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Tibbits designs the size and placement of the active material using Autodesk’s Project Cyborg software. A Connex Multi-Material printer from Stratasys will then deposit the two materials simultaneously. Materials That Assemble Themselves | Co.Design: business innovation design
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Help Black Girls Code Raise $100K
Help Black Girls Code Raise $100K jtotheizzoe: Thanks to reader Jenine for sending this my way. Really happy to hear about the Black Girls Code initiative. In these many branches we call science, engineering and technology, pretty much everyone but white males is underrepresented (not true in all disciplines, but most). The reasons for this…
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So far, most software applications, platforms, apps, and games, including Knewton’s, have been optimized for transferring quantitative, bounded bodies of facts in domains like math, science, or engineering, as well as basic literacy and grammar. An adaptive-learning platform like Knewton’s is helpless to tabulate or analyze a student’s insight in class discussions, the special brilliance…
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Adaptive learning is an increasingly popular catchphrase denoting educational software that customizes its presentation of material from moment to moment based on the user’s input. It’s being hailed as a “revolution” by both venture capitalists and big, established education companies. Starting this fall, Knewton’s technology will be available to the vast majority of the nation’s…
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elmerseason: “Many people don’t like my insistence—which goes back into the very early 1980s—that maps are political, that maps exhibit and promote a political orientation. They’re about something. They have an agenda. There are a lot of mapmakers who really object to that. And this is in 2011, when my colleagues and I have been…
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sterlingsea: stfuconservatives: churlhurl: tsulawrites: I’m so done Harold Cook just killed it. They really… this really happened today, guys. Texas took preemptive action against weapons of mass menstruation. Oh, but if you had a gun and a permit, you were allowed to bring it in. Let that sink in: You could not bring pads or…
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vorpalizer: Roots and Beginnings – A Wizard of Earthsea by Ursula K. LeGuin Isolation can leave a mark on you soul like a small, hot burn. It’s also an excellent Joy Division song. (These two things are not unrelated.) But the idea that it could be used as the emotional canvas for high fantasy never occurred to…
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Meanwhile, somewhere in a Russian airport
brucesterling: *Man, that is brutal. Mr NSA-ex-spook here really knows how to land a political punch. (on 2013-07-12) Statement by Edward Snowden to human rights groups at Moscow’s Sheremetyevo airport Friday July 12, 15:00 UTC Edward Joseph Snowden delivered a statement to human rights organizations and individuals at Sheremetyevo airport at 5pm Moscow time…
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Prismatic, on the other hand, navigates the shoals of predictability and incoherence with whimsy and grace. Use it for a few days, and you’ll find yourself wondering, “How in the world did it know that I would be interested in that?” Use it for months, and you may suspect that the site knows you better…
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The UX Design Skills Ladder has several constituents: The ability to recognize problems The ability to identify solutions The scope of design knowledge The method for making decisions The ability to give and receive feedback The ability to persuade others Here it is: