-
science-officer-spock: “I think that my experience in television, is that it is always a harbinger of what comes in the culture. Certainly, when I played Captain Janeway, the first female captain of a starship. It was only a few years after that, then I had young girls from MIT come to me and say that…
-
moma: Announcing MoMA Studio: Breathe With Me, a drop-in interactive space inspired by the art of Lygia Clark. [Lygia Clark (Brazilian, 1920–1988). The proposition Ping-Pong (1966) in use. The objects are ping-pong balls and a plastic bag. Courtesy Associação Cultural “O Mundo de Lygia Clark,” Rio de Janeiro.]
-
maxistentialist: Cleveland Plain Dealer: The Lorain County Correctional Institution acknowledged Friday that pirated movies are being shown to prisoners there, even as inmates serve time for illegally downloading movies. Richard Humphrey, 26, of North Ridgeville was sent to the Lorain County prison in…
-
takeovertime: Germany’s Iconic Designer: A Day with Dieter Rams Sarah Lonsdale, remodelista.com Dieter Rams is the demigod of everyday design, the man behind classics like the Braun alarm clock and the Vitsoe shelving system. He’s also the acknowledged inspiration for all products Apple. Before there was Jonathan Ive at Apple, the…
-
Columbine happened when I was 15. American schools are driven by externals rather than root causes. After Columbine, guns didn’t kill people. Black trench coats did. According to David Cullen’s book on the massacre, Harris was a sociopath, but the media played the shooting as goths versus jocks. Suddenly, every freak was a future mass…
-
Data mining your children
Data mining your children The NSA has nothing on the ed tech startup known as Knewton. The data analytics firm has peered into the brains of more than 4 million students across the country. By monitoring every mouse click, every keystroke, every split-second hesitation as children work through digital textbooks, Knewton is able to find…