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Just this. Thank you.
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climateadaptation: One way to adapt subways to flooding: balloons. “The goal is to provide flooding protection for transportation tunnels,” said John Fortune, who is managing the project for the federal Department of Homeland Security’s Science and Technology Directorate. The idea is a simple one: rather than retrofitting tunnels with metal floodgates or other expensive structures,…
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explore-blog: explore-blog: I had the pleasure of discussing the “Modulor” at some length with Professor Albert Einstein at Princeton. I was then passing through a period of great uncertainty and stress; I expressed myself badly, I explained the “Modulor” badly, I got bogged down in the morass of “cause and effect”… At one point, Einstein…
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Bruce Sterling, Keynote – OARN 2012
icantpromisenothing: “In 2012, it’s all about (1) registration and (2) lashup rubber bands.”
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Former Apple Exec Creates High-Tech Building Blocks To Teach Kids Programming – PSFK
Former Apple Exec Creates High-Tech Building Blocks To Teach Kids Programming – PSFK smarterplanet: The Boulder, Colorado-based Seamless Toy Company has created a set of modular, high-tech building blocks called ATOMS. Founded by Michael Rosenblatt, who has worked at MIT and Apple, the company aims to help teach kids programming by creating toys that can do…
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9. What are the biggest misconceptions [about critical design]? That it is negative and anti-everything. That it is only commentary and cannot change anything That it is jokey That it is not concerned with aesthetics That it is against mass-production That it is pessimistic That it is not real That it is art Dunne and…
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oliphillips: Limited Edition Wooden Lego Men by Malet Thibaut
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A colleague from Caracas narrowly avoided a vehicular assault today. As revenge/reaction/therapy he created a game. The link is at the bottom of his narrative. It’s fun. You should play it. chiguire: El día de hoy me intentaron asaltar mientras estaba yo en el carro regresando a la casa de una reunión de trabajo. Estaba…
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Dr. Manhattan, Starstuff
Dr. Manhattan doodle of the day. Starstuff. This one was drawn in Penultimate.
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Perhaps because it is the first book published in what would become the United States. The so-called Bay Psalm Book was a project of extraordinary ambition, undertaken by the Puritans of Massachusetts not long after they crossed the Atlantic and began to live around Boston. At Cambridge, a printing press, brought over from England, began…