November 2009
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"Does college matter?" by Kathy Sierra →
notational:
(via austinkleon)
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Ben Davis explains why people hate "conceptual"... →
(via notational)
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Watchecotone:
home made printer
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“Research has linked genes to intelligence, social skills, neuroticism, risk...”
– Begley, on why it’s not all the fault of your genes. (via newsweek)
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WatchHappy Birthday, Jimi!
The world is a little less interesting without you…
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Haikuesday, November 24th, 2009
Stuffing or Dressing,
whatever you may call it,
please pass it this way!
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You Need a Vacation. It’s a Scientific Fact.
by Amanda Arnold at HowStuffWorks
I’m not trying to be bossy, but you really need a vacation.
According to Psychology Today, your brain doesn’t come up with killer new ideas unless you give it a break. Apparently when you keep working and working and working on something, your brain keeps trying to solve the problem the same old way. That’s not innovation. But if you give your brain a breather...
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Haikuesday, November 17th, 2009
For some odd reason, I just remembered the smell of new cassette tapes.
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Ten-Minute Art School Course
Black Mountain College (1933-1957)
The story of Black Mountain College begins in 1933 and comprises a fascinating chapter in the history of education and the arts. Conceived by John A. Rice, a brilliant and mercurial scholar who left Rollins College in a storm of controversy, Black Mountain College was born out of a desire to create a new type of college based on John Dewey’s principles...
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The Peeriodic Table of Illusions
by Richard L. Gregory
(reposted in full from New Scientist, because the entire essay is worth it! I added a few links for handy reference.)
For all the fun we have with them, illusions do serious work in illuminating how our brains work, and in particular how perception works. They may also help us understand how consciousness developed, and tell us about our “neuro-archaeology” and...
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Haikuesday, November 10th, 2009
honeysuckle vines
entwined ‘round burning bushes;
relentless sweetness
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Beard-second
arsvitaest:
Unit of length inspired by the light year, but used for extremely short distances such as those in nuclear physics. The beard-second is defined as the length an average physicist’s beard grows in a second. Kemp Bennet Kolb defines the distance as exactly 100 Ångströms, while the Physics Handbook has it half the size at 5 nanometers.
(via Wikipedia)
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Ten-Minute Art School Course
The Awesomeness Manifesto
by Umair Haque
Innovation: it’s the ultimate source of advantage, the undisputed heavyweight champion of the economic ring. Innovation is what every organization should be ruthlessly pursuing, right? Wrong.
I’d like to advance a hypothesis: awesomeness is the new innovation.
Let’s face it. “Innovation” feels like a relic of the industrial...
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Hito Steyerl, In Defense of the Poor Image /... →
sympathyfortheartgallery:
In short: it is about reality.
I particularly like this passage:
The networks in which poor images circulate thus constitute both a platform for a fragile new common interest and a battleground for commercial and national agendas. They contain experimental and artistic material, but also incredible amounts of porn and paranoia. While the territory of poor images...
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the Cult of the Somewhat Delayed →