Prehistoric Pornography

IT COULD be cave man pornography. Researchers have discovered illustrations of female anatomy in a rock shelter in France that date back 37,000 years. It is ”the oldest evidence of any kind of graphic imagery”, said Randall White, an anthropologist at New York University and one of the researchers working on the project.

Eye of Horus is Actually a Mathematical Problem

The Eye of Horus is, from a design standpoint, both beautiful and iconic. And whoever created it might have been thinking of exactly that while dreaming it up. But it’s not just a stylish symbol. It has a deeper meaning: The Egyptians used it to express fractions of volume. Each stroke counts for a subdivided piece of the whole.