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I’m Not Your Measuring Stick
stavingdarkness: There is a lot of bullying in bouncing. I hate it, I have always hated it and it’s very hard to combat. I don’t tend to get bullied – I do get picked on here and there. I’m okay with a little good natured ribbing – you have to be able to take shit…
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I was asked to participate in, and help inaugurate, a series of conversations on creativity on our campus. With me in this video is Professor Steven Haag, of the Daniels College of Business, who has helped bring creative practices to their first year population via a “Shark Tank” like experience. The conversations are being organized…
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planetmoney: Knoxville, TN – The cotton we harvested in Mississippi, gets pulled and measured in Tennessee. Check out the wispy cotton ‘stache. seed to shirt
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kottke.org: Debugging a live Saturn V rocket
kottke.org: Debugging a live Saturn V rocket jkottke: Great story from the memoirs of William Moore, an Electrical Systems expert for the Apollo program in the 1960s. Moore writes about the time that he and his team had to take a trip out to the launchpad to fix something on the first unmanned launch of…
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Denver (CO), 15 oct (EFEUSA).- El profesor y artista digital Rafael Fajardo ve en la tecnología una extensión de su labor docente, no por el contenido de los videojuegos que desarrolla, sino por el potencial crítico que se desata al jugarlos. Profesor desarrolla videojuegos como herramienta de crítica social | Fox News Latino while we…
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planetmoney: Middleton, Wisconsin – We have finally reached the very beginning of the T-shirt chain. This is the Monsanto lab where new genetic traits are added to cotton seeds. More than 90 percent of U.S. cotton has been modified so it can resist insects and pesticides. Our farmer we’re profiling loves the science, but complains…
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planetmoney: Middleton, Wisconsin – Peering down into the seed tubes at a Monsanto lab. It is amazing how much trial and error (mostly error) goes into genetically modifying a seed. Scientists can fairly easily add a new bit of genetic material, but then they have to grow and test each seed to see how it…
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The classic case of artist-led gentrification is SoHo. In the ’60s, shortly after the term gentrification was coined by British sociologist Ruth Glass, experimental art guru George Maciunus took a lead in converting the deindustrializing neighborhood’s large spaces, which had been a hub of light manufacturing for a largely Puerto Rican and African-American workforce, into…
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cinoh: Power went out throughout campus today halfway into the lecture. I was happily packing to leave when all the students pulled out their phones and class resumed. Well played, Berkeley. – via imgur
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dg-dk: kazimir malevichSeven Black Elements and Small White Square