January 2012
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I feel like there’s a red pill and a blue pill, and you can take the blue pill...
– Tenured Professor Departs Stanford, Hoping to Teach 500,000 Students at Online Start-Up - The Chronicle of Higher Education (via davemorin)
I would like to give this guy a high-five, and I would like him to give me a job working for him.
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FUCKING SCIENCE: Friedrich Nake's algorithmic... →
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‘Hommage à Paul Klee 13/9/65 Nr. 2’, a screenprint of a plotter drawing created by Frieder Nake in 1965, was one of the most complex algorithmic works of its day. An algorithmic work is one that is generated through a set of instructions written by the artist. Nake took his…
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streamsuite:
Quantum Entanglement as an alternative to Marriage. Conceived of by ‘experimental philosopher’ Jonathon Keats.
both romantic and cute, in a nerdy crackpot sort of way.
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FOUND THE OFFICIAL WHITE HOUSE PETITION TO STOP...
stellar-raven:
moriartistry:
CLICK HERE TO SIGN
Ok…it took awhile since the White House website refused to believe I was logged in, but I was finally able to sign this petition.
Here’s what it looks like now:
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JSTOR opens limited free access option... →
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Now JSTOR is getting ready to go one step further, by cutting a small window in its paywall for visitors who are not affiliated with any subscribing institution. The new program, called Register & Read, will soon let anybody read back filed JSTOR content at no cost.
Under the new program, unsubscribed visitors will be allowed to check out three “items” from the JSTOR...
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I have always been intrigued by the journals that young girls keep. they are...
– Rachel Klein (via bloodisthenewblackk)
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M.I.T. Game-Changer: Free Online Education For All... →
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The Massachusetts Institute of Technology (M.I.T.) will announce on Monday that they intend to launch an online learning initiative called M.I.T.x,which will offer the online teaching of M.I.T. courses free of charge to anyone in the world.
The program will not allow students to earn an M.I.T. degree. Instead, those who are able to exhibit a mastery of the subjects taught on the platform...
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All That Is Interesting: Croatia's Fascinating... →
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Conceptualized and currently housed in Zagreb, Croatia, the Museum of Broken Relationships grew from a traveling exhibition dedicated to failed relationships and all that they leave behind—physically and emotionally. Instead of watching objects from prior relationships gather dust or have them serve as haunting and vestigial relics of lost loves, people can donate...
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