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emergentfutures: Your Next Job Application Could Involve a Video Game Brynjolfsson is advising one start-up that hopes to revolutionize what might be called the human-capital-allocation market. The company, Knack, uses video games as a screening device to determine how creative, cautious, adept at multitasking or easily distracted, among other attributes, potential job applicants are. Its…
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my wife shared this with me, said it accurately depicts my state of being lately, I’m the tenured one.
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junk-yard-doll: Polaroids by Andrei Tarkovsky _______ “It falls apart at any attempt of touching it.” (voyeurvoyage)
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putthison: “When I was young there were beatniks. Hippies. Punks. Gangsters. Now you’re a hacktivist. Which I would probably be if I was 20. Shuttin’ down MasterCard. But there’s no look to that lifestyle! Besides just wearing a bad outfit with bad posture. Has WikiLeaks caused a look? No! I’m mad about that. If your kid…
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Although Peirce was a mathematician, logician, and scientist, his sign theory recognizes the importance of feeling, emotion, sensation, sentiment, action. Put another way, his semiotics not only enables us to understand science as a human enterprise but offers us an approach to literature and the arts, to religion, to society, to the whole of the…
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processedlives: “As a writer of science fiction I was free to imagine new ways of thinking about people and power, free to maneuver my characters into situations that don’t exist…I’ve been told again and again that my characters aren’t "nice.” I don’t doubt it. People who must violate their long-held beliefs are rarely pleasant. I…
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notational: Learning Python using Codecademy and Raspberry Pi Minecraft “Craig’s book is one of best teaching and learning resources that I’ve ever seen for any subject. It follows the Python lessons in Codecademy (one of the best online learning resources out there) and then reinforces these skills using Raspberry Pi Minecraft. It’s contemporary and it’s…
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Imagine this: Instead of waiting in her tower, Rapunzel slices off her long, golden hair with a carving knife, and then uses it to climb down to freedom. Just as she’s about to take the poison apple, Snow White sees the familiar wicked glow in the old lady’s eyes, and slashes the evil queen’s throat…
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cinoh: Duane Michals, Andy Warhol