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superheroesincolor: Wonder Woman by SICOSA “Nubia brought to life by Aphrodite, was charged by the Greek Gods with defending the entrance to the river Styx and the Tartarus Gate. Sometime during her time in the underworld, Nu’bia met the Zoroastrian god of light, Ahura Mazda, and became his lover.” [ Follow SuperheroesInColor on facebook / instagram…
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asoftwrongness: #59
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Good design feels obvious
Good design feels obvious alexainslie: “Good design means it is a) valuable: you’re solving a real problem for people b) easy to use: people find it understandable, accessible and fast c) well-crafted: the entire experience feels designed with thought and care.” -Julie Zhuo
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A recent paper in the Journal of Marketing Research has identified a group of customers whose support for a product is a “harbinger of failure,” a signal that the product will eventually flop. “Increased sales of a new product by some customers can actually be a strong signal of future failure,” researchers write. So who…
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$10 “bean to bar” chocolates were made from melted down Valrhona
mostlysignssomeportents: The Mast Brothers, a pair of bearded chocolatiers in Brooklyn, have built an empire on beautifully packaged “artisanal” chocolates that run $10/bar, billed as “bean to bar” confections. Other chocolatiers were skeptical of the “bean to bar” claim, because the production volume as well as the product’s taste and texture beggared belief. The company,…
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the-drawing-center: A Page from the Drawing Papers Archive This page from Drawing Papers 89 features Untitled, an ink and graphite drawing created by Jerome Marshak in 2009. Selections Spring 2010: Sea Marks was comprised of works by Agnes Barley, Jerome Marshak, and Peter Matthews, three artists selected from the Viewing Program who notate, describe, and interpret…
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We are, as a species, addicted to story. Even when the body goes to sleep, the mind stays up all night, telling itself stories. Jonathan Gottschall, The Storytelling Animal: How Stories Make Us Human (via wordsnquotes)
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Teaching or Learning?
willrichardson: Is your school culture one that’s focused on teaching, or is it focused on learning? Depends on what you believe, right? If you believe that learning is measured by test scores, then odds are you’re focused on helping teachers become technically better at delivering the outcomes spelled out in the curriculum. The focus is…
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superheroesincolor: Star Wars: A consideration of the great new S.F. film by Samuel R. Delany, (Cosmos Science Fiction and Fantasy, 1977) “…Sometime, somewhere, somebody is going to write a review of Star Wars that begins: “In Lucas’s future, the black races and the yellow races have apparently died out and a sort of mid-Western American (with…