Stunning photography and a beautiful example of why freedom of expression is essential to protect.
“Muslim-Canadian Sooraya Graham, a fine arts student at Thompson Rivers University in Kamloops, B.C., didn’t expect to find herself in the middle of a virtual hostage-taking when her project for a photography class was hung in the hallways of the university’s art department.Her photo, a mural print of a woman wearing full Islamic dress and holding a bra in her hands while folding laundry, was ripped off the wall by an outraged university staffer.”
TIME recently wrote about controversial album covers for National Record Store Day and we realized that most of the covers involved scandalous analogue photographs! Obviously, the line between art and tart is thin. Curious? See the notrious list, with infamous musicians like Jimi Hendrix and Nirvana, here.
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You may be familiar with the Eye of Horus, one of the most well-known Egyptian symbols. However, have you ever thought about how the Eye of Horus relates to Math? The Egyptians actually attributed specific fractions to each of the six parts of the iconic symbol.
The inner corner of the eye indicates 1/2, the iris is 1/4, the eyebrow is 1/8, the outer corner of the eye is 1/16, and the decorations below the eye are 1/32 and 1/64 respectively. They were combined, in various ways, to measure the unit capacity for grains.
Read on to see what Esther Inglis-Arkell from io9 has to say about pictogram systems.
Images courtesy of Jose Ignacio Soto/Shutterstock/io9/Wolfram Math World
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