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Slate’s Embarrassing Middle-Earth Error
Posted: January 3, 2014 at 8:41 pm
SA recent Slate blog post contains the following correction:
Correction, Jan. 2, 2014: The caption for this story originally stated that Arwen and Aragorn are half-elf and half-human. Aragorn is three-fourths human and one-fourth elf. Arwen is 3/16 human, 25/32 elf, and 1/32 Maia. Thanks to reader Auros Harman for the genealogical analysis.
Hm. It's true that "half-elf and half-human" is not the best way to describe Arwen and Aragorn, given that the descriptor implies (to our ears at least) that each has one elf parent and one human parent. ("Half-Elven" or peredhel would probably be the term used by the [excessively knowledgeable and pedantic] denizens of Middle-earth and Arda more broadly, but: See below.)
But the formulation proposed by reader Auros Harman is worse. Most importantly, Aragorn is not "one-quarter elf." It's entirely unclear where this description comes from; Aragorn's closest full-Elvish forebear, Idril Celebrindal, is some sixty-odd generations away.
But even if it were correct it's problematic. Peredhilin particular Arwen's father Elrond and his brother Elros, eventually the first king of Nmenor and a distant ancestor of Aragornare required by the Valar to choose sides, so to speak: either join the Valar in the Undying Lands as Elves, or receive the Gift of Men as, yes, Men. There is little room for those of mixed descent in Middle-earth, where relationships between the various races are incredibly rare and regarded with apprehension.
Given this it would in some sense be most accurate to understand both Aragorn and Arwen as half-Elven who chose the fate of Men, though even then few citizens of Gondor would think of Aragorn as anything but a Man. (Indeed Aragorn, descended from Elros, who chose mortality, is not even given the choice of identifying as an Elf, in the sense that his bloodline does not give him access to Aman.) What none would do is think of Arwen as "3/16 human." Attempting to force this kind of "scientific" racialism, obsessed with fractional bloodline, on to Middle-earth and Arda is a sort of cultural imperialism: It's just not how Elves or Men (or Valar) understand race.
[thank you to @osutein, @dubdobdee and @NedRaggett for Middle-earth genealogy expertise. For more safe-for-work reading on Elf Sex, click here. This post has been updated to clarify certain concepts about descent per the work of @BlakeAued]
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Human sacrifice skulls found in Mexico
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Four skulls that formed part of an altar made of human bones from the Late Post-Classical period (1350-1521) have been found during the construction of a new Mexico City metro line.
The skulls are from two men, one woman and a dog, Mexico's National Anthropology and History Institute, or INAH, said in a communique.
One of the men is estimated to have been between 25 and 35 years of age at the time of his death. The other man is believed to have been aged under 35. The woman was estimated to be between 18 and 22 years old, and her skull had been intentionally deformed, INAH said.
The finds were made between October 2008 and August 2012 along a 24.5km stretch of Metro Line 12's route, where other archaeological objects were also found, INAH said.
Much evidence of pre-Columbian settlement in the region has been detected during various construction work. Other archaeological items uncovered include houses, stone- and slab-lined canals, sculptures, ceramics and about 100 graves, most of them of infants.
The skulls each show perforations of the temples, an indication they had been placed on a rod to be displayed on a "tzompantli" (skull rack), where the skulls of sacrificial victims were commonly mounted. However, they were not part of a rack when unearthed, INAH said.
As for the dog skull, INAH said that it might be that dogs were connected with funerary rites, perhaps to accompany the souls of the dead to the underworld.
This is the first time that such a dog skull has been found with perforations showing that it was, at one time, displayed on a skull rack, INAH said.
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bioethics.com » Transhumanism
Posted: January 2, 2014 at 11:44 am
December 26, 2013 Transhumanism will change everything
This is spooky stuff, but its real and its alreadyhappening. Humans are augmenting themselves with computers and technology that will expand their abilities, and its going to get more advanced and morally complex as timepasses. Imagine transplanting your entire consciousness into a computer. Thats a new type of immortality. Imagine having a robotic exoskeleton thats not just part of your body itisyour body. Thats a new type of existenceentirely. An excellent documentary called Bionics, Transhumanism, And The End Of Evolution takes a look at the endless wonder and potential of what happens when blood-and-meat humanity meets steel-and-silicon technology. (San Francisco Gate)
Silicon Valley keeps spawning micro-storytelling genres from six-second Vines to 140-character tweets that are each more popular than the next. But that hardly means those mini-formats can properly capture the controversies, personalities, ramifications and dangers of the tech worlds many characters and their creations. For that, we can turn to another invention that compiles tens of thousands of discreet pieces of data into a kind of Facebook for words: books. (Huffington Post)
AI & Society(Volume 28, No. 4, December 2013) is now available online by subscription only.
