Yeah, and that's more or less what a real donkey would do — choose the pile of hay he happened to be looking at when his belly insisted it was time to munch. Horses too. ;-) And any human forced to choose food or water would just go for whichever he felt like he wanted at the time. Philosophy's main problem is…

I wish they'd put ReGenesis back here. Saw a few episodes back then. I like it.

Everytime I need a reminder that I'm not crazy and that you can put (something very close to) real science on TV and still make it entertaining I go back to this. I wish there was more then one show like that.

And so he spoke, and so he spoke,

And some Downloadable Catent:

A coat of gold, a coat of red

This is already a thing...

Hydrogen? Isn't that what they put in the Hindenburg?? And there are two of them??? You're not putting any of that in my water!

Aaaand I have a new book to add to my TO READ list!

Read that book. It came off as somewhat propagandized in some spots, but it still rang a LOT truer than the trash that was Memoirs of a Geisha.

which just proves the bonmot that history is written by the victors.

It's just anti-Catholic propaganda, really. It's amazing how much dearly beloved stuff from that period is just anti-Catholic propaganda.

I want to point out that Sewell is repeating an oft-presumed but unproven idea - that people in Tudor England must have smelled worse. That's unprovable because smell is so ephemeral that we cannot smell the odors from back then. I'll list a few of the presumptions in discussion here, with the hope that we can better…

Which is incredibly funny because types of underpants (for men) most definitely *did* exist in the High and Late Middle Ages. Though my personal research (I'm a medievalist researching on the Ethiopian Empire) does not really cover Europe, I've seen enough hour-book illuminations to know that you can find lots and…

Considering that at the time he had an open, festering wound on his leg, it's pretty likely that he was the smelly one and also I think now historians feel that he was simply casting around for reasons to put her aside.

Even at the time, people knew they didn't smell so fabulous. That's why they carried pomanders! More info, and how to make your own, here.

Yes but she executed those who belonged and would belong again to the status quo. England, in historic terms, is Protestant post-Henry VIII, even though it was also still full of Catholics. But the Protestants wrote the textbooks.

ZOMBIE FACE CELLS DEMAND BRAINS!!! BRAAAAAAIIIIIN FACIALS!!!!

Hah. And people laughed at me when I ate my mother's coconut scented shampoo.

News worthy....