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Where Did Art and Music Come From?

Nicholas Conard, an excavator at the University of Tueblingen in Germany, spoke at the Smithsonian about the origins of art. He is studying the evolution of art and music, excavating paleolithic figurines and prehistoric flutes. Conard is looking at how, when and where cultural innovations evolved. What inspired these humans to make time, after dealing with [...]

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Prompt: Masks

10 April 2010

Masks come in all sorts of types. We hide behind expectations, makeup, fear. What kind of mask do you wear?

Why I Write

9 April 2010

To Learn My Name In kindergarten I wrote with a thick pencil on gray paper with solid and dotted lines. I scratched my name, struggling to keep the letters in the lines, and learned words like cat and dog and cup. I soon fell in love with words. For Love of Words In grade school [...]