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Αυτό δεν είναι τραγούδι #783 Dj της ημέρας, η Βυζαντία Πυριόχου-Γκυ Το 2007 η συγκλονιστική Σαββίνα Γιαννάτου μαζί με αρκετούς εξαιρετικά ταλαντούχους μουσικούς και συνθέτες ηχογραφούν ένα άλμπουμ με τίλο Μουσική δωματίων. Στο δίσκο αυτό μελοποιούν ποιητές με έναν μοναδικό, τρυφερό και τρομακτικό τρόπο. Μελοποιούν, ναι – δεν δημιουργούν όμως τραγούδια. Πρόκειται για ένα παράξενο […]

via Ο τρόμος και η τρυφερότητα — dimart

This photo shows a purple coneflower with a bumblebee on it, in the botanical garden on 7 August 2016. As we walked to the garden, coots and a great crested grebe swimming in a canal. In the aquarium in the hothouse, cherry barb fish. Many more giant prickly stick insects than at an earlier visit […]

via Flowers, butterflies, harvestmen in botanical garden — Dear Kitty. Some blog

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Posted: 30/08/2016 by vequinox in Literature

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In a day or two I will write a review of The African Origin of Civilization: Myth or Reality. While you wait for that, in referring to a seminal work, Race et Intelligence, he writes, quoting Jacquard

determining intelligence with IQ is as ridiculous as confusing rectal temperature with health. The real problem is to understand why some people pose this question. Their true aim is to justify social inequalities by means of alleged natural inequalities.

Diop,Cheikh Anta. Civilization or Barbarism, pg65

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Exhibition dates: 15th April – 4th September 2016 Dis/membering the snapshot To say that I dislike the term “snapshot” is an understatement. The term snap/shot implies a lack of consideration in the physical act of taking the photograph. In a snap it was shot – like a snap of the fingers or a bolt out […]

via Exhibition: ‘An Anonymous Art: American Snapshots from the Peter J. Cohen Gift’ at The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City — Art Blart