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utcjonesobservatory: Peter Higgs: I Wouldn’t Be Productive Enough For Today’s Academic System: Peter Higgs: ‘Today I wouldn’t get an academic job. It’s as simple as that’. Photograph: David Levene for the Guardian Peter Higgs, the British physicist who gave his name to the Higgs boson, believes no university would employ him in today’s academic system because…
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notational: p5art: By the fire (code here) On a cold day in South East Washington state. It’s minus 8 degrees farenheit in Denver at three in the afternoon. this will help 🙂
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emergentfutures: “Though 90% of U.S. households pay to receive as many as 180 channels, the average number of channels viewers watch has remained static at 18 for the past few years. Based on 2012 viewing levels, allowing consumers to choose their own channel packages would end up killing 124 networks.” — What Breaking Apart The…
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bobbycaputo: Mexican Border Project Documents Those Who Make Art, Not War In the years since Mexico, under former President Vicente Fox, declared war on the drug cartels of Mexico in 2006, most of the photojournalism from the border has focused on the inevitable violence. With more than 60,000 people dead and another 25,000 missing, such attention is warranted,…
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Why do poor people make stupid, illogical decisions to buy status symbols? For the same reason all but only the most wealthy buy status symbols, I suppose. We want to belong. And, not just for the psychic rewards, but belonging to one group at the right time can mean the difference between unemployment and employment,…
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the-science-llama: Physicists add ‘Quantum Cheshire Cats’ to list of quantum paradoxes Given all the weird things that can occur in quantum mechanics—from entanglement to superposition to teleportation—not much seems surprising in the quantum world. Nevertheless, a new finding that an object’s physical properties can be disembodied from the object itself is not something we’re used…
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yalegraphicdesign: Design: Alvin Lustig born in Denver, raised in Los Angeles. For more about him see the book Born Modern.
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There have been many measures taken to try to turn the educational system towards more control, more indoctrination, more vocational training, imposing a debt, which traps students and young people into a life of conformity… That’s the exact opposite of [what] traditionally comes out of The Enlightenment. And there’s a constant struggle between those. In…
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dinosaurparty: (via Next Year Everything Will Be Pinky-Purple and You Will Like It) Ooooh.