April 2011
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March 2011
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check this out... QUIPU
My friend is taking an “ethnomathematics” class and apparently the main thing they’ve been doing for weeks is making quipu - which is an Incan system of record-keeping through knots tied in string.
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I’m obsessed.
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A little more on memory, from the author of the... →
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February 2011
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Ryan's Eurydice Picasa Album →
Lots of pictures from Ryan.
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Lazzi →
A sort of underwhelming Wikipedia entry.
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THREE-HEADED FROG VIDEO
aka the freakiest thing I have EVER seen - at this link.
Thanks for sharing, Alicia. I’m going to go have a nightmare now.
Rights of passage (Wikipedia) →
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HOW TO WHISTLE →
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"Buffalo Bill's Defunct," by e e cummings →
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HADESTOWN →
If you aren’t already familiar with this album, you must check it out! Hadestown is “a folk opera based on the orpheus myth and set in a post-apocalyptic american depression era,” created by Midd alum Anaïs Mitchell. Libretto at the link above.
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Lose Yourself In Wikipedia
ORPHEUS
EURYDICE
HADES
ERINYES (aka the Furies, aka the Stones)
IZANAMI-NO-MIKOTO (Japanese descent myth)
INANNA (Sumerian descent myth)
LOT’S WIFE (Biblical story about the perils of turning around)