May 2010
53 posts
“Modern psychology has a word that is probably used more than any other word. It...”
– - Martin Luther King Jr. from “The Power of Non-Violence,” June 4th, 1957. (full text)
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Recent studies by Professor Nina Kraus, a neuroscientists at Northwestern University in Evanston, Illinois, have shown that the electrical activity inside the brain while listening to music closely matches the physical properties of sound waves. Using brain scanning equipment Professor Kraus, who presented her findings at the American Association for the Advancement of Science in San Diego on...
May 27th
May 27th
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“With our video, we were really copying ‘Telephone,’ ” Maya says now, referring...”
– - from ‘M.I.A.’s Agitprop Pop’ (NYTimes) I kinda like that babies say Gaga’s name, to be honest.
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“Vending machines in neon-splashed Tokyo have electronic eyes that evaluate...”
– The New Touch-Face of Vending Machines (NYTimes) that last sentence. the whole article is good. UPDATE: The FIRST sentence!
May 26th
Designs on Policy - NYTimes Design Blog →
“What does frustrate me about the whole notion of a U.S. Design Policy is that the country needs one at all. It feels weird to have to defend design’s importance, yet also completely necessary. The United Kingdom has had a policy in place since 1949; Japan since 1956. In countries like Finland, Sweden, South Korea and the Netherlands, design is a no-brainer, reflected by the impeccable...
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“As I got to know my adjunct colleagues better, I began to see these largely...”
– from “Confessions of a Tenured Professor” (InsideHigherEd) (h/t greaterorsmaller)
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lalblog: http://www.math.brown.edu/~rkenyon/gallery/gallery.html (via Animated Gifs from Delicious) (I will never forgive tumblr for [horrible] gif uploading allowance)
May 20th
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WatchWatch
tristanwalker: i am truly inspired by Jack’s vision. I am completely enamored with his new service Square, too. He chases really big opportunities and makes it seem so easy. Big fan. This video is a must watch.  personally, i’m rooting for square, too.
May 19th
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“Work on good prose has three steps: a musical stage when it is composed, an...”
– Walter Benjamin, One Way Street. (See also: “Post No Bills”)
May 17th
“BP has resisted entreaties from scientists that they be allowed to use...”
– from Scientists Find Giant Plumes of Oil Forming Under the Gulf (NYTimes)
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“I WAS almost going to talk this lecture and not write and read it because all...”
– Gertrude Stein, the introductory lines of What Are Master-Pieces, and Why Are There So Few of Them?
May 14th
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“If you do not remember while you are writing, it may seem confused to others but...”
– Gertrude Stein in Writings (from)
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“In ‘The Valences of History’, the concluding essay of the new book, Jameson...”
– Benjamin Kunkel, from “Into the Big Tent,” his review of Fredric Jameson’s ‘Valences of the Dialectic’
May 6th
“It’s nice to be without genre,” Bjork said in the green room. Then examining an...”
– NYTimes ArtsBeat
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