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Cloudy Logic
Cloudy Logic To Read against the Chronicle of Higher Ed article on the moment higher ed died in the US. The LA Times is also cited: thenewinquiry: By Robin James Big data doesn’t forecast the future but remakes the present in the image of down-to-earth stereotypes. While Theodor Adorno was exiled in Los Angeles, he…
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emergentfutures: Travelling through blood: science fiction comes to life scientists from IISc Bangalore have succeeded, for the very first time, to steer artificial nanostructures through undiluted human blood. Dubbed “nano voyagers” these tiny swimmers could open the doors to a fascinating range of biomedical applications from targeted drug delivery to microsurgery. Full Story: Scilogs
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The collusion between philosophy and the State was most explicitly enacted in the first decade of the nineteenth century with the foundation of the University of Berlin, which was to become the model of higher learning throughout Europe and in the United States. The goal laid out for it by Wilhelm von Humboldt (based on…
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hyperallergic: On Friday, January 23, some of the most progressive thinkers about the financial realities facing artists will convene in the Great Hall of Manhattan’s Cooper Union to explore a topic largely ignored in the art world: the artist as debtor. Organized by artists Noah Fischer and Coco Fusco, the one-day gathering will bring together people like Andrew Ross, the…
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How I draw faces
castiel-is-the-fallen-angel: swordcane: andlatitude: 1) circle with lines 2) face, head, neck 3) nose 4) eyes, mouth, eyebrows 5) haaaiiir 6) everything else thnx 4 help Steph I CAN’T STOP LAUGHING
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npr: skunkbear: The top image is a photograph of a lush rainforest canopy. The bottom image colors each tree based on its species. How? It’s all thanks to a special lab built by ecologist Greg Asner inside a twin-turboprop airplane. From a few thousand feet up, the Carnegie Airborne Observatory uses lasers, spectrometers and other instruments…
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dbreunig: Experts over time.
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Lively and insightful technical history of the Internet
mostlysignssomeportents: Ars Technica is syndicating a series of excerpts from Johnny Ryan’s new book A History of the Internet and the Digital Future, an engrossing, well-written account of the Internet’s founding and the backstory of the underlying protocols and plumbing, which draws on that rich history to make predictions about the net’s future. Today’s installment…
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Object Oriented Programming is an expensive disaster which must end
Object Oriented Programming is an expensive disaster which must end on my To Read list
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In anticipation of fall course schedules, several people have asked what I think someone who wants to be a journalist should study. A few years ago I realized my favourite answer — not journalism — was depressing for someone who had already reserved a seat for himself or his child at one of Canada’s more…