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Rocking the Library in LA

Alexandra Apolloni
Art & Literature, Arts & Culture, History
UCLA brings the punk scene to life

Our Stone Tool Discovery Pushes Back the Archaeological Record by 700,000 Years

Jason Lewis and Sonia Harmand
History, Science, Society & Culture
This post originally appeared on The Conversation. On the morning of July 9 2011, we were climbing a remote hill near the western shore of Lake Turkana in northern Kenya. Sammy Lokorodi, who...

Is China Going Green? Is Chinese Culture Stuck in the Past? Award-Winning New Yorker China Correspondent Evan Osnos Answers

Hippo Reads Staff
Economics, History, Politics & Economics, Society & Culture
This piece is published in partnership with China Focus, a student run blog sponsored by the 21st Century China Program at UC San Diego. You asked; New Yorker China correspondent Evan Osnos...

A Festivus for the Rest of Us? How Christmas Traditions Inspired New Holidays

Jennifer Munoz
History, Religion, Society & Culture
In the same way Christmas festivities have waxed and waned, new religious holidays have been created, higlighting the diversity of American traditions and inhabitants.

Ask China Expert and New Yorker Correspondent Evan Osnos Anything

Hippo Reads Staff
Economics, Government, History, Politics & Economics, Society & Culture
As business leaders and politicians alike have proclaimed, this may be China’s century. Which is why we at Hippo have invited American journalist Evan Osnos, who witnessed China’s transformation firsthand as The New Yorker’s China Correspondent, to be our next Ask Me Anything guest.

A Visual History of the India-Pakistan Partition

Aanchal Malhotra
Government, History, Religion
A single inscription, the Radcliffe Line, changed the fates of millions. Hindus, Muslims, and Sikhs suddenly became enemies; they fought over land, wealth, respect, community, and national identity. The objects the refugees brought with them speak volumes.

Alan Ziegler on the Origins of the Prose Poem

Alan Ziegler
Art & Literature, Arts & Culture, History
Alan Ziegler, award-winning author of several books of short prose, describes the history of this intriguing literary form, his preferred style.
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