The last recipe in this book is not for food. This recipe is for fuel used in the film Kin-Dza-Dza! called luts. Although it is not edible, this is still a helpful recipe. Luts is just drinking water that has been processed into a fuel. While this might seem like a complete fantasy, upon doing … Continue reading “Kin-Dza-Dza!” Luts
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Early in the movie Per Aspera ad Astra, Stepan brings home a watermelon to share with his grandmother and Neeya. He throws the watermelon and she uses her telekinesis to repel the watermelon, crashing it to the floor. This scene shows her ability to manipulate matter, which shocks both the audience and the other characters … Continue reading “Per Aspera Ad Astra” Watermelon Juice
What do you when the Amphibian Man himself hands you, a poor child, a fish on the street? Well, you go home and ask your family to cook it up. This recipe, inspired by the rich culture in the 1961 film The Amphibian Man, man features a simple grilled whole fish paired with a bright … Continue reading “The Amphibian Man” Grilled Fish with Salsa Fresca
In a world where people no longer depend on nature to grow food, what will they eat? The answer is nutritious, uniform, easy-to-consume buckwheat. Somewhere, in a nondescript underground greenhouse massive fields of buckwheat are being maintained so all the people of the One State have sustenance. This dish, a personal favorite of mine, is … Continue reading “We” Kasha
This is the start in a series of reflections on Neil Young's discography. I am starting this series on Neil Young's 74th birthday with his self-titled debut album. My hope is to write a reflection on every one of his 68 albums. This will include studio and live albums. I will do this in chronological … Continue reading “Neil Young”
In our class, we did a unit on environmental justice.The labs focused on analyzing environmental justice in Portland can be viewed here. In that lab we attempted to draw connections between the location of people of different income groups and the prevalence of certain air toxics in Portland. Over the course of the cities history, … Continue reading Triple Divide and Environmental Justice
Retail and the manufacturing of textiles are two of the largest industries in the world. Almost all people have the need for clothes and most of those people need a place to buy them. The market for clothes is shared by every country on Earth. According to Marketline, a database for statistics related to industry, … Continue reading Textile Terror: Or Environmental Impacts of the Textile and Apparel Retail Industries
Steffen Seamon, Simon Cohen Date of Inquiry: November 29, 2018 Here is a link to our project on the urban-ocene. At the start of lab this week, we decided to refine our focus question. We made our question more specific so that it would be answerable through our research. Our new focus question is: How … Continue reading Situated Research Progress 2
The purpose of our project is to get a better understanding of urbanization by studying the impacts of urban intensification in the cities of Japan. Urbanization has occurred across the globe for the purpose of advancing industry and modernizing a nation. Like most of the world, Japan’s urbanization has taken place within the last century. … Continue reading Situated Research Progress
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