She is one of Brazil's most successful exports; a 1.80 metre (5ft 11in) supermodel whose meteoric rise to catwalk fame has transformed her into one of the wealthiest, most recognisable women on earth.

But Gisele BĂĽndchen's latest project, a lingerie campaign for the Brazilian label Hope, has appalled government officials in her homeland and led to calls for the "sexist" and "stereotyped" adverts to be axed.

The campaign includes several TV spots, one of which features a scantily-clad BĂĽndchen, trying to appease her husband after committing a series of marital blunders: crashing his car, maxing his credit card and, worst of all, inviting his mother-in-law to stay.

Bündchen's solution? To seduce her furious husband, using the company's new underwear line. The advert's voiceover tells viewers: "You're a Brazilian woman – use your charm".

Government officials from the women's secretariat in Brasilia failed to see the funny side, demanding it be pulled from television schedules.

"The campaign promotes the misguided stereotype of a woman as a sexual object of her husband and ignores the major advances we have achieved in deconstructing sexist practices and thinking," the secretariat said this week in a statement.

Officials said they had received at least six complaints from outraged viewers since the campaign went to air on 20 September.

Hassan Rahimpour Azghadi is a member of the Supreme Council of Cultural Revolution in Iran and a famous ideologue and Islamic theorist in the Islamic Republic of Iran. His lectures are aired on IRIB Channel 1 after the Friday Prayer every week. In his televised speeches titled “A Model for Tomorrow,” he addresses a variety of issues including Iran’s foreign policy. On Friday, September 23, 2011, Hassan Rahimpour Azghadi attended a gathering of Iran-Iraq War veterans and offered a plan for the country’s current and future foreign policy throughout the world. The following is an excerpt of his lecture aired on Friday, September 23, 2011:

A study to be published in the journal Psychological Science shows that many people harbor an anti-creativity bias that they are generally not aware of. Despite professing a desire for creative thinking, most people are actually unable to identify a creative idea when they encounter one.

Instead, they associate creativity with words like "agony," "vomit" and "poison". They also rejected novel ideas for products that employed new technologies.

The study, "The Bias Against Creativity: Why People Desire But Reject Creative Ideas," also revealed that novelty in itself made people squirm: test subjects did not like the idea of a nanotechnology-powered running shoe with the ability to adjust fabric thickness and reduce blisters. Even objective evidence was found not to reduce resistance to new ideas. Anti-creativity bias was found to be unconscious, like racism: the bias was also so subtle that they were simply unaware of it, leaving them unable to recognize creativity.

More at the link.

"24 Hours of Reality" will broadcast a presentation by Al Gore every hour for 24 hours across 24 different time zones from Wednesday to Thursday, with the aim of convincing climate change deniers and driving action against global warming among households, schools and businesses." Sez Roto Reuters.

Greater love hath no man than this, that a man lay down his life for his friends. John 15:13

What would a child’s drawing look like if it were painted realistically? The Monster Engine takes children’s drawings and paints them realistically. This project is probably one of my favorite projects. Check out some other drawings after the break.

More totally freaked out drawings at the link.