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Several months ago, I was at a school event where a very young black girl was standing shyly off to the side as I was chatting with some 6th grade students after my presentation. She gave me her notebook and asked me to sign it, which I was glad to do. It was a book…
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The greatest predictor of intellectual success is the emotional stability of the home – not the presence of toys or devices built to improve infant cognitive development. John Medina (via azspot)
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good: good: Infographic: The Rise of Millennials Living at Home A recent Pew Research analysis found that 21.6 million America’s young people—that’s 36 percent of Millennials (loosely categorized as those between the ages of 18 to 31)—live with their parents at home. With the highest percentage in at least four decades, the study attributed the…
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Even luckier, your mom decides to stay home during your formative cognitive years so she can read you storybooks on the sofa, and help you play alphabet building blocks on the carpet. Except, in that case, she hasn’t been able to earn anything in the free-enterprise system enabling her to put aside for your college…
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mathani: Get you best paper, cut a circle and fold it, fold it so that the circumference falls on a fixed point inside. Repeat, using random folds. Now see the creases. This is how you paper-fold an ellipse.
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mathani: Get you best paper, cut a circle and fold it, fold it so that the circumference falls on a fixed point inside. Repeat, using random folds. Now see the creases. This is how you paper-fold an ellipse.
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fastcompany: Steve Matteson has designed some of the most ubiquitous typefaces in the world, and engineered versions of Times New Roman, Arial, and Courier for Microsoft. Here, he reveals why every letter you see looks the way it does. Read More>
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prostheticknowledge: The Nexus Browser Jim Boulton of Digital Archeology demonstrates the first web browser on the system it was developed on, the NeXT Cube: Tim Berners-Lee made the first website, and the first web browser, on a NeXT Cube running the now obsolete NeXTSTEP Operating System. As a result, very few people have seen the…
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prostheticknowledge: The Nexus Browser Jim Boulton of Digital Archeology demonstrates the first web browser on the system it was developed on, the NeXT Cube: Tim Berners-Lee made the first website, and the first web browser, on a NeXT Cube running the now obsolete NeXTSTEP Operating System. As a result, very few people have seen the…
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A market-logic definition of innovation that is making the rounds, that embeds it in a knowable heirarchy of risks and rewards. This should be compared and contrasted with definitions from outside market logics. (via Innoveracy: Misunderstanding Innovation |) The definition of innovation is easy to find but it’s one thing to read the definition and…