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January 22, 2012
The puffed grain was likely an occasional snack, archaeologist says.
Christine Dell'Amore
for National Geographic News
Published January 19, 2012
Just in time for National Popcorn Day, a new study says that people in what's now Peru were eating the snack 2,000 years earlier than thought.
Coastal peoples were preparing corn-based foods up to 6,700 years ago, according to analysis of ancient corncobs, husks, tassels, and stalks recently unearthed at the Paredones and Huaca Prieta archaeological sites on Peru's northern coast.
Previously, evidence of corn as a food before about 5,000 years ago had mostly come from what are called microfossilsmicroscopic remains that do not offer information on the cobs' sizes and shapes.
http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2012/01/120119-national-popcorn-day-corn-peru-archaeology-food-science/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+ng%2FNews%2FNews_Main+%28National+Geographic+News+-+Main%29
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We don't bite, our dentures aren't sharp enough, and our eyesight is too poor.
Ancient Popcorn Found—Made 2,000 Years Earlier Than Thought in Peru
The puffed grain was likely an occasional snack, archaeologist says.
Christine Dell'Amore
for National Geographic News
Published January 19, 2012
Just in time for National Popcorn Day, a new study says that people in what's now Peru were eating the snack 2,000 years earlier than thought.
Coastal peoples were preparing corn-based foods up to 6,700 years ago, according to analysis of ancient corncobs, husks, tassels, and stalks recently unearthed at the Paredones and Huaca Prieta archaeological sites on Peru's northern coast.
Previously, evidence of corn as a food before about 5,000 years ago had mostly come from what are called microfossilsmicroscopic remains that do not offer information on the cobs' sizes and shapes.
http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2012/01/120119-national-popcorn-day-corn-peru-archaeology-food-science/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+ng%2FNews%2FNews_Main+%28National+Geographic+News+-+Main%29
For more history news, subscribe to your friendly DU history groups:
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We don't bite, our dentures aren't sharp enough, and our eyesight is too poor.
January 21, 2012
By Pat Bagley, Salt Lake Tribune - 1/20/2012
By J.D. Crowe, Mobile Register - 1/20/2012
By John Cole, The Scranton Times-Tribune - 1/20/2012
By Daryl Cagle, MSNBC.com - 1/20/2012
By Rick McKee, The Augusta Chronicle - 1/20/2012
By Joe Heller, Green Bay Press-Gazette - 1/20/2012
By Randy Bish, Pittsburgh Tribune-Review - 1/20/2012
By Tim Eagan, Deep Cover - 1/20/2012
By John Cole, The Scranton Times-Tribune - 1/20/2012
By Bill Day, Cagle Cartoons - 1/20/2012
By Bill Schorr, Cagle Cartoons - 1/20/2012
By David Fitzsimmons, The Arizona Star - 1/20/2012
By Jimmy Margulies, The Record of Hackensack, NJ - 1/20/2012
By Brian Fairrington, Cagle Cartoons - 1/20/2012
By Tony Auth, January 20, 2012
By Clay Bennett, January 20, 2012
By Steve Benson, January 20, 2012
By Stuart Carlson, January 20, 2012
By Matt Davies, January 20, 2012
By Mike Luckovich, January 20, 2012
By Ted Rall, January 20, 2012
By Steve Sack, January 20, 2012
By Ben Sargent, January 20, 2012
By Tom Toles, January 20, 2012
By Jim Morin, January 20, 2012
Note: Previous editions can be found in my journal. Have a good weekend!
Toons: A Three-Way, It's Not Envy, Re-Brand Myself and More. - 1/20/12
By Pat Bagley, Salt Lake Tribune - 1/20/2012
By J.D. Crowe, Mobile Register - 1/20/2012
By John Cole, The Scranton Times-Tribune - 1/20/2012
By Daryl Cagle, MSNBC.com - 1/20/2012
By Rick McKee, The Augusta Chronicle - 1/20/2012
By Joe Heller, Green Bay Press-Gazette - 1/20/2012
By Randy Bish, Pittsburgh Tribune-Review - 1/20/2012
By Tim Eagan, Deep Cover - 1/20/2012
By John Cole, The Scranton Times-Tribune - 1/20/2012
By Bill Day, Cagle Cartoons - 1/20/2012
By Bill Schorr, Cagle Cartoons - 1/20/2012
By David Fitzsimmons, The Arizona Star - 1/20/2012
By Jimmy Margulies, The Record of Hackensack, NJ - 1/20/2012
By Brian Fairrington, Cagle Cartoons - 1/20/2012
By Tony Auth, January 20, 2012
By Clay Bennett, January 20, 2012
By Steve Benson, January 20, 2012
By Stuart Carlson, January 20, 2012
By Matt Davies, January 20, 2012
By Mike Luckovich, January 20, 2012
By Ted Rall, January 20, 2012
By Steve Sack, January 20, 2012
By Ben Sargent, January 20, 2012
By Tom Toles, January 20, 2012
By Jim Morin, January 20, 2012
Note: Previous editions can be found in my journal. Have a good weekend!
