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This is what humans and animals look like when they are doused with a bucket of cold water. Behold:
The idea behind these clever photographs is simple: two Toronto-based artists by the name of April Maciborka and David Wile recruited children, adults, a porcupine, a kangaroo and even a peacock to pose for a series called "Splash." In it, the motley crew of subjects sit center frame while the camera catches the exact moment that a significant amount of water comes hurling toward their selves. Chaos does not ensure, but hilarious reactions to the shower certainly do.
"[The project] instigated hilarious reactions from people, babies and exotic animals," Maciborka and Wile explained in an email exchange with The Huffington Post. "It developed into an on-going series for years because [we] couldn’t stop finding the pleasure in watching genuine surprise and of course experimenting with the delightful patterns of freeze framed water."
We couldn't help but smile at the resulting expressions, ranging from shock to aggravation to pure joy. The collaborative project encapsulates split-second moments that we don't often get to relish, bald heads, whipped hair and all. Scroll down for more image and let us know how you are staying cool this summer in the comments below.
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Cuando te imaginas neandertales, podría imaginar bestias subhumanas gruñir--pero la nueva investigación sugiere que estos homínidos antiguos eran más elocuentes de lo que se pensaba.
Un artículo reciente, escrito por científicos holandeses en el Instituto Max Planck de psicolingüística, sostiene que no sólo neandertales y los humanos modernos interactuar y cruzarse--pero también es probable que compartían algunos elementos del lenguaje y del habla.
De hecho, esta nueva investigación afirma que fecha lengua y discurso moderna hacia el antepasado más reciente compartimos con los neandertales, Homo heidelbergensis. Y es incluso posible que las lenguas que hablamos hoy conservan algunos elementos del lenguaje del hombre de Neandertal.
"Sugerimos que si neandertales tenían algo como lengua y discurso moderno, y que interactuamos con ellos, entonces tal vez mod idiomas tienen algún rastro de ese idioma", Dr. Dan Dediu, psicolingüista y uno de los autores del estudio, dijo a The Huffington Post.
Señalando a ADN antiguo y nuevos descubrimientos arqueológicos, los lingüistas sugieren que la lengua desarrollada a través de un proceso gradual de la darwiniana de la evolución biológica y cultural, y no, como otros Estados de la teoría popular, a través de mutaciones genéticas al azar uno o pocos.
Si esta nueva teoría es correcta, los resultados del equipo podrían rechazar los orígenes de la lengua moderna por 10 veces lo que se pensaba.
Mientras que muchos creen que el lenguaje moderno comenzó hace unos 50.000 años, los nombres de papel un período de cerca de 1 millón años como el comienzo de una lengua moderna--algún tiempo entre la aparición de nuestro género, Homo sapiens (hace unos 1,8 millones años) y la aparición del Homo heidelbergensis.
"Creo que lo más importante que estamos tratando de hacer es que lengua moderna es viejo, lo que significa que ha habido mucho tiempo para el lenguaje a ser cambiado y formado por la cultura y la biología", dijo Dediu. "No noche suceden."
El documento, publicado en Internet el 5 de julio en la revista fronteras en Ciencias del lenguaje, viene en los talones del proyecto genoma neandertal--una colaboración de científicos en el Instituto Max Planck de antropología evolutiva en Leipzig, Alemania, que encontró que antigua neandertales y humanos modernos comparten algunos ADN de 2010.
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In his famous book The Descent of Man and Selection in Relation to Sex, Charles Darwin insightfully concluded: "We thus learn that man is descended from a hairy, tailed quadruped, probably arboreal in its habits and an inhabitant of the Old World. This creature, if its whole structure had been examined by a naturalist, would have been classed among the Quadrumana [primates with four 'hands,' such as apes], as surely as the still more ancient progenitor of the Old and New World monkeys." These bold ideas have inspired the tireless efforts by many members of the Leakey family to search for and discover fossil hominids in Africa.
But, what about the most fundamental building blocks of life itself? Where did the atoms of hydrogen, carbon, oxygen, phosphorus, and iron (all essential for life) come from? When Joni Mitchell sang "We are stardust," she was poetically giving the correct answer to this question.
In a monumental paper published in 1957, astrophysicists Geoffrey and Margaret Burbidge, Willy Fowler and Fred Hoyle proposed that most of the chemical elements were synthesized from hydrogen and helium in the nuclear furnaces at the centers of stars. Hoyle, in particular, explained how during the process of stellar evolution, stars continuously battle against gravity. In the absence of a force to oppose gravity's attraction, stars would have simply collapsed to their centers. By 'igniting' nuclear fusion reactions in their cores, stars generate extremely high pressures that support them against their own weight. After each nuclear fuel is consumed (first hydrogen fuses into helium, then helium into carbon, carbon into oxygen, and so on), gravity causes the core to contract, thereby increasing the temperature and initiating the next nuclear reaction. This way, new elements are synthesized all the way up to iron--the most stable nucleus. Depending on the initial mass of the star, its outer layers are ejected into interstellar space either through a relatively gentle process known as a planetary nebula (if the star's mass is less than about eight times the mass of the Sun; Figure 1), or via a dramatic explosion known as a supernova (if the star is more massive than eight solar masses; Figure 2). Atoms heavier than iron are synthesized during the explosions.
Figure 1. The "Cat's Eye" nebula. Credit: NASA, ESA, HEIC, and The Hubble Heritage Team (STScI/AURA).
All the forged and subsequently ejected elements enrich the interstellar gas from which later generations of stars, planets, and life form. No wonder that the Burbidges, Fowler, and Hoyle started their epoch-making paper with a quote from William Shakespeare's King Lear: "It is the stars, the stars above us, govern our conditions."
And what about hydrogen and helium? As it turned out, Hoyle and his collaborators did not manage to account for the cosmic abundances of the lightest elements (hydrogen, helium, lithium, beryllium, and boron) by forming them inside stars. For those, physicists George Gamow and Ralph Alpher had another brilliant idea -- they formed in the initial, extremely hot and dense state of the universe known as the Big Bang.
The picture that emerges is absolutely amazing. The individual atoms that form the two strands of our DNA may have originated billions of years ago at the centers of different stars. And the hydrogen atoms -- that hold the basic structures of our proteins together -- date all the way back to the Big Bang. This grand scheme for the history of life's ingredients gives a whole new meaning to Darwin's profound pronouncement: "Man with all his noble qualities... still bears in his bodily frame the indelible stamp of his lowly origin."
Figure 2. The ring around Supernova 1987A. Credit: NASA, ESA, and P. Challis (Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics).
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