November 2010
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WatchBuilding A New Culture Of Teaching And Learning by Dr. Tae
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“Often one senses that, if anything, school threatened to extinguish the interest...”
– Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi
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WatchBody Dysmorphic Disorder by Robert Hodgin, aka flight404, is “[m]ade with Cinder and the Kinect sensor. Runs in realtime.” See also Fat Cat.
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“It might be time to dabble in the laissez faire; to let the imagination run to...”
– Katie Roiphe
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Our identities bloom in the margins consisting of...
“Can we, for a moment, flash back to the benign neglect of the 1970s and ’80s? I can remember my parents having parties, wild children running around until dark, catching fireflies. If these children helped themselves to three slices of cake, or ingested the second-hand smoke from cigarettes, or carried cocktails to adults who were ever so slightly slurring their words, they were not...
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Days as an Unschooler
“Even now (I’m twenty-four), people ask me what my days were like, as an unschooler. What did I do? How did I learn? And the truth is—I’m not exactly sure. Because they were almost never the same. There were some textbooks along the way. Maybe two. I was supposed to complete a certain amount of lessons a week from them. I did a lot of them on Fridays, when I remembered. I remember reading...
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The Biosphere's Surveillance System
“Cats are like a witness,” he said. “There are cats everywhere, hiding in the shadows and staring out at you. In my life it seems that every time I do a dodgy thing there has been a cat. If you could see the whole biosphere, cats would be like surveillance.”
— Jonathan Harris
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“The world can only be grasped by action, not by contemplation. The hand is the...”
– Jacob Bronowski
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“Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds.”
– Albert Einstein
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“I think of a hero as someone who understands the degree of responsibility that...”
– Bob Dylan
Watch“Go Bicycle Before It’s Too Late” by Sanitov
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WatchDuring college, I spent a few summers working at my uncle’s print shop. Wings: Making the Field Notes 2010 Fall Edition by Coudal Partners has me smelling the ink and feeling the vibrations all over again.
