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archivesofamericanart: Meet Antonio Sotomayor: Bolivian-born muralist, caricaturist, designer, and unofficial “artist laureate” of San Francisco. Antonio Sotomayor painting on glass, ca. 1935 / unidentified photographer. Antonio Sotomayor papers, Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution.
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Bogotá Is Becoming South America’s Premier Tech Hub
Bogotá Is Becoming South America’s Premier Tech Hub it may be time to visit my cousins
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While great teachers can deliver lectures to tens of thousands of students worldwide via video, there’s no way for them to have a conversation with all those students. And while platforms like Coursera have made it easier for professors to put together online classes, the end result is a hypertextbook, not a virtual classroom that…
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seedtoshirt: Miami, Florida – From South Point Park you can watch huge ships pull into port. The one carrying our women’s tee will come this way tomorrow. (Eric Helton/NPR) from Cartagena, Colombia, to Miami.
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A coworker of mine recently had to say goodbye to her students. She is moving forward from her time at the school, where she’s been long enough to see Kindergarteners graduate to middle school. On the last day, one of her kids–a notoriously disruptive second grader–approached her. The boy gave her a watch, and said…
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The making of makers
The making of makers paperbits: What’s needed, then, is an ongoing conversation between designers and manufacturers that builds into a public repository of knowledge and experience: a Yelp for the supply chain, a StackExchange for materials science. Where is the nearest CNC workshop? Who can I talk to about polycarbonate tensile strength or bookbinding techniques…
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kateoplis: “Physicists have discovered a jewel-like geometric object that dramatically simplifies calculations of particle interactions and challenges the notion that space and time are fundamental components of reality.” A Jewel at the Heart of Quantum Physics
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The Ecuador development report does not focus on juicing up economic growth, exploiting nature and privatizing public resources, but on the idea of bien vivir, or “good living.” The nation is self-consciously seeking to develop a paradigm change that focuses on a different “cosmovision” for “living life to the fullest.” David Bollier at David Bollier:…
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rendering-tools: same oof
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reclaimingthelatinatag: latinagabi: : Latino ‘Hackatón’ Generates An App That Allows You To Create Bilingual… thisisfusion: Latino ‘Hackatón’ Generates An App That Allows You To Create Bilingual Contracts In Under A Minute The only thing that pisses me off more than getting ripped off is when it happens to a really good friend, and nothing can…