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goreyhaim: Tramp The Dirt Down – Elvis Costello Tramp the bloody dirt down (Source: https://www.youtube.com/)
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emergentfutures: More than 33,000 food stamp recipients hold accredited PhD or JD degrees in USA Full Story: The Examiner
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Startups are a small elite of young people working for Baby Boomer financiers to destroy the middle class and the nation state. Bruce Sterling (via notational)
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Evidence that sleep is important is overwhelming. Elegant research has demonstrated its critical role in memory consolidation and our ability to generate innovative solutions to complex problems. Sleep disruption increases the level of the stress hormone cortisol. Impulsive behaviors, lack of empathy, sense of humor, and mood are similarly affected. Teenage sleep patterns: Why school…
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In another study, researchers engaged three-to-five-year-old girls in games of, yes, Candy Land as well as Chutes & Ladders, asking them to choose among three game pieces—a thin one, an average-sized one and a fat one—to represent themselves. While in the past children that age showed little ability to distinguish between average and thin weights,…
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rhube: mysterysquid: thumbcramps: hi guys! this is a comic i made for a final in my comics in literature class. we had to do a research paper on a topic we’d discussed in class and then accompany it with a comic with a relevant subject. my paper was about hyper-sexualization of women in comic books,…
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dataurbanism: WRIGHT, A Constraint Based Spatial Layout System WRIGHT formulates the problems of generating two dimensional layouts consisting of rectangular design units as a Boolean constraint satisfaction problem. It formulates layout problems as constrained optimisation problems, and solves them by constrained heuristic search effective in the design of two dimensional layout configurations such as site plans,…
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Warren Ellis » Bruce Sterling: Fantasy Prototypes And Real Disruption (Video)
Warren Ellis » Bruce Sterling: Fantasy Prototypes And Real Disruption (Video) notational: Bruce Sterling: Fantasy Prototypes And Real Disruption (Video) April 26th, 2013 | researchmaterial Provided the embed works, this is a talk Bruce just gave in Berlin. Bruce’s talks are always good. He references Anab Jain’s talk, but I don’t think that’s up yet. Anab’s bit…
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slavin: was just holding this in my hand earlier today. betaknowledge: $12 phone: How is this possible? I don’t have the answers, but it’s something I’m trying to learn. A teardown yields a few hints. First, there are no screws. The whole case snaps together. Also, there are (almost) no connectors on the inside. Everything from the…
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The cultural bias against creatives as leaders — Stowe Boyd via GigaOM Research
The cultural bias against creatives as leaders — Stowe Boyd via GigaOM Research stoweboyd: I reviewed some research that demonstrates why creatives don’t wind up in leadership roles, generally, although a majority of CEOs believe that creativity is the key competency for our era: The cultural bias against creatives as leaders, Stowe Boyd A 2010 study of 1,500…