July 06, 2007
» links for 2007-07-06
-
Simultaneously mouthwatering and disgusting
-
The Nebra disc: a calendar, a symbol or a fake?
-
And so the story spins on ...
-
"Economically, many of the world's great cities are already divorced from their nation-states, with their main streams of investment come from other great cities."
-
"A new view of cities ... goes beyond conventional economics or biology. Cities are where ideas are born ... [and] follow growth trajectories that have no biological counterpart.
-
"Doreen Massey ... argues that London drives globalisation – rather than being a passive victim of it - and says that London needs a new kind of outward-looking politics that accepts that the local now is global."
-
Longest after all
-
"Intriguingly, the team detected a lump of concentrated mass about 10 metres below the sediments in the centre of the lake, which they think may be the fragment that hit Earth."
