aerchivist's posterous

If you can’t find it, make it, post it, tag it. Listen to his biographer, historian Ayesha Jalal at radioopensource. And wonder. 100, centenary, centennial, means what?  See, A Hundred Years of...

“We cast this message into the cosmos… Of the 200 billion stars in the Milky Way galaxy, some — perhaps many — may have inhabited planets and space faring civilizations.” U.S. President Carter’s message...

Last night I went to the ocean  and listened to its roar.  The tide moved  inward and some waves were so powerful they knocked me  backward.  I called your name to the ocean  and it resounded, here...

The death of a beloved is a loss, a seemingly complete loss.  It is an absence.  A void.  A mirage that yes, you see your dad over there, driving our station wagon, across the median, stocking cap pulled...

Everyone knows how a camera can play tricks:  a wall sconce sprouting from someone’s head like a halo or accusatory finger; white caps and lily pads on a lake suddenly  much smaller and grey and...

Miguel Littin, a Chilean filmmaker banished from his home country during the Pinochet regime, disguised himself and entered Chile in 1985 with the purpose of shooting a film depicting life under the...

News Reader review of Tea of Ulaanbaatar August 9, 2011 --> From LibraryThing early reviewers program: Tea of Ulaanbaatar opens on a simple...