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artsexsurvival: Astronomical is a scale model of our solar system in twelve 500 page volumes printed-on-demand. On page 1 the Sun, on page 6,000 Pluto. The width of each page equals one million kilometres. – by Mishka Henner.
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Public Universities to Offer Free Online Classes for Credit
Public Universities to Offer Free Online Classes for Credit infoneer-pulse: infoneer-pulse: In an unusual arrangement with a commercial company, dozens of public universities plan to offer an introductory online course free and for credit to anyone worldwide, in the hope that those who pass will pay tuition to complete a degree program. The universities —…
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As you read a book word by word and page by page, you participate in its creation, just as a cellist playing a Bach suite participates, note by note, in the creation, the coming-to-be, the existence, of the music. And, as you read and re-read, the book of course participates in the creation of you,…
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Generation X Doesn’t Want to Hear It
emptyage: emptyage: Earlier generations have weathered recessions, of course; this stall we’re in has the look of something nastier. Social Security and Medicare are going to be diminished, at best. Hours worked are up even as hiring staggers along: Blood from a stone looks to be the normal order of things “going forward,” to borrow…
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GetGoogleOutOfMyHead: What is up with personal branding?
GetGoogleOutOfMyHead: What is up with personal branding? hautepop: getgoogleoutofmyhead: hautepop: [Some waffle about why personal branding is an idea that doesn’t quite go away – the return of the repressed, if you will] I think there are three things happening here: 1. Brand production is a spontaneous cultural and psychological phenomenon. That phenomenon is much…
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emergentfutures: “Our sense of time spans two generations back in the past and two generations forward into the future. That’s it. Most people cannot name a single great-grandparent. Few parents can conceive of the possibility of their child someday becoming a grandparent. It’s our historical and future-looking myopia that makes it pretty much impossible to…
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visual-poetry: “quoted (»is that a quotation, i asked…« jorge luis borges)” by joseph kosuth (+) (photographer: susanne ullerich)
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jomc: In 1964, still living the dream of their recently gained independence, Zambia started a space program that would put the first African on the moon catching up the USA and the Soviet Union in the space race. Only a few optimists supported the project by Edward Makuka, the school teacher in charge of presenting…
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(via Ken Ilgunas)
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To take off to northern lands on the eve of winter with a purple toe and no trail to follow or guidebook to consult would be, to most rational thinkers, insane. Yet since everything about the Tar Sands and the XL and America’s contempt for the reality of climate change struck me as insane, too,…