Category: Science & technology

Sansour censored

Nation Estate (2012) Photo and video by Larissa Sansour … The Nation Estate project is a sci-fi photo series conceived in the wake of the Palestinian bid for nationhood at the UN. Three preliminary sketches have been developed especially for the Lacoste Elysée Prize 2011 – an award I was nominated for until Lacoste decided …

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Dwindling congregations

PROOFS OF GOD IN A PHOTON By Martin Redfern, Sunday 24 December 1995 … FOR THE first time in 400 years, sensible people are saying some very dangerous things. Theologians are discussing the origins of the physical universe, the beauty of the fundamental laws of physics and the wonder of the complexity of nature. Scientists, …

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Script and art and religion

Will computers make extinct the last of Islam’s proud and honourable calligraphers? By Robert Fisk, Saturday 12 November 2011 … Dr Jamal Naja meets me in a coffee shop just down the road from his home in Alamuddin Street, a quiet almost mischievous face, greying hair, and he lays – with great care – a …

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A new physics

Gone in 60 nanoseconds By Charles Krauthammer, October 6, 2011 … “We don’t allow faster-than-light neutrinos in here,” says the bartender. A neutrino walks into a bar. — Joke circulating on the Internet   The world as we know it is on the brink of disintegration, on the verge of dissolution. No, I’m not talking …

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