From a study authored by Skyler S. Place, Peter M. Todd, Lars Penke, and Jens B. Asendorpf from (respectively) Indiana University, University of Edinburgh, and Humboldt University of Berlin.
“The videos of mate-choice situations were gathered during a series of laboratory-based speed dating sessions run at Humboldt University in Berlin, Germany. Speed dating is a paradigm designed to allow singles to meet a large number of possible mates in a short period of time.”
The California State Department of Motor Vehicles has outlined the various distractions that a driver, regardless of age, might encounter or engage in. Even though it may include state laws that your particular state may not have enacted as yet, the reasoning and cautions are instructive. We haven’t included the teenage section, but if there are teenagers in the family, do read the entire file.:
The Department of Transportation includes a page (somewhat outdated) with brochures and information about concerns for Older Driver Safety, including those that touch on specific illnesses and how that impacts driving skills. And take the time to read the article that was quoted on this transportation page, Older Drivers Better at Driving Than We Thought from the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety’s Magazine, Status Report, December, ’08.
Distractions Are Everywhere
An exhibit of the work of Yinka Shonibare can be viewed at two online Metropolitan New York museums. The current exhibit at the Brooklyn Museum, one we had seen at the Branly in Paris, is presented in a video.
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“This exhibition is a major midcareer survey of work by the UK-[born] Nigerian artist Yinka Shonibare MBE. Shonibare’s artwork explores contemporary African identity and its relationship to European colonialism through painting, sculpture, installation, and moving image. (more…)
Jane Shortall writes: Life after quitting cigarettes was tickety-boo, all roses. Then, one night, I suddenly, for no reason, had great difficulty breathing. Asthma — not very serious — was diagnosed by a lung specialist
The US Senate’s Judiciary Committee hearings on the confirmation of Judge Sonia Sotomayor’s nomination to the Supreme Court are taking place. The Committee has made available webcasts of those hearings. However, if that viewer is unavailable, turn to C-Span for a television source.
C-Span also has an archive of the hearings that can be viewed from the beginning of the Sotomayor hearings.
National Public Radio is carrying live coverage of the hearings, too.
Medals of Dishonour is a British Museum exhibit that displays the reverse of the tradition of celebration and tribute. “Medals are best known for celebrating important figures or heroic deeds, but this unique exhibition features medals that condemn their subjects. The display exposes the long and rich tradition of this darker side of medals.”
“The first part of the exhibition focuses on the Museum’s collection of satirical and political medals from the 16th to the 20th centuries. Subjects range from the sombre and the bizarre to the scatological and the humorous, and the medals will be placed in context through the use of contemporary prints and drawings. Two of US sculptor David Smith’s influential Medals for Dishonor of the 1930s (from which the exhibition borrows its title) are included, along with a little-known medal by Marcel Duchamp.”
A jewelry piece of gold with enamel, rock crystal, table-cut diamonds and Burmese rubies and a Tudor Rose surrounded by an inscription in Latin: “Alas that so much virtue suffused with beauty should not last forever inviolate.”
FancyFlours – There’s something about dressing desserts in vintage wedding-cake figures, pink heart-shaped cake-stand wrappers and candy corn towels that makes me want to quickly get my baking utensils and appliances out of mothballs. It’s a way to make fashion statement without breaking the bank. I’ve led a sheltered baking life since I’ve retired but since Camp Gray looms, ordering some of these accessories is just too tempting.