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Biennale Bloopers: ARTINFO's List of 7 Spectacular Snafus From Last Week's Venetian Festivities - ARTINFO.com

Wed, 15 Jun 2011 20:41:54 -0400

Biennale Bloopers: ARTINFO's List of 7 Spectacular Snafus From Last Week's Venetian Festivities - ARTINFO.com:

Malfunctioning sculpture, people falling everywhere, Zaha Hadid misses a deadline, and not a vaporetto to be found. Amazing!

mayisuggest: Fascinating profile on the Musalman, a daily,...

Tue, 24 May 2011 14:02:00 -0400

mayisuggest:

Fascinating profile on the Musalman, a daily, handwritten newspaper.

(via Last handwritten newspaper in the world | CreativeRoots - Art and design inspiration from around the world)

Slavoj Žižek: Good Manners in the Age of Wikileaks

Mon, 25 Apr 2011 08:21:54 -0400

Slavoj Žižek: Good Manners in the Age of Wikileaks:

“So far, the WikiLeaks story has been represented as a struggle between WikiLeaks and the US empire: is the publishing of confidential US state documents an act in support of the freedom of information, of the people’s right to know, or is it a terrorist act that poses a threat to stable international relations? But what if this isn’t the real issue? What if the crucial ideological and political battle is going on within WikiLeaks itself: between the radical act of publishing secret state documents and the way this act has been reinscribed into the hegemonic ideologico-political field by, among others, WikiLeaks itself?”

"[P]eople borrowing books from the library were more likely to return their books if the librarian..."

Wed, 20 Apr 2011 15:45:17 -0400

“[P]eople borrowing books from the library were more likely to return their books if the librarian touched them lightly during checkout”

- The Hormone That Calms and Connects - Dana Foundation

"We stayed together for the children — each was the other’s child. And we were both wordsmiths,..."

Sat, 16 Apr 2011 06:30:06 -0400

“We stayed together for the children — each was the other’s child. And we were both wordsmiths, cuddle-mad, and extremely playful… . All couples play kissy games they don’t want other people to know about, and all regress to infants from time to time, since, though we marry as adults, we don’t marry adults. We marry children who have grown up and still rejoice in being children, especially if we’re creative. Imaginative people fidget with ideas, including the idea of a relationship. If they’re wordsmiths like us, they fidget a lot in words.”

- Book Review - One Hundred Names For Love - By Diane Ackerman - NYTimes.com

(via slow motion crawl)

Thu, 14 Apr 2011 06:30:05 -0400

(via slow motion crawl)

Schmentoring -- Mentoring Gone Askew [MP3]

Tue, 12 Apr 2011 06:30:07 -0400

Schmentoring -- Mentoring Gone Askew [MP3]:

Edward Tenner of Princeton University gave a talk titled “Schmentoring: Mentoring Gone Askew—with Even Better Results” on Friday, Sept. 28, 2007.

"The scaling up of penicillin has saved more lives than the first nuclear weapons took."

Mon, 11 Apr 2011 06:30:07 -0400

“The scaling up of penicillin has saved more lives than the first nuclear weapons took.”

- TED 2011 Q&A: How Technology Bites Us | Epicenter | Wired.com

"We spend hours surfing the web, which turns out to be much less challenging and enjoyable than the..."

Sun, 10 Apr 2011 06:30:06 -0400

“We spend hours surfing the web, which turns out to be much less challenging and enjoyable than the verb makes it sound.”

- Pushing Paper - Lapham’s Quarterly

TEDxCaltech - Scott Aaronson - Physics in the 21st Century:...

Sat, 09 Apr 2011 06:30:07 -0400

TEDxCaltech - Scott Aaronson - Physics in the 21st Century: Toiling in Feynman’s Shadow (by TEDxTalks)

RSA Animate - Drive: The surprising truth about what motivates...

Fri, 08 Apr 2011 06:30:06 -0400

RSA Animate - Drive: The surprising truth about what motivates us (by theRSAorg)

othemts: (via Information is Beautiful on the books everyone...

Thu, 07 Apr 2011 06:30:06 -0400

othemts:

(via Information is Beautiful on the books everyone must read | Books | guardian.co.uk)

beachtones: Visualizing Japan’s Power Outages After Earthquake,...

Wed, 06 Apr 2011 06:30:07 -0400

beachtones:

Visualizing Japan’s Power Outages After Earthquake, Tsunami. Power losses indicated in red. Image courtesy NOAA National Geophysical Data Center. via PBS Newshour.

Facebook drops uprising page after Israel protest

Tue, 05 Apr 2011 06:30:06 -0400

Facebook drops uprising page after Israel protest:

today:

Facebook removed a page calling on Palestinians to take up arms against Israel, following a high-profile Israeli appeal.

"Faced with endless religious warfare, Montaigne intuited that his best approach would be to tease..."

Mon, 04 Apr 2011 06:30:07 -0400

“Faced with endless religious warfare, Montaigne intuited that his best approach would be to tease his contemporaries away from intolerance. (Christians, he noted, were treating each other less kindly than Muslims, or even animals, did.) He could make toleration attractive not so much by argument as by a gentle mockery: the deflation of human pretensions in general and philosophical and religious ones in particular.”

- The First Liberal — Kwame Anthony Appiah, Slate.com (h/t Joshua Safran)

If We Built a Safer Nuclear Reactor, How Would We Know? - Zeynep Tufekci - Technology - The Atlantic

Sun, 03 Apr 2011 06:30:06 -0400

If We Built a Safer Nuclear Reactor, How Would We Know? - Zeynep Tufekci - Technology - The Atlantic:

If We Built a Safer Nuclear Reactor, How Would We Know?

Visualizing the "Arab Spring": An Interactive Timeline

Sat, 02 Apr 2011 06:30:06 -0400

Visualizing the "Arab Spring": An Interactive Timeline

"It’s the sort of Beltway dodge that’s as natural as breathing to the suits in this..."

Fri, 01 Apr 2011 06:30:06 -0400

“It’s the sort of Beltway dodge that’s as natural as breathing to the suits in this white-tablecloth restaurant. But despite the agency badge tucked into his jacket, the tattooed, shaggy-haired, cowboy-boot-wearing scholar is not quite a member of their tribe. With a little prodding and one big caveat—”I don’t represent the FTC in anything I say”—he looks up from his fish stew and deadpans a quietly barbed critique that is vintage Wu.”

- Tim Wu Tries to Save the Internet - The Chronicle Review - The Chronicle of Higher Education

http://xkcd.com/radiation/

Thu, 31 Mar 2011 13:45:56 -0400

http://xkcd.com/radiation/

It's Official: Most Americans Adults Are Using Facebook - Nicholas Jackson - Technology - The Atlantic

Wed, 30 Mar 2011 06:30:07 -0400

It's Official: Most Americans Adults Are Using Facebook - Nicholas Jackson - Technology - The Atlantic