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chrisstcyr: When you’re six every flag is the Jolly Roger.
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chrisstcyr: When you’re six every flag is the Jolly Roger.
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The recursive movements of afterthought are themselves, I believe, the result of what Walter Benjamin claims is the collector’s deepest desire – to renew the old world – a desire that can be achieved by taking something from one context and adding it to another, such as the story of the devil in the cane…
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TankBot is the world’s first micro robotic tank that you can control with your Smartphone. Through a free downloadable app and a SmartPhone adapter (included), which plugs into your iPhone®, iPad®, iPod touch® or Android™ Device and choose from three different play modes. With a built-in battery and USB flip down charger, battery costs are…
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TankBot is the world’s first micro robotic tank that you can control with your Smartphone. Through a free downloadable app and a SmartPhone adapter (included), which plugs into your iPhone®, iPad®, iPod touch® or Android™ Device and choose from three different play modes. With a built-in battery and USB flip down charger, battery costs are…
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rhube: (via Hugo nomination baby!) You know that article about Margaret Cavendish I mentioned earlier? The one I wrote about her writing the first science fiction novel? And that it got published in Speculative Fiction 2012? Well, SpecFic 2012 has been nominated for the 2014 Hugo Award for Best Related Work. 😀 😀 😀 I…
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There are dangers for an artist in any academic environment. Academia rewards people who know their own minds and have developed an ironclad confidence in speaking them. That kind of assurance is death for an artist. Christian Wiman (via millionsmillions)
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syfycity: Is there a potential for Virtual Reality (like Oculus Rift) to harm people’s interactions with actual reality? once again, from the beginning.
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jamvega: Junot Díaz & Peter Sagal: Immigrants, Masculinity, Nerds, & Art [x] We also have a popular culture which acts as a megaphone for the larger American tendencies towards anti-intellectualism.
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Thanks to a generation of massive amounts of standardized testing, our students conceive education primarily as a tool for determining a ranking. The Obama administration’s policy is even called Race to the Top. We have the most read columnist in the country telling us how important it is to raise “standards” so our students don’t…