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littledallilasbookshelf: Sign on the front door of the Albion Beatnik Bookstore, Oxford, England via The Guardian. Original 1932 Quote by Beatrice WARDE (Typographer. USA, 1900-1969 )
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modern Latino players have begun to impose their own attitudes on a game that, in previous years, had asked them to curtail their behavior to appease a mostly white power structure. Dodgers-Braves playoffs: Latin players are changing baseball. Get used to it.
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For years, I opened my 11th-grade U.S. history classes by asking students, “What’s the name of that guy they say discovered America?” A few students might object to the word “discover,” but they all knew the fellow I was talking about. “Christopher Columbus!” several called out in unison. “Right. So who did he find when…
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We’re so erased. …If you’re a person of color, if you’re a woman, if you’re from a poor family, if you’re from a rural family, if you’re from a family who worked like dogs and never got any respect or a share of the profits – you know that 99 percent of your stories ain’t…
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magictransistor: Detail of the “Black Page” from Utriusque Cosmi Maioris Scilicet et Minoris Metaphysica, Physica Atque Technica Historia. [Robert Fludd] Black has repeatedly been associated with solid and geometric forms. The best known example dates back to the early seventeenth century in a page within volume one of Robert Fludd’s Utriusque Cosmi Maioris Scilicet et Minoris…
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Broad-Based Knowledge or Technical Skills? Employers Say We’ll Take Both – Along With a Few Years of Experience
Broad-Based Knowledge or Technical Skills? Employers Say We’ll Take Both – Along With a Few Years of Experience hapgood: From HigherEd Watch’s Mary Alice McCarthy: “If today’s employers want well-rounded graduates who are also proficient in specific skills and have on-the-job experience, they need to be part of the education process, and not just on…
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m1k3y: Inspired in part by the “ugly t-shirt,” a garment dreamed up by William Gibson that would provide invisibility to CCTV surveillance, Niquille thinks of her shirts as “facial recognition dazzle,” referring to a unique brand of camouflage employed by ships in World War I. Pioneered by artist Norman Wilksinson, dazzle camouflage involved covering warships…
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prostheticknowledge: Stay with Hatsune Miku in AR environment (Virtual Girlfriend / Idoru Tech – Part 2) Second of two posts which demonstrate the appliance of tech to a virtual partner (this one is actually an impressive appliance compared to the first one …) Put together by alsione svx, here we have a combination of Oculus…
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Books are the perfect entertainment: no commercials, no batteries, hours of enjoyment for each dollar spent. What I wonder is why everybody doesn’t carry a book around for those inevitable dead spots in life. Stephen King (via cup-of-letters)
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The majority of internet traffic to Central and South America flows through a single building in Miami, known as the Network Access Point of the Americas. Bypassing that route with a new cable would require years of work and billions of dollars, and likely would have little effect on NSA surveillance, Soghoian says. The US…