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Women seem to be drawn to engineering projects that attempt to achieve societal good. Curious to learn whether that was true at other universities, my colleagues and I contacted the dozens of universities that have programs aimed at reducing global poverty and inequality. What we found was consistent and remarkable. The undergraduate-level international minor for…
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betype: I have NOT read and agree to the terms of use. by Cleber Rafael de Campos
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iCEO illustrates another fact we need to face now: Corporate organizations are themselves a technology, one that has only existed in its current form for around 200 years, a fragment of human history. The corporate structure was created around the tools we had back in the 18th century to maximize scale while minimizing transaction costs.…
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The camera was invented in 1839. Auguste Comte was just finishing his ‘Cours de philosophie positive’. Positivism and the camera and sociology grew up together. What sustained them all as practices was the belief that observable quantifiable facts, recorded by scientists and experts, would one day offer man such a total knowledge about nature and…
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“I need to be a hamster!” Robyn yells across a packed hall. Here, at the kick-off of Tekla, the free one-day tech conference that the Swedish pop star has helped organize for 200 teenage girls, she is merely a hamster seeking her other hamsters. As an ice-breaking exercise, the girls have been divided up into…
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mostlysignssomeportents: Fascinating, wide-ranging discussion with William Gibson Fenwick writes, “I had the tremendous opportunity to have a public talk with William Gibson when my university asked if I’d would to do a public talk with a public figure. I had no idea I’d be so lucky as to talk with William Gibson when I agreed. I…
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Thinking Ahead
ourrisd: This Friday, April 24, RISD and Brown are co-hosting Critical Design/Critical Futures, a full-day symposium open to everyone with an interest in shaping the future. Conversations will focus on recent advances in speculative design and how designers and social scientists are coming together to rethink the role of design and education in the face of…
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So maybe the way to build a career in digital journalism is to pretty much ignore the digital bit, and to concentrate instead on gaining the kind of skills which will always be valuable. I don’t mean general things like how to report and write a news story, that’s a commodity at this point. But…
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louisrielforever: Many wise words can be found in the pages of Calvin and Hobbes.