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George Lakoff: It’s not in the model. It’s in the historical circumstances that surround all of this. The model is an unconscious model of values, of where their values come from, of what makes them liberals or conservatives. However, the problem is the conscious understanding. And that comes out of the Enlightenment. So, liberals are…
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George Lakoff: It’s not in the model. It’s in the historical circumstances that surround all of this. The model is an unconscious model of values, of where their values come from, of what makes them liberals or conservatives. However, the problem is the conscious understanding. And that comes out of the Enlightenment. So, liberals are…
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Palindromes are just one form of wordplay among many. There are anagrams (transpositions of the letters of a word or phrase into a new word or phrase using exactly the same letters), tautonyms (words or phrases of two or more identical parts), isograms (words containing no more than one of any letter), pangrams (groups of…
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Processing seeks to ruin the careers of talented designers by tempting them away from their usual tools and into the world of programming and computation. similarly, the project is designed to turn engineers and computer scientists to less gainful employment as artists and designers. Ben Fry and Casey Reas (via notational)
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I always assumed Lincoln Logs, the popular notched sticks that are along with Lego part of a child’s first foray into architecture, were named for log-cabin-dwelling Abe Lincoln. I couldn’t have been more wrong. In fact they were invented by John Lloyd Wright, Frank’s kid, who apparently observed the interlocking beams his father had wrought…