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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…
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In the Alamo Myth, the Texas Revolution is a battle for freedom against the imperial domination of Mexico. But actually, the 1824 constitution established after the Mexican revolution from Spain did away with slavery. The Southern slavers who had emigrated to Texas came up with a variety of dodges to keep their slaves, and figured…
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newmuseum: sulkcity: Went to new dimensions today. // C The 2015 Triennial: “Surround Audience” is on view through May 24.
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7electrons: In the News – LACMA/Hyundai supports Art + Technology LACMA and Hyundai Motor Company just announced The Hyundai Project – a brand new 10 year partnership in creating a Art + Technology and Korean Art Scholarships. Hyundai will be sponsoring exhibitions that address the intersection of Art + Technology and “champion technology-based artist projects through…
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austinkleon: Andy Warhol’s cow wallpaper warhol: Artists find inspiration everywhere. Image 1: Andy Warhol source material for Cow Wallpaper, 1965 ©AWF Image 2: Andy WarholCow Wallpaper, 1966 ©AWF Can I just say how delighted I am that The Warhol Museum tumblr reblogged me? If only I could get to Pittsburgh to see that Corita Kent show…
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latino-diversity: Colombian children play in front of a grocery store advertising products in Palenquero Palenquero is Latin America’s only surviving African-Spanish creole, that is spoken natively as a first language. Its speakers are based in the maroon town of San Basilio de Palenque on the Caribbean coast of Colombia. Palenque is considered to be the first…
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“UNESCO MGIEP is calling for proposals to design a digital simulation game with high-end graphics intended to help undergraduate students in economics and sustainability studies to understand the principles and implications of the Inclusive Wealth Index.” “Working on the basis of data collected over 21 years from 140 countries, the game is intended to complement…