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It’s difficult to understand just how big a deal this will be. Our (US) policy has been to certify nations which aid in the War On Drugs, and to attach trade and aid to certification. Nations who were not certified were to be labelled Pariah States and sanctions attached. This truth telling by Latin American…
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Brian Lucid: Somebody make this:
Brian Lucid: Somebody make this: brianlucid: It was called “The Rome Project” by Adobe. It took a little from indesign, illustrator, photoshop and flash and brought it in-browser (it also ran on the desktop). http://rome.adobe.com/ The project is now dead as far as I know. I think they struggled finding a business model for it.…
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Somebody make this:
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Notes for a theory of contemporary education
notational: Very loose ideas floating around my head these days. Even if they are loopy or ridiculous, the seeds of something useful might be in here.Not sure about the mechanistic aspects. 1. We live in a day and age (and in many cases place) in which information is not a scarce resource. Due to the…
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laphamsquarterly: The No. 1 quote critics give me is, “Thom, your work is irrelevant.” My art is relevant because it’s relevant to 10 million people. That makes me the most relevant artist in this culture. “Thomas Kinkade dies at 54,” LA Times Susan Orlean, “Art for Everybody,” The New Yorker, 2001.
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It’s a historical hiccup in the history of learning,” said Rich Halverson, a learning scientist at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, and the lead researcher on KidGrid, a mobile app that helps teachers study and analyze student data. “Here we had the most sophisticated advances in the history of learning banned from schools out of fear.…
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Catholic Fund cuts off aid over Hispanic group’s affiliation with LGBT organization
Catholic Fund cuts off aid over Hispanic group’s affiliation with LGBT organization nbclatino: Compañeros, a small nonprofit organization in rural southwestern Colorado, has received thousands of dollars from the Roman Catholic Church to help poor Hispanic immigrants with basic needs including access to health care and guidance on local laws. Until, they partnered up with a statewide…
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emergentfutures: Human Attention to a Particular Portion of an Image Alters the Way the Brain Processes Visual Cortex Responses to That Image Our ability to ignore some, but not other stimuli, allows us to focus our attention and improve our performance on a specific task. The ability to respond to visual stimuli during a visual…