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» Obama: As President, your job is not simply to maximize profits

“Understand that their priority is to maximize profits,” Obama added of those who work in private equity. “That is not always going to be good for communities or businesses or workers. The reason this is relevant to the campaign is because my opponent, Governor Romney, his main calling card for why he thinks he should be president is his business experience. He is not touting his experience in massachusetts. He is saying he is a business guy, and this is his business.”

“If your main argument for how to grow in the economy is ‘I knew how to make a lot of money for investors’, then you are missing what this job is about.”

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Low-resolution 3D printing

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Dirk van der Kooij is a designer who uses a low-resoution 3D printer of sorts to print out plastic furniture with plastic recovered from recycled refrigerators.

Images of the finished product are available on his web site as are the chairs themselves, for €840. (via @curiousoctopus)

» Carl Honoré on Slow Living

Whenever you pick up a morsel of food on the end of your fork, you’re making a political statement about what kind of world you want to live in. There’s a story behind how that food got to your plate. You’re saying how you believe agriculture should work, how we should interact with the environment, not to mention all of the social and cultural aspects of food.

“ ‘Don’t sit still, do something!’ That’s become a kind of tyranny, and drives us into a tunnel of constant busyness, distraction, and acceleration, so we end up skimming the surface of our lives rather than living them.

— Carl Honoré on Slow Living

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For the first eight years of our marriage, [Michelle and I] were paying more in student loans than what we were paying for our mortgage. So we know what this is about.

And we were lucky to land good jobs with a steady income. But we only finished paying off our student loans—check this out, all right, I’m the President of the United States—we only finished paying off our student loans about eight years ago.

— President Obama in North Carolina today on why Congress has to act to prevent interest rates on student loans from doubling (via barackobama)

“ We are not individuals who form relationships. We are social animals, deeply interpenetrated with one another, who emerge out of relationships.

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» Carl Honoré on Slow Living | The Browser

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» Inside the mind of the octopus

So what does it feel like to be an octopus?

» Why Cognitive Enhancement Is in Your Future (and Your Past) - Atlantic Mobile

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» Inside the mind of the octopus | Orion Magazine

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