15 August, 2011
19:03
I really don’t have time to keep this up; therefore, it’s on official hiatus for now. <3
24 February, 2011
16:00
As others have observed, the War on Terror is really a War on the Unusual -- it's the systematic erosion of rights for people with nonstandard appearance, health, itineraries, and beliefs, without regard to whether those "irregularities" are correlated with terrorist activity.
08:00
Keep in mind that it's standard practice to look at primers and textbooks. These games serve the exact same function -- and may even be better at getting the information to stick -- and yet they've received no critical attention. We just don't know the geopolitics of Carmen Sandiego, and in some sense, it's really important to find out. What did the game include about history? More importantly, given the brevity of the information presented, what did it exclude? Were there outright falsehoods in these games or racial, ethnic, or gender biases? We don't know the answers to any of these questions.
23 February, 2011
16:00
Please respect FT.com's ts&cs and copyright policy which allow you to: share links; copy content for personal use; & redistribute limited extracts. Email ftsales.support@ft.com to buy additional rights or use this link to reference the article - http://www.ft.com/cms/s/2/5905c640-2359-11e0-8389-00144feab49a.html#ixzz1Ee1U3Lnq By his own account, he had spent nigh on three decades forging and donating paintings as a tribute to his parents. It had become his life’s work and he did not want to stop.
08:00
This was one of my early TON posts, but it’s one of my favorites.
22 February, 2011
16:00
Griffins weighing several tons, sphinxes made of basalt and strange "scorpion bird men" were on display at Oppenheim's new museum. The mythical creatures were from a buried fortress on the edge of the Syrian desert dating back almost 3,000 years. ... But then World War II broke out. In 1943, Allied phosphorus bombs rained down on the statues from the Middle East, setting off a 900-degree Celsius (1,650 degrees Fahrenheit) inferno. As the fire was being extinguished, the sculptures shattered, leaving behind 27,000 pieces of basalt, some no bigger than a human thumb, which spent the Cold War stored in a basement.
08:00
The main discrepancy with earlier stories is that apparently alarms were activated, "Amid the chaos, museum officials and police knew that one or more people had entered the main building when motion sensors set off alarms." According to this version of the break in, this should have been sufficient to prevent theft because there were 65 police on duty; however, "The head of the museum police says that his men, about 65 in all, were far outnumbered..." Outnumbered, that is, by between one and four men who were inside the museum.
17 February, 2011
08:00
The UA's team was able to push back the presumed age of the Voynich manuscript by 100 years, a discovery that killed some of the previously held hypotheses about its origins and history.
16 February, 2011
16:00
It was an uncanny spectacle: the very real rubble of the Motor City’s industrial economy serving as the movie backdrop for post-industrial America’s paranoid fantasies of national victimization. What made it even weirder was the fact that the film’s producers just left the posters hanging when they packed up. A red-and-yellow poster on that same parking garage assured us for weeks afterward that our new rulers were “here to help.”
08:00
"Falafel consumption in moderation and in conjunction with other food items or beverages containing high antioxidant levels can be considered as safe."
