BANKSY, Cardinal Sinhttp://www.independent.co.uk/environment/climate-change/shock-as-retreat-of-arctic-sea-ice-releases-deadly-greenhouse-gas-6276134.html Anselm Kiefer: 'Art is difficult, it's not entertainment' | Art and design | The Guardian http://u152.org/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=48:opinion-celtic-italy-and-u152&catid=1:latest-news Earliest Human Beds Found in South Africa - ScienceNOW http://www.guardian.co.uk/science/2011/dec/04/bronze-age-archaeology-fenland http://www.wired.com/wiredscience/2011/12/quantum-physics-photosynthesis/
William Powhida, Postmasters, NYC, October 22 - November 26, 2011 (also Griftopia piece, fr. Matt Taibbi's book [[[[ http://www.amazon.co.uk/Griftopia-Machines-Vampire-Breaking-America/dp/0385529953 ]]]]) Occupy Museums protested the anti-democratic policies of Lincoln Center and Bloomberg on the last performance of Satyagraha Thursday December 1, 2011 at 10:30PM.
http://www.nyartsmagazine.com/printed/philip-glass-joins-occupy-museums-at-lincoln-center Scottish island with planning permission comes onto the market 385k http://www.propertywire.com/news/europe/scotland-island-for-sale-201111215806.html http://gu.com/p/33thv The shocking truth about the crackdown on Occupy The violent police assaults across the US are no coincidence. Occupy has touched the third rail of our political class's venality * o * Comments (969) * wolf * o Naomi Wolf o guardian.co.uk, Friday 25 November 2011 17.25 GMT o Article history LHC antimatter anomaly hints at new physics - physics-math - 23 November 2011 - New Scientist http://www.monbiot.com/2011/11/07/the-self-attribution-fallacy/ http://www.nytimes.com/2011/11/20/books/review/the-angel-esmeralda-nine-stories-by-don-delillo-book-review.html Books Don DeLillo and the Varieties of American Unease By LIESL SCHILLINGER Published: November 17, 2011 Each of the stories in Don DeLillo’s collection addresses a different kind of unease. http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-2059455/The-camera-DOES-lie-Proof-lens-difference-pretty-pretty-ugly.html
Creative genius: Artist Pablo Picasso pictured as he painted with light ||||||||||||||| Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2058710/Laughing-face-Great-Depression-LIFE-magazine-photos-glimpse-decades-past.html 
The medieval, unaccountable Corporation of London is ripe for protest
Working beyond the authority of parliament, the Corporation of London undermines all attempts to curb the excesses of finance * o George Monbiot o guardian.co.uk, Monday 31 October 2011 21.00 GMT o short address http://gu.com/p/333xbWorld's most powerful laser to tear apart the vacuum of space http://www.telegraph.co.uk/science/science-news/8857154/Worlds-most-powerful-laser-to-tear-apart-the-vacuum-of-space.html 31 october telegraphThe Seaweed Trail: Peopling the Americas, 12 Oct 11 Keith Davis, Past Horizons
Read more >> http://www.pasthorizonspr.com/index.php/archives/10/2011/the-seaweed-trail-peopling-the-americas#ixzz1bRM2yquB
Read the Archaeology News - then buy the Trowel at Past Horizons Tools
"Revealed – the capitalist network that runs the world - physics-math - 19 October 2011 - New Scientist
A woman hugs a wounded relative inside a mosque use as a hospital by Anti-Saleh demonstrators, during clashes on Saturday in Sanaa, Yemen. World
Airstrikes Hit Yemen; Violence Escalates in Sana
By LAURA KASINOF
Published: October 15, 2011
Airstrikes, believed to be carried out by American drones, killed at least nine people while fighting escalated in the capital, Sana, where at least 12 protesters were killed.
http://www.webmonkey.com/2011/10/google-throws-new-dart-programming-language-at-the-web/One Per Cent: Gamers help crack AIDS protein puzzlenew scientistAs strong as faith and race, it is place that defines our sense of identityThe politics of belonging is stronger than ever – you can see it from Dale Farm to Devon and Windermere to Westfield * o o o reddit this * Comments (273) * Madeleine Bunting * o Madeleine Bunting o guardian.co.uk, Sunday 18 September 2011 20.00 BST o Article history
The call to occupy Wall Street resonates around the worldWe need deeper changes to our financial system, or tent cities of people angry at corporate greed will keep appearing * o o o reddit this * Comments (197) * Micah White and Kalle Lasn * guardian.co.uk, Monday 19 September 2011 12.36 BST * Article history
IGNACIO TORRESQuantum minds: Why we think like quarks - life - 05 September 2011 - New Scientist
China’s New Cultural Revolution: A Surge in Art Collecting
By ROBIN POGREBIN
Published: September 6, 2011
A growing wealthy class is aggressively pursuing a costly passion for both Western and Asian works.
