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The visual truth of Barbie
The visual truth of Barbie bobulate: A group of Swedish neuroscientists determined that the perception of your whole body is affected by the size of your body image. How? By “tricking” people into being Barbie: A research group at the Karolinska Institute in Sweden has managed to make people feel as though they actually inhabited…
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How to create stunning mood boards with So.cl
fuselabs: Mood boards are a common tool used by visual designers and marketing teams to establish the look and feel or brand for a project. Typically this is done by searching through image archives and painstakingly building the collections in mosaics, and it involves numerous steps to collect, organize, and layout manually by hand. Read…
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new-aesthetic: “AARON is the world’s first cybernetic artist: an artificially intelligent system that composes its own paintings. Incredibly, the system is the work of one man, Harold Cohen, who had no background in computing when he began the effort.” “Can you tell the difference between art created by AARON and art created by a human?…
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Suppose you wanted to create your own digital ghost to live for eternity in the Internet and maybe do some haunting. What would that look like? You’d start now, backing up everything that happens on your computer to the so-called cloud (storage on the Internet). You’d run a program in the background that monitors your…
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One teachers approach to preventing gender bullying in a classroom
togetherforjacksoncountykids: “It’s Okay to be Neither,” By Melissa Bollow Tempel Alie arrived at our 1st-grade classroom wearing a sweatshirt with a hood. I asked her to take off her hood, and she refused. I thought she was just being difficult and ignored it. After breakfast we got in line for art, and I noticed that…
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The Ghost of Books: Part I
lareviewofbooks: SVEN BIRKERTS, GARY PHILLIPS, and JULIE CLINE Image © Lisa Jane Persky for Los Angeles Review of Books “The Ghost of Books: Past, Future, and Present” is an experiment not in terror and is not necessarily Dickensian. We’ve asked certain writers to respond to the three times (or tenses) in the subtitle, or simply…