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Tonight I attended a talk at the Center for Advanced Visual Studies entitled Terminal Air, given by Tad, Hirsh, Trevor Paglen, and Andrew Woods. The topic was the extraordinary rendition by the CIA of “terrorist” subjects. Given the recent admission by Bush of the CIA program, the issue has been brought into the wider public’s consciousness.

The work of Dunne and Raby (warning: javascript resize) was some of the first that I came across as I navigated away from straight cognitive science. Shortly after I arrived as a research assistant in the Kanwisher Lab, I attended a lecture by the two of them in the architecture department at MIT.

From the New York Times: There’s Money in Dirt, for Those Who Find Bits of Silicon

Sifting black earth inside her hole, 14-year-old Nurzada Meerim admits to breathing problems. “But here is money,” she said, holding up a crinkled silver flake.

Across a vast landfill just outside this tiny farming town in eastern Kyrgyzstan, the heads of girls continually pop up from narrowly constructed 10-foot shafts.

I’m coming to this a bit late, but I figured it was still important enough to post about, especially in light of recent events and the hysteria surrounding them.

I’ll let posts from others speak for themselves:

Israel Arrests Geography Professor from the University of Akron

On the 9 July, 2006 Professor Ghazi Walid Falah—a professional geographer who holds dual Arab-Israeli and Canadian citizenshi