[monochrom] #mRIF: Wrong life...

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[monochrom] sorry...

...hab in den letzten tagen vergessen meine bagasch-beitraege abzuschicken... deswegen jetzt der ganze schwall auf einmal... wird sogar schon auf twitter bemerkt: ---cut--- moritz der @johannes_mono spammt mir gerade mit 13 (!) ma

[monochrom] The Enlightened Economy: An Economic History of Britain, 1700-1850

The Industrial Revolution is the inflection point of economic history. During all the millennia before that revolution, incomes were static and humans were poor­often hungry, inadequately clothed, ill-housed. But somehow, in the two-and-a-half centuries since humanity learned to mass produc

[monochrom] A Question of Incomprehensibility: Call for Papers

Great CfP by Eleanor Saitta (Structure Light Design Research Collective). It is now evident that postmodernism is dead. It has not ceased to function, exactly. The tools it gave us for the analysis of culture still work to the same degree they did previously. It remains a functional standpoint

[monochrom] The world has been dominated by Europe and taught by Europe and exploited by Europe -- and maybe Europe has had enough

In terms of the great implosion of the global economy which began on Wall Street in late 2008, the Greek financial collapse is a storm in a retsina glass. The sums concerned are trivial by the standards of modern multitrillion-dollar high finance, or indeed by the standards of the Bundesbank.

[monochrom] Gut bacteria in Japanese people borrowed sushi-digesting genes from ocean bacteria

You gotta love evolution. Japanese people have special tools that let them get more out of eating sushi than Americans can. They are probably raised with these utensils from an early age and each person wields millions of them. By now, you've probably worked out that I'm not talking about chop

[monochrom] William-Henry Ireland's Great Shakespearean Hoax

In the winter of 1795 a young, talented and cheeky man named William-Henry Ireland signed the bottom of a tattered piece of paper "Wm Shakespeare." It was the first of hundreds of notes, poems and plays that Ireland forged and passed off as William Shakespeare originals. The world was so d

[monochrom] United States of Dysregulation

In the late 1970s, the historian Christopher Lasch famously described America as a culture of narcissism. Today we might well be called a nation of dysregulation. The signs that something is amiss in our inner mechanisms of control and restraint are everywhere.

[monochrom] The History Of The Universe As Told By Wonder Woman

THE HISTORY OF THE UNIVERSE AS TOLD BY WONDER WOMAN is an independent documentary feature that looks at female superheroes, warrior princesses and other icons of women’s empowerment in pop culture. Examining the history of fiction’s longest running superheroine, the film raises questions ab

[monochrom] 'Quantum Computer' a stage closer with Silicon breakthrough

The remarkable ability of an electron to exist in two places at once has been controlled in the most common electronic material -- silicon -- for the first time. The research findings -- published in Nature by a UK-Dutch team from the University of Surrey, UCL (University College) London, Her

[monochrom] We are the only animals that likes Tabasco sauce

Can Science Capture the Complexity of Human Pleasures? I'm a practicing psychiatrist, not a research psychologist, but as someone who follows the literature on happiness, I'm convinced that

[monochrom] The Second 'Second Sex': It's about translation!

Simone de Beauvoir’s translators and the many critics have turned their disputes into a play where each acts the role assigned by theatrical cliché... As translation contretemps go, the one surrounding French philosopher Simone de Beauvoir (1908-86) and her foundational work of modern femini

[monochrom] Oldest known images of Apostles uncovered in Roman catacombs

Late fourth-century frescoes of Sts. Peter, Andrew, John and Paul have been uncovered in the Catacombs of St. Tecla, underneath a nondescript office building in Rome. Arachaeologists used lasers to remove centuries' worth of calcium carbonate deposits which had accumulated over the paintings.

[monochrom] Red Dawn was a bad movie

As someone who was a child during the end of the Soviet Era, the following news items cause minor cognitive dissonance: 1) The Russian guided missile warship Varyag is docking in San Francisco this week on a friendly tour coinciding with a visit from the Russian President. At the same time the

[monochrom] #mRIF: Let's make heteronormativity...

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[monochrom] Sunday 27.06.19:00 Raum D/Museumsquartier Wien - Detour continues with Michael Fischer, Benjamin Tomasi and Mathias Kassmannhuber

Sunday 27 06 2010 18:30 Raum D/quartier21/Museumsquartier Wien On Sunday, June 27th 2010 Detour continues to break rules that were not there before: We think the resonating space around us shall never be assumed to be contributed to exclusively [1] nor shall this soundscape be thought of as a

[monochrom] #mRIF: How much can you live...

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