January 2012
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December 2011
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“That there’s no one right answer, no one right path. I need to be open to the...”
– Eden Full on solar power, appropriate technologies and life as a young female inventor. Full was recently named one of Forbes 30 under 30 energy disruptors. (via poptech)
Watchweworkhere:
Our friend Jaimie is story editor at Once Magazine, and as much as we wish she would move back to the Twin Cities, we love what she & her colleagues are doing with photography & storytelling for digital platforms like iPad. It’s been fantastic to see them get some much-deserved recognition for their work!
Also worth noting: they actually pay their contributors with revenue...
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Patterns Seen in Spider Silk and Melodies... →
Using a new mathematical methodology, researchers at MIT have created a scientifically rigorous analogy that shows the similarities between the physical structure of spider silk and the sonic structure of a melody, proving that the structure of each relates to its function in an equivalent way.
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“Moving online is not an option for the many rural families living in the poorest...”
– Rural Residents Fight Back to Save Local Post Offices (Equal Voice Now)
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designing ecosystems for talent development →
Full of nauseating buzzwords, but still an interesting way of approaching organization & project development.
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Project NOAH →
Project Noah is a tool to explore and document wildlife and a platform to harness the power of citizen scientists everywhere.
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Libraries and Museums Become Hands-On Learning... →
Yes, more of this!
“If we have goals and dreams and we want to do our best, and if we love people...”
– Kathryn Schulz on the psychology of regret, a must-see TED talk (via curiositycounts)
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supper
ME: Say something funny. I need to laugh.
COLIN: Why? Are you depressed? What’s the matter?
ME: I don’t know. I just feel down, like there’s this little rain cloud over my head. I don’t know what it is.
COLIN: It’s not this wonderful meal is it? I sure hope it’s not this delicious meal that we just cooked together, and that we’re eating together...
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“We’re not radical. Radicals work for oil companies. The CEO of Exxon gets up...”
– Bill McKibben, “The Most Important News Story of the Day/Millennium” (via erikostrom)
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“To dance is a radical act because it reminds us that we, as bodily selves, exist...”
– Kimerer LaMothe, To Dance is A Radical Act
WatchKate Cassanova - Ornament, 2011
October 2011
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“Open isn’t dead as a movement, it’s dead as a term that can be used to excite...”
– John Geraci on why Open is Dead.
via curiositycounts
“But how many of them changed their life plans — and cut their sleep to near...”
– From an essay in the New Tork Times by Jim Collins, What’s Luck Got to Do With It?
I’m thinking today about luck and other enigmatic forces in our creative lives - quantifiable, or not. So much of our lives depend on how we respond to the opportunities and challenges that we encounter....
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Ancient Water Discovered in Depths of Iron Range... →
This is really exciting news! I love that an old mine in the middle of the Range has become such an important place for science.
See also, this.
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WatchLove this! Just pledged to own the present.
curiositycounts:
The Present – “annual clock” tells time in seasons, using subtle gradients of pure color, to counter the modern malady of constantly feeling like time is moving too fast
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September 2011
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The Kid Should See This →
Stumbled across this tumblr about science / nature / art / technology / other good stuff for kids (and non-kids) and I love it.
I’m now giving myself permission to unfollow all of the vapid, sarcastic, irritating tumblrs in my feed in preparation for a return to the tumblr universe.
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April 2011
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WatchA teaser trailer for the French film DETROIT WILD CITY.
“Florent Tillon’s film begins with familiar but inevitably arresting images of Detroit’s decay into postapocalyptic pastoralism, but doesn’t end there. While most cinematic pilgrims have portrayed the Motor City as a giant canvas onto which they project their outsider fantasies, Tillon has greater ambitions and greater respect. The...
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“An outsider historian named ‘Black Monk’ also suggests that there...”
– Rick Prelinger in a post about a recent trip to Detroit, including some thoughts on the French film DETROIT WILD CITY. I’ve been thinking a lot about placemaking and narrative lately. Rick’s post has some interesting threads that are worth thinking about even if the localized efforts and...
March 2011
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"Troubled Waters" filmmaker speaks at the... →
Larkin McPhee, writer-director-producer of the ‘Troubled Waters’ film I worked on last year, speaks about documentary filmmaking and the search for truth.
via Minnesota Public Radio News