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In short, people often wait for social cues before acting because they heuristically understand that without reassurance that they are acting in concert with others, attempts at moral action may be counter-productive. Evan Selinger, Thomas Seager, and Jathan Sadowski in 3Quarks Daily. ARE MILLENNIALS LESS GREEN THAN THEIR PARENTS? (via protoslacker)
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Please… no more “Don’t Go to Grad School” Articles « Ph.D. Octopus
Please… no more “Don’t Go to Grad School” Articles « Ph.D. Octopus rematerializationchamber: The problem with the “no one should go to grad school” articles are that they, unconsciously or not, shift the blame for the endemic joblessness onto the most vulnerable, those who are, or will soon be, unemployed. This is especially pernicious when…
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Perhaps the greatest of all pedagogical fallacies is that a person learns only the particular thing he is studying at the time. Collateral learning in the way of formation of enduring attitudes, of likes and dislikes, may be and often is, more important. John Dewey (via brokage)
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Type + Code
Type + Code fyprocessing: Some quick tutorials on using Text in Processing. The book attached to this project is beautiful but a bit pricey.
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(via Nijhof & Lee – Jan van Toorn/Els Kuijpers – Jan van Toorn Calendar 1972-2012 (English ed.) – Webshop – UvA BC)
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Jan van Toorn’s calendar for 1972/73, designed for the Dutch printer Mart.Spruijt, is one of the most extraordinary and provocative graphic artifacts of its era. The calendar proposed a new form of engagement for the graphic designer as a mediator and manipulator of photographic meaning. The project still looks utterly remarkable 40 years later. How…
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BYOD Spells Doom For Enterprise Solutions
stoweboyd: Cisco’s has recently shut down a short list of strangely named products — Eos (social blogging platform), Umi (video conferencing), and Cius (tablet) — and while the first two might be interpreted as Cisco backing away from consumer products, the third is the opposite: companies embracing consumer products. Apparently, companies aren’t provisioning their employees…
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Posted 05.24.12 | David Cabianca Graphic Design is Dead, Long Live Graphic Design Long Live Graphic Design: A Review of Now in Production: Observatory: Design Observer
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But Harmon’s management style is not the only factor (or even, perhaps, the main one). Community has never gotten great ratings, and Harmon has reportedly resisted requests from both NBC and Sony to give the show a broader appeal. Of course, this may also help explain its consistent inventiveness and its wild ambition. Many fans…
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notational: Ackoff Pyramid. Another foundational diagram as has to do with data and info. I think that I am most interested, in a personal sense, with “Insight and Understanding”. It seems to me that too much of the knowledge that I use and think about is “received knowledge” and it might be useful to dive…