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additivism: How technology made us hyper-capable – and helpless Tech enables us to do more while understanding less. That’s fine, until there’s a glitch – which is why the US navy is teaching sailors how to navigate by the stars The smartphone in your hand enables you to record a video, edit it and send it…
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Gentrification spreads the myth of native incompetence: That people need to be imported to be important, that a sign of a neighbourhood’s “success” is the removal of its poorest residents. True success lies in giving those residents the services and opportunities they have long been denied. The peril of hipster economics (via socio-logic)
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Programmers, computer scientists, and critical theorists have reduced software to a recipe, a set of instructions, substituting space/text for time/process. The current common-sense definition of software as a “set of instructions that direct a comptuer to do a specific task” and the OED definition of software as “the programs and procedures required to enable a…
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superheroesincolor: This Strange Way of Dying (2013) “Spanning a variety of genres—fantasy, science fiction, horror—and time periods, Silvia Moreno-Garcia’s exceptional debut collection features short stories infused with Mexican folklore yet firmly rooted in a reality that transforms as the fantastic erodes the rational. This speculative fiction compilation, lyrical and tender, quirky and cutting, weaves the…
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New research project will make computer science more hands-on in the classroom—meet Project Bloks
codeorg: At Code.org we’re all about finding lots of different ways for students to interact with computational thinking. That’s why we’re excited about Project Bloks, a collaboration between Google, Paulo Blikstein (Director of the Transformative Learning Technologies Lab, Stanford University) and IDEO. Project Bloks is creating an open hardware platform through which developers, designers, and…
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medievalpoc: toughandtender: medievalpoc: http://medievalpoc.tumblr.com/search/rubens #Rubenesque This is important because I just learned about him last semester and was not aware of how much POC work he had until this post. Obviously, this wasn’t taught in art history class but are you fucking kidding me? This is amazing work and it should be on the curriculum,…