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anniewerner: “We can’t assume loving a boy band prevents a girl from thinking critically about her experiences and the experiences of others. Don’t assume teenagers can’t understand complex social theory. Pay attention to teenage girls; they just might change the world.” — Ferguson, One Direction, Tumblr, and Why You Need to Pay Attention to Teenage…
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We can’t assume loving a boy band prevents a girl from thinking critically about her experiences and the experiences of others. Don’t assume teenagers can’t understand complex social theory. Pay attention to teenage girls; they just might change the world. Ferguson, One Direction, Tumblr, and Why You Need to Pay Attention to Teenage Girls —…
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We can’t assume loving a boy band prevents a girl from thinking critically about her experiences and the experiences of others. Don’t assume teenagers can’t understand complex social theory. Pay attention to teenage girls; they just might change the world. Ferguson, One Direction, Tumblr, and Why You Need to Pay Attention to Teenage Girls —…
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Kevin Sutcliffe, Vice’s head of news programming in Europe, says mainstream TV networks wrongly assumed young people weren’t interested in foreign news. The problem “was the worn-out approach, with newscasters, tight packages, and live feeds from Washington. The world is a rough, raggedy place, and young people want journalism that reflects that. They want authentic…
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The Humane Representation of Thought from Bret Victor: Closing keynote at the UIST and SPLASH conferences, October 2014. Preface: worrydream.com/TheHumaneRepresentationOfThought/note.html A beautiful discussion for where we need to aim our ideas for the future of interaction with technology. (Source: https://player.vimeo.com/)
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A Letter from our Editor-in-Chief Tom Lutz
lareviewofbooks: All of us at the Los Angeles Review of Books felt great sadness last week at the news that The New Republic was falling apart. TNR had been losing $3 million a year, but had, people thought, been rescued by an internet billionaire. There isn’t a serious magazine editor out there who wouldn’t like an internet billionaire to drop like manna…
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Samuel Beckett Quad
Samuel Beckett Quad
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ZURI 01 Paperbot System | ZOOBOTICS
ZURI 01 Paperbot System | ZOOBOTICS Description: ZURI is a programmable robot made from paper and grey cardboard. This motion machine, conceived of as a kit, can be assembled with a few tools (cutter, ruler, cutting mat, bone folder, glue and screwdriver). In addition to a distance sensor, the Paper Robot has servo motors, servo…
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Crux, a sequel to Nexus – bioethical technothriller
mostlysignssomeportents: I loved Nexus, Ramez Naam’s 2012 debut novel about biohackers who produce a nano-based party drug that installs a networked computer inside your brain, and quickly turns into a war-on-drugs bioethics thriller about the free/open transhumanists and mirthless, ruthless drug enforcement agents. In Crux, the sequel that comes out today, Naam rips through 550+…
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