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Small games can be vital tools to capture public attention, highlight issues in accessible ways, and even help motivate people to act. Real Baku 2015, by designer and academic Pippin Barr, is a new, timely and beautifully-simple addition to this can (via This game sheds light on human rights abuses in Azerbaijan – Boing Boing)
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Not only will Ford direct all of its money and influence to curbing financial, racial, gender, and other inequities, but it will give lots more money in a way grantees have been clamoring for: It hopes to double the total it gives in the form of unrestricted grants for operating support. The doubling of general…
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Call for Chapter Proposals: Topographies of Whiteness: Mapping Whiteness in Library and Information Science
Topographies of Whiteness: Mapping Whiteness in Library and Information Science Editor: Gina Schlesselman-Tarango Expected: April 2017 ISBN: 978-1-63400-022-2 Call for Proposals: From the materials libraries and archives collect to the spaces they design and inhabit, whiteness can be mapped and traced in library and information science (LIS). Exploring the diverse terrain of LIS, this edited…
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Whichever of the competing strategies for saving crop diversity is the right one – in seed banks or in the fields – the reality is that both approaches are starved of support. What has become clear to Haga is that the seed banks are in a terrible state. The material in storage is ageing dangerously…
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reblog: Austin Kleon on James Brown
austinkleon: Mr. Dynamite: The Rise of James Brown A documentary that focuses mostly on the music and its social context, and almost not at all on Brown’s personal life, or sad later years (the title is “the rise” not “the rise and fall”), and therefore functions as a great introduction to what made Brown so…
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nprbooks: Poetry readers, prepare yourselves for a passing of the laurels. The Library of Congress announced in the wee hours Wednesday that the next U.S. poet laureate will be California writer Juan Felipe Herrera. He will be the first Latino poet to be appointed to the position. “This is a mega-honor for me,” Herrera said…
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additivism: Why Needle And Thread Is Still Some Of The World’s Most Incredible Tech If you’re compiling a list of the most important technologies of our age, you may start with the personal computer, phones, maybe a nod towards the highway system. But, hey, how about a needle and thread? Should that be in there,…
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currentsnewmedia: David Stout & Cory Metcalf of Noisefold working on their installation, Emblems of Ascension. #CURRENTS2015
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Why Science Fiction Is a Fabulous Tool in the Fight for Social Justice
Why Science Fiction Is a Fabulous Tool in the Fight for Social Justice todoelajo: seeing Brown speak tonight!
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cinoh: iGNANT.de – Transustainable House by Sugawara Daisuke