Despite the fact that academics like to research all kinds of social spaces, there are hardly any studies of the social spaces where research is done. But every now and then we get glimpses, like this story about Parisian academics being “banished to the banlieues”:
The three institutions that are being turned out of their ancestral […]
No sooner had the Thames acquired a sufficient consistency than booths, turnabouts, etc. were erected, and puppet-shows, wild beasts, etc. transported from every adjacent village. Many thousands of persons crossed upon the ice from Tower Wharf to the opposite shore. The watermen broke in the ice close to the shore and erected bridges with toll-bars […]
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- Anne
Ilulissat glacier is melting at record rates. It is a likely poster-child for climate change in the North, a figure for the sudden acceleration in the pace at which ice is melting in Canada’s Arctic Archipelago, the Northwest Passage and the polar icecap. Thanks to Michael, there are some amazing images here. […]