“The idea of an aesthetically pleasing gluteal region has been with us since early recorded history. The ancient Greeks had nomenclature to describe an aesthetically pleasant buttock area: callipygian is derived from calli, meaning beautiful, and pyge, meaning buttocks.” But, when it comes to surgical buttock re-contouring, not everyone’s idea of callipygia is the same. […]
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Mapping noses in the Basque Country
Anthropologist Esther Rebato [pictured here] of the University of the Basque Country has mapped the presence of nasal characteristics in people who dwell in the Basque Country. Her study is: “Aspectos métricos y morfoscópicos de la región nasal en vascos [“Metric aspects and morphoscopic the nasal region in Basques”],” Esther Rebato, Munibe Antropologia – Arkeologia, no. […]
Brainy ambition: Connecting this and that, and readability
There’s new hope, in one quarter, about understanding the human brain. Ian Sample reports in the Guardian: Quest for the connectome: scientists investigate ways of mapping the brain Researchers have a goal so ambitious it is almost unthinkable – learning how all 85bn neurons in the human brain are wired up … A human connectome […]
Flying/Carpet Data Trove
Matt Cohen has created a Google Maps application that shows photos of carpeting in many of the world’s airports. This data is available free to all scholars who may have a use for it. The image shown here is of a carpet in Fiumicino Airport, Rome, Italy.