Month: December 2014

  • TO BE HOPEFUL in bad times is not just foolishly romantic. It is based on the fact that human history is a history not only of cruelty, but also of compassion, sacrifice, courage, kindness. What we choose to emphasize in this complex history will determine our lives. If we see only the worst, it destroys…

  • hawaii-5-no: alltheselittlevoices: haleepls: hold-a-lover-close: owlturdcomix: We go forward. This is too deep to comprehend. Stop it I THOUGHT THIS WAS GOING TO BE FUNNY WHY?!WHY WOULD YOU DO THIS TO US?!?¿?!

  • Video games are Not making us more violent, study shows | Technology | The Guardian

    Video games are Not making us more violent, study shows | Technology | The Guardian

  • The news van kit struck her as really quite different. She does not have children, so the change in LEGOs represented by the Friends line was startling: “In 1981,” explains Giordano, “LEGOs were ‘Universal Building Sets’ and that’s exactly what they were…for boys and girls. Toys are supposed to foster creativity. But nowadays, it seems…

  • anniewerner: “We can’t assume loving a boy band prevents a girl from thinking critically about her experiences and the experiences of others. Don’t assume teenagers can’t understand complex social theory. Pay attention to teenage girls; they just might change the world.” — Ferguson, One Direction, Tumblr, and Why You Need to Pay Attention to Teenage…

  • We can’t assume loving a boy band prevents a girl from thinking critically about her experiences and the experiences of others. Don’t assume teenagers can’t understand complex social theory. Pay attention to teenage girls; they just might change the world. Ferguson, One Direction, Tumblr, and Why You Need to Pay Attention to Teenage Girls —…

  • We can’t assume loving a boy band prevents a girl from thinking critically about her experiences and the experiences of others. Don’t assume teenagers can’t understand complex social theory. Pay attention to teenage girls; they just might change the world. Ferguson, One Direction, Tumblr, and Why You Need to Pay Attention to Teenage Girls —…

  • Kevin Sutcliffe, Vice’s head of news programming in Europe, says mainstream TV networks wrongly assumed young people weren’t interested in foreign news. The problem “was the worn-out approach, with newscasters, tight packages, and live feeds from Washington. The world is a rough, raggedy place, and young people want journalism that reflects that. They want authentic…

  • The Humane Representation of Thought from Bret Victor: Closing keynote at the UIST and SPLASH conferences, October 2014. Preface: worrydream.com/TheHumaneRepresentationOfThought/note.html A beautiful discussion for where we need to aim our ideas for the future of interaction with technology. (Source: https://player.vimeo.com/)

  • A Letter from our Editor-in-Chief Tom Lutz

    lareviewofbooks: All of us at the Los Angeles Review of Books felt great sadness last week at the news that The New Republic was falling apart. TNR had been losing $3 million a year, but had, people thought, been rescued by an internet billionaire. There isn’t a serious magazine editor out there who wouldn’t like an internet billionaire to drop like manna…