Category: words

  • Why the United States Is Destroying Its Education System

    Why the United States Is Destroying Its Education System kateoplis: A nation that destroys its systems of education, degrades its public information, guts its public libraries and turns its airwaves into vehicles for cheap, mindless amusement becomes deaf, dumb and blind. It prizes test scores above critical thinking and literacy. It celebrates rote vocational training…

  • nevver: Happy Library Appreciation Day

  • nevver: Happy Library Appreciation Day

  • nevver: 42% of people who graduate from college never read another book.

  • nevver: 42% of people who graduate from college never read another book.

  • nevver: Yuri Gagarin – 50 Years Ago Today

  • nevver: Yuri Gagarin – 50 Years Ago Today

  • crookedindifference: 50 Years since Yuri

  • Much in the spirit of MoMA’s recent Small Scale, Big Change exhibition of socially engaged architecture, New York’s Center for Architecture recently opened its own show of design for the under-served, Jugaad Urbanism: Resourceful Strategies for Indian Cities. While there’s no precise English translation for the term jugaad, make-do or jury-rigged approximate the idea. The…

  • How to Make a Web Site: The Complete Beginner’s Guide

    How to Make a Web Site: The Complete Beginner’s Guide