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Colombian archaeologists have found remains of what they think is the first Spanish settlement in the Americas, the scientists said Saturday. According to the archaeologists, the remains belong to the city of Santa Maria la Antigua del Darien that was discovered on the border with Panama in 2002. “We have found majolica pottery, swords, firearms,…
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Also on view is a fascinating invented game known as Panajedrez, Panjuego, and Ajedrez criollo – or Panchess, Pangame and Creole chess. The wordplay reflects the multiple facets of the game: a visual, textual, and symbolic lexicon invented by the artist drawing from existing sign systems; a supremely challenging test of strategy made more complex…
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Read Heidegger Get power supply for Raspberry Pi Buy silicon for casting But wool felt for plush doll
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I’m interested in how organisms adapt to the Anthropocene, as opposed to the Sierra Club ‘conserve and preserve’ way of thinking. Natalie Jeremijenko, in: ‘The Artist Who Talks With the Fishes’ (2013)
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jomc: What made you perceive the disruptive potential of the Internet in relation to the politics of information as something necessary at that time? Deborah: I think the politics of these “new technology" people in the design world is very problematic. Architects are by and large engaged in a kind of ornamental politics—a telegenic, photogenic…
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npr: I Bet I Can Create A 25 Million-Year-Old False Alarm, Says Biologist E.O. Wilson The world’s most famous ant-scholar likes to daydream. “So much good science — and perhaps all of great science,“ he writes in his new book "has its roots in fantasy.” Here’s his. After seeing Jurassic Park, where scientists clone dinosaurs from the blood…
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What do you think about the unprecedented degree of notoriety Wikileaks has achieved with the release of the US diplomatic cables? John: There are a number of information activists who are concerned about whistle-blowing organisations going too far, triggering a crackdown on journalism. They say we have to be careful we don’t really offend people…
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hyperallergic: Cooper Occupation Ends With Agreement, Amnesty for Activists Students, faculty, and trustees meet at alumnus Michael Lebron’s house in Cooper Square (image via… View Post
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Top Colleges Discourage Students From Careers in Teaching
Top Colleges Discourage Students From Careers in Teaching stoweboyd: infoneer-pulse: infoneer-pulse: In a professor’s office during my freshman year of college, I had to do it yet again: defend my decision to study elementary education. My professor—someone who, of course, was an educator—asked why I would want to teach young children and suggested that I…
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tag poem for the 2013 High Ground Design Conversation
ubiquitous artificial clouds who owns the rain forests amazon, rivers and services geographic data adventurers attempting to assert agency naked and afraid baring our souls through our hand held bonfires bringing those far and dear present and near failed animals arms forward fallen from grace de centered and trending cartographies of lactose intolerant to distances…