Saturday, May 12, 2012
"The Science of Beauty" via SOCIOLOGICAL IMAGES
Labels:
aesthetics,
caucasian,
caucasian bestiary,
race,
whiteness
Friday, May 11, 2012
Lupe Velez Biopic in the Works
Department of Justice versus Sheriff Joe Arpaio: Arizona's Anti-Mexican Hate Fetish on Hold (for the moment)...
Cool Old Black and White Shots of El Chapulin Colorado
more here |
CUNY Opening Mexican Studies Institute! via the NY Times...
Tuesday, May 08, 2012
UPDATED | Julia Orayen: The Newest Installment in the History of the Latina Bombshell (Mexican Politics Edition) | via the Huffington Post
Sorry for the broken link--click the image, it is all fixed now:
Hit the image for the story.... more here on NewsTaco! |
With BODYSHAPERS, You Too Can Resemble Sophia Vergara and JLo! Prosthetic Latino/a Curves Department via Sociological Images
Labels:
sociological images
Monday, May 07, 2012
Mitt Romney, Coward of the Month/Cobarde del mes!
Grandi and Quinlan Conspire (a great promotional still from TOUCH OF EVIL) | Orson Welles & Akim Tamiroff
You can preview the TOUCH OF EVIL chapter from
Tex[t]-Mex, "Hallucinationals of Miscegenation and Murder,"
here, via googlebooks.
Labels:
akim tamiroff,
orson welles
Sunday, May 06, 2012
My Lost, Would-be Life as a Scientist: David Ng and Chewbacca
When I was in high school, I knew for sure I was going to be a research scientist--in biology to be specific (an oncologist, to be hyper-specific).
An ungodly awful brush with organic chemistry at the University of Texas at Austin did me in, however, and the rest, as they say, is history.
But every now and then I run into something that makes me pine away for the fitted white lab coat, makes me wallow in nostalgia, reverie, (and envy) for a world of microscopes, beakers, and white rats.
David Ng is that present something--I stumbled upon him on Boingboing.net; here's a great piece on the scientific method:
Labels:
autobiography,
diavid ng,
science
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