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At the bookcafe at work, there an exhibition with photos from Bangladesh. The photograph supports a movement that educates girls in Bangladesh. So far so good. What I reacted to is that they educated the girls in "small-scale crafts". To me it sounds like, and note that this is just my thoughts as a dilettante on the developing world, a romantic fantasy. I’m not saying all girls in rural Bangladesh should grow up to make cutting edge research on quantum physics or genomics or A.I. or whatever, but is “small-scale crafts” really the future?

It made me think about Freeman Dyson article Our Biotech Future that now ten years old. Read more... ) 

 The other thing from work I want to share is that I saw a photo of a peace monument from 1955 in Sweden. The thought of a peace monument made me think that if I ever get another tattoo it would be of the Non-Violence monument outside the United Nations Headquarters, New York (pic: Wikimedia).



About the Swedish monument. The thing is that the statute i question celebrate the peaceful splitting of the union between Sweden and Norway in 1905. That was 50 years after the dissolution, a hundred years after the dissolution we let american artist Jenny Holtzer make an exhibition about itEnd of lecture.
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Since I posted my photo from Venice of an artwork in the form of two hands in Grand Canal, I could add that I have learned the work is about climate change. The artist is Lorenzo Quinn and the paper I link to is Greece (but in English ).

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Speaking of that subject. It’s a bad photo. I don’t have a good camera. But this is a Dutch two euro coin with wind turbines on it.



And Angela Merkel (who I don’t have an own photo of) has not just been called the leader of the free world, who might create Pax Germania, and who got the highest marks in a study there Trump, Putin and Xi were unpopular, she has also been called “Climate Chancellor”. Yeah, she has been in the news a lot, I don’t know if she deserves everything, I am not an expert.

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