Colours
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Praxe: What Tradition Is This?
How do you welcome new university students? What’s the best way for them to integrate, make new friends, and acquire a sense of belonging? Just organise a university-wide hazing, as it’s called in America. It’s called initiation or beasting in the UK. Bizutage in France. Bastardization in Australia. Trote universitário in Brazil. Praxe [pronounced PRAHsh] … Continue reading
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Deadly Colours
Colours have different origins, compositions, and meanings. Some pigments’ names evoke distant and exotic lands, brought to the west by merchants’ caravans or ships that have crossed seas teeming with, what they thought back then, monsters. While some pigments used by painters and manufacturers are run-of-the-mill stuff, others are, or were, deadly, such as the… Continue reading
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