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seedtoshirt: Medellín, Colombia – One way the Colombian apparel industry is weathering competition from places like Bangladesh: go super-duper high-end. These photos (including Colombian journalist Alejandra de Vengoechea and me, goofing with bikinis and other beach garb) are from a little street called Via Primavera in Medellín, where almost every boutique sells locally made clothes…
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theatlantic: When Memorization Gets in the Way of Learning I once caught an 11th-grader who snuck a cheat sheet into the final exam. At first, he tried to shuffle it under some scratch paper. When I cornered him, he shifted tactics. “It’s my page of equations,” he told me. “Aren’t we allowed a formula sheet?…
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genevieve-ft: robinwdavey: I’ve been working with the good people at Wired Italia quite a bit lately, on both the print and ipad editions of the magazine. These looping animations were commissioned to illustrate a feature on the best apps for different categories of consumer (geek, fitness enthusiast, family, workaholic, and globetrotter). It’s a fun challenge…
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Meet the Family That Shuns Technologies Introduced After 1986
Meet the Family That Shuns Technologies Introduced After 1986 wired: The McMillans had a vague sense that gadgets were cheating their children of their childhoods. So they turned to a drastic solution. This is ridiculously amazing. to read
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explore-blog: How surreal to think it’s been a whole year since we lost the great Bill Moggridge, designer of the very first laptop.
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The laws that he is talking about are licensing laws and other laws put in place to protect employees, customers, and neighbourhoods. These laws are not all perfect. But the sharing economy has nothing to replace them beyond magical thinking about “trust” (with little accountability). How about banding together to protest when a TaskRabbit customer…
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A person’s ability to delay gratification—forgoing a smaller reward now for a larger reward in the future—may depend on how trustworthy the person perceives the reward-giver to be, according to a new study by researchers at the University of Colorado Boulder. Press from University of Colorado Boulder in Medical Press. Ability to delay gratification may be…
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digitalcoleman: Free to use Desktop Wallpapers drawn from my new animation being released next week titled “Metro” The full versions are here: http://co-lab.info/media/metro_desktop_1.jpg http://co-lab.info/media/metro_desktop_2.jpg http://co-lab.info/media/metro_desktop_3.jpg http://co-lab.info/media/metro_desktop_4.jpg http://co-lab.info/media/metro_desktop_5.jpg http://co-lab.info/media/metro_desktop_6.jpg http://co-lab.info/media/metro_desktop_7.jpg beautiful!
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ARCOmadrid announces curatorial team for #SoloProjects 2014 Focus Latin America
ARCOmadrid Curatorial team for 2014 Focus Latin America ARCOmadrid 2014 February 19–23, 2014 Application deadline: October 11, 2013 www.arco.ifema.es ARCOmadrid announces that Magali Arriola, Marcio Harum, Sharon Lerner and Tobias Ostrander have been named as the curatorial team for Focus Latin America at ARCOmadrid 2014. Focus Latin America is designed to serve as an opportunity…
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From the time when you began the trilogy, did any technological change surpass what you were writing about? Yeah, in “Oryx and Crake,” in the libraries, Jimmy’s job is to throw out paper books and put things on CD-ROM. [Now] it would be the Cloud. Though you never know; they still have a lot of stuff…