Creating peoples' geographies
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Fri, 02/05/2010 - 17:02
I love the interweaving of complex mathematical models of space with ‘feminine domestic handicraft’ here, as well as the idea of a playtank and bringing mathematics into the minds and...
Sun, 01/31/2010 - 16:09
Yoav Shamir’s memorable, must-see Defamation is by turns hilarious, profound and disturbing. It recently aired on the UK’s Channel 4 True Stories series. It is featured it here below in...
Sun, 01/31/2010 - 16:06
Meanwhile, while 50 Members of the US Congress have joined Ellison, McCollum and Oberstar in urging Obama to lift the blockade of Gaza, Gaza’s agony continues and the hafrada regime’s...
Thu, 01/07/2010 - 19:37
An excellent TED talk by Wade Davis on endangered languages and the ethnosphere. National Geographic Explorer Wade Davis celebrates the extraordinary diversity of the world’s indigenous...
Sun, 12/20/2009 - 12:09
From Michael Leunig (cartoons site). Check out a selection of Leunig cartoons posted here.
Articles (selection) by Leunig
* Lest we forget the ultimate price of warfare, The Age, 23 April 2005
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Fri, 12/18/2009 - 15:03
Spot on song from a bunch of friends in Wiltshire in the UK who put this together. In case you don’t already know, its a parody off Band Aid’s Do they Know Its Christmas? (1984). Its...
Wed, 12/16/2009 - 07:27
US Labor for Palestine have a terrific Open Letter from U.S. Trade Unionists to AFL-CIO President Richard Trumka: Boycott Apartheid Israel, with thanks to Charlotte Kates of L4P.
Sanctions alone...
Mon, 12/14/2009 - 05:51
Mark Braverman draws upon his own journey as a US-raised Jew with a Jewish Palestinian family background and frankly — refreshingly! — talks about the connection between Jewish identity...