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...Does the idea of drinking graham cracker milk gruel make you laugh or feel ill or both? What about accidentally crushing a mole's skull under your heel and hearing it crack and then putting its severed paw into water, like an avocado pit? Or watching someone shoot staples into their eyeballs for beauty? Or eviscerating a small-horse-like thing and discovering embryos? Your answers will go a long way in determining how you will take to this book...
...Similar contrasts can be found in Weil’s other paintings. “Memories of a Sacrifice” shows the skull of a ram over bound branches. The bright oranges and reds again obscure the underlying anxiety of the painting. Although the ram is given for sacrifice, the viewer is aware of Weil’s bitter confrontation—Can we really escape the ram’s fate in the face of God’s demands...
Paintings depicting Osiris’ corpse serve as the first subcategory of the exhibit.These paintings are distinguished by their uniformly dark color scheme, dominated by shadows and feelings of despair and hopelessness. Most are portraits of Isis grieving over Osiris’ body, or over his skull alone. The color scheme complements the combination of mourning and anger inherent in this theme. The backgrounds of these paintings are black skies shot through with angry red accents. The skin tones of the figures are also darker than those in depicted in the other works displayed, created from a mixture of reds...
...free up the restrictions, Upledger applies light resistance to parts of the body that seem to be stuck. These frequently include the bones of the skull, which Upledger says remain mobile throughout life--a point many medical doctors dispute. During a craniosacral session, the therapist may gently lift a person's head to allow a skull bone to shift and the normal flow of fluid to resume...
...that view is being challenged. The new skull, described by Leakey and six colleagues, including her and Richard's daughter Louise, 29, in Nature last week, pushes the presence of coexisting species back another million years, to between 3.5 million and 3.2 million years ago. That's right in Lucy's time. Yet it is so different from Lucy that they assign their fossil, which they call Kenyanthropus platyops, or "flat-faced man of Kenya," to a new genus, or grouping of species. "This means we will have to rethink the early past of hominid evolution," says Meave Leakey, head...