Showing posts with label Culture. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Culture. Show all posts
Wednesday, November 9, 2011

A book worth thinking and reading

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Here's Tyler Cowen's review ; When doing the statistics, one key issue is how to measure violence. Pinker often favors “per capit...
Monday, September 26, 2011

Art of the Day

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“Immaculee,” Numero , 2007
Friday, September 23, 2011

Marketers target Men

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Marketers are also devoting much more effort to marketing to men—or, as Mr Lindstrom puts it, getting men to shop like women. In 1995 on...
Friday, September 2, 2011

Samuel Menashe passed away

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Samuel Menashe in Ireland, writing one of his short poems in the sand: ' Pity us / By the sea / On the sands / So briefly ' More ...
Friday, August 26, 2011

The Age of Erotic Capital? Legal Protection for the Ugly?

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over a lifetime and assuming today’s mean wages, a handsome worker in America might on average make $230,000 more than a very plain one . T...
Friday, August 5, 2011

The Ramadan begins- Why Do We Fast?

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Source: Horn of Africa: on the brink of a humanitarian crisis , Ramadan begins
Monday, November 15, 2010

Book Cover Art - Sex at Dawn - and thoughts for reflection

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"Researchers have confirmed what most men already know: men tend to get turned on by images depicting an environment in which sperm com...
Monday, September 20, 2010

Art of the Day- Pakistani Truck Art

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Granta- featuring Pakistani issues via Literary Blog- Isak
Wednesday, July 28, 2010

Intolerance, and Inhumanity?

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World Press Photos 2009 via the blog
Friday, July 23, 2010

Weird Blog of the Day

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Virginity Project via Guardian

Artist of the Day- Hopper

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Edward Hopper via the elegant and cool blog of Michele Roohani

Cool Blogs

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Michele Roohani “Life is short, art is long, opportunity fleeting, experiment treacherous, judgment difficult.” Arcane Sentiment Econom...
Thursday, July 22, 2010

Grey areas abound in religion

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Something to think about for the young Muslim. Life is all about the grey area. When I was growing up I wasn't sure where I belonged i...
Saturday, July 10, 2010

Art and Photo Blog of the Day

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nicolettalolli
Saturday, June 19, 2010

Why Arabs love Turkish soaps?

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If this seems like a triumph of Western values by proxy, the Muslim context remains the crucial bridge. “Ultimately, it’s all about local ...
Saturday, June 12, 2010

The Art of Defining Marriage

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The unit’s lore is worthy of its own reality TV series — sham couples caught red-handed, yes, but also quirky ones whose authenticity surp...
Friday, June 11, 2010

Book Cover Art- Thanks for Coming

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Thanks for Coming: One Young Woman's Quest for an Orgasm (P.S.)
Sunday, May 16, 2010

Artist of the Day- Tsilli Pines

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According to Pines , the piece she created for this issue of the magazine, above, titled, " Corporations ," isn't just about t...
Wednesday, May 5, 2010

How much do you think the following is worth?

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In an overflowing salesroom at Christie’s, six bidders vied for “Nude, Green Leaves and Bust,” which depicts the artist’s mistress Marie-Thé...
Saturday, April 24, 2010

Sex, Bombs & Burgers

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The talk will focus on the main theme of the book , which is how the military, porn and food industries have been the biggest drivers of tec...
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