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Audiences in Colombo were over the weekend treated to Samhara, a collaboration between India’s Nrityagram Dance Ensemble and Sri Lanka’s Chitrasena Dance Company. Groundviews caught up with Nrityagram’s lead dancer Bijayini Satpathy, the artistic director and choreographer of Nrityagram, Surupa and Chitrasena ...
For 12 hours, two herds of wild South African elephants slowly made their way through the Zululand bush until they reached the house of late author Lawrence Anthony, the conservationist who saved their lives.The formerly violent, rogue elephants, destined to be shot a few years ago as pests, were rescued ...
Voters in Europe have supported anti-austerity candidates in landmark victories. In France’s presidential election, François Hollande was elected as the first Socialist to lead France in 17 years. Greek citizens rejected two parties in parliamentary elections that had pledged to enact harsh international bailout measures. Meanwhile, Greece’s neo-Nazi Golden Dawn ...
Norman Uphoff
Abstract
The System of Rice Intensification (SRI), developed in Madagascar some 25 years ago, is gaining increasing credence and momentum as probably 500,000 farmers in more than 20 countries are now using its methods to raise their rice production -- while also reducing their use of external inputs and production ...
by ALESSANDRA V. MASSAGRANDE
Bologna.
In Italy, there is also good stuff, not just contradictions, and one of these developments, a very good news, is that more and more people are interested in organic food or food “Km 0” and choose this, for their family, despite the economic crisis.
Italians finally seemed to ...
Abel Ferrara's "4:44 Last Day on Earth"
by KIM NICOLINI
Abel Ferrara’s 4:44 Last Day On Earth is a beautiful, intimate, hallucinatory, romantic picture of the end of the world. A cinematic apocalyptic vision for a time in history when few of us can imagine a future, Ferrara’s film takes the macrocosmic ...
More than 2,000 years after Alexander the Great founded Alexandria, archaeologists are discovering its fabled remains
By Andrew Lawler
Photographs by Stéphane Compoint
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A member of an underwater archaeology team inspects a sphinx that is at least 3,000 years old.
Stéphane Compoint
Editor’s Note: This article was adapted from its original form ...
Tackling an ages-old puzzle, a French architect offers a new theory on how the Egyptians built the Great Pyramid at Giza
By Diana Parsell
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How exactly was the Great Pyramid built? Inside-out, thinks architect Jean-Pierre Houdin.
Courtesy of Virtools In 1999, Henri Houdin, a retired French civil engineer, was watching ...
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The healing powers of venoms
What do pit vipers, gila monsters, deathstalker scorpions and cone snails have in common? Their venom could kill you – or save your life
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HYPERTENSION
The pressure-drop viper
DRUG: Captopril
SOURCE: Pit viper
CONDITION: Hypertension
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CANCER
The cancer-killing scorpion
DRUG: Chlorotoxin
SOURCE: Deathstalker scorpion
CONDITION: Cancer
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PAIN RELIEF
The ...
By Tim Ryan on May 5, 2012
With over 285 million visually impaired people in the world, research into restoring vision for the blind is well past its critical stage. But with innovations in technology, and by turning to a focus to even just restoring rudimentary vision, research suggests that a ...