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Episode 69- The Brief and Tumultuous Life of the New UC Logo
99percentinvisible: **Subscribe to the 99% Invisible podcast in iTunes or the podcatcher of your choice.** If you’re not from California, or missed this bit of news, the University of California has a new logo. Or rather had a new logo. To be more precise they had a new “visual identity system,” which is the kind of entirely accurate but…
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nevver: and go.
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Tech Leaders: Rafael Fajardo; creating socially conscious video games
Tech Leaders: Rafael Fajardo; creating socially conscious video games
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I’m featured on NBCLatino
Tech Leaders: Rafael Fajardo; creating socially conscious video games by NBCLatino Staff 3:56 pm on 12/26/2012 This week on Tech Leaders — Rafael Fajardo, University of Denver professor, creator of socially conscious video games. Fajardo has pushed to include women and minorities into STEM fields by teaching how to create their own video games. He…
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A Chicano kid grows up with walls of many kinds around him. When somebody is born into that situation there are several things he can do. He can ignore the walls, and sink into apathy. Or he can become violent and try to blow up the walls. But there is a third way, a way…
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thenearsightedmonkey: medicalschool: Pyramidal Neuron, drawn by Santiago Ramón y Cajal (1852-1934) “For example, in 2005, neuroscientists discovered that an epilepsy patient had one neuron cell that fired whenever a photo of Jennifer Aniston was presented. Various photos showing the blonde actress in different poses and from different angles all elicited a response from the same…
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megsokay: samaralex: I love that Patrick Stewart is such a dork O Captain, My Captain.
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The Perils of Yoga for Men – William Broad via NYTimes.com
The Perils of Yoga for Men – William Broad via NYTimes.com underpaidgenius: More analysis about yoga injuries, which skew toward men, but even women get injured: nerve damage, broken bones, strokes. wow, I thought I was the only one who felt yoga did me damage when I tried it…
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What has happened in one industry after another is that it has become standard practice to tell people who create anything of aesthetic or intellectual value that they are going to have to be cool with getting paid little or nothing for their work while the people who develop the closed platforms used to ‘share’…
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What would Deleuze and Guattari have made of this domestication – this perversion – of their arguments? It seems that the further their ideas have travelled from their roots on the far left, the more they have been incorporated by the system they opposed. Indeed, the language of desire, multiplicity and all the rest is…