A New Hero Challenges Notions of Italianness
A New Hero Challenges Notions of Italianness http://t.co/CaU1Xlxr
Born in Palermo from Ghanaian parents but raised by an Italian family in Brescia who legally adopted him when he was 18, Balotelli has become an icon of a country still struggling with notions of citizenship and legal rights.
Even as fans and commentators have cited Balotelli as a symbol of Italy’s new multiethnic society, there are some Italians who still believe that nationality is a question of color.
Darko Bandic/AP
Getting Names Right? Harder Than It Sounds
Getting Names Right? Harder Than It Sounds http://t.co/yKZaLSyl
Barbora Zahlavova Strycova, Alex Bogomolov, center, and Alexandr Dolgopolov. Say that 10 times fast. From The New York Times (Alastair Grant/Associated Press (left), Matthew Stockman/Getty Images and Paul Gilham/Getty Images)
The app of life
The app of life - FT Magazine http://t.co/XFPPSkvU
When the internet arrived many pundits predicted the decline of cities. But the prediction was wrong. Overcrowded, overpriced cities only became more popular... In 2008, for the first time ever, most humans lived in cities.
They are lured by social networks. To be rural is to be isolated. You live in a village or suburb to have space, not to meet people. But cities create contacts.
From FT.com
American Children, Now Struggling to Adjust to Life in Mexico
American Children, Now Struggling to Adjust to Life in Mexico http://t.co/moM2snim
Jeffrey Isidoro, 10, misses Houston and has had a hard time making friends at school in Izúcar de Matamoros in central Mexico. (Shaul Schwarz for The New York Times)
Interactive Installation “In Order to Control” by NOTA BENE Visual
Typography and Digital Technologies Question Social Morality
NOTA BENE Visual, a multi-disciplinary studio based in Istanbul, features this text in the installation:
'To do nothing is sometimes the worst thing you can do. Whenever you know but don’t act upon, you are committing crime as well. Are you really the one to distinguish the moral from the immoral?'
Learn from Australia, Gillard tells the world
In the hot seat: Prime Minister Julia Gillard has been on the lecture trail in Mexico. (From The Age/AP)
Learn from Australia, Gillard tells the world http://t.co/azGBdjdU via @theage
With Science, New Portrait of the Cave Artist
With Science, New Portrait of the Cave Artist http://t.co/M7m07E1N
Hand stencils at the El Castillo Cave in Spain have been dated to have been created earlier than 37,300 years ago, making them the oldest cave paintings in Europe. (Pedro Saura/Agence France-Presse - Getty Images)
Asia-Pacific Region Is Fertile Ground for Low-Cost Airlines
Asia-Pacific Region Is Fertile Ground for Low-Cost Airlines http://t.co/ahK0VTGD
The first flight for Scoot, a low-cost airline, landed in Sydney, Australia, this month with about 400 passengers from Singapore. Scoot is an offshoot of the high-end carrier Singapore Airlines. (James Morgan/The New York Times)
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