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Since his release last June, he has been forbidden to leave Beijing and compelled to ask police for permission whenever he wants to leave the courtyard compound where he lives and works, on the north-eastern edge of the capital. He has also been the subject of intense surveillance. He is certain that his phones and…
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If the New Aesthetic is going to be the narrator of that story, it needs some focus. […] Sterling’s critique is not subtle: stop gawking sci-fi robot-vision screen captures, slapping labels on them and presenting it as an aesthetic. That inclination is a natural first step towards understanding. In order to make meaningful progress, creatives…
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paperbits: Facetti was so inspired by Marber’s design that he also used it for Penguin’s fiction range, and would later apply it again, practically unchanged, to the blue Pelican books. Eventually Marber’s layout became the standard layout for the entire range of Penguin paperbacks. (via The History of the ‘Marber Grid’ – The Book Design…
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it8bit: 20 years ago The Legend of Zelda: A Link to the Past, came out in North America for the Super Nintendo. Art by Andy Cortez
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it8bit: 20 years ago The Legend of Zelda: A Link to the Past, came out in North America for the Super Nintendo. Art by Andy Cortez
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It’s tough to demand respect for a creative medium when you have to struggle to name anything it has produced in the past 30 years that could be called artistic or intellectually sophisticated. Taylor Clark (via notgames)
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It’s tough to demand respect for a creative medium when you have to struggle to name anything it has produced in the past 30 years that could be called artistic or intellectually sophisticated. Taylor Clark (via notgames)
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Do Students Really Have Different Learning Styles?
Do Students Really Have Different Learning Styles? infoneer-pulse: infoneer-pulse: Learning styles—the notion that each student has a particular mode by which he or she learns best, whether it’s visual, auditory or some other sense—is enormously popular. It’s also been thoroughly debunked. The scientific research on learning styles is “so weak and unconvincing,” concluded a group…
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jenlindblad: This is too funny. Machine Pareidolia: Hello Little Fella Meets FaceTracker | Ideas For Dozens
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The report demonstrates the effects of societal beliefs and the learning environment on girls’ achievements and interest in science and math. One finding shows that girls who believe that intelligence can expand with experience and learning tend to do better on math tests; these girls are also more likely to say they want to continue…