(Image: Ars Electronica 2011)
CultureLab: Ars Electronica celebrates subversion
Svante Pääbo: The man rewriting human evolution - opinion - 05 September 2011 - New Scientist
Profile
Svante Pääbo directs the department of genetics at the Max Planck Institute for Anthropology in Leipzig, Germany. Born in Stockholm, Sweden, he is famous for his work on ancient genomes and the "language gene" FOXP2. He is the son of Nobel prize-winning biochemist Sune Bergström
http://www.wired.com/epicenter/2011/08/apple-liberal-arts/
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/europe/sushi-and-whisky-hard-time-in-russias-vip-prisons-2344115.html
http://www.wired.com/geekdad/2011/08/coming-soon-supermans-memory-crystals/
Was Uncle Donald a hidden genius - or just mad? He devoted his life to painting but never sold a single one...
By Matthew Parris
Last updated at 10:00 PM on 20th August 2011
Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-2028275/Was-Uncle-Donald-Young-hidden-genius--just-mad.html#ixzz1VcOLDXvA
Andy Denzler
2/7 Fading Out, 2011
http://www.guardian.co.uk/lifeandstyle/2011/aug/14/rene-redzepi-chefs-better-food
http://www.alternet.org/story/151999/meet_the_global_financial_elites_controlling_%2446_trillion_in_wealth/?page=entire
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Former CIA Agent Claims Americans Did Not Kill bin Laden
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Pravda.Ru
Society » Real life stories
Megacities destroy your brain
11.07.2011
Pravda
Joseph Sywenkyj for The New York TimesRecommend
"I never spent the night in the same place twice," said Alexey Plutser-Sarno.
World
Sound of Post-Soviet Protest: Claps and Beeps
By ELLEN BARRY
Published: July 14, 2011
Street politics have lost their relevance in many former Soviet countries, as the political opposition has withered away. But innovative forms of protest are popping up.
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/07/15/world/europe/15belarus.html
Opinion
Too Much Life on Earth?
By GEORGES MINOIS | LE MONDE DIPLOMATIQUE / AGENCE GLOBAL
Published: July 13, 2011
Fears of overpopulation are as old as civilization. But the question is taking on a new urgency.
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/07/14/opinion/14iht-edminois14.html
New Scientist
Tech
http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg21028171.700-13-exotic-elements-we-cant-live-without.html 13 exotic elements we can't live without
* 20 June 2011 by James Mitchell Crow
* Magazine issue 2817. Subscribe and save
When the multiverse and many-worlds collide - physics-math - 01 June 2011 - New Scientist
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/05/25/science/25snow.html
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From Trees and Grass, Bacteria That Cause Snow and Rain
Anne Sherwood for The New York Times
WEATHER REPORT David Sands of Montana State University is a plant pathologist studying the role that bacteria — like the lactobacillus fermentum he is holding — play in precipitation.
By JIM ROBBINS
Published: May 24, 2010
BOZEMAN, Mont.
British royalty dined on human flesh (but don't worry it was 300 years ago)
By Daily Mail Reporter
Last updated at 4:01 PM on 20th May 2011
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1389142/British-royalty-dined-human-flesh-dont-worry-300-years-ago.html
Silicon Art Hidden Inside Samsung’s Galaxy Tab Wired* By Dylan Tweney Email Author * March 17, 2011 |
* 2:51 pm
The drinks industry set up and funds the Portman Group to promote responsible alcohol marketing and sensible drinking.
http://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/love-sex/jacqui-smith-my-view-of-pornography-2229430.html
Rina Castelnuovo for The New York TimesMemo From Ramat Gan
Rediscovered, Ancient Color
Is Reclaiming Israeli Interest A Jewish prayer shawl is adorned with ritual tassels, or tzitzit, that contain tekhelet-hued threads.
By DINA KRAFT
Published: February 27, 2011 NYT
http://oklo.org/
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XDtAc_CBc2g
The artists who crossed the line
An art group that stages orgies, throws cats at cashiers and has Banksy as a fan has enraged the Russian authorities
By Shaun Walker
Wednesday, 23 February 2011 Independent
Last Film of the Decade from Dean Queasy on Vimeo.
