Patterns on the Pampa: Secrets of the Nazca Lines
I was asked a year ago by one of the people at Leicester’s web design time, which universities I thought had a good web presence. The first one I mentioned was Vanderbilt. To be honest, I don’t know where Vanderbilt is1 nor where it sits in the US pecking order, so perhaps it’s not that good, but their website looks slick. They’ve also been putting video on the web. The one above is the very big-brained Anthony Aveni talking about his research at Nazca.
- From the history page I eventually found that it’s probably somewhere in Tennessee, but I could look it up on Wikipedia if I cared. [↩]
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