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- Our ancestors had brains - for dinner -- "Spread of disease-protection genes points to cannibalistic past" (via Follow Me Here)
- Web Archive in Visual Anthropology -- "WAVA is an archive resource for people interested in the anthropology of visual communication. It features out-of-print and unpublished materials useful for teaching and research. We have secured permission to place works on the web so that interested parties can download and use them." (via xBlog)
- Women need widescreen for virtual navigation -- "Female architects, designers, trainee pilots and even computer gamers should be given much wider computer screens, a team of computer scientists from Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, and Microsoft's research lab in Redmond, Washington, told a computer usability conference in Fort Lauderdale, Florida, last week. Wider screens and more realistic 3D animations, they say, will boost women's spatial orientation and 3D map-reading skills to match those of their male counterparts." (I dunno -- I think my visual/spatial skills are pretty damn good, actually, but I wouldn't say no to a nice big computer monitor.) (via Slashdot)
- The Art of Explanation -- "The events unfolding in Iraq often defy easy explanation. To take it all in, a reader must understand complicated military technology, vast cultural differences, great stretches of geography, and complex jargon. By working to simplify and define, a visual journalist can help a reader to better understand -- illustrating the way something works, outlining key relationships or creating a chronology of events, for example. Poynter Online would like to showcase the efforts of visual journalists as they help readers find clarity." (via IA Slash)