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sfmoma: wiblog: This. Is. Genius. “There’s no wrong way to paint a feeling.” (Source: https://www.youtube.com/)
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border-studies: From a good article about architecture’s impact on sexuality (and vice versa): Le Corbusier’s Unité d’Habitation complex in Marseilles (1952) was designed around the display of the body, its pools and terraces, meant for inhabitants to show off. (via Can architecture improve our sex lives? – Richard J Williams – Aeon)
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If you are in school today the technologies you will use as an adult tomorrow have not been invented yet. Therefore, the life skill you need most is not the mastery of specific technologies, but mastery of the technium as a whole – how technology in general works. Kevin Kelly (via inthenoosphere)
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Radiolab Podcast Articles – A Clockwork Miracle
Radiolab Podcast Articles – A Clockwork Miracle In 1562, King Philip II needed a miracle. So he commissioned one from a highly-skilled clockmaker. In this short, a king’s deal with God leads to an intricate mechanical creation, and Jad heads to the Smithsonian to investigate.
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futurescope: SEXBOTS and DREAM RECORDERS by SeriousWonder // Not sure if I like this kind of futuristic philosophy (!?). It’s a bit too much of Fringe, color-of-the-next-year-bogus and stilted b/w. And i think it’s more an intercession for a specific future than forecasting a range of plausible options, scenarios or futures. But as long as…
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azspot: Daniel Suarez: The kill decision shouldn’t belong to a robot (Source: https://www.youtube.com/)
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After Sales Plummet, Walmart Realizes It Can’t Run Stores On Temps Alone
After Sales Plummet, Walmart Realizes It Can’t Run Stores On Temps Alone azspot: Walmart defends its poor labor practices as necessary to keep prices down. But as Walmart’s sales dropped with its payrolls, other retailers have proven that treating workers well is not mutually exclusive to a good deal. Walmart’s competitor, Costco, offers its employees…
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notational: theblueboxonbakerstreet: the-fandoms-are-cool: jellobatch: psicologicamenteblog: Source: An inside look at ADHD. Follow Francesca Mura on Pinterest Me 100% of the time. Luckily Ito help for my ADD when I was a child fun facts! ADD and ADHD are the same disorder, Attention Deficit Disorder was officially renamed Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder in 1994. Many people…
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The dirty little secret is that higher education is staffed with an insufficiently resourced, egregiously exploited, contingent “new faculty majority.” In addition to the 49.3% of faculty in part-time positions (70% in community colleges), another 19% are full-time, nontenure-track. (These numbers do not include graduate assistants or postdocs.) Adjunct professors, like many hard-working Americans, are…
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theatlantic: Are Tenured Professors Really Worse Teachers? A Lit Review Earlier this month, a team of researchers at Northwestern University, including the school’s president, Morton Schapiro, released a paper titled, “Are Tenured Professors Better Teachers?” Their answer, based on eight years of the school’s student records, was essentially no. On average, tenure-line profs actually underperformed compared to their tenure-ineligible colleagues,…