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On crochet, coral and hyperbolic geometry

I love the interweaving of complex mathematical models of space with ‘feminine domestic handicraft’ here, as well as the idea of a playtank and bringing mathematics into the minds and … Continue reading

6 February, 2010 · 8 Comments

Watching Yoav Shamir’s Defamation

Click on the arrows in the bottom right-hand corner of the video to activate full-screen mode. Yoav Shamir’s memorable, must-see Defamation is by turns hilarious, profound and disturbing. It recently … Continue reading

1 February, 2010 · 2 Comments

Caught out: Stealing Palestinian images for Israeli causes (updated)

This extraordinary appropriation of Palestinian images by the Israeli Meir Panim organization, picked up by Khalid Amayreh, shows a sinking to new lows.  Amid the Haiti hasbara, we now see … Continue reading

20 January, 2010 · 10 Comments

The Merchants of Fear: Israel’s Profiting from Homeland Insecurity

By Maidhc Ó Cathail In the wake of the weird Christmas Day “underwear bomber” incident on Northwest Flight 253, former Homeland Security chief Michael Chertoff, as if on cue, was … Continue reading

20 January, 2010 · Leave a comment

Timely Reminders

"Those who crusade, not for God in themselves, but against the devil in others, never succeed in making the world better, but leave it either as it was, or sometimes perceptibly worse than what it was, before the crusade began. By thinking primarily of evil we tend, however excellent our intentions, to create occasions for evil to manifest itself."
-- Aldous Huxley

"The only war that matters is the war against the imagination. All others are subsumed by it."
-- Diane DiPrima, "Rant", from Pieces of a Song.

"It is difficult
to get the news from poems
yet men die miserably every day
for lack
of what is found there"
-- William Carlos Williams, "Asphodel, That Greeny Flower"


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