May 2012
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Obama: As President, your job is not simply to... →
“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...
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Low-resolution 3D printing
jkottke:
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)
April 2012
22 posts
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...”
– Carl Honoré on Slow Living
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“For the first eight years of our marriage, [Michelle and I] were paying more in...”
– President Obama in North Carolina today on why Congress has to act to prevent interest rates on student loans from doubling (via barackobama)
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“We are not individuals who form relationships. We are social animals, deeply...”
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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... →
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Inside the mind of the octopus | Orion Magazine →
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“Whenever I start talking about this, scientists get very nervous.”
– Jonathan Schooler
‘The decline effect and the scientific method’ by Jonah Lehrer
The decline effect and the scientific method : The... →
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The neuroscience of Bob Dylan's genius | Music |... →
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“A brain scan may reveal the neural signs of anxiety, but a Kokoschka painting,...”
– The Age Of Insight | Jonah Lehrer interviews Eric Kandel
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A Show with Ze Frank
jkottke:
I did not know how much I had missed A Show with Ze Frank until I just watched the first episode of the new series:
How the Tape Recorder Killed Journalism | Gay... →
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Photography and Jazz | Benjamin Cawthra →
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Sigur Rós – Ekki múkk →
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What is Beautiful is Usable →
March 2012
11 posts
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“… because I have to tell you I don’t enjoy this war one bit.”
– David Foster Wallace
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“The American education model, he says, was actually copied from the 18th-century...”
– The Relationship School: The New American Academy
Bring back the 40-hour work week - AlterNet -... →
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The Fox Is Black » Why Instagram is so popular – I... →
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“Although leanness is generally a good thing in business, too much cost-cutting...”
– How Hiring Makes Uniqlo a Successful Retailer
How Hiring Makes Uniqlo a Successful Retailer :... →
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Letters of Note: I don't enjoy this war one bit →
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“The misleading assumption is that if we don’t interfere, we’re going to continue...”
– Why Cognitive Enhancement Is in Your Future (and Your Past)
Ross Andersen interviews Allen Buchanan for The Atlantic
“The misleading assumption is that if we don’t interfere, we’re going to continue...”
– Why Cognitive Enhancement Is in Your Future (and Your Past) - Ross Andersen - The Atlantic
February 2012
13 posts
“At lunch, the most common question is “Why are you here?” like in...”
– I Was a Warehouse Wage Slave | Mother Jones
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“That’s your brain releasing a chemical cocktail that is physically and...”
– Rands In Repose: When the Sky Falls
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“As we awaken from sleep, our consciousness undergoes a radical transformation...”
– The science of waking up, from Antonio Damasio’s excellent Self Comes to Mind – an exploration of what makes us human. (via)
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“Compared with uninfected people of the same sex, infected men were more likely...”
– How Your Cat Is Making You Crazy
Kathleen McAuliffe speaks with Jaroslave Flegr for The Atlantic
In fact, he says, schizophrenia did not rise in prevalence until the latter half of the 18th century, when for the first time people in Paris and London started keeping cats as pets. The so-called...
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How to Approach a Responsive Design →
alexislloyd:
A very thorough and informative discussion of the responsive design process for The Boston Globe redesign.
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“All I want in life is security and freedom. Which is the weirdest balance. But...”
– George Gurley on the Gumball 3000 Rally, writing for Vanity Fair
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January 2012
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Laura Dekker vows never to return home →
for fear of “being taken into care” by Dutch child services for having become the youngest person to single-handedly circumnavigate the globe against their wishes.