June 2011
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Alpha-ville Festival programme 2011 →
Jun 29th
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“Art would be useless if the world were perfect”
– Andrei Tarkovsky (via maniaclab)
Jun 28th
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Subjectivity and numbers
This is an extract from a huge conversation I’ve had with a good friend (Simon Madsen) following the Gas video post ‘Microscopic’ BR: It’s uncanny that 10 to the power of 1,2,3,4,5,6,7 brings us exactly to the outside radius of our planet. Like someone planned it or something… SM: It puts numbers (and us) into perspective. But 10 to the power of 7 is 10,000...
Jun 22nd
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Jun 22nd
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Jun 21st
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Jun 16th
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“I am emphatically in favour of higher education as a great public good that...”
– AC Grayling via Comment is Free
Jun 16th
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Jun 15th
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“We need not turn ‘religion into science’, any more than we need...”
– Philip Ball former editor of Nature
Jun 14th
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Jun 14th
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“Parklife in Manchester and Glade, it was almost a joke how low volume it was and...”
– Adam Beyer via Facebook
Jun 12th
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Jun 10th
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Jun 9th
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Nigeria: The Cost of Oil [31 photos] →
For over 50 years now, the extraction of crude oil and natural gas from Nigeria’s Niger Delta has meant wealth for a privileged few but has exacted heavy costs on residents and the environment.  According to cables released by WikiLeaks, Shell Oil claimed to have planted staff in all of Nigeria’s main ministries, gaining access to key government decisions. Gathered here are some scenes...
Jun 9th
Album Review: Motor City Drum Ensemble - DJ Kicks →
thevealpen: Danilo Plessow, (a.k.a. Motor City Drum Ensemble) heralds from Schwäbisch Gmünd (near Stuttgart) and is living proof, if any were needed, that the best electronic music tends to come from big car manufacturing cities… by Ben Romberg 
Jun 8th
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THE VEAL PEN: Event Preview: Replicants - Sonar... →
thevealpen: East London-based DJ, producer, promoter and Pen contributor Ben Romberg (aka Ben Mursz) and the rest of the Replicants crew land at Nomad this coming Saturday (11th) for a Sonar warm-up party. Following on from their shindig with Sonja Moonear in April, Ben, …
Jun 7th
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A View Of The US-Mexican Border
all-thats-interesting: A small fence separates densely populated Tijuana, Mexico, right, from the United States in the Border Patrol’s San Diego Sector. Construction is underway to extend a secondary fence over the top of this hill and eventually to the Pacific Ocean.
Jun 7th
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“…the decline in American children’s exposure to lead since it was phased...”
– Jessica Wolpaw Reyes an economist at Amherst College
Jun 6th
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Jun 3rd
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“The financiers in Greece remain more or less beyond reproach. They never ceased...”
– Michael Lewis writing in Vanity Fair
Jun 3rd
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