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midwestmountainmama: blackamazon: hermanaresist: strugglingtobeheard: vikkiage: stfuconservatives: pantslessprogressive: “There are people calling this a form of ethnic cleansing and I can’t figure out a reason why it isn’t. Sure, not every Hispanic in the state is undocumented, but you could certainly forgive them for feeling that measures this punitive mean they aren’t welcome. If the state is willing…
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Over the past three decades, there has been a robust body of literature in the psychological study of men and masculinity. These studies have repeatedly demonstrated that men who restrict their emotions and affections face numerous negative psychological, relational, and even physical outcomes. Men are socialized to limit their emotional expression to one emotion—anger. This…
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since the early 1990s when I did my senior dissertation on Cyberpunk Literature Program or be Programmed: The GeekDad Interview With Douglas Rushkoff | GeekDad | Wired.com
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Noam Chomsky & Michel Foucault Debate Human Nature & Power « Learning Change
Noam Chomsky & Michel Foucault Debate Human Nature & Power « Learning Change gfbertini: It’s the clash of two intellectual titans, Noam Chomsky and Michel Foucault. In ’71, at the height of the Vietnam War, the American linguist and French historian/social theorist appeared on Dutch TV to debate a fundamental question: Is there such a thing…
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If this is going to be a Christian nation that doesn’t help the poor, either we have to pretend that Jesus was just as selfish as we are, or we’ve got to acknowledge that He commanded us to love the poor and serve the needy without condition and then admit that we just don’t want…
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Amazon Auto-Wires New E-Books of Neal Stephenson’s “Reamde” | The Awl
Amazon Auto-Wires New E-Books of Neal Stephenson’s “Reamde” | The Awl We are reading several of Stephenson’s works for a seminar, Readme included. As this is the early part of the 20th century, there is no one canonical edition of each text. Some are reading on Kindle or iOS devices where page numbering is fluid.…
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Emergent Digital Practices: WHAT IS GOOD DESIGN? YOU DECIDE!!
Emergent Digital Practices: WHAT IS GOOD DESIGN? YOU DECIDE!! emergentdigitalpractices: Vote for the 2011 People’s Design Award. Browse this year’s nominees or submit/nominate a new design. Vote for your favorite design. Comment and share with friends using the People’s Design Award Facebook app. Follow us on Twitter and join in the discussion by using hashtag…
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(via Governor Valve) This governor valve uses oil. It is a more contemporary adaptation of Watt’s governor valve for steam engines. Here the system is shown with weights swinging around a horizontal axis. In the area of detail that shows the valve allowing oil to pass through, it does not reveal what should be turbine…
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tedfromtheinternet: This needs to happen. And it needs to return to the Paul Rand identity.
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Overlooking The Visual reviewed in Design Research News
BOOK REVIEW Kathryn Moore, Overlooking the Visual: Demystifying the Art of Design (Abingdon and New York: Routledge, 2010). Reviewed by Gareth Doherty, Graduate School of Design, Harvard University, Cambridge, Mass. In this mesmerising book, Kathryn Moore turns traditional assumptions about design, and design education, upside down and inside out. Moore tells us that “a radical…