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Plunder or preservation? How Asian art came to U.S.
‘America’s involvement with China goes back to the late 18th century, when Yankee ships began to trade fur pelts and wheat (and later opium) for tea, silks and dishware. As early as 1845-1847, Boston presented the “Great Chinese Museum.” Harvard University trained and underwrote many early explorers of China’s cultural and archaeological heritage. The 19th…
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Bruce Sterling Closing Remarks at SXSW 2014
This drummer first met Bruce at the Presidio in San Francisco at the PLANETWORKERS Conference, 2000 A.D. On that occasion he freestyled a presentation which featured the recent breaking news of the fire at Los Alamos. I find Bruce to be a top (2015) contender for communicating the tale of the tribe, the complexities of…
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Mark Pesce takes up the tale of the tribe 2015
The Next Billion SecondsWhat happens after we’re all connected?–Mark Pesce http://nextbillionseconds.com/ HYPEREDUCATION at Columbia College Mark Pesce on “HYPERCIVILITY” at Civic Hall 2020 Foresight” at Future of Insurance 2015
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Robert Anton Wilson’s Pulp Illuminations by Erik Davis
Robert Anton Wilson’s Pulp Illuminations A talk at the Esoteric Book Conference, September 2014 By Erik Davis illuminatus Here is a talk I gave at last year’s wonderful Esoteric Book Conference about Illuminatus!, the occult, and the tension between high and low magic in the 1970s. http://techgnosis.com/robert-anton-wilsons-pulp-illuminations/ I highly recommend the EBC: the perfect (for…
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Sili-dodecahedrane (Silly-Bucky-Fuller-Cone)
FRANKFURT. The discovery of the soccer ball-shaped C60 molecule in 1985 was a milestone for the development of nanotechnology. In parallel with the fast-blooming field of research into carbon fullerenes, researchers have spent a long time trying in vain to create structurally similar silicon cages. Goethe University chemists have now managed to synthesise a compound…
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