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FARM-Africa. Christmas (Living and Growing) Presents

Ilari Valbonesi @ December 16, 2007 # No Comment Yet

In Africa’s rural areas, many poor families rely on their land to survive. But with such barren earth to farm and unreliable rains, they struggle to harvest enough food to stay healthy.
Through a FARM-Africa goat project, you can transform life for a poor community providing poor families with goats and training in how to care […]

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STRP Festival - Art meets Technology in Eindoven

Ilari Valbonesi @ November 20, 2007 # No Comment Yet

The STRP Festival is one of the largest art & technology festivals in Europe, presenting a four-day multidisciplinary programme with more than 120 artworks, performances, and artists. The composition of the programme is based on the principle that STRP should be a low-threshold festival, geared to a large audience. The programme
centres on robotics, music, visuals, […]

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Trading Cacao God

Ilari Valbonesi @ November 13, 2007 # No Comment Yet

The chocolate enjoyed around the world today had its origins at least 3,100 years ago in Central America as a cerimony beer-like beverage and status symbol, the author of The World of the Ancient Maya (Cornell University Press, 1997), John Henderson said.

All of the Mesoamerican peoples made chocolate beverages, who made it into […]

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The Symbiotic Relationships: Cannibals, Truffles and Scrambled Eggs

Ilari Valbonesi @ October 31, 2007 # No Comment Yet

Armin Meiwes, the German cannibal serving a life sentence for killing and eating a man who begged to be devoured, has described how the meat tasted of pork: “The flesh tastes like pork, a little bit more bitter, stronger. It tastes quite good”. In his first television interview, broadcast last week on the RTL channel, […]

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Wicked Pumpkins, Witches In The Sky

Ilari Valbonesi @ October 30, 2007 # No Comment Yet

By the pricking of my thumbs,
Something wicked this way comes.
William Shakespeare, Macbeth (4.1.45-6)

People believe that if you put your clothes on inside out as well as outside walk backwards on Halloween night, at midnight you will see a witch in the sky. The word Witch comes from middle English wicche, from Old English wicca, masculine, […]

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