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sunfoundation: Conducting Demystified The New York Times, in collaboration with the New York University Movement Lab, explains music conducting in this beautifully produced video. It’s part interview with Alan Gilbert, music director of the New York Philharmonic, and part rendering of motion capture data, which represents Gilbert’s conducting. To capture the data, the Movement Lab…
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In Response To Bruce Sterling’s “Essay On The New Aesthetic” | The Creators Project
In Response To Bruce Sterling’s “Essay On The New Aesthetic” | The Creators Project Six responses to Bruce Sterling. None of them (forgive my candor) are convincing. There is much work yet to be done. Hat tip to Notational for cluing me in.
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It’s a historical hiccup in the history of learning,” said Rich Halverson, a learning scientist at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, and the lead researcher on KidGrid, a mobile app that helps teachers study and analyze student data. “Here we had the most sophisticated advances in the history of learning banned from schools out of fear.…
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nevver: Pitch
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nevver: Pitch
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Catholic Fund cuts off aid over Hispanic group’s affiliation with LGBT organization
Catholic Fund cuts off aid over Hispanic group’s affiliation with LGBT organization nbclatino: Compañeros, a small nonprofit organization in rural southwestern Colorado, has received thousands of dollars from the Roman Catholic Church to help poor Hispanic immigrants with basic needs including access to health care and guidance on local laws. Until, they partnered up with a statewide…
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emergentfutures: Human Attention to a Particular Portion of an Image Alters the Way the Brain Processes Visual Cortex Responses to That Image Our ability to ignore some, but not other stimuli, allows us to focus our attention and improve our performance on a specific task. The ability to respond to visual stimuli during a visual…
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slavin: I’m pretty sure this was not intended to be satirical. (Taken with instagram)
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We look for people who are so inquisitive about the world that they’re willing to try to do what you do. We call them “T-shaped people.” They have a principal skill that describes the vertical leg of the T — they’re mechanical engineers or industrial designers. But they are so empathetic that they can branch…