January 20, 2012
You can download the DFA Training Manual by Chapter in PDF! = Awesome
I just noticed this: http://www.democracyforamerica.com/trainingmanual2009dfa
Pretty useful if you ask me - "These materials are free to share with progressive campaigns everywhere as long as DFA is cited as the source."
Now you don't even have to go to Training Academy or Night School to get some of the skills DFA has to offer.
= Awesome
Please someone else tell me I'm not the only one stoked. I had a manual from 2005 and can't find it. Now I'm set for 2012!!!
January 20, 2012
Ambassador Locke recently described the human rights situation in the PRC as "getting worse:" http://sg.news.yahoo.com/chinese-ministry-defends-progress-human-rights-084002534.html
Ambassador Locke: China Is A Country Of Great Contrasts
January 18, 2012
Gary Locke is Washington's ambassador to Beijing. He took over the post after Jon Huntsman left to run for president. Locke is the first U.S. ambassador to China to have ancestral roots in that country. Ambassador Locke talks to Steve Inskeep about his impressions of China and its government.
Interview with NPR:
RENEE MONTAGNE, HOST:
You can't pay attention to the presidential campaign without hearing references to China. Republican candidates have complained about Chinese trade practices. Criticizing China in campaign season is getting to be a political tradition followed by presidential candidates from both parties.
STEVE INSKEEP, HOST:
At the same time, President Obama's administration has been quietly reorienting U.S. foreign policy, seeking to focus more on Asia's Pacific Rim nations. The point man for the administration is U.S. Ambassador Gary Locke. He's a former governor of Washington State and his ancestors came from a village in southern China. Now Ambassador Locke is based in a rising nation that many Americans see as a threat.
Ambassador Locke stopped by our studios on a brief visit to Washington. What does China want?
More: http://www.npr.org/2012/01/18/145384412/ambassador-locke-shares-his-impressions-of-china?ft=1&f=1004
Gary Locke is Washington's ambassador to Beijing. He took over the post after Jon Huntsman left to run for president. Locke is the first U.S. ambassador to China to have ancestral roots in that country. Ambassador Locke talks to Steve Inskeep about his impressions of China and its government.
Interview with NPR:
RENEE MONTAGNE, HOST:
You can't pay attention to the presidential campaign without hearing references to China. Republican candidates have complained about Chinese trade practices. Criticizing China in campaign season is getting to be a political tradition followed by presidential candidates from both parties.
STEVE INSKEEP, HOST:
At the same time, President Obama's administration has been quietly reorienting U.S. foreign policy, seeking to focus more on Asia's Pacific Rim nations. The point man for the administration is U.S. Ambassador Gary Locke. He's a former governor of Washington State and his ancestors came from a village in southern China. Now Ambassador Locke is based in a rising nation that many Americans see as a threat.
Ambassador Locke stopped by our studios on a brief visit to Washington. What does China want?
