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6 ore fa · Cinema ––as in the Lumière brothers’ film––animates the world, bringing its nonhuman life into light. Richard Grusin’s edited collection The Nonhuman Turn (2015) argues that the concept of ‘nonhuman’ is central to new developments in critical theory, particularly in the humanities and social sciences. He sees a growing interest ...
1 giorno fa · Etymology. Formerly the Republic of Upper Volta, the country was renamed "Burkina Faso" on 4 August 1984 by then-President Thomas Sankara.The words "Burkina" and "Faso" stem from different languages spoken in the country: "Burkina" comes from Mooré and means "upright", showing how the people are proud of their integrity, while "Faso" comes from the Dioula language (as written in N'Ko ...
1 giorno fa · Like the other alkali metals, sodium dissolves in ammonia and some amines to give deeply colored solutions; evaporation of these solutions leaves a shiny film of metallic sodium. The solutions contain the coordination complex [Na(NH 3 ) 6 ] + , with the positive charge counterbalanced by electrons as anions ; cryptands permit the isolation of these complexes as crystalline solids.
