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Numerous studies in fields ranging from social psychology to magazine cover design have proved that nothing grabs people’s attention more than other people, especially other people’s faces. We are hard-wired with a desire for congenial places to gather. That’s why it’s particularly surprising how much we overlook the importance of public places today. Jay Walljesper…
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SKULLFOOD: NEW MODEL SF
SKULLFOOD: NEW MODEL SF kidshirt: Assume the following to be true: 1) Within 10 – 20 years there will be so much degraded space-junk and ping-ponging micro-debris in orbit that launching satellites, let alone leaving the Earth on a space ship will become impossible, so Mankind will become auto-imprisoned on our own planet. Scratch rocket-ships…
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Bogotá had been “a cause,” as Mr. Mockus put it. Now it has become a problem. “We’re Latin,” he explained. A deadpan, wry, highly unconventional politician and former mathematics and philosophy professor, Mr. Mockus famously mooned student protesters as a university president and as mayor went on television while taking a shower to demonstrate the…
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Colombian writer Gabriel Garcia Marquez is suffering from dementia and has been forced to stop writing, his brother told students at a lecture in Cartagena, reports the BBC. Jaime Garcia Marquez is the first to talk about his brother’s health woes publicly as the number of rumors surrounding his memory problems have increased. The Nobel…
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Aboriginal Musicians ‘Band’ Together To Expose Oppression
Aboriginal Musicians ‘Band’ Together To Expose Oppression npr: “The aboriginal rights movement in Australia parallels the American Indian movement in this country, with similar goals: land rights, self determination, cultural acceptance. There is also day-to-day discrimination. Morris says last year she performed at the Sydney Opera House, a crowning achievement for an Australian artist. She…
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Who Do You Write For? Our Survey of Art Critics in the Media Continues… | Blog | Frieze Publishing
Who Do You Write For? Our Survey of Art Critics in the Media Continues… | Blog | Frieze Publishing towerofsleep: In conjunction with frieze’s summer issue, which looks at art’s currency within the wider culture, we asked art critics and editors of cultural publications and media to tell us how they see the role of…
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Lessig Blog, v2: On the fight for liberty: July 4, 2012
Lessig Blog, v2: On the fight for liberty: July 4, 2012 lessig: Bassel by Joi Ito, on Flickr Today, in America, we celebrate the declaration of our independence from Britain. If you read the list of wrongs that led those Americans to “dissolve the bands” which tied them to their forebears, and contrast them to…