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vurtual: Hello! Monkey (by Seonghwan Jo)hanging with Monkey in Varanasi India
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storyboard: Language Is a Virus: How Loanwords Move the World’s Tongues There are an estimated 6,700 to 6,900 languages in the world today, and they drift through the air like a meteorological echo — Hello! Hallo! Allô! — a roll of thunder or a set of bird calls off in the corner of the ear and the eye. And accompanying every tongue are loanwords, or, rather, lehnwerts, the tin-eared telephone line tossed from house to house, the improvised bridge of a tree knocked across a river’s expanse, or, more prosaically, words one “borrows” from one language into another. Loanwords explain how and why English speakers can say things like Frankfurter, pretzel, hinterland, dreck, or kaput without their conversational co-conspirator batting an eye. Read More
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rock-and-roll-will-never—die: “Music doesn’t lie. If there is something to be changed in this world, then it can only happen through music.” — Jimi Hendrix
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nycgov: Head over to DUMBO to see David Ellis’ piece in the Pearl Street Triangle. For more DOT Urban Art installations, visit http://on.nyc.gov/XPLZU8.
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storyboard: Fighting Street Harassment Online Dhruv Arora lives in Delhi, India, and he’s had enough. Enough of rape, enough of harassment and enough of the belief that what women wear has something to do with it.  “I am tired of people getting harassed on the street. I am tired of victim bashing. I am tired of people saying it happened because she was ‘inappropriately dressed,’” says the 24-year-old engineering student. And so, in January of last year, Arora and a friend — outraged by the story of a 22-year-old woman raped by a cab driver, then blamed for it in the press — decided to do something about it. They created a Tumblr with a simple request: send in photos of what you were wearing when you were harassed on the street, along with your story. Consider it a personal form of protest.  Read More
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richiepope: Even more Kendrick Lamar sketches. Working on the final tonight…ya bish.
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