august-2017
August 2017
Arts:
Elgar Piano quintet rehearsal at UCSD (score here)
Movies:
Chaiki: Kalmykia's atmospheric film (with a bit of Kalmyk language)
Miss Fisher: is she Dr. Blake's mother?
Documentaries:
Armenian pomegranate: the fruit of paradise from
Nrnadzor village
Holy cow: a portrait of Azerbaijan Lahic village
Incident of the month:
An inside look at the green hospital during eclipse time
What caught our attention:
myDNAge: epigenetics nonsense
Ni-mining in Kanak land
What did we learn:
Post-truth era
Blockstack: regain data ownership
What did we discover:
a fig tree on our constitutional path
Our pictures of the month:
Partial solar eclipse
Felicity's Garden
What did we achieve:
save defunct del.icio.us bookmarks
after 5 years of reading this news,
ready for a 5th trip!
Book of the month:
Kalmykia in Russia's past and present
The next step
Course of the month:
Learning french
Broadway musicals
Dish of the month:
Azerbaijani qutab
Georgian khachapuri
Armenian zhingyalov
Haiku of the month:
meditative statues by Del Mar Les Hauts