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- Benjamin Cohen was a co-founder and is now Blogger Laureate at The World's Fair. He teaches at the University of Virginia and is the author of Notes from the Ground: Science, Soil and Society in the American Countryside (Yale, 2009).

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This post is for those who have always wondered when their Pokemon card playing skills would be finally used for good and not evil.

Category: Gift Shop & Haberdashery

Your knowledge of Pokemon game mechanics is needed to save the world.

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Posted by David Ng at 5:12 PM • 2 Comments • 0 TrackBacks

The Forbin Project in Practice: One Household Appliance at a Time

Category: Knoxville '82: Where Miscellany Thrive

Although it's not Dr. Forbin's Colossus (one of the first AI systems to attempt to destroy the world on film --note the "on film" please), it is quite irritating, and the result might eventually be the same: We recently replaced...

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Posted by Vince LiCata at 10:18 PM • 10 Comments • 0 TrackBacks

Do you kind of wish Pokemon cards had REAL creatures not FAKE creatures?

Category: Gift Shop & Haberdashery

If so, you should join this facebook group. Or to discuss further, please go to http://friendfeed.com/phylomon. Here's part of what started this group and project: a friend of mine passed on this "letter to Santa:" It quite nicely demonstrates an...

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Posted by David Ng at 2:55 PM • 40 Comments • 0 TrackBacks

Hela? What did you think when you saw that four letter word?

Category: Gift Shop & Haberdashery

Was it one of these (From wiki)? In any event, hopefully you picked the one about Henrietta Lacks. If you didn't: then you really need to get yourself a copy of this book, entitled The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks...

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Posted by David Ng at 3:50 PM • 4 Comments • 0 TrackBacks

Happy New Year everyone, and Happy International Year of Biodiversity!

Category: NatureLand: What They Used to Call the Environment

You are a very very very lucky mammal...

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Posted by David Ng at 3:52 PM • 2 Comments • 0 TrackBacks

#3: Landscape and Modernity (Ten Best of the Decade from Half of the World's Fair)

Category: NatureLand: What They Used to Call the Environment

All manner of human representations of landscapes: from the west, to industrial settings, to trees, to garbage, to food, to pasture fencelines, to atom bombs, to World's Fairs.

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#5: Memory, History, and Landscape (Ten Best of the Decade from Half of the World's Fair)

Category: Knoxville '82: Where Miscellany Thrive

This is about the intermingling of history (the past) and identity (the present) and how the mark we make before we are gone is the set of connections--social and natural--we've made while living.

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Posted by Benjamin Cohen at 10:00 AM • 3 Comments • 0 TrackBacks

"The Danish Text." Oh dear - this might hurt a little. Copenhagen soap opera continues...

Category: Ethics Palace: Where ethical questions go to live or die

Lately I've been wondering if everything going on in the world of climate change has been done just for the benefit of ASIC 200, a course I co-teach which goes into the heady arena of climate politics. It's like you...

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Posted by David Ng at 1:50 PM • 0 Comments • 0 TrackBacks

A video that is a good antidote to all of this climate change conspiracy nonsense. Worth a look.

Category: Ethics Palace: Where ethical questions go to live or die

(hattip to Nick at terry.ubc.ca)...

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Posted by David Ng at 4:20 PM • 5 Comments • 0 TrackBacks

Where exactly does food come from? I fear this artist's take on it might be all too real for many these days.

Category: NatureLand: What They Used to Call the Environment

Coming off of Ben's recent hat tip to the paper published at PLoS ("The Progressive Increase of Food Waste in America and Its Environmental Impact"), I was reminded of some great artwork by Marc Trujillo. I first heard of...

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