http://youtu.be/UmgkyorPwbc Ksenia Sukhinova from the city of Tyumen, gained the title of Miss World 2008. Natalia Vodianova, a Russian supermodel, is now very popular in the USA and in Europe. Masha Kalinina became Miss Moscow-1988 when she was only 16. http://youtu.be/h2OjxMp7WSY The streets beat the rhythm of thousands of high heels pounding the cold pavement […]
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Psychology of narcissists – full documentary
http://youtu.be/SG4c97xXx84
Women’s Attraction to men Ruled by Biology?
http://youtu.be/PdYI-wQ63GE Pheromone and Hypnotic Scents
Two Bolivias
The Race of Beauty
There’s a growing trend for people to alter their ethnic features — from double eyelid surgery, to chin implants, to skin lightening or darkening. In some cases, patients undergoing such ethnic cosmetic surgery say they are doing so to achieve a more ‘western look’. Others say it has nothing to do with trying to look […]
Society Perception
http://youtu.be/os_KlRcXFH0
The Barbie Doll Test
This video program, produced by Modesto Junior College video producer Wes Page, documents an experiment by Professor Sam Pierstorff and his English 101 class. Small children are asked questions about Barbie dolls of different ethnicity. Shade This short TV documentary is an introduction to the issue of shadeism, the discrimination that exists between the lighter-skinned […]
Georges Melies – 1902 Film “A Trip to the Moon”
Narrated in English. This short 1902 film follows a group of astronomers on a trip to the moon. The first science fiction film and the first animation. I find this quite fascinating. We actually made something to this effect and literally landed on the moon, and to know something like this was considered Science Fiction which is now […]
Driving The $2 Million Bugatti Vitesse
Sheron Menezes – Brazilian Actress
Nationality: Brazilian Place of birth: Porto Alegre, Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil The actress starred in the TV Globo soap opera Esperança in April 2002 with the approval of the director Luiz Fernando Carvalho who was impressed with his test and suggested to the author, Benedito Ruy Barbosa, the changing age of the character, Julia, oldest first, so it could […]
Model & Beauty Queen: Leila Arcieri
Nationality: American Ethnicity:Her father is Italian and mother is African American. She was crowned Miss San Francisco in 1997. Her mother worked for Lucasfilm. Her father is Italian and her mother is black. Parents divorced when she was 2; she was raised by her mother. Became a cheerleader in Junior High School to […]
Space Race
_______________________________________________________________________________________________________ NASA’s rover Curiosity successfully landed on Mars early Monday on a mission to better explore the red planet. Projects like this are considered difficult and even though the US has cut funding to NASA other countries are looking to compete in the new space race. China is spending more and more resources on space […]
A Dutch Company Wants To Colonize Mars By 2023
http://youtu.be/n4tgkyUBkbY
Some people aren’t content with merely taking pictures on the surface of Mars–they want to plant their flag and colonize the red planet as soon as possible.
http://mars-one.com/en/about-mars-one/team
Engineering An High-Tech Astronaut Suit For Space Tourism
http://www.fastcodesign.com/1670313/victorias-secret-costume-designer-now-engineering-an-high-tech-astronaut-suit-for-space-tour#1 Great Article! The huspa that these men displayed in moving forward with this project is commendable.
Intended for Global awareness.
Unfortunately A Common Assumption – Read this article
Thankfully through science and technology, Archaeologists have revealed the remains of what they say was a “high status” woman of African origin who lived in York during Roman times. http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/england/north_yorkshire/8538888.stm Roman remains in York are ‘elite’ African woman
Books and Documentary: Black Athena – Full version
Winner of the American Book Award and a Socialist Review Book Award What is classical about Classical Civilization? In one of the most audacious works of scholarship ever written, Martin Bernal challenges the whole basis of our thinking about this question. Classical civilization, he argues, has deep roots in Afroasiatic cultures. But these Afroasiatic influences […]
How it feels to have a stroke
Neuroanatomist Jill Bolte Taylor had an opportunity few brain scientists would wish for: One morning, she realized she was having a massive stroke. As it happened — as she felt her brain functions slip away one by one, speech, movement, understanding — she studied and remembered every moment. This is a powerful story about how […]
sade
Nationality: British Birth Name: Helen Folasade Adu Birth Place: Ibadan, Oyo State, Nigeria. Ethnicity: English and Yoruba Nigerian the British singer Sade Adu, was born to an English Mother and a Yoruba Nigerian Father. She was born in Nigeria and lived there until she was four was 4 years old. http://youtu.be/KWy3X7f4MyY Source: http://www.sade.com/gb/biography/ http://youtu.be/Jg7OgfFkkGA
Elisani Silva
Nationality and Ethnicity: Indigenous/Brazilian Brazilian born Elisane Silva is one of the world’s tallest teenagers at 6’9″ She’s around the age of 17 years. Her height hasn’t come without problems–she had to leave school and her parents don’t have enough money to determine the cause of or treat her inordinate growth. But Elisany […]
Model: Bruna Tenorio
Professor Gates: History and DNA
Haiti and The Dominican Republic- The Roots of Division http://youtu.be/6RlG4b3LV9o In the Dominican Republic, Professor Gates explores how race has been socially constructed in a society whose people reflect centuries of inter-marriage, and how the country’s troubled history with Haiti informs notions about racial classification. In Haiti, Professor Gates tells the story of the birth […]
Superficial Diversity
Mark Shriver briefly discusses his research efforts in the Department of Anthropology at Penn State University. Mr. Shriver Quote: “I had the result for two or three years before I even looked up the ID number of the person whom we tested. I looked at who it was and it was me! I checked myself and […]
Applachia’s Melungeon
“There were a whole lot of people upset by this study,” lead researcher Roberta Estes said. “They just knew they were Portuguese, or Native American.” In recent decades, interest in the origin of the Melungeons has risen dramatically with advances both in DNA research and in the advent of Internet resources that allow individuals to […]
Nairoby Matos
Kelly Gale
Juliana Imai
Nationality: Brazilian Ethnicity: Brazilian/Japanese Place of birth: Cruzeiro D’Oeste, Parana, Brasil http://youtu.be/9CtPzGXYwOQ http://youtu.be/CleyRmH8lMo
$3 Million award given to 9 Physicists
http://youtu.be/AWZPVS-5e5Q
http://fundamentalphysicsprize.org/
phyllis hyman
Nationality and Ethnicity: African American Deep-voiced and statuesque, Phyllis Hyman sang with a life-affirming energy and emotional intensity found in few other female vocalists. Born in Philadelphia in 1949 (and raised in Pittsburgh), her professional career began in New York City where, during an engagement, she was spotted by producer Norman Connors and contemporaries Jean Carne and Roberta Flack, among […]
Michael Michele
Nationality: American Ethnicity: African American and Caucasian Michael Michele has won acclaim for her portrayals of strong and capable women on television as well as in feature films. Born in Evansville, Indiana, on August 30, 1966, she, like practically everyone in the Hoosier State, grew up a big basketball fan. Michele played roundball […]