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Chronicle.com: What made you decide to leave your post as a professor and dean at MIT to start your own university? Christine Ortiz: I’ve been at MIT for 17 years, and it’s been amazing. And I’ve always been interested in curriculum and thinking about the future of the research university, and I did a lot…
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List of shibboleth names
lazenby: Paul Erdősby which the privileged judge their inferiors A Chinua Achebe (chin-oo-ah ah-chay-bae) Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie (chim-ah-man-da nnnn-go-zeh ah-dee-che) James Agee (a-jee) Jerzy Andrzejewski (yer-zhay ahn-zhay-ev-ski) Hannah Arendt (ahr-ent) Martha Argerich (mar-tah herr-each) Eugène Atget (oo-zhenne at-zhey) Augustine of Hippo (aw-gus-tin) B Angelo Badalamenti (bottle-ah-menti) Donald/Frederick Barthelme (barth-uhl-me) Karl Barth (bart) Roland Barthes (bart) Tycho Brahe (Danish…
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(via Masquespacio unveils Missana collaboration Take a pew: Masquespacio unveils debut furniture collection for Missana | Wallpaper* Magazine) another sofa to help me think about Casa Jasmina and the global influence of the Internet of Italian Things (IoIT). in this case a re-interpretation of Post-Modern interiors where the Memphis of Sotsass and Branzi is somehow…
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A Multifunctional Sofa Named Herb – Design Milk
A Multifunctional Sofa Named Herb – Design Milk posting so I can find it later. thinking about the sofa at Casa Jasmina, and the low likelihood that someone would want to plug a sofa into a power outlet, and then someone in Milan goes and suggests that that is exactly what we all want. so…
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Malcolm Grear | 1931–2016
ourrisd: Professor Emeritus Malcolm Grear, a renowned designer and devoted teacher who was deeply connected to the RISD community for more than half a century, died on Sunday, January 24, 2016. He was 84 and living in Wakefield, RI. After arriving here to teach in 1960, the Kentucky native not only helped build the Graphic…
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Universities, like people, are duplicitous and loathe having their duplicity exposed publicly. They therefore seek ways of obscuring the truth of their decline while also creating the impression of ever-increasing achievement. But how is this grand trompe-l’œil to be sustained? How can you cease to do, or at best do very badly, what you claim…
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code drawing 128 from 2016 01 20 made with Hopscotch. @gethopscotch
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Such despots know very well that their strategy of repression will allow the real tools of oppressive power to flourish. Their plan is simple: 1. Select a useful enemy—an “Other”—to convert rage into conflict, even war. 2. Limit or erase the imagination that art provides, as well as the critical thinking of scholars and journalists.…
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mrstsk: “bowie is dead”. The three-word Facebook message — all lowercase — somehow reaches me on a barely-functional wifi network on the jetfoil between Korea and Japan. I get a burst of adrenalin, a surge of horror. Can this be a joke? If it is, it’s in very bad taste. I try to load the…
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Fred Armisen Talks Bringing Latino Comedy to the Mainstream With Launch of Más Mejor
Fred Armisen Talks Bringing Latino Comedy to the Mainstream With Launch of Más Mejor Some people just get it, and others miss. For all the crap we give him for not having any sort of Latino representation on Saturday Night Live and for letting that red-haired-ignorant-fool-running for the highest office in our country host, Lorne…