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Chronicle.com: What made you decide to leave your post as a professor and dean at MIT to start your own university? Christine Ortiz: I’ve been at MIT for 17 years, and it’s been amazing. And I’ve always been interested in curriculum and thinking about the future of the research university, and I did a lot…
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List of shibboleth names
lazenby: Paul Erdősby which the privileged judge their inferiors A Chinua Achebe (chin-oo-ah ah-chay-bae) Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie (chim-ah-man-da nnnn-go-zeh ah-dee-che) James Agee (a-jee) Jerzy Andrzejewski (yer-zhay ahn-zhay-ev-ski) Hannah Arendt (ahr-ent) Martha Argerich (mar-tah herr-each) Eugène Atget (oo-zhenne at-zhey) Augustine of Hippo (aw-gus-tin) B Angelo Badalamenti (bottle-ah-menti) Donald/Frederick Barthelme (barth-uhl-me) Karl Barth (bart) Roland Barthes (bart) Tycho Brahe (Danish…
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(via Masquespacio unveils Missana collaboration Take a pew: Masquespacio unveils debut furniture collection for Missana | Wallpaper* Magazine) another sofa to help me think about Casa Jasmina and the global influence of the Internet of Italian Things (IoIT). in this case a re-interpretation of Post-Modern interiors where the Memphis of Sotsass and Branzi is somehow…
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A Multifunctional Sofa Named Herb – Design Milk
A Multifunctional Sofa Named Herb – Design Milk posting so I can find it later. thinking about the sofa at Casa Jasmina, and the low likelihood that someone would want to plug a sofa into a power outlet, and then someone in Milan goes and suggests that that is exactly what we all want. so…
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New Research Sheds Light on 3D Printing Fumes
New Research Sheds Light on 3D Printing Fumes PLA is OK ABS is a mess
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Barbie Adds Curvy and Tall to Body Shapes
Barbie Adds Curvy and Tall to Body Shapes
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Barbie’s getting a new look and a new job — as a game developer
Barbie’s getting a new look and a new job — as a game developer
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Meet Lilli, the High-end German Call Girl who became America’s Iconic Barbie Doll
Meet Lilli, the High-end German Call Girl who became America’s Iconic Barbie Doll
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Malcolm Grear | 1931–2016
ourrisd: Professor Emeritus Malcolm Grear, a renowned designer and devoted teacher who was deeply connected to the RISD community for more than half a century, died on Sunday, January 24, 2016. He was 84 and living in Wakefield, RI. After arriving here to teach in 1960, the Kentucky native not only helped build the Graphic…
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Universities, like people, are duplicitous and loathe having their duplicity exposed publicly. They therefore seek ways of obscuring the truth of their decline while also creating the impression of ever-increasing achievement. But how is this grand trompe-l’œil to be sustained? How can you cease to do, or at best do very badly, what you claim…