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thepovertyoftheory: fornices: It’s true. I study Biology and end up doing Chemistry. I study Chemistry and end up doing Physics. It all comes down to Maths in the end. No honestly, I’ve been using concepts from my Further Maths A2 and Physics GCSE classes to help me understand concepts in Chemistry and Biology at degree…
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The End of Education As We Know It
The End of Education As We Know It futuresagency: Schocken believes that the traditional grading system is “degrading”—and he’d rather talk about a more positive approach to teaching that he calls “upgrading.” This means rejecting the traditional focus on correct answers. Instead, Schocken thinks we should encourage mistakes. November 09, 2012 at 03:35PM
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howiviewafrica: A Urine Powered Generator. An amazing accomplishment by four brilliant girls. The girls are are Duro-Aina Adebola (14), Akindele Abiola (14), Faleke Oluwatoyin (14) and Bello Eniola (15). 1 Liter of urine gives you 6 hours of electricity. The system works like this: Urine is put into an electrolytic cell, which separates out the…
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Dr. Manhattan, untitled work in progress
Untitled Work In Progress, Dr. Manhattan, Made with Paper
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What is interesting, is that the Frida Kahlo venerated by American feminists is a very different Frida Kahlo to the one people learn about in Mexico, in the Chicano community. In her country, she is recognized as an important artist and a key figure in revolutionary politics of early 20th century Mexico. Her communist affiliations…
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chadilaksono: Do you know who this man is!? Yeah, you do! Went to a talk with him & Art Spiegelman. I’ve liked his work since I was in college. His head is exactly the shape I imagined it would be. #ChrisWare (at Brooklyn Comics and Graphic Festival)
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As with Hurricane Sandy, it will take a little while to discern the long-term consequences of the Penguin and Random House merger, the news of which was somewhat obscured by the storm and the election. But the short-term impact is not pretty — and it follows other recent bad news from the books world. The…
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cavetocanvas: Joseph Kosuth, One and Three Chairs, 1965 From The Museum of Modern Art: A chair sits alongside a photograph of a chair and a dictionary definition of the word chair. Perhaps all three are chairs, or codes for one: a visual code, a verbal code, and a code in the language of objects, that…
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As soon as two speakers exchange utterances, there’s an objective relationship between their competences, not only their linguistic competence (their more or less complete command of the legitimate language) but also their whole social competence, their right to speak, which depends objectively on their sex, their age, their religion, their economic and social status, all…
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Stay small or go big?
jkottke: Emeril Lagasse made an appearance on Treme on Sunday. I watched a clip of his scene a few days ago and have been thinking about it on and off ever since. In the scene written by Anthony Bourdain, Emeril takes a fellow chef to the building that used to house Uglesich’s, a small-but-beloved New…