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10 World Famous Statues
Statues have been created by man since the prehistory for all kinds of reasons and in all sizes. One of the first statues, a 29.6 cm (11.7 inches) high sculpture called the Lion Man, was created almost 32,000 years ago. The original Seven Wonders of the World included two statues: The Colossus of Rhodes and the Statue of Zeus at Olympia. Today, statues have been erected all over the world representing everything from religious deities, historical events and influential people.
Autonomy for a ‘new world’?
OLLE NORDBERG – Coastal View
4th New World Summit, Royal Flemish Theatre, Brussels, 19-21 September 2014
Blooming in the shadow of an austerity-era EU cultural policy dominated by ‘measurable outcomes’ that has tasked the cultural field with a plethora of social work from civic engagement, care work and alleviating unemployment to any number of regeneration-based solutions, a number of recent ‘critical’ art practices have come to articulate a politics of ‘demonstrable impact.’ [1] Putting art ‘to work’ for society must be understood in parallel here with neoliberal policies which have pushed formerly public goods and services into the ‘private sphere’.
The most beautiful city in the world
Lottie Gross
We asked our Twitter and Facebook followers to vote for the most beautiful city in the world. From Europe to Asia, these are the places that came top in the poll.
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The best libraries in the world
18 Libraries Every Book Lover Should Visit In Their Lifetime
Jan. 1, 2015, If you love books, libraries are some of the most spectacular buildings in the world.
To celebrate these monumentally important buildings, we’ve complied a list of the most magnificent libraries on the planet.
From a library hidden in the forests of Beijing to one in Egypt that was designed like a sundial, these are the libraries that all book lovers should visit in their lifetime.
14 World Famous Domes / 10 Most Remarkable Opera Houses in the World
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14 World Famous Domes
Last updated on September 19, 2014 in Culture | 4 comments
A dome is a hemispherical structure usually forming a ceiling or roof. Dome structures made of various materials have been used throughout history by several different civilizations. In the ancient Near East domes were made as tombs of solid mounds. The Inuit in the Arctic created their igloos from blocks of compacted snow, generally in the form of a dome.
11th World Conference on Bioethics, Medical Ethics and Medical Law
Sasha Serov
The Conference is designed to offer a platform for the exchange of information and knowledge and to hold discussions, lectures, workshops and an exhibition of program and databases.
Ten books that changed the world
Winslow Homer
From Euclid’s Elements to Freud’s Interpretation of Dreams, and from Simone de Beauvoir’s The Second Sex to Shakespeare First Folio … 10 authors choose books ‘not of an age, but for all time’
Five Three_Ratio_Guardian_Review_Peter_Judson Photograph: Peter Judson
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Introducing the Ancient Greeks review / Delphi: A History of the Centre of the Ancient World
Introducing the Ancient Greeks review – the culture that shaped our world
This invaluable study of the 2,000-year legacy of the ‘Greek miracle’ reveals why the west will be always in the country’s debt
All history is the history of migration
Migration and exile have characterised the world since the beginning of time. And for most of that time, the ambivalent presence of The Other has aroused extremes of sentiment within the host community.
10 Most Remarkable Opera Houses in the World / 14 Best Museums in the World
10 Most Remarkable Opera Houses in the World
Last updated on April 10, 2014 in Culture | No comments
When it comes to architectural treasures, an opera house is often a city’s most prized gem. The best opera houses weren’t just built to showcase leading tenors, baritones and sopranos but to demonstrate the world that the city had achieved a high level of culture, power and wealth. In addition to providing a highly memorable theatrical experience, opera houses offer an exciting opportunity for travelers to view structures designed by some of history’s most respected architects. Whether attending a performance of a favorite opera or touring the theater, the world’s best opera houses remain popular travel attractions.
Green economics versus growth economics
Alfred Sisley, Snow at Louveciennes, 1874
The case of Thomas Piketty
RP 189 (Jan/Feb 2015), Rupert Read
What would be a radical economics today? It would have two components. First, it must understand economics as necessarily political economy; as a continuous human, social creation subject to political manipulation and to new positive political vision and action. Second, it must be a Green ecological economics. That is, it must have absorbed the central ‘Copernican’ insight of the founders of ecological economics, Herman Daly and Robert Costanza: that present-day human desires must be displaced as the centre of the system of economics by the capacity of the earth (energized by the sun) to support life indefinitely into the future. And it must be a Green economics by virtue of rejecting Costanza’s absorption of the value of life into the neoclassical/ neoliberal economy, an absorption manifested for instance in the programme of the economic valuation of ‘ecosystem services’. [1 ]
TeacherTuesday
The latest EFA Global Monitoring Report 2013/4 analyses the challenges teachers face on a daily basis to provide a quality education that will ensure children in their class emerge with at least the basic skills.
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