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The Sexy Robert Pattinson

With his puppy-dog eyes, delicate features, and rakishly messy hair, Robert Pattinson is that special kind of sexy that only grows in foggy London. He began his acting career in 2005 as Harry Potter’s rival, the doomed hero Cedric Diggory in Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire. Robert made audiences weak-kneed as the tall, gorgeous, Quidditch-playing first victim of the returned Lord Voldemort, outshining even Daniel Radcliffe. But soon Robert went from being a bit player in someone else’s teen-oriented pop-culture juggernaut to being the center of his own when he was cast as painfully hot perpetually teenaged vampire Edward Cullen in Twilight (2008). Over the next four years, audiences, and Bella Swan (Kristen Stewart), vacillated between the faraway stare and quiet power of Edward the v...

The mystery of the missing portrait of Robert Hooke, 17th-century scientist extraordinaire

Groundbreaking discoveries in science often come with two iconic images, one representing the breakthrough and the other, the discoverer. Known as Mary Beale’s ‘Portrait of a Mathematician,’ could the circa 1680 painting depict Hooke? Mary Beale, CC BY For example, the page from Darwin’s notebook sketching the branching pattern of evolution often accompanies a portrait of Darwin in his early years when the notebook was written. Likewise the drawing of the orbits of the moons of Jupiter often accompanies a portrait of Galileo. Hooke’s famous etching of the tiny magnified cells he saw in a piece of cork. Robert Hooke, Micrographia, 1665/Wikimedia Commons, CC BY Another groundbreaking discovery in science was the discovery of the cell by Robert Hooke (1635-1703). The iconic image of the brea...

Latest legal hurdle to removing Confederate statues in Virginia: The wishes of their long-dead white donors

A controversial statue of Robert E. Lee will remain in place in Richmond, the former capital of the American Confederacy –- at least temporarily. On June 18, a judge extended an injunction barring the removal of the Confederate general’s statue, stating that “the monument is the property of the people,” not the state of Virginia, which seeks its removal. In early June Virginia Gov. Ralph Northam vowed to dismantle the prominent Lee statue in Richmond, the state capital, following sustained, nationwide protests over police brutality and racism. That plan was blocked by a 10-day court injunction – now extended through late July – based on the petition of a man whose ancestor, Otway Allen, gave Virginia the land the the sculpture sits on. In his petition, William C. Gregory claimed that di...