Google Doodles

[brokeplex]

Giovanni Schiaparelli

this I like!

[Shasta542]

From the national "Doodle for Google" winner. She is in school---I don't know which grade. The theme was something like -- My wish for the world.

[Penthesilea]

From the national "Doodle for Google" winner. She is in school---I don't know which grade. The theme was something like -- My wish for the world.

Another case of different countries having different google doodles. Yesterday, we had this one:

Darwin, of course, and something about missing link. I don't know if something has been
in the news lately (if they recently found another missing link or something)

[Penthesilea]

Google Doodle of today, May22nd. Birthday of Mary Cassatt.

From wiki:
Mary Stevenson Cassatt (May 22, 1844 – June 14, 1926) (pronounced [kəˈsæt]) was an American painter and printmaker. She lived much of her adult life in France, where she first befriended Edgar Degas and later exhibited among the Impressionists.

Cassatt often created images of the social and private lives of women, with particular emphasis on the intimate bonds between mothers and children.

[Shasta542]

We have that one today. I think it's so pretty with the muted pastels.

The missing link one was up here the day before the little prize winner's doodle, so I did see that one too.

Yes--there was a news story just this week that those bones were found---don't recall where. 

[Fran]

As for the "missing link" story, here you go:

http://news.sky.com/skynews/Home/World-News/Missing-Link-Scientists-In-New-York-Unveil-Fossil-Of-Lemur-Monkey-Hailed-As-Mans-Earliest-Ancestor/Article/200905315284582

Scientists Unveil Missing Link In Evolution

10:16pm UK, Wednesday May 20, 2009
Alex Watts, Sky News Online

Scientists have unveiled a 47-million-year-old fossilised skeleton of a monkey hailed as the missing link in human evolution.

The search for a direct connection between humans and the rest of the animal kingdom has taken 200 years - but it was presented to the world today at a special news conference in New York.

The discovery of the 95%-complete 'lemur monkey' - dubbed Ida - is described by experts as the "eighth wonder of the world".

They say its impact on the world of palaeontology will be "somewhat like an asteroid falling down to Earth".
Researchers say proof of this transitional species finally confirms Charles Darwin's theory of evolution, and the then radical, outlandish ideas he came up with during his time aboard the Beagle.

Sir David Attenborough said Darwin "would have been thrilled" to have seen the fossil - and says it tells us who we are and where we came from.

[youtube=425,350]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pI-7PFN_4wE[/youtube]

[Shasta542]

Sir David Attenborough said Darwin "would have been thrilled" to have seen the fossil - and says it tells us who we are and where we came from.

Not me. 

[Fran]

I think it's so pretty with the muted pastels.

I totally agree. 

[Fran]

Sir David Attenborough said Darwin "would have been thrilled" to have seen the fossil - and says it tells us who we are and where we came from.

Not me. 

Shasta, as they say, you can choose your friends, but you can't choose your family.   

[Penthesilea]

60 years anniversary of the Grundgesetz (constitution) of Germany