book, 1685. Actually, that’s pretty late. Harvard had already been in existence for 50 years, so maybe it’s not surprising colonial Boston was already a publishing center (although let’s remember much of the planet’s population didn’t have printing presses yet let alone a 300-year old law book. This information deficit would have an impact, as we’ll see.). Then again, arch-rival Yale won’t be founded for another 17 years or so.… Read the restRoman One Percent Lifestyle (Getty Villa Malibu photo)
Wondering how the ancient Roman one percent lived? This is our photo of the pool in the Getty Villa Roman-era reconstruction in Malibu not too far from our HQ in Los Angeles, California. The Getty Villa is one of the Getty’s two famous art museums in the area. The building itself is intended to be an exact replica of a Roman-era house buried during the volcano eruption at Pompeii (obviously the owners were definitely in the Roman one percent, even back then). So we had enough of mirrors, self-aware vampires, and Halloween-related posts and thought this would be a nice change. (We originally published as a photo post on our IG feed.) Oh wait, never mind, there are some really old Etruscan mirrors on display here. So looks like we’re back to mirrors and artificial consciousness after all. 🙂 We’ll note that it should soon be possible to take virtual reality tours of ancient buildings, something that wasn’t possible when the Getty Villa in Malibu, CA (Wikipedia) was built.… Read the restgenetic disease turns you into a real-life vampire
Halloween photo 2: Could this real-life vampire, a genetic disease sufferer, see himself in the mirror? This is Transylvania born and bred (and Romania’s national hero and native son) Vlad III Tepes aka Vlad III Dracula (Wikipedia), real life noble and vampire. (His title translates from Romanian a bit higher than count, more like duke or prince.) Dracula (or Dracul, Dracule), is thought to have suffered from the genetic illness porphyria (Wikipedia), which symptoms match that of a vampire. A recessive disorder, it is much more likely to occur in inbred noble or royal families, and DNA testing has shown several prominent, historical nobles suffered from the genetic disease. No, porphyria suffers don’t turn into bats, become immortal, or sleep in coffins. And a genetic disease is hereditary, so a bite from a porphyria sufferer wouldn’t do much to you. (Rabies, the obvious disease basis for werewolf folklore, is another matter entirely.)… Read the restRecent Posts
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