Category: words

  • mfjsatdu: Nice to see the faculty getting involved in the Be(A)ware campaign.

  • When those who have the power to name and to socially construct reality choose not to see your or hear you…when someone with the authority of a teacher, say, describes the world and you are not in it, there is a moment of psychic disequilibrium, as if you looked in the mirror and saw nothing.…

  • Yizhe & Christine. All waiting for Tom Kelley to speak. (at Newman Center for the Performing Arts)

  • Sanaz, Petra, and Sarah (at Newman Center for the Performing Arts)

  • Jinni & Tremaine (at Newman Center for the Performing Arts)

  • kottke.org: Yeah, I’m free-thinking

    kottke.org: Yeah, I’m free-thinking jkottke: In 1999, Sugata Mitra left a computer in a New Delhi slum and watched what the neighborhood kids would do with it. With no prior computer experience, they quickly figured out how to work it. In subsequent experiments, Mitra used computers and very little adult oversight (what we refer to…

  • via captainahabsrarebooks: Small collection of First Editions by Robert A. Heinlein, including his first book ROCKET SHIP GALILEO (1947), along with classics like THE MAN WHO SOLD THE MOON (1950), THE GREEN HILLS OF EARTH (1951), and several of his popular juvenile titles. These can be found on our website at www.captainahabsrarebooks.com

  • hyperallergic: Towards a Manifesto of Irony, Sincerity, and Nostalgia “Alex as Andy,” Towards a Unified Theory of MI!MS (2013), photo Andy Holden (all images courtesy… View Post

  • When Imagining The Future Start With Breakfast And Extrapolate — Margaret Atwood

    When Imagining The Future Start With Breakfast And Extrapolate — Margaret Atwood an excerpt from Joe Berkowitz’ piece, How Margaret Atwood Creates Scary-Plausible Worlds This may sound silly, but I like to wonder what people would have for breakfast—which people, as their breakfasts would be different—and where they would get those food items, and whether…

  • pigeonbits: Here’s a short little review comic I did about Prismacolor colored pencils, and how sad it makes me that they’ve been declining in quality over the years! I’ve mostly switched over to Polychromos by now (and will be 100% converted by the next ATCF chapter break), and they’re definitely great pencils, but I think…