February 2012
55 posts
Want an Open Internet? There's a Blueprint for... →
futurejournalismproject:
Yesterday Jihii wrote about an effort originating in the Reddit community to crowdsource a privacy bill to protect people’s online rights.
Perhaps, then, a trend, because yesterday also saw the launch The Internet Blueprint, an effort by Public Knowledge, a Washington DC-based digital advocacy group, that crowdsources technology bills that members of Congress can then...
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Case Study: Ento, the Art of Eating Insects -... →
An awesome case study.
Are NPR's new ethics guidelines the way for... →
futurejournalismproject:
shortformblog:
With these words, NPR commits itself as an organization to avoid the worst excesses of “he said, she said” journalism. It says to itself that a report characterized by false balance is a false report. It introduces a new and potentially powerful concept of fairness: being “fair to the truth,” which as we know is not always evenly distributed among the...
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Q&A: Hacker Historian George Dyson Sits Down With... →
Such an exceptional interview.
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“Remembering is not the re-excitation of innumerable fixed, lifeless and...”
– Learning to Forget | Wired Science | Wired.com
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WatchLove the visual language and interaction design of this Nooka app.
I think I might entirely replace my clock functions with it.
(via NOOKA APP LAUNCH : Nooka)
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Watch(via The Dark Secret Behind Quirky Romantic Comedies | Cracked.com)
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Evolution, Creationism and Our School System →
Teaching creationism or intelligent design in a science class is like teaching faith healing in a medical college or teaching students how to speak in ‘tongues’ as part of a foreign language class.
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“Today’s belief in ineluctable certainty is the true innovation-killer of our...”
– Innovation Starvation | World Policy Institute
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“When you’re rushing to a solution, your mind will jump to the easiest and...”
– What Happened to Downtime? The Extinction of Deep Thinking & Sacred Space :: Articles :: The 99 Percent
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“If critical periods aren’t quite so firm as people once believed, a world of...”
– Guitar Zero: A Neuroscientist Debunks the Myth of “Music Instinct” | Brain Pickings
Guitar Zero: A Neuroscientist Debunks the Myth of... →
I heart Brainpickings :)
The discipline of making →
bobulate:
The difference between making and meeting:
If you’re rushing to make a train, you have to be there before the last moment. Five seconds too late is too late. The cost of error is absolute. If you’re hurrying to meet a train, though, there’s a soft deadline. Five seconds is no big deal. Thirty seconds might be annoying, particularly for someone returning from a long journey. And five...
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What Scientific Concept Would Improve Everybody's... →
So awesome.
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WatchThe Fantastic Flying Books of Mr. Morris Lessmore (by Moonbot Studios)
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Another Godless Goddess: America's Darwin Problem →
America’s got a Darwin problem — and it matters. According to a 2009 Gallup poll taken on the 200th anniversary of Charles Darwin’s birth, fewer than 40% of Americans are willing to say that they “believe in evolution.” When another study asked if humans had developed from earlier species of…
Powers of 10 - Amazing →
Super mega awesome!
You Will Never Kill Piracy, and Piracy Will Never... →
Too many good things to quote out of this.
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“So there you have it: That’s the best case that can be made against gay...”
– Why the Proponents of a Gay Marriage Ban Will Soon Be Speechless - Slate Magazine
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“Once again, the explanation for this effect returns us to the benefits of not...”
– Why Being Sleepy and Drunk Is Great for Creativity | Wired Science | Wired.com
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MobilityWOD →
All human beings should be able to perform basic maintenance on themselves
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Using Research to Predict Great Teachers →
It’s like Moneyball for teachers.
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“The role of the imagination is to create new meanings and to discover...”
– Iconic designer and legendary curmudgeon Paul Rand on the role of the imagination. (via curiositycounts)
“It’s not ‘content then design’, or ‘content or design’. It’s ‘content and...”
– Structure First. Content Always. | Mark Boulton
Honeywell goes after Nest Learning Thermostat for... →
If you can patent the use of complete sentences while programming something our patent system is fucking broken.
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Watchcuriositycounts:
Filmmaker Temujin Doran, of The Art of Protest and Market Maketh Man fame, on how politicians use historical revisionism as a tool for campaigning.