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fek: Barbara Kruger’s never really talked about Supreme, the skate company who’s been ripping off her ideas and prints letter for letter, color for color, for their red-and-white logo, which you have seen, because it is everywhere. I emailed her casually to ask her about this. And today, she got back to me, and gave a candid…
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julian: #cuesadtrombone @hellofosta @nicolasnova
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An eternal question about children is, how should we educate them? Politicians and educators consider more school days in a year, more science and math, the use of computers and other technology in the classroom, more exams and tests, more certification for teachers, and less money for art. All of these responses come from the…
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Attack on political science funding Despite its pleas for fiscal prudence, Congress’ attack on political science funding has little to do with money. The NSF Political Science Program costs $11m out of an annual NSF budget of $7.8bn, or less than 0.2 percent. Cutting it will hardly free up funds for the “next-generation robotic limbs”…
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essayist: The Internet is Dead. Hope You Got the Memo. Everybody’s Starting Magazines Now. This is Ours. Don’t worry too much. Magazines are a lot like blogs. They’re full of words and pictures. You have to pay for them (which feels bad) but they’re made of paper (which feels good). Our first issue features writing…
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theonlymagicleftisart: These wonderful little guys are Tinybooks.Hey there, little fella! made me look.
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lifeandcode: #8BITMOOC: What good are points? 8bitmooc: When I originally conceived this project, I was thinking about it in the context of an in-person course that would be graded by experience points. You start off at level F, and then have to get experience points to gain levels up to an A+. However, in the…
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Colombia’s Vallenato Festival crowns new king
Colombia’s Vallenato Festival crowns new king seven min video of hot award winning performance. accordion, bongo, and raspa. history of vallenato musical form from Colombia.
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Posey’s been re-elected twice since then, and on April 17, he got the chance to stare down the president’s science czar, John Holdren. Posey and fellow Republicans on the Science, Space, and Technology Committee wanted Holdren to explain why the National Science Foundation was wasting so much money from an asked-for budget of $7.6 billion.…
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There is always something or someone to blame in our struggle for education reform. Sometimes it’s the “bad teachers” who get the blame. Other times it’s standardized testing, insufficient funding, or slow-moving bureaucracy. I blame grades. Grading students, from A to F, has become synonymous with education itself. Report-card day is an American rite of…