Author : Gerhard Adam
Date of publication : March, 31st 2013
Extract : OK, here's the premise. The Audubon Nature Institute has something they call a "frozen zoo" which contains genetic material from endangered species. In this way recently extinct animals may be "recovered" and endangered animals may be "rescued" from extinction.
Index Terms : Cloning - Animauls - Science - Rescue
Found with : Google Actualités
URL : http://www.science20.com/gerhard_adam/blog/cloning_wooly_mammoths-107938
By A.P.
Saturday, April 6, 2013
Friday, April 5, 2013
Bird’s Eye View 2013: Arab women film-makers
Author: Emma Jones
Date: 2 April 2013
Abstract:
"It's an event dedicated to women in film - and this year the Birds Eye View Film Festival in London focuses only on features made by Arab female directors."
"There's a new wave of film-making in the Arab world, and women are at the front of it."
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| Coming Forth by Day, Egypt (2012) dir. Hala Lotfy source: http://www.theafricachannel.co.uk/ |
Index Terms: festival, film, cinema, birds-eye-view
Web site: BBC NEWS
URL: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-21969940
By Ch C
Thursday, April 4, 2013
Moon Hoon: visang house, korea
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| 'Visang house exterior' |
The "Visang House" is the new project of Moon Hoon. this house is situated in
Ilsandong-gu, South Korea.
Ilsandong-gu, South Korea.
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| Visang house interior |
Date of the article: April 4, 2013
Author: Cat.
Source: designboom.com
URL: http://www.designboom.com/architecture/moon-hoon-visang-house-korea/
Key Words: Moon Boon, houses, volumes, landscape adaptation.
Found with Google Reader and the RSS of DESIGNBOOM
By: A.J
Syria crisis: March was 'conflict's deadliest month'
Rebel fighters with the Free Syrian Army, a loose federation of militias across the country, at a house in Aleppo on Tuesday.
Source : Associated Press / NYTimes.com
Author : Jeremy Bowen
Date : April 1, 2013
Extract : “More than 6,000 people died in Syria in March, the deadliest month since protests against the government began two years ago, activists say."
Index Terms : crisis, murder, revolution, conflict, rebel, fighter
Found with : Netvibes
Web site : BBC News
By : R.O
The 20th New York African Film Festival
Author: Mónica López-González
Date of publication: March 30th, 2013
Title :The 20th New York African Film Festival
Abstract: The 20th New York African Film Festival runs April 3-9 at Film Society of Lincoln Center
Index Terms : South Africa ; cinema ; New York ; film festivals
Found with: Art South Africa's facebook page
Web site: http://cinespect.com
By S.C
Cinema: La Pirogue directed by Moussa Toure, Senegalese director
Author: Staff Reporter
Date of publication: March 26, 2013
Title : La Pirogue
Abstract: "
‘La Pirogue’ is a film by the Senegalese director Moussa Toure. It tells the story of Baye Laye, a boat captain who hails from a fishing village outside Dakar. It follows his ordeal after he agrees to take a pirogue containing 30 men to Spain’s Canary Islands in search of a better life in Europe. "
‘La Pirogue’ is a film by the Senegalese director Moussa Toure. It tells the story of Baye Laye, a boat captain who hails from a fishing village outside Dakar. It follows his ordeal after he agrees to take a pirogue containing 30 men to Spain’s Canary Islands in search of a better life in Europe. "
Index Terms : Africa ; cinema ; Senegalese director ; Moussa Toure
Found with: Google News
Web site: www.namibian.com.n
By S.C
Women Artists from Africa and its Diasporas
Author: Bisi Silva
Date of publication: March 28, 2013
Title : Women Artists from Africa and its Diasporas
Abstract: In her editorial, Silva observes the exponential growth in the
visibility of a new generation of women visual artists from Africa. She
also writes that many major artistic initiatives that have been created
on the continent, in the first decade of the new millennium, have all
been started or headed by women curators and cultural producers.
Index Terms : feminist art ; women artists ; african art
Found with: Google
Web site: http://www.contemporaryand.com
URL: http://www.contemporaryand.com/blog/exhibition/women-artists-from-africa-and-its-diasporas/
By S.C
Pick Me Up, contemporary graphic art fair
Last Update: -
Abstract: This is the fourth year for the UK's first contemporary graphic arts festival after a successful launch in April 2010. The most innovative graphic artists, collectives and galleries in the country and from across the world will be on display at Pick Me Up offering an exuberant mix of artworks for sale to the public. Index Terms: Festival, Contemporary Art, graphic art, gallerie,
Web site: Arts Thread Blog
URL: http://blog.artsthread.com/2010/04/pick-me-up-contemporary-graphic-art-fair-somerset-house-london/
By Ch C
Grandfather of African Literature, Chinua Achebe, Dies Aged 82
Author: Additional reporting by Belinda Goldsmith in London, and Pascal Fletcher and Jon Herskovitz in Johannesburg, Isaac Abrak in Kaduna and Anamesere Igboeroteonwu in Onitsha; Editing by Matthew Tostevin
Date of publication: March 22, 2013
Title : Grandfather of African Literature, Chinua Achebe, Dies Aged 82
Abstract: "LAGOS (Reuters) – Nigerian novelist Chinua Achebe, widely seen as the grandfather of modern African literature, has died at the age of 82. [...] Describing Achebe as a “colossus of African writing”, South African President Jacob Zuma expressed sadness at his death. [...] Nelson Mandela, who read Achebe’s work in jail, has called him a writer “in whose company the prison walls fell down.”
