Carl Zimring

Nobel Peace Prize 2025 The Nobel Peace Prize 2025 was awarded to Maria Corina Machado "for her tireless work promoting democratic rights for the people of Venezuela and for her struggle to achieve a just and peaceful transi...

Text of Maria Corina Machado's #NobelPrize lecture, delivered by her daughter as the laureate arrived in Oslo after the ceremony began. www.nobelprize.org/prizes/peace...

I may have been shielded by the many flags around me! See you soon.

The crowd watched the ceremony on the video screen outside the Nobel Peace Center

A view of the stage between the Nobel Peace center and the video screen showing the ceremony from inside Oslo City Hall.

A musician warms up on the stage

A crowd gathers at the Nobel Peace Center.

The actual ceremony is at Oslo City Hall, a few yards from the Nobel Peace Center.

The Nobel Peace Prize ceremony is underway in Oslo.

Fred Ramsdell attended Foothill College, amassing enough credits to be able to afford finishing college at UC-San Diego in 1983.

Today he shares a Nobel Prize in medicine.

That is what a society investing in affordable education produces.

News from Kansas City, where ASEH will gather next March.

The genre is O’Rourke.

I hope someone draws this wonderful story about Tom Stoppard's Arcadia and the power of the arts to help us see things differently, to the attention of our Education Secretary. Do read it, it will lift your spirits.

The copper mine.

The company logo is everywhere, including on my head.

Copper Blue.

Huge "room" in the mine where copper was excavated.

Greetings from Røros, now a UNESCO World Heritage Site after more than three centuries of copper mining.

Static & Distance A tribute to the life and work of Jason Molina Brought to you by Secretly Canadian, ‘Static & Distance’ provides a unique opportunity to dive deeper into the life and work of a generation-defining ar...

If you click on this, you'll get a great recap of the genesis of "Can't Be the First One," an unreleased Molina song on my band Mint Mile's new LP, andwhichstray. Plus a buncha pix of our time recording the record with my beloved pal Steve Albini in the south of France. Thanks Erin (Osmon)

Bob Mould plays a Stratocaster as sweat pours off of him

Bob Mould sings to a sold-out crowd in Oslo.

Che Arthur strums an acoustic guitar.

Bob Mould with Che Arthur @ John Dee in Oslo on Thanksgiving.

Ken Vandermark plays saxophone

Paal Nilssen-Love plays drums and hits various things while Ken Vandermark plays saxophone

Sax and drums in a small club

Ken Vandermark and Paal Nilssen-Love @ Kafe Haerverk.

A happy Thanksgiving to all those fighting against fascism.

Your occasional reminder that the activities described as recycling have complex and often destructive effects.

I wandered in there my first week in town because it's not even five minutes from my apartment. To say it was a surprise was an understatement.

Was it Yaya’s? That’s down the road from me.

Barbershop in Oslo with a yellow sign informing passersby that the name of the business is Chicago.

Chicago barbershop, Oslo.

How Zohran Mamdani's vivid campaign aesthetic was inspired by Bollywood and taxis Mamdani and the designers who helped craft the logo and font spoke to Gothamist about how they reflect New York City.

Pratt Chair of Undergraduate Communications Design Meta Newhouse quoted in this story on the Mamdani campaign's aesthetics. gothamist.com/news/how-zoh...

LAW dork = I am certain that someone thought this was particularly witty when they came up with the name, but it's honestly one of the more offensive possibilities these hateful authoritarians could have used. Even on its face, using the name of a beloved children's book as the name of your anti-immigrant, mass-arrest operation is appalling. But, to use a book authored by E.B. White as your name is an offense to history. White was a leading voice for American democracy and freedom and against fascism and tyranny. Abusing his life's work like this cannot stand without a response.

When DHS dared to call its anti-immigrant racial profiling weekend in Charlotte, North Carolina, “Operation Charlotte’s Web,” I knew I was going to have to write about it.

Tonight, at Law Dork, here it is: www.lawdork.com/p/gregory-bo...

Letter from Chicago broadcast veterans: Federal immigration agents have traumatized us and eroded our rights The fact that some federal immigration forces may be leaving soon is cold comfort given the damage they’ve done.

"It is not law enforcement; it is terror." - A generation of Chicago journalists speak out about the ICE assault. www.chicagotribune.com/2025/11/13/l...

No-Bullshit Net Zero campaign poster for a Green Party candidate in Copenhagen.

Five million political signs in Copenhagen ahead of the November 18 election. This one is my favorite.

Factory designer Peter Saville quoted by Anniina Koivu: “Design is about thinking. It’s not about making things look pretty; it’s about having an idea.”

On the canal in Copenhagen.

Seeing Pater Saville quoted in the closing keynote of Furniture Seminar 2025 was a nice surprise. Now enjoying the sun in Copenhagen.

Thanks Rebecca. I encourage you to submit both this and something you wrote. The more the merrier! ec.europa.eu/info/law/bet...

I can think of a bunch of @rebecca-altman.bsky.social articles that would be good for the European Commission to read before writing this law. What would be the best one?

Hey #DiscardStudies folks. The European Commission has a public consultation period open until November 6 for its planned Circular Economy Act. If you have an article or post you want included, register and submit at ec.europa.eu/info/law/bet...

Poster for Masters in Public Environmental Humanities. Our 2-year masters program in beautiful Stavanger, Norway, invites you to study today's environmental challenges as deeply rooted in culture and history. Key aspects: • Combine critical thinking with hands-on engagement • Work across humanities fields • Put learning into action through an internship • Taught entirely in English • Free tuition for students from EU/EEA/Switzerland and affordable for others If you believe community-engaged humanities can help build a more sustainable future, this is the place to start. GET MORE INFO & APPLY FOR FALL 2026 Questions? Email PEH@uis.no

The Greenhouse @unistavanger.bsky.social is launching an international Masters Program in Public Environmental Humanities from fall 2026! Taught in English.

Please share with all your students, #envhist #envhum colleagues!

Learn more about the program here: www.uis.no/en/studies/t...

City Hall could use members of the Pratt Center who have been working on making basement apartments safer for years. prattcenter.net/our_work/bas...

We need to import Ike to NYC.

If pressed, she can say AI caused the death of Pop.

Man standing in front of screen on concrete wall. Title on screen: «Ecodesigning Sustainable Products?»

This week’s research talk is with Carl Zimring (Pratt Institute/CAS Oslo), who will talk about «Ecodesigning Sustainable Products?», the project he’s working on this fall as a guest researcher at CAS. #envhist #envhum