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Saturday, June 9, 2012

45,000 BC? Cave paintings discovered in Spain

Preliminary dating "suggests the paintings may be substantially older than the 30,000-year-old Chauvet cave paintings in south-east France, thought to be the earliest example of Palaeolithic cave art."


Were these seals painted by Neanderthals? (<i>Image: Nerja Cave Foundation</i>)


First Neanderthal cave paintings discovered in Spain - life - 10 February 2012 - New Scientist

What kind of Muppet are you, chaos or order? - Slate Magazine

What kind of Muppet are you, chaos or order? - Slate Magazine: "a little-known, poorly understood philosophy that holds that every living human can be classified according to one simple metric: Every one of us is either a Chaos Muppet or an Order Muppet."

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Thursday, January 26, 2012

Culture Eats Strategy For Lunch

From Fast Company: An excellent look at the effects of culture on business and business on culture.

"Culture is a balanced blend of human psychology, attitudes, actions, and beliefs that combined create either pleasure or pain, serious momentum or miserable stagnation."

Here's the link.

Culture Eats Strategy For Lunch | Fast Company: