November 2011
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October 2011
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September 2011
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August 2011
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WatchEarthquake on Tuesday. Hurricane on Saturday. Just another week in the life.
July 2011
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Joe McCarthy was a slippery m***** f*****
We watched the 1964 documentary Point of Order last night which is simply an edit of the film shot during the Senate Army McCarthy hearings that took place in April and June of 1954, and was broadcast live across the United States. The hearings were ostensibly over allegations McCarthy made that Communist subversives had infiltrated the United States Army.
Point of Order captures the hearings...
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“The most interesting finding is that students majoring in liberal-arts...”
– Louis Menand writes in defense of education as a method for exposing people to knowledge of the world rather than as strictly a path to a job. He observes the difference in the performance of liberal arts and business majors on the Collegiate Learning Assessment (CLA), which seeks to measure...
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“One of the seats of emotion and memory in the brain is the amygdala, he...”
– Brain scientist David Eagleman on why fight or flight moments shift time into slow motion and our familiar routines cause time to seem to pass fast. From an article on his work by Burkhard Bilger in the April 25, 2011 issue of the New Yorker.
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Winter Soldier
Perhaps the most terrible thing about the Vietnam war is that in fighting it the primary metric of success was body counts. This fact was the foundation of perverse incentive structure that encouraged American soldiers to kill people indiscriminately. The all-encompassing pointless terribleness of that war is the major current in testimonies of the American soldiers recorded in the 1972...
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six dams and six reservoirs – mammoth // building... →
For the American landscape is an engineered space file.
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“Nicholas Roerich, once a world-famous painter and renowned mystic who lent his...”
– Chris Wiley, “Utopia on the Roof of the World” Cabinet 27 (Fall 2007)
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June 2011
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“Often when a Boundary man was ordered to the field, and so relieved of paper...”
– Arthur Ringland on Forest boundaries and Cocktail origins. Arthur C Ringland, “Conserving Human and Natural Resources,” University of California, Regional Oral History Office, Bancroft Library, Berkeley, CA (1970).
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“I ask, ‘Where will you sleep?’
‘Mainly camping,’ he...”
– Leslie Jamison, “The Immortal Horizon” Believer (May 2011).
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“The automobile is our worst polluter of the air. Adequate control requires...”
– Words of wisdom from Richard Nixon’s 1970 State of the Union address.
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“The relationship between experts and officials calls to mind the three models...”
– Excerpt from a message sent by Robert Lewis of the Geography Department of Toronto to the H-Urban email list on June 9, 2011.
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D.C. is a great place to live. →
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“The engineering feat, called the South-North Water Diversion Project, is China’s...”
– This dwarfs any hydro-engineering project built in North America. Unbelievable, really. Both the reason: drought, and the scale: huge. Worth a read. NYT.
May 2011
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“Cairo, a historic town of 2,800 people located at the confluence of the Ohio and...”
– “Waters still rising around evacuated Cairo, Illinois” published to the internet by the Environmental News Network on May 2, 2011.
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“Hoop houses are greenhouses without any source of heat other than the sun....”
– Bulletin from the Kerr Center for Sustainable Agriculture in Poteau, Oklahoma on how to build a hoop house. Posted to the Oklahoma Sustainability Network email list on May 5, 2011.
April 2011
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