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A Chicano kid grows up with walls of many kinds around him. When somebody is born into that situation there are several things he can do. He can ignore the walls, and sink into apathy. Or he can become violent and try to blow up the walls. But there is a third way, a way…
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thenearsightedmonkey: medicalschool: Pyramidal Neuron, drawn by Santiago Ramón y Cajal (1852-1934) “For example, in 2005, neuroscientists discovered that an epilepsy patient had one neuron cell that fired whenever a photo of Jennifer Aniston was presented. Various photos showing the blonde actress in different poses and from different angles all elicited a response from the same…
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carlosesoto: A Christmas tale
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Technoccult: The Strange And Exciting World Of Nordic Larping
Technoccult: The Strange And Exciting World Of Nordic Larping technoccult: Klint Finley I’ve been meaning to learn more about the serious “unfun” games known as “Nordic Larping” ever since I learned about the activity from Eleanor Saitta at WeirdShitCon. Lucky for me, Paul Graham Raven just happened to finish a three part series of articles…
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megsokay: samaralex: I love that Patrick Stewart is such a dork O Captain, My Captain.
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The Perils of Yoga for Men – William Broad via NYTimes.com
The Perils of Yoga for Men – William Broad via NYTimes.com underpaidgenius: More analysis about yoga injuries, which skew toward men, but even women get injured: nerve damage, broken bones, strokes. wow, I thought I was the only one who felt yoga did me damage when I tried it…
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What has happened in one industry after another is that it has become standard practice to tell people who create anything of aesthetic or intellectual value that they are going to have to be cool with getting paid little or nothing for their work while the people who develop the closed platforms used to ‘share’…
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destructs: Project 1 by Chenghao Lee This project was inspired by Walter Benjamin’s article, which mentions about the loss of art work’s “aura”. But I think the difference between old times and now is how we see the art works. What has changed is the way we see things. The issue we are facing today…
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(via The Semiotics of Video Games | Material for thought) to read later…
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(via MAKE | Designing ATOMS: How Do We Enable Young Makers, Without Hiding the Details of How Things Really Work?) to read later…