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A First for Udacity: Transfer Credit at a U.S. University for One of Its Courses
A First for Udacity: Transfer Credit at a U.S. University for One of Its Courses smarterplanet: A Colorado university is announcing on Thursday that it will give full transfer credit to students who complete a free introductory computer-science course offered by the online-education start-up company Udacity. The announcement, by Colorado State University’s Global Campus, is…
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artnet: Remembering Sol LeWitt American artist Sol LeWitt was born on this day in 1928, in Hartford, Connecticut. LeWitt is widely regarded as one of the leaders of Minimalism and Conceptual art, known primarily for his deceptively simple geometric structures and architecturally scaled wall drawings. Coincidentally, Farrar, Straus and Giroux just announced that it has…
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Honduras deal sets stage for investors to build 3 privately run cities to host new industries
Honduras deal sets stage for investors to build 3 privately run cities to host new industries emergentfutures: Investors can begin construction in six months on three privately run cities in Honduras that will have their own police, laws, government and tax systems now that the government has signed a memorandum of agreement approving the project. …
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For the record, Jaron Lanier is a computer science and technology researcher, and a musician. He is credited with having created the Virtual Reality Markup Language. He is by no one’s definition a luddite. This is his critical apparaisal of technologies with which he works. varanine: markrichardson: austinkleon: You Are Not A Gadget by Jaron…
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new-aesthetic: Animated gif, in email from Penguin publishers. (Penguin lead the paperback revolution, the last major upheaval in publishing before the current one. A few weeks ago, they purchased Author Solutions, the world’s largest facilitator of self-publishing, thus calling time on the role of the editor as gatekeeper.) citizen publisher
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artandsciencejournal: One Chance In six days, every living cell on earth will be dead. You have one chance. So begins the first offering from flash game developer AwkardSilenceGames. Like the establishing shot in Lars von Trier’s Melancholia, One Chance doesn’t try to hide its apocalyptic leanings. You play as John Pilgram, a scientist whose cure…
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People who are used to being good at what they do get set impossible tasks by elders they look up to, and the students have their faces ground in their failures. Everything is designed to encourage self-doubt. This is not an accident. Graduate school is not just about teaching certain specific skills; it is about…
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kchayka: centuryofthechild: Roger Limbrick. Space Station and Space Rocket cardboard toys. 1968 In 1968 the British company Polypops developed three flat-packed cardboard spacecraft toys designed by Limbrick: Lunartrack, Space Station, and Space Rocket. When constructed, the Space Rocket is just large enough to accommodate one child passenger; its exterior is coated in foil and its…
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A Night With William Gibson | csessums.com
A Night With William Gibson | csessums.com csessums: “One man’s dystopia is another man’s nice new neighborhood. ” As luck would have it, I have Distrust That Particular Flavor in my hand as I swipe across this post