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jomc: (via Twitter / caulkthewagon: The courage it takes to to …)
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theenergyissue: Second Life: The Heineken WOBO Doubles as Beer Bottle and Brick Fifty years ago, Heineken developed a revolutionary and sustainable design solution to give its beer bottles a second life: as an architectural brick. The concept arose after brewing magnate Alfred Heineken visited Curacao during a world tour of his factories in 1960. He…
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Is a Hard Life Inherited? – Nicholas Kristof
Is a Hard Life Inherited? – Nicholas Kristof shrinkrants: The NYT op-ed today by Nicholas Kristof is as clear and grounded a piece as I have ever read about the effects of privilege. I think it would work in many contexts for raising awareness of how class and race make for an uneven playing field.…
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He asserts that, increasingly, effective design means engaging with the messy politics – the “dark matter” – taking place above the designer’s head. And that may mean redesigning the organisation that hires you. – Blurb for Dan Hill’s Dark Matter and Trojan Horses A lesson I keep relearning: the type and quality of work an…
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The Rebirth of Stakeholder Capitalism?
The Rebirth of Stakeholder Capitalism? robertreich: In recent weeks, the managers, employees, and customers of a New England chain of supermarkets called “Market Basket” have joined together to oppose the board of director’s decision earlier in the year to oust the chain’s popular chief executive, Arthur T. Demoulas. Their demonstrations and boycotts have emptied most…
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Cheryl Mattingly is an anthropologist who has spent her career studying the culture of occupational therapists who work in large inner city hospitals. She offers wise observations about the politics of class and race in urban hospitals and the poetics of encounters between professionals and patients. Reading her work gives me hope for the future…
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reclaimingthelatinatag: Meet Mariana Pajón, Colombian cyclist, Olympic Gold Medalist and BMX World Champion. Born October 10th, 1991 in Medellín, Colombia, this lady won her first national title at age of 5 and her first world title at the age of 9. To this date, Pajón is the winner of 14 world championships, 2 national championships in…
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Near Kin: A Collection of Words and Art Inspired by Octavia Estelle Butler
samueldelany: Near Kin explores, questions, and pays tribute the multifaceted brilliance of Octavia Butler’s work through poetry, prose and essays by writers all over the world. Among these works are: There’s the question over a writer’s reasons for self-censorship and what it means to the future of racial survival in Alexis Pauline Gumb’s astounding essay…
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I quit because baseball was sacred to me until I started getting paid for it. The more that “baseball” became synonymous with “business,” the less it meant to me, and I saw less of myself in the game every time I got a check from the Philadelphia Phillies Organization, the Oakland Athletic Company, or the…
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Here we all are. From left to right, we’re Andrew Reinhard, Richard Rothaus, Raiford Guins, Brett Weber, and William Caraher. We’re a collective of Punk Archaeologists. The punk moniker harkens back to the suburban culture of the late 1970s/early 1980s that drove Atari to prosperity while simultaneously declaring a critique of those consumerist and materialist…