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Friday, May 11, 2012
Christy Turlington & Lyric Culture Debut Bob Marley Inspired Collection
The model and mom of two teams up with Lyric Culture for a stylish and charitable collection inspired by Bob Marley.
Vidal Sassoon, Hairstylist and Fashion Icon, Dies at 84
Renowned hair stylist and fashion icon Vidal Sassoon, known for creating the "bob" style and for a line of consumer products that bear his name, has died.
Sassoon passed away today from an unspecified illness at his home on Mulholland Drive in Hollywood. Family members were by his side. Vidal was 84.
He was reportedly diagnosed with leukemia in 2009. It's unclear what role the cancer played in Sassoon's death. His official cause of death is natural causes.
When Sassoon picked up his shears in the 1950s, styled hair was typically curled, teased, piled high and shellacked into place. Then came the 1960s.
Sassoon's creative cuts, which required little styling and fell into place perfectly every time, fit right in with the fledgling women's liberation movement.
Sassoon opened salons in England and expanded to the U.S. before also developing a line of shampoos and other styling products bearing his name.
The hairdresser also established global Vidal Sassoon Academies to teach aspiring stylists how to envision haircuts based on a client's bone structure.
The hair icon was married four times, most recently to Rhonda Sassoon, who stayed with him until his death. He is also survived by three children.
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What Thieving Seals Can Tell Us about War's Roots
A recent Scientific American post on lethal chimpanzee violence has me mulling over an incident that took place two summers ago when I was surfcasting for bluefish on Nantucket Island. My younger brother Matt and I were fishing on Great Point, a sandy spit protruding from Nantucket?s northern end. I was hurling my fluorescent orange lure out into the white-capped waves and yanking it in when Matt, who was 20 feet or so to my left, shouted exultantly, ?Got one!?
I laughed, naturally, not only because Matt?s prize had been snatched, literally, away from him, but also because his reversal of fortune had been so delightfully dramatic. A seal had stolen his fish! I chortled again five minutes or so later when Matt, still muttering, tossed a new lure into the sea. A hirsute, whiskered head bobbed to the surface and remained there, looking at us. The seal was waiting for us to hook another meal.
Reports of gray seals?which can weigh as much as 800 pounds?stealing hooked bluefish and stripers off Cape Cod and Nantucket surfaced in 2008. The tactic makes sense. Bluefish are fast, but a seal can easily grab a hooked fish. Within a year, seals were filching fish as far away as Long Island Sound, 200 miles south of Cape Cod. Some seals are remarkably brazen. A YouTube video shows a gray seal lumbering onto a beach to snatch a fish that a man had already landed. ?What the hell!? the fisherman yells as the seal, fish in its jaws, lunges back into the sea.
The seals? predatory hunger for fish, it occurred to me later, is instinctual, an innate, inherited, adaptation, but their larceny is learned. A clever seal got the idea of stealing fish hooked by humans, and other seals, after observing his success, started imitating him. This cultural innovation, or meme, spread.
So what does the thievery of seals have to do with the violence of chimps? Here?s what. Over the past few decades, scientists have observed dozens of incidents in which male chimpanzees banded together and killed chimps from neighboring communities. According to a recent study by anthropologist Michael Wilson, reported on by Kate Wong, males from one group carry out raids when they can do so with little risk to themselves. ?This tells us something about human evolution,? Wilson said.
Wilson was alluding to the claim of anthropologist Richard Wrangham?set forth in his book Demonic Males (Houghton-Mifflin, 1996, co-written with journalist Dale Peterson)?that the roots of human warfare extend back millions of years, all the way to the common ancestor that we share with chimpanzees, our closest genetic relatives. The biologist Edward Wilson expresses support for Wrangham?s theory in his new book, The Social Conquest of Earth (W.W. Norton, 2012). So does another Harvard scientist, psychologist Steven Pinker, in his book The Better Angels of Our Nature (Viking, 2011).
