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The Early Disruptors: 7 Masterpieces of ‘90s Net Art Everyone Should Know About
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We need to sit on the rim of the well of darkness and fish for fallen light with patience. Pablo Neruda, The Sea and the Bells (via whyallcaps)
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so-books: Donald Judd Complete Writings 1959-1975
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archiemcphee: These whimsical wooden automata are the creations of contemporary Japanese woodworker Kazuaki Harada. We’re particularly fond of the dancing ham and veggies. After first spending a year studying under English master automata-maker Matt Smith, Harada began crafting his own automatons in 2002. His playful pieces vary in both size and complexity, but all are…
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Survey: The State of Adjunct Professors
Survey: The State of Adjunct Professors lasmaracuyas: In our new survey, 62 percent of adjuncts say they make less than $20,000 a year from teaching, and 88 percent say working with students is their favorite part.
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For years, I opened my 11th-grade U.S. history classes by asking students, “What’s the name of that guy they say discovered America?” A few students might object to the word “discover,” but they all knew the fellow I was talking about. “Christopher Columbus!” several called out in unison. “Right. So who did he find when…
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Stunning board-game history book
mostlysignssomeportents: “The Games We Played: The Golden Age of Board and Table Games,“ is a stunningly illustrated book from an academic press, collecting board and token-art from a museum collection of boardgames.
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text-mode: Photos of buildings. Automonuments by Niz Rozenberg.
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Our industrial civilization has been pouring carbon dioxide into the atmosphere at a great rate. By the year 2000 we will have added about 70 percent more carbon dioxide to the atmosphere. If it remained, it would have a very marked warming effect on the earth’s climate, but most of it will probably be absorbed…
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Vatican astronomer denounces Creationism as “paganism”
mostlysignssomeportents: A Vatican Astronomer (a surprisingly hoopy frood, incidentally) has denounced Creationism and the idea that the universe was created in seven days as “superstition” and “paganism” at a speech at the Glasgow Science Centre. He also called Papal Infallability a “PR disaster.” Read the rest…