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As 26 Looted Treasures Go on View in Benin Republic, the West African Cultural Community Is Asking: What Happens Next? | Artnet News

Tobi Onabolu, March 11, 2022 A woman photographs anthropo-zoomorphic statues depicting King Glele (L)and King Behanzin (R) during an exhibition of returned looted Benin artefacts and exhibition of contemoprary artworks at the presidency in Benin’s capital Cotonou, on February 18, … Continue reading

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Why Time Actually Flows Both Ways

[…] *Creator* Jade Tan-Holmes *Animations* Tom Groenestyn *Sound Design and Music* Junior Arruda https://www.youtube.com/c/iamaduo https://www.epidemicsound.com/ https://open.spotify.com/artist/1D30m… *cool physics/math posters* displate.com *Sources and Further Reading* The Direction of Time by Hans Reichenbach https://arxiv.org/pdf/physics/0511090… https://williamhoover.info/Scans1980s… https://inspirehep.net/literature/176… Click to access 0912.1756.pdf https://hal.archives-ouvertes.fr/hal-… https://www.wolframscience.com/refere… … Continue reading

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Explore and Download Over 220,000 Japanese Woodblock Prints | My Modern Met

By Madeleine Muzdakis on March 13, 2022 “Actors Arashi Kitsusaburô (R) and Sawamura Kunitarô (L),” Ukiyo-e print by Gigado Ashiyuki, 1828. (Photo: MFA via ukiyo-e.org) Known as ukiyo-e, the woodblock prints depict famous scenes from literature, theater, and beyond. Japan … Continue reading

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Why the Dutch do something no Spaniard dares to do – BBC REEL

Windows connect the interior of our cosy homes to the outside world. Numerous innovative devices have been invented to regulate this delicate relationship between our private and public lives through history and culture. Strangely, in Spain, a specific type of … Continue reading

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Converted London Church Is Now A Swimming Pool With Gothic Architecture – DesignTAXI.com

By Mikelle Leow, 07 Mar 2022 Fitness devotees may find enlightenment here. Throughout its life, this building in Essex has pretty much nourished the mind, body, and spirit. The mind was (maybe) taken care of when it opened as a … Continue reading

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Whiteys Lindy Hoppers .. Hellzapoppin.

Probably the greatest Lindy hop sequence ever filmed. Whitey’s Lindy Hoppers from the 1941 film Helzapoppin. See also … https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=di-a-… .. https://youtu.be/s88bDWlWH0w http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m34eD2..

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May We Have This Dance? : Rough Translation | NPR

JUSTINE YAN. GREGORY WARNER LaTasha Barnes is a tradition-bearer of Black social dances, including the Lindy Hop. A jazz dance born in Harlem in the 1920s ends up in a tiny Swedish town. What happens when Black dancers try to … Continue reading

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What are the Mario Brothers overalls made of??! Denim Denim Denim | Hank Green

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Let’s talk about a Russian article from the future….

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In 1980, two feuding professors bet on the fate of humanity. Who won? | Aeon Videos

How a $1,000 scholarly bet between a biologist and an economist shifted the way the world understood population growth n 1968, The Population Bomb by the Stanford biologist Paul Ehrlich became a bestseller. With its foreboding thesis that humanity’s population … Continue reading

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