Category Archives: General

3 things to do this weekend in Manchester (25 – 27 October, 2013)

Originally posted on The Visit Manchester Blog:
Manchester Science Festival Stuck for things to do this weekend? Here’s our top 3 suggestions for what to get up to, plus some bonus suggestions from our social media pals. Discover the best…

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Manchester Christmas markets: A guide

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Originally posted on Art a day:
Up on the top of sand dunes, Jericoacoara, Brazil

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Lies, Damned Lies…and Cities

Originally posted on RICHARD J WILLIAMS:
A short post about cities and statistics: Cities are remarkably hard to define. You would think otherwise, given the amount of data we have at our disposal. There are few cities on earth that…

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Carpark

Originally posted on purple woods:
A really fun short animation video by Birdbox Studio :°D Enjoy! http://youtu.be/iTWuZav-elY

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Mellow frenzy

Originally posted on Flat Earth, Big Sky:
Autumn has a sadness to it as days grow short and cold and vegetation dies all around us. Yet it has its own energy and pace; the dying plants are reproducing, new life…

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A language without numbers

Originally posted on It's Interesting:
The Pirahã are an indigenous people, numbering around 700, living along the banks of the Maici River in the jungle of northwest Brazil. Their language, also called Pirahã, is so unusual in so many…

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Weird weather

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‘Darn that Picasso’ – a Manchester Weekender event to remember

Originally posted on Working Class Movement Library:
On 26 April this year, the anniversary of the aerial bombing of the town of Gernika in 1937 which led Picasso to paint his sombrely magnificent Guernica, we published a blog posting introducing…

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In The Garden of Money

Originally posted on Pax Lupo:
In the garden of money Resentment blooms. In the jazz music world there has been a steady deterioration of the artist’s economy for at least forty years. This decline began with desegregation and rising real…

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