August 2011
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July 2011
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creative title here
dancingpapayas:
Two addendums to my previous “working might not be so bad” post:
1. Interning is not the same as working and in that sense my perception of work may be skewed. So many professionals take their work home with them, it’s not even funny.
2. Which brings me to my realization that—get this—you need to do what you love. I suppose this topic is highly subjective but I really can’t...
June 2011
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One Year Out
I’m not a designer, but it’s still a great read for anyone graduating now, or ever.
mattmcinerney:
A great post by Kyle Read about your first year as a designer out of college:
In continuation from the last post -and I don’t mean to get all sentimental here- but it has dawned on me that I really have had an interesting year, both personally and as a designer fresh out of school....
May 2011
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Responding to Criticism →
nostrich:
Robby Grossman:
The reason I was so offended at first is that I thought that taking criticism was the standard of a student in a student-teacher relationship. To me it was like force-praising a bad teacher by saying “you do a great job showing up to class everyday.” That’s what you’d say to a teacher who had no teaching skills. But I quickly learned that my analogy was flawed. Taking...
April 2011
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“From out there on the moon, international politics look so petty. You want to...”
– Edgar Mitchell (via reddit)
March 2011
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Japan is NOT undergoing a cataclysmic nuclear... →
dancingpapayas:
the media is overhyping the details. See link.
I can’t verify the validity of this article, but the physics seems to make sense.
February 2011
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My friend works at Google
Me: i need help with Matlab, can you help me Leon?
Leon: sure, what do you need?
Me: how do i integrate and stuff
Dash: I think it involves magnets
Me: shut up and get back to your cube
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January 2011
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December 2010
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A pilot's story about the SR-71 Black Bird →
There seems to be a confirmed trust now, between me and the jet; she will not hesitate to deliver whatever speed we need, and I can count on no problems with the inlets. Walt and I are ultimately depending on the jet now - more so than normal - and she seems to know it. The cooler outside temperatures have awakened the spirit born into her years ago, when men dedicated to excellence took the...
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November 2010
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Math, Critical Thinking, and thee
One complaint that I often hear from other college students is the uselessness of Calculus in pertinence to their field. Indeed, many people who aren’t engaged in specific scientific fields often never use anything more but basic math skills which are learned in high school. But what many students neglect is the critical thinking part of learning math.
In a paper for the 2009 International...
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October 2010
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September 2010
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Why So Many People Can't Make Decisions →
tinatalk:
This is like reading my horoscope.
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I was wrong about veganism. Let them eat meat -... →
nikkigraziano:
The ethical case against eating animal produce once seemed clear. But a new book is an abattoir for dodgy arguments.
This will not be an easy column to write. I am about to put down 1,200 words in support of a book that starts by attacking me and often returns to this sport. But it has persuaded me that I was wrong. More to the point, it has opened my eyes to some...
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Drive-by Blogging: It’s gone four in the morning... →
It’s gone four in the morning and I’m trapped on Wikipedia. It all started with an innocent inquiry about the Solar System. The immensity of the universe is endlessly fascinating.
Consider the speed of light (299,792,458 m/s). The special theory of relativity proposes that no physical object…
August 2010
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“An infinite number of mathematicians walk into a bar. The first goes up to the...”
– Bill Bailey (from Wikipedia) (via inky)
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The Proposition 8 Ruling (in simple language)
squashed:
On August 4, 2010, Federal Judge Vaughn R. Walker ruled that California’s Proposition 8, which prohibits California from recognizing same-sex marriage, is unconstitutional. The ruling was stayed pending appeal—which means that nothing will happen until a Federal Appeals court reviews it. As you might imagine, it will be appealed. The ruling itself is 138 pages long. I’ll...
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The Acceleration of Addictiveness →
dihard:
via jakelodwick via Ronen Reblogs
July 2010
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The Dark Side of the Force: Model describes... →
By suggesting that mass, time, and length can be converted into one another as the universe evolves, a new study has proposed a new class of cosmological models that may fit observations of the universe better than the current big bang model.
Wun-Yi Shu, an associate professor at National Tsing…
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Watchunknownskywalker:
First Test Drive for Mars Rover ‘Curiosity’
This video shows the first test drive of the next Mars Rover, Curiosity, in a clean room at NASA´s Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, Calif., on July 23, 2010.
Source: Read the full story at NASA JPL
I want to do this. This is secretly the dream of every child who has ever played with Legos and created countless fantastical...
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Does Language Influence Culture? →
dihard:
Pretty interesting article in the WSJ today. Basically says that language profoundly influences how we see the world. Some examples:
Russian speakers who have more words for light and dark blues are better able to visually discriminate shades of blue.
An aboriginal community in Australia don’t use terms like “left” and “right”, and instead use north, south, east and west for...
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