Monthly Archives: August 2013

Echoes in the Mist By Vasu Murti Reposted with permission.  The pyramids are “basically expensive tombstones…” says Neil deGrasse Tyson. Yes. That’s the way Sri Rupa dasi (Amy Smith) referred to the Taj Mahal. The Taj Mahal was built in … Continue reading →

Originally posted on urbanculturalstudies:
LASA 2014 – CALL FOR PAPERS (Please see below a call for papers for the forthcoming Latin American Studies Association (LASA) Congress in Chicago, May 21-24, 2014) Assembling the Contemporary Latin American City: South-South Circuits, Planning Exchanges,…

Originally posted on Science on the Land:
Golden Rice is being tested in experimental fields in the Philippines but some people there don’t want it. Matt McGrath at the BBC reports that, a few days ago, local farmers vandalised the…