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Apr 7, 2011
Dansons: Franco-Algerian artist Zoulikha Bouadbellah’s bellydancing comment on the Marseillaise.
Apr 6, 2011
Human Terrain Systems and Montgomery McFate
The military uses and abuses of anthropology, from Northern Ireland to Afghanistan.
Apr 6, 2011
CHIANG MAI, Thailand — William Young, a missionary’s son who mixed evangelical zeal with covert missions for the C.I.A. in Southeast Asia and who helped organize the “secret war “ in Laos for the United States during the Vietnam War, died on Friday at his home here in northern Thailand. He was 76.William Young, Who Helped U.S. Organize Secret War in Laos, Is Dead at 76 - NYTimes.com
Apr 6, 2011
Immaculate Heart College Art Department rules, written by graphic artist Sister Corita Kent.
Apr 6, 2011
How to steal like an artist
All advice is autobiographical.
It’s one of my theories that when people give you advice, they’re really just talking to themselves in the past. This list is me talking to a previous version of myself.
Austin Kleon
Apr 6, 2011
Poles to Dinner: Charles Keeping drawing of Poles in London after the war.
Mar 28, 2011
Indirect Praise: A memorial to the kind of education British governments now think useless
Britain is entering a new constitutional period after a gigantic reduction of local government democracy, also the biggest sale of public property since the dissolution of the monasteries in 1540, the abolition of common land in the 1820s. Even Britain’s public water supply, the greatest…
Mar 28, 2011
Who?
Sofia Kovalevskaya: the first major Russian female mathematician, responsible for important original contributions to analysis, differential equations and mechanics, and the first woman appointed to a full professorship in Northern Europe. She was also a nihilist.
Henrietta Swan Leavitt: an American astronomer. A graduate of Radcliffe College, Leavitt went to work in 1893 at the Harvard College Observatory in a menial capacity as a ‘computer’, assigned to count images on photographic plates. Study of the plates led Leavitt to propound a groundbreaking theory, worked out while she laboured as a $10.50-a-week assistant, that was the basis for the pivotal work of astronomer Edwin Hubble. Leavitt’s discovery of the period-luminosity relation of Cepheid variables radically changed the theory of modern astronomy, an accomplishment for which she received almost no recognition during her lifetime.
Jocelyn Bell Burnell: a British astrophysicist who, as a postgraduate student, discovered the first radio pulsars. Her supervisors received the Nobel Prize: she did not.
Mar 28, 2011
'Empowering but not consolatory': RIP Diana Wynne Jones
One of the darkest and funniest of late 20th century children’s writers. Farah Mendlesohn writes:
Diana’s books are empowering but not consolatory: in many, lonely, neglected children such as David, in Eight Days of Luke, Kathleen in Dogsbody, or the sisters in Time of the Ghost, learn to fight back against the adults who control their lives with careless cruelty, but too often learn that they can’t fight back without help, or must wait until they grow older and until then must simply survive. Sometimes, as in The Spellcoats, it is not clear that the children do survive.
Feb 1, 2011
From Adrienne Rich’s ‘Shooting Script’
Courtesy of the extraordinary Needled:
“Whatever it was, the image that stopped you, the one on which you
came to grief, projecting it over & over on empty walls.
Now to give up the temptations of the projector; to see instead the
web of cracks filtering across the plaster.
To read there the map of the future, the roads radiating from the
initial split, the filaments thrown out from that impasse.
To reread the instructions on your palm; to find there how the
lifeline, broken, keeps its direction.
To read the etched rays of the bullet-hole left years ago in the
glass; to know in every distortion of the light what fracture is.
To put the prism in your pocket, the thin glass lens, the map
of the inner city, the little book with gridded pages.
To pull yourself up by your own roots; to eat the last meal in
your old neighborhood.”
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