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THE WEEDS (aka Neal gets into detail, as is his wont, for the Clang project on Kickstarter.) (by bradyhallvideos) (Source: https://www.youtube.com/)
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prostheticknowledge: Avatar mirrors users facial expressions in real-time using a standard webcam Via DigInfo News: A Keio University group, led by Associate Professor Yasue Mitsukura, has developed a method for measuring which way a person is facing and how their expression changes. This system achieves high speed and high precision, using an ordinary PC and…
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Over the course of this academic year, the University of California, once the equal of any public institution of the world, has refined its pedagogy toward a comically singular lesson: that’ll teach you to sit down. Joshua Clover in The Nation. The Shock Doctrine Goes to College (via protoslacker)
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recommends: Futura, backcover magazine
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wired: Google Blockly lets kids hack with no keyboard. Behold the future of visual programming!
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According to Suzanne Gallagher, “problematizing [is] the process of grasping an assumption, that is, a taken-for-granted way of thinking, and turning it into a question” (1999, p. 70). It involves surfacing and identifying certain, often implicit, assumptions and beliefs and asking whether they really make sense and whether they admit of alternatives. Problematizing Gifted Education,…
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meinwelt: Christo Wrapped Snoopy House 2004 Project for Charles M. Schulz Museum Lithograph and collage
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christopherhiggs: Maciej Ratajski
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longreads: Japanese-pop star Hatsune Miku has millions of YouTube hits, sells tickets to her concerts at $76 a pop and has adoring fans from all around the world. She’s also not human: Created by Crypton Future Media, Miku is the most popular avatar created to sell Vocaloid 2, the singing synthesizer application originally developed by…
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Mostly, videogames are about men shooting men in the face. Sometimes they are about women shooting men in the face. Sometimes the men who are shot in the face are orcs, zombies, or monsters. Most of the other games the ESA is talking about when it mentions “units” are abstract games: the story of a…