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Tooth Scan Reveals Neanderthal Mobility

This article talks about the study of an ancient tooth and how it relates to early human mobility. Plus there’s some cool pics.

http://news.aol.com/story/_a/tooth-scan-reveals-neanderthal-mobility/20080208203609990001?ncid=NWS00010000000001

~ Jenny

You know the symbolic is testing our patience when for the first time in American history a woman/mother has a plausible shot at being President, and fathers no longer get angry at men who try to seduce their daughers. Indeed, as the following banned commercial suggests, “A father with a sense of humor: Priceless:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_ez9O8qkQW0&feature=related

Not at all coincidentally, the very next youtube video suggested after watching the above literally collapses the analog with the imaginary, vis-à-vis – I kid you not – the maternal breast.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TBgyGnOhBu4&NR=1

And the very next suggested video takes on the thorny subject of paternity and shows you how to avoid it:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1oHaYfF4-aE&feature=related

Clearly, this kid seems stuck in the Maternal/Imaginary Realm, often characterized by the infant’s incessant, pre-symbolic demands, demands – which like those of Samara in The Ring – remain unmitigated by the intervention of the father, the symbolic, and the symbolic law of the father.

Check out this t-shirt design: http://www.threadless.com/product/1040/Hero_Within#zoom

It’s a dragon (with teeth!), coming out of a tv/game console (digital!) with a little knight guy with his sword (penis) …ha. That’s all the symbolism I could make out of it. But it’s crazy, right?

-Kristi Thomas

Right now on the new south park, the boys enter a dimension containing the world’s imagination.  Terrorists attack imaginationland and let all the worst things in our imagination loose. The U.S. government taps the boys for intelligence.  Its too be continued next wednesday night at 9pm on comedy central, I think.   ~Lauren

While watching The Office this past Thursday, I could not help but think of our class during the Dwight/Computer competition. Dwight races the new website to see who can sell the most paper (a product needed for most writing technologies and reproduction). After the “computer” sends him an instant message, he replies, “Here’s a suggestion, computer. I assume you read binaries so why don’t you go 011 1111 011 011.” These numbers definately look like reproductive organs…So I guess Dwight creates his own doom in telling the computer to go reproduce!

- Jenna W.

I just thought everyone might enjoy this….a friend of mine sent it to me a couple of weeks ago, so…
It is related to what we talked about in class today regarding the father’s claim of paternity, etc.

The Potatoheads

Hope you enjoy it!

~Jenna Purdy