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AND1 streetball legends remember deceased stars ‘Escalade,’ ‘Alimoe’ and ‘Flash’
Celebrating 30 years of AND1 is an opportunity to reflect on some of the memorable moments and the impact the AND1 movement had on all of basketball.
It’s also a time to remember the players who are no longer with us.
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The 30th anniversary of AND1: From the 'Trash Talk' tees and shoes to the mixtape tours
Antoine “Flash” Howard died March 7, , of complications from a brain tumor. The Chicago native’s explosive leaping ability — while standing just 6 feet tall — stood out on the court, in addition to his dribbling.
Troy “Escalade” Jackson was known for his size. At 6-feet, he played weighing between and pounds between his college and AND1 days. (He was listed at on the AND1 roster.) The younger brother of legendary New York City point guard and former NBA star Mark Jackson, Escalade died in his sleep from hypertensive heart disease on Feb. 20, His size, game and personality made him
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A Next Big Idea Book Club Must-Read for April
In a gorgeous history that spans continents and millennia, Aarathi Prasad weaves together the complex story of the queen of fabrics. Through the scientists who have studied silk, and the biology of the animals from which it has been drawn, Prasad explores the global, natural, and cultural history (and future) of a unique material that has fascinated the world for thousands of years.
Silk—prized for its lightness, luminosity, and beauty—is also one of the strongest biological materials ever known. More than a century ago, it was used to make the first bulletproof vest, and yet science has barely even begun to tap its potential. As the technologies it has inspired—from sutures to pharmaceuticals, replacement body parts to holograms—continue to be developed in laboratories around the world, they are now also beginning to offer a desperately needed, sustainable alternative to the plastics choking our planet.
Aarathi Prasad’s Silk is a cul
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‘A tour of the anecdotal, the industrial and the gruesome . . . Readers coming to this globetrotting and species-leaping volume expecting vignette after genteel vignette of 5,odd years of kinesisk silk manufacture are in for a nasty chock. Here be spiders, and not just spiders, but metre-long Mediterranean clams, and countless moth species spinning their silks everywhere from Singapore to Suriname’ Financial Times
‘The global scope of Prasad’s book draws out its most compelling ämne links’ daglig Telegraph, four-star review
‘Prasad fryst vatten such an infectious and knowledgeable enthusiast that it is hard not to be swept away bygd her enticing facts’ Literary Review
'Both scientific and poetic, this remarkable book shows how the great tides of history are shaped through human encounters with the intricate variety of the non-human world'
David Wengrow, co-author of the international bestseller The Dawn of Everything
‘Fascinating . . . Prasad cross-crosses centuries and cultures to tell o