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crisisgroup: Will Colombia have peace at last? | Miami Herald By Louise Arbour, Crisis Group’s President and CEO More than two generations of Colombians have suffered armed conflict, kidnappings, drug trafficking and violence. Now, a political solution to the Western Hemisphere’s oldest conflict may be in sight. Peace negotiations between the Colombian government and the…
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Mind-blowing digital GIF art
kuvva: There are not many artists out there that use GIF as a medium to express themselves artistically. However, Matthew DiVitto shows that his design in combination with the magic of GIF loops gives his art a completely new dynamic to it. It takes him around 1 to 4 hours to create a piece depending…
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Unbundling the Classroom Experience
dianakimball: This year—my sixth on campus, and my last—I decided it was finally time to take CS50, Harvard’s introductory computer science course. CS50 lectures happen twice a week in Sanders Theatre, a ridiculously majestic setting. Yet for all intents and purposes (and completely by choice), I’m taking the course online. I’ve tried taking courses online before—I’ve…
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theatlantic: Who Destroyed the Economy? The Case Against the Baby Boomers The facts as I see them are clear and damning: Baby boomers took the economic equivalent of a king salmon from their parents and, before they passed it on, gobbled up everything but the bones. Ultimately, members of my father’s generation—generally defined as those…
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austinkleon: Against recreativity: Critics and artists are obsessed with remix culture Over at Slate, Simon Reynolds lumps a recent crop of books on remixing and artistic theft (mine included) into a field called “recreativity.” His final point: The stealing and the storing is the easy part. The much harder—and forever mysterious—stage is the transformation of…
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Printer Resources for Independent Art Publishers
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Our economics tends to measure value capture. If we’re going to get 21st century economic policy right, or even just correctly model what’s working and why, we have to start moving to a model that measures value creation rather than value capture. Tim O’Reilly at Edge. “THE CLOTHESLINE PARADOX” (via protoslacker)