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The approach that could gain the most traction is one geared toward graduating students with degrees that meet specific needs in the regional labor market. Texas A&M University (San Antonio), for instance, this fall began offering a bachelor’s degree in information technology with an emphasis on information security for just $10,026. Students who achieve this…
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bashford: The Urban Aeronautics AirMule is a compact, unmanned, single-engine, VTOL (Vertical Take Off and Landing) aircraft. Internal lift rotors enable the AirMule to fly inside obstructed (e.g. mountainous, wooded, urban) terrain where helicopters are unable to operate. The AirMule is innovative due to its internal rotors and significant payload capacity that allows for the…
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Credited with influencing generations of designers, including Apple’s Jonathan Ive, Rams looks back on his career in a short documentary from publisher Gestalten. The video was produced to go with Less and More, a massive collection of his product designs. The video isn’t new but it’s always fascinating to revisit Rams’s 10 Principles for Good…
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This is the intro to a long read that is worth your time. If one were to rank a list of civilization’s greatest and most elusive intellectual challenges, the problem of “decoding” ourselves – understanding the inner workings of our minds and our brains, and how the architecture of these elements is encoded in our…
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blakegopnik: DAILY PIC: Alexander Calder’s plaster maquette for “Cheval I”, from 1930 and now in a show at L&M Arts in New York, where it sits beside the bronze that was cast from it. The exhibition had many pairings like this, and they all reminded me of how much I prefer plasters to bronzes, especially…
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We’re already seeing blood-sugar sensors for diabetics that plug into phones, sensors for environmental pollution, and I think we will rapidly see the growth of body-oriented sensors as part of the “quantified self” movement. Remote sensing of the chemical composition of the blood and even simple imaging devices will contribute to the growth of medicine…
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Blair Neal | How to make an installation stay up 4evr (Mac OS X version)
Blair Neal | How to make an installation stay up 4evr (Mac OS X version) A great checklist for making sure your mac powered installations run and run and stay running
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To give a brief explanation of art that is no longer art: Sometimes the cost of restoring a work of art exceeds the value of the work, in which case the insurer declares a total loss, and the work is declared no longer art—that is, of no market value. The damage can range from obvious…
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tanacetum-vulgare: Has anyone read this or any other Karen Barad? (I’m looking at you, fluvicoline.) I think I really need to read her. Like um, feminist theoretical physicist? COOL. Wikipedia says this and it really excites me According to Barad’s theory of agential realism, the world is made up of phenomena, which are “the ontological inseparability of intra-acting…
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blakegopnik: Daily Pic: A moment in a video diptych called “Serious Games I: Watson is Down,” by Berlin-based artist Harun Farocki, who is now getting a solo show at the Museum of Modern Art. The piece pairs images from a video game used to train soldiers, which features scenes of mayhem and casual slaughter, with…