January 18th
2:13 AM
2:13 AM
November 7th
2:52 AM
2:52 AM
"As if you were on fire from within. The moon lives in the lining of your skin."
— Pablo Neruda (via light-essence)
(via hoodoothatvoodoo)
November 5th
11:27 PM
11:27 PM
Tablets like the iPad will outnumber classroom computers within 5 years, a new survey says.
The survey asked 25 educational technology directors to describe their schools’ current and predicted use of tablets. All 25 were already using the iPad in the classroom. (No Android-based tablets are currently in use.) The deployment of iPads will be so thorough, it has been suggested, that it threatens to make obsolete the practice of lugging around textbooks…
In a recent interview with The Daily, James Peak, an educational consultant for Mindshapes, a London-based developer of educational apps, called the iPad the “single most significant innovation” in the classroom yet, and one that is “literally the best thing you can use” to help students learn more efficiently.
Yup.
(via emergentfutures)
8:19 PM
SHOW & TELL.: Process, process, let's share process.
I asked for and compiled a list of links earlier in the week for the illustration class I teach of different artists I’ve found chatting about their process. I know there’s way more out there that I haven’t remembered, but a few people asked me to share this, so the more the merrier. Get inspired—…
For Liz Newell on her 40th. Don’t forget you’re an artist. Happy birthday love!
8:12 PM
Seed Cathedral
(Image: Daniele Mattioli)
This is a seed cathedral: a 20-metre-tall, £25 million shrine to botany and international diplomacy. It is the British government’s gift to the Shanghai World Expo, which opened in China.
When viewed from the outside, the building – designed by UK architect Thomas Heatherwick – bristles with 60,600 8-metre-long acrylic spikes, which sway when the wind blows. Inside, the tips of the rods display 6000 varieties of seed. During the day, sunlight passes through the tubes, illuminating the seeds inside. “Visitors pass through this tranquil, contemplative space, surrounded by the tens of thousands of points of light illuminating the seeds,” the team behind the pavilion say.
The seeds come from the Kunming Institute of Botany in China – a partner of the Millennium Seed Bank project at Kew Gardens, London.
For Rachel Newell on her 40th
Happy Birthday!
October 17th
4:25 AM
4:25 AM
Operation Diffuse Occupy- it’s real
Here it comes.~ The feds are already beginning their Project “DiFFUSE OCCUPY ” First came news reports about the movement not having a central message. They want the movement to have a specific demand so they launch campaigns to argue it, sidestepping the discontent of the masses. Next will come news about the movement not having “central leadership“. The… feds want central leadership so they can launch multiple campaigns to discredit those people within it, thereby negating all the supporters by raising doubts about the motives of it’s leadership. And then will be news stories about what “real Americans really want. About patriotism, sacrifices and political due process and how dissenters are lawless, always complaining about something and again what a minority they are. It is important for the Occupy movement to remain steadfast to the principles of unspecific unrest, decentralized leadership but rather collective solidarity, and refute the notion to be lawless, but instead remain non violent protest advocate and practitioners.
October 16th
12:29 PM
12:29 PM
Never Forget
tetw:
by Michael Paterniti
In 1975, in Cambodia, there was a regime so evil that it created an antisociety where torture was currency and music, books, and love were abolished. This regime ruled for four years and murdered nearly 2 million of its citizens, a quarter of the population. The perversion was so extreme, the acts so savage, that three decades later, the country still finds itself reeling.
Never forget.
October 15th
10:32 PM
10:32 PM
Climate Adaptation: The Coca-Cola Company Donates Extensive Water Risk Database to Aqueduct
Coca-Cola donates proprietary water data used in manufacturing and bottling to major non-profit. Hopes to collaborate on managing water resources and lower risks to its operations.
“Since the early 2000s, the Coca-Cola Company has undergone a radical evolution in its approach to water. As the…
I like it.
(Source: insights.wri.org, via emergentfutures)
