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Beauty is the last thing which the thinking intellect dares to approach, since only it dances as an uncontained splendour around the double constellation of the true and the good and their inseparable relation to one another. Beauty is the disinterested one, without which the ancient world refused to understand itself, a word which both…
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The Humanities Intensive Teaching and Learning (HILT) Institute
The Humanities Intensive Teaching and Learning (HILT) Institute will be held August 4-8, 2014 on the campus of the University of Maryland. We’ve got an exciting slate of classes taught by incredible instructors. Courses for 2014 include: Project Developmentled by Simon Appleford, Clemson University and Jennifer Guiliano, MITH This course will explore the fundamentals of…
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studio630: 162 Future Jobs: Preparing for Jobs that Don’t Yet Exist “Last week I was speaking at an event in Istanbul. As usual, once I landed at the airport, I made my way to the customs area where I was greeted by no fewer than 1,000 people in line ahead of me. Long lines in…
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It was the same old pattern: when caught red-handed, countersue, claiming Samsung actually owned the patent or another one that the plaintiff company had used. Then, as the litigation dragged on, snap up a greater share of the market and settle when Samsung imports were about to be barred. Sharp had filed its lawsuit in…
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The challenge is to assume this new world of simulation and take it one step farther, to the point of no return, to raise it to a positive simulation of the highest degree by marshaling all our powers of the false toward shattering the grid of representation once and for all. This cannot be done…
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I don’t think education is about centralized instruction anymore; rather, it is the process of establishing oneself as a node in a broad network of distributed creativity. Neoteny, one of my favorite words, means the retention of childlike attributes in adulthood: idealism, experimentation and wonder. In this new world, not only must we behave more…
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kenyatta: John Cage – Williams Mix
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Adán Medrano Rediscovers Texas’ First Food in Truly Texas Mexican – The Texas Observer
Adán Medrano Rediscovers Texas’ First Food in Truly Texas Mexican – The Texas Observer jmcommunications: Truly Texas Mexican is at least as much manifesto as recipe collection. The cookbook starts shipping on May 10th!
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skunkbear: This Time, Humans Out-Perform Computers Computers are terrible at mapping the brain. Given a cross-section of a retina for example, computers have trouble distinguishing neurons from other cells and empty space. Humans, on the other hand, can perform this task with ease. Still, mapping the brain would be a monumental task for one human. …
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Writing on the “Wall”
Writing on the “Wall” manbartlett: A few years ago, author Teju Cole traveled to the Arizona border with a group of artists to learn what immigration and migrant life looks and feels like just south of Tucson, along the most brutally policed section of the 18-foot-high wall that spans 600 miles from California to Texas.…