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pritheworld: Our story on the “Coup De Tete”: http://www.theworld.org/2012/09/zidanes-soccer-headbutt-sculpture-on-display-in-paris-2/ studiomuseum: The piece is called ‘Coup De Tête’ by Algerian artist Adel Abdessemed (also featured in Flow (2008) and is a sixteen foot-high bronze statue portraying the French soccer player Zinedine Zidane’s head-butting incident against Italian Marco Materazzi in the 2006 World Cup final. Read more.
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Young kids think and learn about their surroundings much the way that scientists think and learn in advanced experiments, a new study says. They form hypotheses, test them, analyze their findings and learn from their actions and the actions of others — all in child’s play. A growing body of evidence about this style of…
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uncrate: HotTug
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thisistheverge: More human than human: how Philip K. Dick can change your life Jesse Hicks talks to Jonathan Lethem, John Alan Simon, and other ‘Dickheads’ about PKD’s enduring legacy. In Dick’s worlds, people could be shits and robots could be more human than human. It all came down to whether they could find within themselves…
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“Regardless to what extent you expect your art to change you, there always is that act of submission to it and to its maker.”
“Regardless to what extent you expect your art to change you, there always is that act of submission to it and to its maker.” claytoncubitt: “One of the crucial aspects of this sharing is that that other person has to be willing to subject her or himself to the rules of the artist. That is…
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prostheticknowledge: Espresso Book Machine Publishing system can create retail-quality printed books from file to bound copy in five minutes – video below: The patented Espresso Book Machine® (EBM) makes a paperback book in minutes, at point of need. Through its EspressNet® digital catalog of content, books can be ordered online or onsite at bookstores, libraries,…
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emergentfutures: 3D Printer Form 1 Gets 6X Its $100K Funding Goal On Kickstarter… In One Day To give you some perspective, Makerbots start at $2,199, and the most basic Form 1 pledge you can make on Kickstarter is $2,299, and includes “the full Form 1 package including the printer, 1L resin, and Form Finish Kit.” Clearly, Formlabs isn’t looking…
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…there is no baseline default distribution against which we can measure redistribution. Instead, there are a multiplicity of possible distributions, none of which is more natural, or less interventionist, or whatever than any other. All of these possible distributions can, in a sense, be called redistributive relative to all the other possible distributions. But calling…
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There was an episode, one of my favorite moments in Star Trek, when Captain Kirk looks over the cosmos and says, ‘Somewhere out there someone is saying the three most beautiful words in any language.’ Of course you heart sinks and you think it’s going to be, ‘I love you’ or whatever. He says, ‘Please…
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artandsciencejournal: Darcy Whyte Darcy Whyte, an inventor/artist, recently came up with drawing robots that can make portraits. Whyte was inspired to create this work after seeing a painting by Chuck Close. “He used color juxtaposition to achieve additive color mixing. I believe the color gamut is actually wider than a printing process or RGB monitor so the piece…