Index Terms : Africa ; featureds ; novelists ; litterature
Found with: AFRICALIA's facebook page
Web site: http://www.youngnation.co.zw
By S.C
Wednesday, April 3, 2013
Can Green Buildings Promote Green Behaviour?
Author: Anthony Morales
Date: March 28, 2013
Index Terms: architecture; recycle;
Found with: Netvibes
Web site: designbuildsource
URL:
By C.R
Honda's New Smartphone App Could Ease Your Commute
Author : Richard Read
Date :
March 22, 2013
Extract :
« Last
summer, Honda took the technology to Indonesia, where it slowed the
onset of traffic congestion by about three minutes, smoothed out
extremes in traffic speed by 60%, and improved fuel economy by 20%. »
Index
terms : Honda,
Cars, trafic jams, fuel
economy.
Found
with Netvibes. RSS Feeds of « Google Blog Search »
Site :
The Car Connexion.com
URL
:
http://www.thecarconnection.com/news/1083076_hondas-new-smartphone-app-could-ease-your-commute
CS.
Monday, April 1, 2013
Les vins de la Champagne
Author: La rédaction de
larvf.com
Date of publication: not available
Title : Les vins de la Champagne
Extract: “With a little more than 34 000
hectares of vineyards, Champagne extends mainly over the departments of Marne,
Aube and Aisne. The region
produces more than 300 million bottles a year, a big part of which is intended
for the export to satisfy the numerous amateurs in every corner of the world. It
is to note that Champagne also produces still wines of three colors under two
naming (AOC)((PROTECTED DESIGNATION OF ORIGIN)): Coteaux-champenois and Rosé de
Riceys.”
Index Terms: discovery, Wine, Champagne, variety
Found with: Scoop.it
Web site: larvf.com
By T.D.M
Interview : Jacques Attali nous parle de sa vision du vin, « la clé de notre identité nationale »
Author: Claudine Abitbol
Contributor: Richard Vialeron
Date of publication: March 30, 2013
Title : Interview : Jacques Attali nous parle de sa vision du
vin, « la clé de notre identité nationale »
Extract: “What
square really occupies wine in our society?
Wine settled down all around the world, subject to religious prohibition. Besides having acquired this international scale, it symbolizes one of the dimensions of the westernization of the planet. Native of the Mediterranean Sea, even if we find track at the big poets of East as Rûmi, it became a sign of the western culture, its rhythm, its tempo. It embodies the refinement of agriculture when it takes time of excellence. If the West knows a relative decline of its economic power today, its cultural and ideological influence is consolidated with the deployment of the personal freedom, the human rights, the markets and the democracy. France, which is one of the matrices, should not rather fall asleep on its pensions, in the wine as somewhere else...
Index Terms: writer, wine, social effect,
Found with: Scoop.it
Web site: avis-vin.lefigaro.fr
By T.D.M
Champagne : Cambriolé, Anselme Selosse craint l’ouverture d’un marché noir
Author: Léo
Dezeustre
Date: March
26, 2013
Title : Champagne : Cambriole,
Anselme Selosse craint l’ouverture d’un marché noir
Extract: “At night of Thursday, March 21st, 3
900 bottles of champagne, the equivalent of 8 and a half pallets were stolen
from the domain Jacques Selosse (to Avize, in Champagne). An apparently well
informed group of individuals got by burglary into the old storerooms and the
cellars of the domain, by forcing a door with a crowbar.”
Index Terms: robery, Champagne,
Found with: Scoop.it
Web site: larvf.com
By T.D.M
Clones of clones make clones
Date of publication : Monday, 01 April 2013
Extract : Since the first reports of successful cloning of mammals by somatic cell nuclear transfer, concerns have been raised about the efficiency and repeatability of cloning techniques, and the health of cloned offspring.
Index Terms : Cloning - Mouse - Labory - Multiplication
Found with : Google Alert
URL : http://www.sciencealert.com.au/news/20130104-24216.html
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| Image: Kuttelvaserova/Shutterstock, Source : sciencealert.com |
By A.P.
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