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Futurists have long speculated that nanotechnology the engineering of materials and devices at the molecular scale will revolutionize virtually every field it touches, medicine being no exception. Heres what to expect when you have fleets of molecule-sized robots coursing through your veins. (Io9)
On the eve of Doctor Whos 50th anniversary, a bioethics researcher at the University of Leicester claims that one of the Doctors most fearsome villains the Cybermen represent public concerns about the greater use of technology in medicine. In their article The Cybermen as Human, Dr Chris Willmott from the Universitys Department of Biochemistry and his former Research Assistant, Bonnie Green, reflect on ways in which the Doctors metal-clad foe can offer insight into human enhancement and the development of the posthuman. (Phys.org)
Heres controversial Cybernetics Professor, Kevin Warwick, on the future of worker productivity. His chilling warning: If we dont wake up, countries like China will soon be producing cyber-enhanced super-employeesworkers who far outclass even the most capable employee here at home. Will tomorrows resume need to include your version number? (Forbes)
Humanity today faces incredible threats and opportunities: climate change, nuclear weapons, biotechnology, nanotechnology, and much, much more. But some people argue that these things are all trumped by one: artificial intelligence (AI). To date, this argument has been confined mainly to science fiction and a small circle of scholars and enthusiasts. Enter documentarian James Barrat, whose new book, Our Final Invention, states the case for (and against) AI in clear, plain language. (Huffington Post)
The Journal of Medical Ethics(Volume 39, No. 11, November 2013) is now available online by subscription only.
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DADvsMINECRAFT: Family Fun With Galacticraft #2 W/ BeardlessKid and SilencedApple6 – Video
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DADvsMINECRAFT: Family Fun With Galacticraft #2 W/ BeardlessKid and SilencedApple6
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NASA’s Christmas Eve Spacewalk Ends in Success – Video
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NASA #39;s Christmas Eve Spacewalk Ends in Success
Astronauts Rick Mastracchio, Mike Hopkins replace cooling system pump on the International Space Station.
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Russian astronauts set a new record for a space walk – Video
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Russian astronauts set a new record for a space walk
Two Russian astronauts have set a new record for a space walk. The space walk lasted eight hours and seven minutes, setting a new Russian record. Two astrona...
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CNN Alien Life Exist Leaked Proof 2013 Exclusive Footage – Video
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Spacewalk success: Astronauts replace refrigerator size pump – Video
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Spacewalk success: Astronauts replace refrigerator size pump
Astronauts Mike Hopkins and Rich Mastracchio successfully repaired a cooling system on the International Space Station. The fix -- replacing a broken cooling...
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Beautiful Planet Earth From Space Station – Video
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Beautiful Planet Earth From Space Station
This video features the latest time lapse sequences of planet earth photographed by the crew aboard the International Space Station. It shows off both the st...
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Space Science Stories to Watch in 2014
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Orion moves towards its first EFT-1 spaceflight later this year. (Credit: NASA)
Theres an old Chinese proverb that says, May you live in interesting times,and 2013 certainly fit the bill in the world of spaceflight and space science. The past year saw spacecraft depart for Mars, China land a rover on the Moon, and drama in low Earth orbit to repair the International Space Station. And all of this occurred against a landscape of dwindling budgets, government shutdowns that threatened launches and scientific research, and ongoing sequestration.
But its a brave new world out there. Here are just a few space-related stories that well watching in 2014:
An artists conception of ESAs Rosetta and Philae spacecraft approaching comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko. (Credit: ESA-J. Huart, 2013)
Rosetta to Explore a Comet: On January 20, 2014, the European Space Agency will hail its Rosetta spacecraft and awaken it for its historic encounter with comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko later this year in August. After examining the comet in detail, Rosetta will then dispatch its Philae lander, equipped complete with harpoons and ice screws to make the first ever landing on a comet. Launched way back in 2004, Rosetta promises to provide the cosmic encounter of the year.
The October 19th, 2014 passage of comet C/2013 A1 Siding Springs past Mars. (Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech)
A1 Siding Springs vs. Mars: A comet discovery back in 2013 created a brief stir when researchers noted that comet C/2013 A1 Siding Springs would make a very close passage of the planet Mars on October 19th, 2014. Though refinements from subsequent observations have effectively ruled out the chance of impact, the comet will still pass 41,300 kilometres from the Red Planet, just outside the orbit of its outer moon Deimos. Ground-based observers will get to watch the +7th magnitude comet close in on Mars through October, as will a fleet of spacecraft both on and above the Martian surface.
A recent tweet from @NewHorizons_2015, a spacecraft that, ironically, launched just weeks before Twitter in 2006.
Spacecraft En Route to Destinations: Though no new interplanetary missions are set to depart the Earth in 2014, there are lots of exciting missions currently underway and headed for worlds yet to be explored. NASAs Dawn spacecraft is headed towards its encounter with 1 Ceres in February 2015. Juno is fresh off its 2013 flyby of the Earth and headed for orbital insertion around Jupiter in August 2016. And in November of this year, New Horizons will switch on permanently for its historic encounter with Pluto and its retinue of moons in July 2015.
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