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theatlantic: Why The Conversation Should Be Required Viewing at the NSA Technology—iPhones, Google Glass, tablets, and the like—makes our day-to-day lives easier to quantify than ever. That’s a good thing, in many ways; more information about how people live can help, say, improve healthcare. But fiction, from George Orwell’s 1984 to this weekend’s box-office hit Captain America: The Winter…
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theatlantic: Why The Conversation Should Be Required Viewing at the NSA Technology—iPhones, Google Glass, tablets, and the like—makes our day-to-day lives easier to quantify than ever. That’s a good thing, in many ways; more information about how people live can help, say, improve healthcare. But fiction, from George Orwell’s 1984 to this weekend’s box-office hit Captain America: The Winter…
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fastcodesign: This Xbox Controller Can Sense Your Boredom, Make A Game More Violent Heart rate, temperature, respiration, and perspiration: These are our autonomous functions—our core physiological processes—that signal stress or arousal and can betray our otherwise cool exteriors. Stanford researcherGregory Kovacs is reading these signals through a modified Xbox game controller. By adding a new, sensor-laden…
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Call for Abstracts: Relating Systems Thinking and Design 3 (RSD3)
Call for Abstracts: Relating Systems Thinking and Design 3 (RSD3) The RSD3 Call for Abstracts has been extended until April 16, 2014.[original deadline was April 01, 2014] Key Note speakers for the symposium include:– Hugh Dubberly– Ranulph Glanville– Ann Pendleton-Jullian– John Thackara– Daniela Sangiorgi For the Systemic Design Research NetworkAlex Ryan, PhDSenior Systems Design ManagerGovernment…
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Call for Abstracts: Relating Systems Thinking and Design 3 (RSD3)
Call for Abstracts: Relating Systems Thinking and Design 3 (RSD3) The RSD3 Call for Abstracts has been extended until April 16, 2014.[original deadline was April 01, 2014] Key Note speakers for the symposium include:– Hugh Dubberly– Ranulph Glanville– Ann Pendleton-Jullian– John Thackara– Daniela Sangiorgi For the Systemic Design Research NetworkAlex Ryan, PhDSenior Systems Design ManagerGovernment…
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cinoh: eatdrinkdie: The morning cup of coffee is important. Half-smiling, half-haggard TV housewives shuffle into kitchens in bathrobes warning: ‘don’t talk to me before I’ve had my coffee.” The laugh track roars and babbles, but it’s a commendable notion. The heat, the caffeine, the ritual awakening. Do you remember the commercials on TV – the…
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The dominant group creates its own stories, as well. The stories, or narratives told by the ingroup remind it of its identity in relation to outgroups, and provide it with a form of shared reality in which its own superior position is seen as natural. The stories of outgroups aim to subvert that reality. In…
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We have left iTunesU in favor of sharing content via YouTube and SoundCloud. We just were not seeing the statistics to continue with iTunesU. We found the administration of the account laborious and the statistical reporting onerous. It was clear to us from an administrative standpoint, it was a drain on staff time that simply…
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We have left iTunesU in favor of sharing content via YouTube and SoundCloud. We just were not seeing the statistics to continue with iTunesU. We found the administration of the account laborious and the statistical reporting onerous. It was clear to us from an administrative standpoint, it was a drain on staff time that simply…