More: http://www.npr.org/2012/01/18/145384412/ambassador-locke-shares-his-impressions-of-china?ft=1&f=1004
Ambassador Locke recently described the human rights situation in the PRC as "getting worse:" http://sg.news.yahoo.com/chinese-ministry-defends-progress-human-rights-084002534.html
January 20, 2012
By Daryl Cagle, MSNBC.com - 1/19/2012
By RJ Matson, The St. Louis Post Dispatch - 1/19/2012
By Randall Enos, Cagle Cartoons - 1/19/2012
By Rob Tornoe, PoliticalCartoons.com - 1/19/2012
By John Cole, The Scranton Times-Tribune - 1/19/2012
By Pat Bagley, Salt Lake Tribune - 1/19/2012 - "Hookah Smoking Boehner"
By Mike Keefe, Cagle Cartoons - 1/19/2012
By Adam Zyglis, The Buffalo News - 1/19/2012
By Joe Heller, Green Bay Press-Gazette - 1/19/2012
By Dave Granlund, Politicalcartoons.com - 1/19/2012
By John Darkow, Columbia Daily Tribune, Missouri - 1/19/2012
By Steve Greenberg, Freelance, Los Angeles - 1/18/2012
By Tony Auth, January 19, 2012
By Clay Bennett, January 19, 2012
By Stuart Carlson, January 19, 2012
By Jeff Danziger, January 19, 2012
By Walt Handelsman, January 19, 2012
By Chan Lowe, January 18, 2012
By Ben Sargent, January 19, 2012
By Tom Toles, January 19, 2012
By Dan Wasserman, January 19, 2012
By Pat Oliphant, January 19, 2012
Toons: Open Marriage, Mickey Mouse, Mitt Romney's World and More. - 1/19/12
By Daryl Cagle, MSNBC.com - 1/19/2012
By RJ Matson, The St. Louis Post Dispatch - 1/19/2012
By Randall Enos, Cagle Cartoons - 1/19/2012
By Rob Tornoe, PoliticalCartoons.com - 1/19/2012
By John Cole, The Scranton Times-Tribune - 1/19/2012
By Pat Bagley, Salt Lake Tribune - 1/19/2012 - "Hookah Smoking Boehner"
By Mike Keefe, Cagle Cartoons - 1/19/2012
By Adam Zyglis, The Buffalo News - 1/19/2012
By Joe Heller, Green Bay Press-Gazette - 1/19/2012
By Dave Granlund, Politicalcartoons.com - 1/19/2012
By John Darkow, Columbia Daily Tribune, Missouri - 1/19/2012
By Steve Greenberg, Freelance, Los Angeles - 1/18/2012
By Tony Auth, January 19, 2012
By Clay Bennett, January 19, 2012
By Stuart Carlson, January 19, 2012
By Jeff Danziger, January 19, 2012
By Walt Handelsman, January 19, 2012
By Chan Lowe, January 18, 2012
By Ben Sargent, January 19, 2012
By Tom Toles, January 19, 2012
By Dan Wasserman, January 19, 2012
By Pat Oliphant, January 19, 2012
January 19, 2012
By Kirk Walters, Toledo Blade - 1/18/2012
By RJ Matson, Roll Call - 1/18/2012
By Joe Heller, Green Bay Press-Gazette - 1/18/2012
By Larry Wright, The Detroit News - 1/18/2012
By John Cole, The Scranton Times-Tribune - 1/18/2012
By RJ Matson, The St. Louis Post Dispatch - 1/18/2012
By RJ Matson, Roll Call - 1/18/2012
By Osama Hajjaj, Abu Mahjoob Creative Productions - 1/18/2012
By Cardow, The Ottawa Citizen - 1/18/2012
By Jeremy Nell, The New Age, South Africa - 1/17/2012
By Steve Benson, January 18, 2012
By Matt Davies, January 18, 2012
By Ted Rall, January 18, 2012
By Drew Sheneman, January 18, 2012
By Tom Toles, January 18, 2012
By Dan Wasserman, January 18, 2012
By Pat Oliphant, January 18, 2012
By Jim Morin, January 19, 2012
Note: Thanks to the Admins for shutting down DU in opposition to the anti-piracy bills. Har...
Toons: Sinking Ships, Internet Piracy, the Inevitable Nominee and More. - 1/18/12
By Kirk Walters, Toledo Blade - 1/18/2012
By RJ Matson, Roll Call - 1/18/2012
By Joe Heller, Green Bay Press-Gazette - 1/18/2012
By Larry Wright, The Detroit News - 1/18/2012
By John Cole, The Scranton Times-Tribune - 1/18/2012
By RJ Matson, The St. Louis Post Dispatch - 1/18/2012
By RJ Matson, Roll Call - 1/18/2012
By Osama Hajjaj, Abu Mahjoob Creative Productions - 1/18/2012
By Cardow, The Ottawa Citizen - 1/18/2012
By Jeremy Nell, The New Age, South Africa - 1/17/2012
By Steve Benson, January 18, 2012
By Matt Davies, January 18, 2012
By Ted Rall, January 18, 2012
By Drew Sheneman, January 18, 2012
By Tom Toles, January 18, 2012
By Dan Wasserman, January 18, 2012
By Pat Oliphant, January 18, 2012
By Jim Morin, January 19, 2012
Note: Thanks to the Admins for shutting down DU in opposition to the anti-piracy bills. Har...
