May 2013
43 posts
“I love books, by the way, way more than movies. Movies tell you what to think. A...”
– Karen Marie Moning, Darkfever (via greekg0ds)
“If the Internet really were a series of tubes, Yahoo would be the leaking sewage...”
– How Yahoo killed Flickr and Lost the Internet (via rinaway)
Teaching math through movement: Erik Stern and...
tedx:
Erik Stern and Karl Schaffer decided to take their love of dance and apply it to the classroom. Now, they promote the teaching of otherwise-complicated mathematics concepts to kids using the power of movement, as they demonstrate at TEDxManhattanBeach. (Filmed at TEDxManhattanBeach)
Each week, we choose four of our favorite talks, highlighting just a few of the enlightening speakers...
TEDx: Democracy’s data revolution: Simon Jackman →
tedx:
At TEDxSydney, Stanford researcher Simon Jackman demonstrates some of the ways in which an increased availability of data gives us a more accurate picture of electoral trends, the political zeitgeist, and the serious implications this has on the shape of public conversation. (Filmed at…
“We want the spring to come and the winter to pass. We want whoever to call or...”
– Marie Howe (via hellanne)
mouselink:
Sometimes people criticize because they like you. If they didn’t care, they wouldn’t spend their energy wanting to make you better.
— Matteo Wyllyamz (@mouselink) May 13, 2013
Today's Scarlet Letter is 'Conspiracy Theorist'
mouselink:
It’s time for us to decide if we really want a free Internet. Certainly many of us do. Some of us think we do, but we don’t really understand what this entails or what the consequences might be. Then there is a rising tide of increasingly loud voices who do not believe in an unfettered, level playing field for human ideas, who are frightened by the radical extremes of people’s...
“A new consciousness is developing which sees the Earth as a single organism and...”
– Carl Sagan (via inspirement)
“When we try to pick out anything by itself, we find it hitched to everything...”
– John Muir (via thekhooll)
“Do or do not; there is no try.”
– Jedi Master Yoda (via kanavarora)
“In Greek, “nostalgia” literally means “the pain from an old wound”. It’s a...”
– Don Draper, “The Wheel” (via stxxz)
“We spend the first year of a child’s life teaching it to walk and talk and the...”
– Neil deGrasse Tyson (via stxxz)
“It was curious to think that the sky was the same for everybody. And the people...”
– George Orwell, 1984 (via stxxz)
“I am often questioning myself what I further want to do, who I further wish to...”
– Anne Sexton (via hellanne)
“If you don’t like something, change it. If you can’t change it, change your...”
– Maya Angelou (via greekg0ds)
“Do what you love. It’s going to lead to where you want to go.”
– Wayne White (via idiosyncrazies)
“There is an art, it says, or rather, a knack to flying. The knack lies in...”
– Adams, Douglas. (1978). The Hitch-hikers Guide to the Galaxy. BBC Radio 4 (via futureproofdesigns)
Seahorse Inspires Innovative Hybrid Robot Design
txchnologist:
by Michael Keller
More and more, nature is becoming the wellspring from which engineers working on efficient robotic locomotion drink. Those creating machine flight are mimicking the action of bats, birds and insects. To overcome terrestrial obstacles, they are developing mechanical horses and canines. For the sea, they’re working on robotic jellyfish, rays and others.
One...
Seahorse Inspires Innovative Hybrid Robot Design
txchnologist:
by Michael Keller
More and more, nature is becoming the wellspring from which engineers working on efficient robotic locomotion drink. Those creating machine flight are mimicking the action of bats, birds and insects. To overcome terrestrial obstacles, they are developing mechanical horses and canines. For the sea, they’re working on robotic jellyfish, rays and others.
One...
Reblog if you're gay, lesbian, bisexual,...
musicismyonlyescapefromlife:
gullcanyouexprainwatufeer:
This should be reblogged by everyone. Even if you’re straight, you should be a supporter.
If you cannot reblog this at all, then I feel sorry for you.
I support
“Spend a little more time trying to make something of yourself and a little less...”
– The Breakfast Club (1985)
“Details must play their part in relation to the overall concept and character of...”
– Eliot Noyes, “On Details,” c. 1960
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eliot_Noyes (via nickkahler)
“He who knows nothing is closer to the truth than he whose minds is filled with...”
– Thomas Jefferson (via buddhistwitchery)
“The period of greatest gain in knowledge and experience is the most difficult...”
– Dalai Lama (via buddhistwitchery)
“The power to move the world is in the subconscious mind.”
– William James (via buddhistwitchery)
“We know only too well that what we are doing is nothing more than a drop in the...”
– Mother Teresa (via leslieseuffert)
April 2013
6 posts
“We get stories much faster than we can make sense of them, informed by cellphone...”
– Farhad Manjoo, Slate. Breaking News Is Broken.
FJP: Two things here — Adopt a slow news diet or pay very close attention to how you follow breaking news. Else, as Farhad suggests, take a long walk.
(via futurejournalismproject)
Also worth reading. (via shortformblog)
“We are torn between a nostalgia for the familiar and an urge for the foreign and...”
– Carson McCullers (via desalpes)
“People have to really suffer before they can risk doing what they love.”
– Chuck Palahniuk (via kateoplis)
“People have to really suffer before they can risk doing what they love.”
– Chuck Palahniuk (via kateoplis)
“People think that design is styling. Design is not style. It’s not about giving...”
– Paola Antonelli (via designed-for-life)
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March 2013
7 posts
Watchsoupsoup:
For the first time scientists have printed human embryonic stem cells using a 3D printer. The Heriot-Watt University team’s research could eventually lead to human organs being printed on demand and an end to animal drug testing. Jim Drury of Reuters reports.
