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A Shadow Picture Book From Japan
Japanese duo Megumi Kajiwara and Tathuhiko Nijima created an interactive children’s book, Motion Silhouette, that tells its story using shadows and light. You can use your own flashlight to manipulate the imagery. The results are quite stunning. Here are more… Continue reading
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The Bullshit Machine — Medium
Here’s a tiny confession. I’m bored.Yes; I know.Source: medium.com”To be bored isn’t to be indifferent. It is to be fatigued. Because one is exhausted.” Continue reading
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Massive ‘ocean’ discovered towards Earth’s core – environment – 12 June 2014 – New Scientist
A huge expanse of water trapped in a layer of the Earth’s mantle could help explain the origin of our oceansSource: www.newscientist.com Continue reading
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Scientists Are Beginning to Figure Out Why Conservatives Are… Conservative | Blog | BillMoyers.com
Ten years ago, it was wildly controversial to talk about psychological differences between liberals and conservatives. Today, it’s becoming hard not to.Source: billmoyers.com”…All of this matters, of course, because we still operate in politics and in media as if minds… Continue reading
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Wanted: A Future for Philosophy – The Conversation – Blogs – The Chronicle of Higher Education
Something is out of joint: Overworked and underpaid graduate students are taking on major teaching responsibilities, apparently at least in part so that parents can get a discount on tuition, and professors can produce books and articles of dubious societal… Continue reading
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Educational Technology Is Making Achievement Gaps Even Bigger
The local name for the Philadelphia neighborhood of Kensington is “the Badlands,” and with good reason. Pockmarked with empty lots and burned-out row houses, the area has an unemployment rate of 29 percent and a poverty rate of 90 percent.… Continue reading
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Dramatic Stainless Steel Wire Fairies by Robin Wight
Jo FitzpatrickUK sculptor Robin Wight creates dramatic scenes of wind-blown fairies clutching dandelions, clinging to trees, and seemingly suspended in midair, all with densely wrapped forms of stainless steel wire. The artist currently has several pieces on view at the… Continue reading
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American Jails Are Becoming Last-Resort Psychiatric Wards. The Result Is Brutality.
As correctional facilities in the U.S. struggle to address a long-term surge in inmates with mental health issues, a New York Times exposé on the city’s Rikers Island jail demonstrates in brutal and specific detail what happens when corrections officers… Continue reading
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Full Show: Is the Supreme Court Out of Order? | Moyers & Company | BillMoyers.com
Following several high-profile, controversial decisions, Bill speaks to NY Times columnist Linda Greenhouse and Slate’s Dahlia Lithwick about the agenda of the Roberts court.Source: billmoyers.comIt’s hard for anybody looking at the Roberts SCOTUS objectively to come away not thinking that… Continue reading