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Scientists have another name for failure: data. Expecting that your first stab at a big project will succeed is not only unrealistic, but a bit lazy. We should consider ourselves “tinkering scientists” on our quest to create, with each failure just another data point. At the 2013 99U Conference, Stanford Technology Ventures director Tina Seelig, author of inGenius:…
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reclaimingthelatinatag: Paintings by Colombian artist Débora Arango (November 11, 1907 – December 4, 2005): La lucha del destino (The Struggle of Fate), Justicia (Justice), Adolescencia (Adolescence), and La celestina (The matchmaker). Débora Arango used her artwork to explore many politically charged and controversial issues, her subjects ranging from nude women to the role of the Roman Catholic Church to dictatorships.Though…
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Here’s a current example of the challenge we face,” he writes in the book’s prelude: “At the height of its power, the photography company Kodak employed more than 14,000 people and was worth $28 billion. They even invented the first digital camera. But today Kodak is bankrupt, and the new face of digital photography has…
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you’re soaking in it
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blech: Ed Ruscha. Yes, really. “Official tumblr for the publication of the Ed Ruscha Catalogue Raisonne of paintings.”
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Be contemporary. Have impact. Strive for it. Be of the world. Move it. Be bold, don’t hold back. Then the moment you think you’ve been bold, be bolder. We are all alive today, ever so briefly here now, not then, not ago, not in some dreamworld of a hypothetical future. Whatever you do, you must…
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via neuromaencer: All Watched Over By Machines Of Loving Grace tv series (part1/part2/part3) The series argues that computers have failed to liberate humanity and instead have “distorted and simplified our view of the world around us”
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pbsthisdayinhistory: May 13, 1846: The Mexican-American War Begins On this day in 1846, U.S. Congress declared war on Mexico. The Mexican-American War was a defining event for both nations, transforming a continent and forging a new identity for its peoples. By the war’s end in 1848, Mexico had lost nearly half of its territory (the…
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thinkmexican: In Support of ‘Corky’ Gonzales “I am Joaquín. I must fight and win this struggle for my sons, and they must know from me who I am.” – “I Am Joaquín,” written by Rodolfo ‘Corky’ Gonzales Denver city officials and community leaders are debating the naming of a new library after hometown hero and…
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A New Feminist Journal Of Art And Digital Culture .dpi gets a makeover! (beta version) Current issue’s themed section: Hacktivism Founded by artist-run-centre Studio XX in 2004, in Montreal, the publication .dpi has recently undergone a major transformation in order to assert itself as a feminist journal of art and digital culture. In 2013, with…