The evidence simply doesn?t support the claim that chimp raids and human wars stem from ancient, innate adaptations. As anthropologist Brian Ferguson pointed out last year in a stinging critique of what he called ?the myth of innate depravity,? scientists did not observe a lethal chimp attack until 1974, 14 years after Jane Goodall started watching chimps in Tanzania. Chimp raids are rare; according to one estimate, a typical community carries out a raid every seven years. Some communities have never been observed engaging in intergroup raids.
Nor, as Wong noted in her post, have bonobos ever been observed killing each other. Bonobos, whose formal name is Pan paniscus, are just as closely related to Homo sapiens as the more common chimpanzee species Pan troglodytes. Why is it the violence of Pan troglodytes, and not the peacefulness of Pan paniscus, that, in the words of Michael Wilson, ?tells us something about human evolution??
The oldest evidence of lethal group violence among humans is a mass grave about 13,000 years old found in the Sudan, and this site is an outlier. The vast majority of evidence of human warfare is less than 10,000 years old. And although human history has been wracked by warfare, many societies, both prehistoric and modern, have avoided mass violence. Excavations have revealed that people settled in Abu Hureya, near the Euphrates River, 11,500 years ago, and lived there for millennia while leaving no signs of violence. Switzerland and Sweden have maintained their neutrality for the past two centuries even when wars raged around them. All this data is consistent with the view of war as a meme, or an ?invention,? as anthropologist Margaret Mead put it?just like seals? theft of hooked fish.
What about my compulsion to beat my brother when we are playing tennis or fishing? Or my love of victory and hatred of losing when I play hockey? My competitiveness is probably innate, inherited from my father. But just because many males are competitive, even aggressively so, doesn?t mean that we are, as Wrangham has claimed, ?natural warriors,? who kill if we think we can get away with it. The sooner we reject this pernicious meme, which gives us an excuse for our warlike behavior, the better.
Photo credit: Seabird Ecological Assessment Network (SEANET).
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Thursday, May 10, 2012
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Microsoft joins Hybrid Memory Cube Consortium to develop new DRAM standard
Intel unveiled its Hybrid Memory Cube at IDF late last year, and the company hasn't wasted time moving forward with this new DRAM architecture; it even created an alliance dedicated to standardizing and implementing the technology. Now Microsoft wants in on the action: the outfit just announced that it will lend its clout to the Hybrid Memory Cube Consortium. To jog your memory, HMC technology promises seven times the efficiency of current DRR3 memory modules and is being vaunted by Intel et al. as the solution for monster systems requiring lower power usage and higher bandwidth. Redmond's joining a well-attended party; IBM, Micron, Samsung and many others are already members of the consortium.
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Britney Spears Joins 'X Factor' As A Judge
Pop star will earn a reported $15 million for one season.
By Katie Byrne
Britney Spears
Photo: Ethan Miller/ Getty Images
Move over, Christina! Now that "The Voice" has wrapped, it's time for another Mouseketeer-turned-diva to judge future music stars: Britney Spears has reportedly signed a deal to be a judge on "The X Factor," according to E! News.
News first broke in early March that the pop star was in negotiations to join the panel of Fox's reality singing competition, and last month, it was reported that Spears was being offered $15 million for one season of the show — $3 million more than Jennifer Lopez earns as a judge on "American Idol."
"The contract is signed," a source told E! "There's been a lot of back and forth over the past few weeks as they negotiated the small details, but she's on. It's all completed and Britney is beyond excited."
In an April interview with TMZ, Cowell remained mum about the Spears negotiation rumors but admitted that he would "love" to have her on "X Factor."
"I think it would be a coup," he said. "I think she would be a fascinating person to sit next to, so we'll have to wait and see."
Spears will join returning mentors Cowell and record executive L.A. Reid on the panel.
Several stars — from Miley Cyrus and Demi Lovato to Janet Jackson and Mariah Carey — were reportedly discussed as possible replacements for Nicole Scherzinger and Paula Abdul before Spears became the front-runner. There's no word yet on whether one of those rumored contenders (or anyone, for that matter) will join the show as a fourth judge.
"The X Factor" returns to Fox in September, with auditions already under way.
Are you excited for Britney to join "The X Factor"? Let us know in the comments!
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