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...black ox, and “Mambazo” is the Zulu word for “axe.” Shabalala left the town of Ladysmith for the city of Durbin in 1959 because he wanted to make music that fused the traditions of his hometown with a modern, national sound. “I have a sound,” Shabalala says. “I have a dream. I have something that we can do better.” Albert Mazibuko, the group’s current spokesman, joined Ladysmith Black Mambazo during a time of transition...
Elementary school classrooms are filled with impressionable young minds learning how to add, multiply, and divide; but few of these students will ever understand the logic and the theory behind their calculations. The works of Plato, Euclid, and Newton, upon which all of modern science and commerce depend, are as much philosophical statements about the structure of the universe as they are mathematical treatises. In “Is God a Mathematician?” Mario Livio attempts to impress upon the reader this fundamental connection between math and philosophy while presenting a “greatest hits?...
...dealing with some pretty loaded imagery. One of the first things our professor said in the final critique was that there aren’t many more loaded images than Christ on the cross. I wanted to ask, “What sort of modern world needs to be saved with another round of crucifixions?” That’s the conceptual idea I started with.RR: Is this going home to mom and dad?IRM: I live in California, so it would probably be pretty expensive. Plus, I’m not sure they would be happy with...
...Luckily, one doesn't have to travel far from Shaoshan and its blaring patriotic songs and armies of hawkers to find a more nuanced and interesting look at modern China. The birthplace of Liu Shaoqi, another communist leader and Mao's contemporary, lies an hour's drive from Shaoshan in Ningxiang county. Liu's memorial is quiet and forested. Once you pass through the entry gates there are no touts or trinket stands, and noticeably fewer visitors. Liu was known as a practical, down-to-earth official. During an inspection tour of the region in 1961, he learned...
...restaurant, the Wind Chime, tel: (62-22) 423 9963. Set in a gorgeous, 90-year-old Dutch colonial home in the backstreets of Bandung in West Java, the Wind Chime's tables are the most sought after in town, thanks to a combination of laid-back ambiance and classy, modern European cuisine. Perhaps that's to be expected from someone whose birthplace is Maluku - the fabled Spice Islands of culinary yore...