Word: everydayness
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...have acknowledged their failure to prevent or stop the Rwanda genocide. And while western pundits may dismiss the comparison, for Kenyans, the fear of a second Rwanda is very real. "I can see the beginnings of an ethnic conflict, I really can," says Mwalimu Mati, a local political activist. "Everyday, you've got more deaths, and these are in slums; they say Kibaki supporters were attacked or Odinga supporters were attacked, that's just code for Kikuyu and Luo [the respective tribes of the president and his rival...
...weddings but at important stuff: a shocking playoff upset, the cruelty of a blind referee, a perfectly executed pick-and-roll. This is the secret behind the NBA's "Where Amazing Happens" ad campaign, which sets still frames of basketball stars to a slowly building piano piece called EVERYDAY by Carly Comando. If fans are fish and the NBA is a barrel, Everyday is the bullet. The song was originally composed as the sound track for a viral video in which photographer Noah Kalina cut together pictures of himself taken in an identical pose over several years. Removed from images...
...you’re more into turning a quantitative lens on everyday activities—and eating in class—then look no further than Statistics 105: “Real-Life Statistics: Your Chance for Happiness (or Misery),” taught by Xiao-Li Meng, the statistics department chair...
...From the beginning, Zhou knew he risked running up against the authorities, who aim to exercise as strict a control over China's rapidly expanding virtual universe as they do over their citizens' everyday lives in the real world. (Any day soon, China will surpass the U.S. as the nation with the largest number of people online.) But because so much of the Internet is ungovernable, it is the freest public space in the country, a place where individuals like Zhou constantly push the limits of permissible activity...
...hotspots for the past four years, it's hard to get around the policies that took shape under former mayor and presidential hopeful Rudy Giuliani. Even the most minor of crimes - jaywalking, urinating in an alley, turnstile jumping - were pursued with vigor under the notion that cutting out the everyday "quality-of-life crimes" would help reduce the majors, such as murder, rape, robbery and assault...