Atoms ripple in the periodic
table of shapes * 09:00 16 February 2011 by Jacob Aron
New Scientist * Magazine issue 2800
“I’m a total sci-fi geek,” (Sean) Hartter said in an e-mail to Wired.com. “These posters are based on the idea that they’re from multiple universes, which frees me up to tinker with time frames and poster design. ”Fantasy Casting Posters Reimagine Classic Sci-Fi Films" * By Hugh Hart Email Author * February 17, 2011 wired.com
Asemic_writing
Technologist Raymond Kurzweil has a radical vision for humanity's immortal future. Photo-Illustration by Ryan Schude for TIME.2045: The Year Man
Becomes Immortal
By Lev Grossman Thursday, Feb. 10, 2011 TIME
George Shaw's paintings - in picturesGeorge Shaw's eerie semi-realist paintings of the council estate on the edge of Coventry where he grew up. Observer, 13 February 2011.
George Shaw: The Sly and Unseen Day runs from 18 February until 15 May 2011 at Baltic, Gateshead
Umerus 2009 from Strandbeest on Vimeo.
Arts
It’s Not Candid Camera,
It’s Random Culture By CAROL KINO
Published: February 4, 2011 NYT. The Knight Arts Program is spreading culture with unannounced Random Acts of Culture events in eight cities.
Tourist excursions and visits to Naples underground
Unassuming Entrances Hide the Planet's Hippest Hangouts
By Allison Davis Email Author * January 31, 2011 | * 12:00 pm | * Wired February 2011
Arts‘This Space for Rent’: In Europe, Arts Now Must Woo Commerce
By DOREEN CARVAJAL
Published: January 23, 2011 NYT
With government subsidies shrinking, European arts institutions are finding ways to bring in cash. And to some arts-world types, the strategies seem a little cheesy.
WorldBlackwater Founder Said
to Back Mercenaries
By MARK MAZZETTI and ERIC SCHMITT
Published: January 20, 2011 NYT
Erik Prince is secretly backing an effort by a mercenary firm to insert itself into Somalia’s bloody civil war, officials say.
As Extra (with pocket handkerchief, right; Liam Neeson, lead) in The Big Man (1990) @1:21:31.Science DOI: 10.1126/science.1197175 * Report
2500 Years of European Climate Variability and Human Susceptibility 1. Ulf Büntgen1, 2. Willy Tegel, 3. Kurt Nicolussi, 4. Michael McCormick, 5. David Frank1, 6. Valerie Trouet1, 7. Jed O. Kaplan, 8. Franz Herzig, 9. Karl-Uwe Heussner, 10. Heinz Wanner, 11. Jürg Luterbacher and 12. Jan Esper
Abstract
Climate variations have influenced the agricultural productivity, health risk, and conflict level of preindustrial societies. Discrimination between environmental and anthropogenic impacts on past civilizations, however, remains difficult because of the paucity of high-resolution palaeoclimatic evidence. Here, we present tree ring–based reconstructions of Central European summer precipitation and temperature variability over the past 2500 years. Recent warming is unprecedented, but modern hydroclimatic variations may have at times been exceeded in magnitude and duration. Wet and warm summers occurred during periods of Roman and medieval prosperity. Increased climate variability from ~AD 250 to 600 coincided with the demise of the Western Roman Empire and the turmoil of the Migration Period. Historical circumstances may challenge recent political and fiscal reluctance to mitigate projected climate change.
The Tau Manifesto
Michael Hartl
Tau Day, 2010
At 80, world's oldest clown
has no plans of quitting
AFP
Sunday, 9 January 2011
John Gray on humanity's quest for immortalityHow do we deal with a purposeless universe and the finality of death? From Victorian séances to the embalming of Lenin's corpse to schemes for uploading our minds into cyberspace, there have have been numerous attempts to deny man's mortality. Why can't we accept the limits of science? — John Gray The Guardian, Saturday 8 January 2011
New States of Matter Suggested by New Topological Structures
Authors: Nils A. Baas
(Submitted on 13 Dec 2010)
Abstract: We extend the well-known Borromean and Brunnian rings to new higher order versions. Then we suggest an extension of the connection between Efimov states in cold gases and Borromean and Brunnian rings to these new higher order links. This gives rise to a hole new hierarchy of possible states with Efimov states at the bottom.
Subjects: Quantum Gases (cond-mat.quant-gas); Geometric Topology (math.GT)
MSC classes: 81Q99, 57M25
Cite as: arXiv:1012.2698v1 (pdf) [cond-mat.quant-gas]
Week in Review
The Happy Marriage Is the ‘Me’ Marriage
By TARA PARKER-POPE
Published: December 31, 2010
For a long, fulfilling partnership: give your partner a chance to e-x-p-a-n-d.
Obituary of PAL :: Prologue and Eulogy from Rosa Menkman on Vimeo.
Americana Kamikaze (excerpt) from Temporary Distortion on Vimeo.