January 18, 2012
By Kirk Walters, Toledo Blade - 1/17/2012
By Pat Bagley, Salt Lake Tribune - 1/17/2012
By Parker, Florida Today - 1/17/2012
By David Fitzsimmons, The Arizona Star - 1/17/2012
By Joe Heller, Green Bay Press-Gazette - 1/17/2012
By John Cole, The Scranton Times-Tribune - 1/17/2012
By David Fitzsimmons, The Arizona Star - 1/17/2012
By Bob Englehart, The Hartford Courant - 1/17/2012
By Tony Auth, January 17, 2012
By Clay Bennett, January 17, 2012
By Stuart Carlson, January 17, 2012
By Mike Luckovich, January 17, 2012
By Ben Sargent, January 17, 2012
By Drew Sheneman, January 17, 2012
By Tom Toles, January 17, 2012
By Signe Wilkinson & Signe Wilkinson, January 17, 2012
By Pat Oliphant, January 17, 2012
By Jim Morin, January 18, 2012
Toons: Vulture Mitt, Pitcher Santorum, Fellow Republicans and More. 1/17/2012
By Kirk Walters, Toledo Blade - 1/17/2012
By Pat Bagley, Salt Lake Tribune - 1/17/2012
By Parker, Florida Today - 1/17/2012
By David Fitzsimmons, The Arizona Star - 1/17/2012
By Joe Heller, Green Bay Press-Gazette - 1/17/2012
By John Cole, The Scranton Times-Tribune - 1/17/2012
By David Fitzsimmons, The Arizona Star - 1/17/2012
By Bob Englehart, The Hartford Courant - 1/17/2012
By Tony Auth, January 17, 2012
By Clay Bennett, January 17, 2012
By Stuart Carlson, January 17, 2012
By Mike Luckovich, January 17, 2012
By Ben Sargent, January 17, 2012
By Drew Sheneman, January 17, 2012
By Tom Toles, January 17, 2012
By Signe Wilkinson & Signe Wilkinson, January 17, 2012
By Pat Oliphant, January 17, 2012
By Jim Morin, January 18, 2012
January 17, 2012
By Jimmy Margulies, The Record of Hackensack, NJ - 1/16/2012
By Milt Priggee, www.miltpriggee.com - 1/16/2012
By Dave Granlund, Politicalcartoons.com - 1/16/2012
By Taylor Jones, Politicalcartoons.com - 1/15/2012
By Wolverton, Cagle Cartoons - 1/15/2012 -
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/01/13/mike-oneal-obama-death-prayer-psalm-109_n_1205059.html
By Steve Greenberg, Freelance, Los Angeles - 1/15/2012
By Daryl Cagle, MSNBC.com - 1/14/2012
By Stuart Carlson, January 15, 2012
By Stuart Carlson, January 14, 2012
By Walt Handelsman, January 13, 2012
By Ted Rall, January 16, 2012
By Steve Sack, January 16, 2012
By Tom Toles, January 16, 2012
By Jeff Danziger, January 16, 2012
Note: If these at some point disappear, I've exceeded my photobucket bandwidth on this account too
Toons: The Mittle Class, Remembering MLK Jr., We're #196, and More. 1/16/2012
By Jimmy Margulies, The Record of Hackensack, NJ - 1/16/2012
By Milt Priggee, www.miltpriggee.com - 1/16/2012
By Dave Granlund, Politicalcartoons.com - 1/16/2012
By Taylor Jones, Politicalcartoons.com - 1/15/2012
By Wolverton, Cagle Cartoons - 1/15/2012 -
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/01/13/mike-oneal-obama-death-prayer-psalm-109_n_1205059.html
By Steve Greenberg, Freelance, Los Angeles - 1/15/2012
By Daryl Cagle, MSNBC.com - 1/14/2012
By Stuart Carlson, January 15, 2012
By Stuart Carlson, January 14, 2012
By Walt Handelsman, January 13, 2012
By Ted Rall, January 16, 2012
By Steve Sack, January 16, 2012
By Tom Toles, January 16, 2012
By Jeff Danziger, January 16, 2012
Note: If these at some point disappear, I've exceeded my photobucket bandwidth on this account too
January 16, 2012
An interesting, if not a bit muddled look at American imperialism in Asia and how we've fallen into a sort of trap of miscommunication.
The reverse is true also; I think that Chinese motives continue to puzzle us too. The only correct possible conclusion is that nationalism is overblown and that we are more alike than we would care to admit. China is not strange, it was never a dream, it is exactly as it appears; the counterpart to the United States, a conglomerate behemoth that rose up and threw off the ropes of oppression of a colonial master and is seeking a new path. Like the PRC, we too tell ourselves that our revolution is the truest of revolutions. I am optimistic about the future; every time I read a prognostication of a future war with the PRC or impending doom, I just chuckle. I think it is only a matter of time before we see relatively bloodless change in the PRC as new blood replaces the old in the ranks of leadership. Who twenty years ago would have told you that a man named Barack Hussein Obama II would be President of the United States of America? The world is growing closer together every day, and as Ban Ki-Moon remarked today on Syria and the Arab Spring, without perhaps fully considering the full breadth of his statement: "The old way, the old order, is crumbling. One-man rule and the perpetuation of family dynasties, monopolies of wealth and power, the silencing of the media, the deprivation of fundamental freedoms .... To all of this, the people say: Enough." We will figure one another out.
