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prostheticknowledge: Space Oddity Cover version of famous David Bowie song recorded on the International Space Station, performed by Commander Chris Hadfield. It is something special 🙂 very special. (Source: https://www.youtube.com/)
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Just as taxation tends to redistribute wealth; regulation tends to redistribute power. A democratic state controls and contains powerful interests on behalf of the powerless. This is why billionaires and corporations hate regulation, and – through their newspapers, thinktanks and astroturf campaigns – mobilise people against it. State power is tyranny; state power is freedom.…
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…if I really reflect on how I, a Latina from Las Vegas, was able to become a scientist at an elite university, it wasn’t my own curiosity. It was the influence of a blackjack dealer who also happens to be my mother. Angelica L. Gonzalez, Ph.D, assistant professor of biomedical engineering at Yale. By way…
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banzaing: MAKING WITH PAPER // 1: settings
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via devilduck: How To Jump Off The Roof and not hit the ground.
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busterness: “This body is not supple for the sake of suppleness, a mere demonstration of flexibility. It is a responsive body which works with economy and precision to a purposeful end. It strikes up a tense relationship with matter – a kind of precarious dominance – which, because it is meaningful, is also in a…
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madewithpaper: Making With Paper: Tools We’ve been seeing some wonderful Paper tips and tricks coming from you guys over the past week! Making With Paper: Tools is an illustrative how-to by banzaing that shows each tool in action and compares them side by side. Also, don’t miss banzaing’s Making With Paper: Settings and other great Paper how-tos by creators around the world.
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Diane Ravitch tells Tavis Smiley and Cornel West why she is now a fierce opponent of privatization within public education [audio]
Diane Ravitch tells Tavis Smiley and Cornel West why she is now a fierce opponent of privatization within public education socialintellects: to see/listen/read. judgement withheld until such time. UPDATE: listened (approx 40 min length). this is a wonderfully anger-causing, hackle-raising, conversation.
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Jobs | Ubiquitous
Jobs | Ubiquitous hautepop: emergentdigitalpractices: CREATIVE TECHNOLOGIST We’re looking for a full-time creative technologist / coder for our Manchester office. You’ll need to be driven by experimentation and thrive on ‘never been done before’. Ideally you’d be literate in some of the following: C or C++, OOP, OpenGL and Augmented Reality. Have played with SDKs…
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The new norm is the virtual model. Everyone’s a contractor, working for themselves, whether you’re doing so as a pinion in a huge multinational or working a web start-up out of your dorm room. […] Not everyone is cut out for it. The people who will fit best in your new organization will be young…