December 2011
29 posts
Dec 30th
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Dec 30th
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Dec 30th
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Dec 21st
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Dec 21st
“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)
Dec 21st
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weworkhere: 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...
Dec 20th
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Dec 18th
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Dec 17th
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Dec 16th
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Dec 13th
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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.
Dec 12th
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Dec 12th
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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)
Dec 12th
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Dec 12th
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Dec 11th
designing ecosystems for talent development →
Full of nauseating buzzwords, but still an interesting way of approaching organization & project development.
Dec 9th
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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.
Dec 9th
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Dec 7th
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Dec 7th
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Libraries and Museums Become Hands-On Learning... →
Yes, more of this!
Dec 7th
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“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)
Dec 7th
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Dec 6th
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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...
Dec 6th
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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)
Dec 5th
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Dec 5th
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Dec 5th
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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
Dec 4th
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Kate Cassanova - Ornament, 2011
Dec 4th