The cave walls in this Indigenous protected area were, for generations, effectively artists' blackboards; new paintings would be blithely brushed over others that were thousands of years old, as urgent memories of new stories superseded the ancient.
Mr Lazaridis is shown sketching a BlackBerry in a room lined with equation-laden blackboards.
With foreign help, new schools have been built some in brick, though in many cases blackboards are simply nailed to trees.
To take just the most recent, and famous, example, the existence of the Higgs boson was predicted on blackboards decades before it was finally run to ground by the Large Hadron Collider at CERN.Now the physicists have done it again.
Leadership was once taught on the blackboards and rugby pitches of Britain's private schools to boys who were then meant to go out to the tropics and subdue the natives.
Now 45, her anarchy pays the bills: her first solo show toured America to wide acclaim last year and the Victoria and Albert museum has commissioned a major sculpture with which to inaugurate its new British galleries in November.In the work now on display at the GAM, she has photographed Einstein's lecture blackboards with a microscope, blowing up his chalk scribbles into cosmic visions.
The garbled formulae he scrawled on blackboards, uninvited and unread, evinced a scholarly background.
He sees the broken blackboards at Damascus University and classrooms that are without heating in winter or air-conditioning in summer.Neither book says much about the Syrian regime's exiled opponents (though Mr Ajami interviews some well-heeled types in Istanbul).
UNLIKE experimental physicists, with their big, expensive toys (see article), theorists content themselves with blackboards, coffee and crucially a free rein.
He has long chided his fellow economists for scrawling hieroglyphics on blackboards rather than looking at what it actually takes to run a business.
As an actor he had the lead in "Blackboards", a groundbreaking second film from Samira Makhmalbaf, the 22-year-old daughter of another famous director from Iran, Mohsen Makhmalbaf.Clearly, the energy of Iranian film shows no sign of dying away.
