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Mardi Gras: A Gift Economy

Mardi Gras: A Gift Economy

To residents of New Orleans, there is a special brand of pageantry and community surrounding the Mardi Gras ritual. At the center of it all are Parades—the heartbeat of Mardi Gras. Each Krewe (social club) puts on a huge parade sometime during Carnivale Season. They...
Postal Poetry: The Significance of Stamps

Postal Poetry: The Significance of Stamps

Postage stamps, quickly receding in usage as we tweet our voices around the world, have for nearly 200 years been key enablers of a system that links humans by physical messages. But beyond their role as facilitators of communication, stamps themselves carry messages...
The Incas and Mayans Did It, Now We Do It

The Incas and Mayans Did It, Now We Do It

Icons have grown in popularity in recent years thanks to the brink of technology and interface design after. Today we have over 800 emoticons to use from when we comunicates with others and sometimes even adopting our own meaning of them. Our current use of icons and...