http://www.democraticunderground.com/101426414
Michael H. Hunt: How Beijing Sees Us
How Beijing Sees Us
By Michael H. Hunt
1-16-12
What is China going to do? Now that our Middle East wars are winding down, this question has fixated the U.S. policy community and policy commentators. Even aspirants for high political office feel compelled to have an answer. Will a rising China accommodate to international norms and institutions or try to reshape or undermine them? Is Beijing predisposed to cooperate with countries along its long land and maritime border, or will it seek domination? Are the Chinese bent on displacing the United States as number one internationally, or will they limit their aspirations the better to focus on domestic affairs?
While everybody has an opinion, no one has a compelling answer. And with good reason. Chinas Communist leaders make their decisions behind closed doors so outsiders are necessarily left in the dark. In any case, leaders at the top may not have a shared, coherent notion of the path ahead. And even if they do, their planslike all plansare hostage to contingent events.
If the future is fuzzy, the past is not. A substantial historical literature offers solidly grounded insight on how Chinese officials and commentators have viewed the United States from the nineteenth century to the 1970s. (The single most helpful work is David Arkush and Leo Lees Land without Ghosts; for other relevant works see the bibliographical essay in the forthcoming Arc of Empire: American Wars in Asia from the Philippines to Vietnam.) Let me suggest three conclusions drawn from my reading of that literature. Each is pertinent to any attempt to interpret recent developments and predict the future.
More: http://hnn.us/articles/how-beijing-sees-us
By Michael H. Hunt
1-16-12
What is China going to do? Now that our Middle East wars are winding down, this question has fixated the U.S. policy community and policy commentators. Even aspirants for high political office feel compelled to have an answer. Will a rising China accommodate to international norms and institutions or try to reshape or undermine them? Is Beijing predisposed to cooperate with countries along its long land and maritime border, or will it seek domination? Are the Chinese bent on displacing the United States as number one internationally, or will they limit their aspirations the better to focus on domestic affairs?
While everybody has an opinion, no one has a compelling answer. And with good reason. Chinas Communist leaders make their decisions behind closed doors so outsiders are necessarily left in the dark. In any case, leaders at the top may not have a shared, coherent notion of the path ahead. And even if they do, their planslike all plansare hostage to contingent events.
If the future is fuzzy, the past is not. A substantial historical literature offers solidly grounded insight on how Chinese officials and commentators have viewed the United States from the nineteenth century to the 1970s. (The single most helpful work is David Arkush and Leo Lees Land without Ghosts; for other relevant works see the bibliographical essay in the forthcoming Arc of Empire: American Wars in Asia from the Philippines to Vietnam.) Let me suggest three conclusions drawn from my reading of that literature. Each is pertinent to any attempt to interpret recent developments and predict the future.
More: http://hnn.us/articles/how-beijing-sees-us
An interesting, if not a bit muddled look at American imperialism in Asia and how we've fallen into a sort of trap of miscommunication.
The final insight is that, at every turn, Chinese observers and leaders have failed to penetrate the cultural and ideological sources of American action in Asia. The chances are good that our motives will continue to puzzle them.
The reverse is true also; I think that Chinese motives continue to puzzle us too. The only correct possible conclusion is that nationalism is overblown and that we are more alike than we would care to admit. China is not strange, it was never a dream, it is exactly as it appears; the counterpart to the United States, a conglomerate behemoth that rose up and threw off the ropes of oppression of a colonial master and is seeking a new path. Like the PRC, we too tell ourselves that our revolution is the truest of revolutions. I am optimistic about the future; every time I read a prognostication of a future war with the PRC or impending doom, I just chuckle. I think it is only a matter of time before we see relatively bloodless change in the PRC as new blood replaces the old in the ranks of leadership. Who twenty years ago would have told you that a man named Barack Hussein Obama II would be President of the United States of America? The world is growing closer together every day, and as Ban Ki-Moon remarked today on Syria and the Arab Spring, without perhaps fully considering the full breadth of his statement: "The old way, the old order, is crumbling. One-man rule and the perpetuation of family dynasties, monopolies of wealth and power, the silencing of the media, the deprivation of fundamental freedoms .... To all of this, the people say: Enough." We will figure one another out.
http://www.democraticunderground.com/101426414
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