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emergentfutures: Could driverless cars own themselves? Forget buying an electric-powered Tesla, sharing a Zipcar or hiring an Uber – the most disruptive force in getting from A to B on four wheels could be cars that own themselves. Emancipated automobiles sounds like a crazy concept. But the man advocating the idea goes further: he thinks…
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Are we in a world where app developers and consumers view apps like games or TV shows? That is, something you might only expect to use for a few months? And in this world, how do you differentiate fads from trends? Apps in a world of abundance | USV Conversations (via soxiam)
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techinista: Paintbrushes, move over. There’s a cooler way to paint in town. Enter water transfer printing, a hydro-coating process that essentially uses liquid images and ink to coat 3-D objects of any material. If only this sorcery could be used for our nails… new venture?
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Look, without our stories, without the true nature and reality of who we are as People of Color, nothing about fanboy or fangirl culture would make sense. What I mean by that is: if it wasn’t for race, X-Men doesn’t make sense. If it wasn’t for the history of breeding human beings in the New…
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brucesterling: *When they say “elegant,” they don’t mean aesthetically attractive, because they’re engineers and yet it is an aesthetic.
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anthonyburrill: “WORK HARD & BE COOL WITH THE PEOPLE” Wood type letterpress poster printed by Grafica Fidalga, São Paulo, Brazil (2012)
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profeminist: Women of Color Working in STEM Fields Are Frequently Mistaken for Janitors Almost half of Black and Latina women working as scientists have been mistaken for a janitor or administrator their offices, reveals a new report on the experiences of women of color working in science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM) fields. “As one…
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glitchinc: Son of postmodern mancredit: original painting by Rene Magritte.
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Art dealers, curators and critics still cling to the idea that what constitutes today’s art with a capital “A” must be totally new and groundbreaking—but only to art history. Whatever the initial merits of this experiment, more than 60 years after the true game-changer of Abstract Expressionism (if only to use the U.S. as an…
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savedbythe-bellhooks: SIDESHOW: Sometimes there are other ideas that I think would be awesome. So think of these as guest blog entries from other sections of my brain. This is from a Tumblr that doesn’t exist called Cornel West Wing. All quotes are by Dr. Cornel West, activist and academic. The idea for this blog was…