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Fortunately, there’s one skill that you can use to prepare yourself for the new economy. Self-education. It’s the ability to educate yourself using the Internet. In fact, the ability to learn anything on your own is so important, I believe it is the single most important determinant of future success. The Future of Education is…
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blakegopnik: THE DAILY PIC: Today, I begin a Koons-o-rama. Once a week for the next little while, the Daily Pic will visit and revisit the almost-perfect Jeff Koons retrospective at the Whitney Museum of American Art in New York. I have huge respect for my fellow critics who feel that Koons is nothing more than…
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state of the art face tracking for digital avatars. (Source: https://www.youtube.com/)
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failedprojects: I ONCE HAD the pleasure of hearing a historically informed performance of a Bach sonata played on an organ made by master builder John Brombaugh. Brombaugh organs are tuned in what is called unequal temperament. It is a bizarrely little-known fact, but today’s tuning standard, equal temperament, is a relatively modern system. To hear…
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There’s no right answer; but there is some evidence of what most people do in practice, much of it quoted by Elkins in a 2010 essay on the Huffington Post. In summary, if museum-goers are eating oranges, they’re eating them bloody fast. The Louvre says that the average visitor looks at the Mona Lisa for…
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Using a paradigm consisting of one messy room and one tidy room, and a series of trials, Vohs concluded that messy rooms provoke more creative thinking – and provided scientific evidence! The next question is, what exactly constitutes “creative thinking,” and how will your pig sty of a room help? Creative thinking, in its purest…
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breakthecitysky: Mamie (Peanut) Johnson, the only female pitcher in the history of the Negro Leagues, watches Mo’ne Davis hurl shutout in opener of Little League World Series Johnson couldn’t miss seeing the debut of a kid who is believed to be the first African-American girl to play in the 75 years of youth baseball’s most…
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gregponchak: I created a very annoying Tumblr theme in an attempt to slow down the pace at which content is consumed. You can see it here: http://gregponchak.tumblr.com/
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kenyatta: Happy Sunday. I’m going out for a walk.