The Gaokao And A Tree
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Podcast: The Highest Exam | New Books In Economics. About the gaokao, China’s high-stakes college entrance exam and how it shapes the schooling system from the bottom up (52m 57s)
Video: Funeral For A Tree | YouTube | Steve Parker | 2m 56s
Virtual tour of an exhibition that celebrates the life of a 65-year-old oak tree. When the tree died, the artist turned slices of its trunk into wooden "records" that play the calls of birds that roosted in the tree.
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