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medievalpoc: Over 700 Jefferson County High School students are staging walkouts and protests over proposed changes to the Advanced Placement History curriculum. According to Colorado Public Radio: Last week, a school board member proposed that advanced placement history classes be required to promote free enterprise and patriotism and be required to avoid classroom materials that…
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We can liken drawing a comic to creating a miniature reality on the page, or, as Chris Ware has said, “dreaming on paper.” Let us consider the dream: is it autobiography or fiction? On the one hand, dreams are leaps of imagination, evidence of the plasticity of the information stored in your brain, recombining in…
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The high-salt diet
stilleatingoranges: stilleatingoranges: I left the experience with a sense that familiarizing and desensitizing ourselves to violence like this can turn us into zombies. Our lack of empathy and unwillingness to engage with those involved in tragedy stems from our comfort with the trauma those people are experiencing. Ashley Gilbertson, a war photographer for Time, recently…
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karsalfrink: I’ve been tracking the emergence of a “play ethic” in the internet of things / connected products field for a while because most of the projects are so damn utilitarian. This new series of works by Brendan about email is kind of interesting in that regard. Lana in particular is nice because it appears…
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futurescope: Harvard researchers have created an unthethered jumping soft robot A soft robot that uses an “explosive actuator” to propel itself? Yes, please. IEEE features a weird flesh-tone silicone robot, created by Harvard researchers, that could come straight out of a Cronenberg/Gilliam/Carpenter Mashup. Fortunately, the jumps are still very imprecise. Nevertheless, robotic facehuggers!!!11! The robot’s…
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retro-villain: Dear fellow cutie, There is a theory you might not be familiar with that has been circulating the gamer community for quite some time: that some people have the desire to KILL VIDEO GAMES. If you’re unaware of how to determine who might be killing video games, I’ve started a list for you. People…
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Cuties Killing Video Games
Cuties Killing Video Games lunulata: Have YOU killed video games lately? Announce your pride in murdering video games by wearing this shirt, you cutie, you! Killing video games has never been so cute!Proceeds go to feeding hard working game devs at conventions Support diversity in games and awesome indie game devs with this neato and super…