Of all the things that happened today, clearly the highlight was listening to Mr. Tom Standage deliver a speech on his book “A History of the World in 6 glasses”. For those of you who have kept up with my postings, you’ll know that I quite enjoyed this book, as it delivers the history of [...]
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Tags: Global politics·History
The Culture Dash. Armed with a Flip camera, a brain full of misconceptions, and a Underground map, the team started our journey by outlining our topic: The effect of Princess Diana on British culture. To be sure, with the requirement of a five minute video due in week 7 relating our experiences into social frameworks, [...]
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If it’s Friday night, it must mean…more studying!
Tonight, I spent a bit of time reviewing the “rich media” portion of the CCL pre-reading. Here, Profs. Boulding and O’Driscoll have provided a compilation of videos and interactive tools to augment the cultural and anthropological readings. Specifically, the videos focus on two areas: the research of Dr. [...]
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Tags: Global politics·History·Technology
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