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Mizuki Shigeru: An appreciation
History & The Arts

Mizuki Shigeru: An appreciation

...open” to the West for less than a hundred years, and many old traditions still remained. ホームセンターで買ってきた寄せ植え用ミニ観葉植物を「美しいね・・・」と愛でる水木しげる。森の精のような1枚になりました! pic.twitter.com/sOeuVzIJ6f — 水木プロダクション (@mizukipro) September 30, 2015 Mizuki Shigeru...
Dancing to the rhythm of cultures
Languages

Dancing to the rhythm of cultures

...open, in groups, pairs and individual, Spanish dance displays all the varieties of human choreographic arrangements. Communities pass their local dances, songs and music to the next generations together with their costumes and instruments. A salient characteristic is that men play an important role in these dancing events. The dominance of the masculine is particularly...
How can Facebook decide who you really are?
Science, Maths & Technology

How can Facebook decide who you really are?

...course, scenarios in which the use of one's legal name does increase accountability. Facebook has many reasons to stick with this policy, and this is one of them. But more than this, I believe the real name policy is about business. It would be unfeasible, with Facebook's terrifyingly large user base, for the company to check ID at the proverbial door, but not enforcing a...
A Victorian Christmas: Thackeray goes to the pantomime
History & The Arts

A Victorian Christmas: Thackeray goes to the pantomime

...course of nature can expect to see ALL the pantomimes in one season, but I hope to the end of my life I shall never forego reading about them in that delicious sheet of The Times which appears on the morning after Boxing-day. Perhaps reading is even better than seeing. The best way, I think, is to say you are ill, lie in bed, and have the paper for two hours, reading all...
England’s Historic Battlefields: the Wars of the Roses
History & The Arts

England’s Historic Battlefields: the Wars of the Roses

...course of English history. Battlefield Commemoration Battlefields have always been sites of commemoration. First, it was necessary to remember and honour the dead, on both sides, that had fallen there. Second, battlefields became sites of political and cultural importance where the legitimacy of the winning side, particularly during the Wars of the Roses, was established...
Football culture: the use of banners
Health, Sports & Psychology

Football culture: the use of banners

...course, be about enjoyment and celebration and it affords many opportunities for the playful use of language whether in conversation, in a song or chant, or on a banner. It has the potential to create and foster bonds between people and within communities – or to claim particular identities, as in this example: [Liverpool banner reading 'We are not English, we are...
What did it mean to be found guilty by joint enterprise?
Society, Politics & Law

What did it mean to be found guilty by joint enterprise?

...course of that crime someone is murdered, the entire group can be convicted of murder regardless of who dealt the fatal blow. All that needs to be proven is that the individuals present foresaw that the murder might occur. Alexander, a social worker, had been out in West London when a confrontation between his friends and another group of youths turned violent. Though he...
New York Minutes: What do the NY primaries tell us about the 2016 Presidential election?
Society, Politics & Law

New York Minutes: What do the NY primaries tell us about the 2016 Presidential election?

...course” Clinton was qualified for the Oval Office. But the damage had been done to his squeaky-clean image. Finally, on April 15 Sanders flew to the Vatican to attend an international meeting on social justice. While there he met privately with Pope Francis, a meeting Sanders described as “extraordinary.” But the trip made no sense politically. In the closing days...