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I write this not to help bury Musk; I’m not nearly famous enough to even hit a nail in his coffin. I write this to point out that, in the US, people will treat any crank seriously if he has enough money or enough prowess in another field. A sufficiently rich person is surrounded by…
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Variations of Incomplete Open Cubes – Sol LeWitt
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thisistheverge: ‘Cloudscapes’ art installation puts the viewer inside a man-made weather pattern Human-generated clouds are nothing new, but there’s something particularly stunning about this collaboration between Japanese studio Tetsuo Kondo Architects and environmental engineering firm Transsolar — a combination of minimalist architecture (that brings to mind Apple’s cube-shaped store in NYC) and ethereal floating clouds.…
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explore-blog: French polymath Henri Poincaré on how creativity works — everyone in any field of work, be it art or science, should read this.
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hyperallergic: Pre-Columbian jade maskette (900/600 BCE)
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Swiftly | Small design fixes, fast.
Swiftly | Small design fixes, fast. $15.00, small, quick, “design” fixes.
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willasroed: “Irish folklorist and dramatist Lady Augusta Gregory penned some of the most memorable and timeless retellings of tales from Irish mythology. Recently, the Folio Society — makers of such exquisitely crafted books as The Alice B. Toklas Cookbook illustrated by Natacha Ledwidge– resurrected Lady Gregory’s tales in a lavish slip-case edition of Irish Myths and Legends (public library) featuring stunning art…
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It’s not every day you read a book that blows the lid off of everything you’ve ever been taught about drugs, but Dr. Carl Hart’s recent work, “High Price,” does just that. Part memoir, part myth-buster, the fast-paced read details his journey from a violent Miami ghetto to the halls one of the world’s most…
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nothing you share about Breaking Bad will spoil my desire to binge watch the entire series when I finally get the time. It is not your problem that I wasn’t attracted to seeing the first season along with everyone else. In fact it is your passion that has lead me to believe I might enjoy…
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Sow and reap, conversation
I had a conversation with an ER-Psych MD about our current project (sudor.org), poppies, and the medical pedagogy of opiates for pain. He’s been thinking about it a lot, and I’m still processing what I heard. He hadn’t had the chance to think through the historical foreign policy threads already woven into the piece. I…