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The Rural Modern Library 3 Sep 2012 | 08:00 pm
The new generation of local Washington, DC public libraries coming on line have been referred to as "striking ... buildings that sit like aliens in their neighborhoods, thoroughly unlike their surroun...
Rural Modern Library 3 Sep 2012 | 08:00 pm
The new generation of local Washington, DC public libraries coming on line have been referred to as "striking ... buildings that sit like aliens in their neighborhoods, thoroughly unlike their surroun...
South Africa's Great Advertising [Creative] Divide 31 Aug 2012 | 04:30 pm
Over @ the Daily Maverick, Mandy de Waal has a much discussed piece about South Africa’s extremely white advertising industry, and why she thinks it continues as "a colonial enclave where racial polar...
South Africa's Great Advertising [Creative] Divide 31 Aug 2012 | 04:30 pm
Over @ the Daily Maverick, Mandy de Waal has a much discussed piece about South Africa’s extremely white advertising industry, and why she thinks it continues as "a colonial enclave where racial polar...
More on How a Single Spot in the Sahara Desert Creates the Amazon Jungle 29 Aug 2012 | 03:54 pm
In case you missed it, a 2006 paper titled "The Bodélé depression: a single spot in the Sahara that provides most of the mineral dust to the Amazon forest" was recently dug up by science writer Colin ...
More on How a Single Spot in the Sahara Desert Creates the Amazon Jungle 29 Aug 2012 | 03:54 pm
In case you missed it, a 2006 paper titled "The Bodélé depression: a single spot in the Sahara that provides most of the mineral dust to the Amazon forest" was recently dug up by science writer Colin ...
Africans in the '60s - Liberation and Neil Armstrong's Moon Landing 27 Aug 2012 | 02:35 pm
The sad news of Neil Armstrong's passing offers a chance to revisit how much the idea of space travel and race to land a man on the moon also had a powerful hold over the popular imagination of many A...
Africans in the '60s - Liberation and Neil Armstrong's Moon Landing 27 Aug 2012 | 02:35 pm
The sad news of Neil Armstrong's passing offers a chance to revisit how much the idea of space travel and race to land a man on the moon also had a powerful hold over the popular imagination of many A...
"How Modern Jazz Figured in the Formation of a Modern African Identity" and Other Recent Jazz Writing 30 Jul 2012 | 05:52 pm
Robin D.G Kelly in Africa Speaks, America Answers: Modern Jazz in Revolutionary Times (Nathan I Huggins Lectures) (published February 2012), gives us a meditation on Africa, jazz and modernity: we see...
"How Modern Jazz Figured in the Formation of a Modern African Identity" and Other Recent Jazz Writing 30 Jul 2012 | 05:52 pm
Robin D.G Kelly in Africa Speaks, America Answers: Modern Jazz in Revolutionary Times (Nathan I Huggins Lectures) (published February 2012), gives us a meditation on Africa, jazz and modernity: we see...
