March 2013
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“One of the great myths of the school system is that we tell people that everyone...”
– Dale J. Stephens, author of Hacking Your Education and founder of UnCollege.org
via NPR
December 2012
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November 2012
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Nine Dangerous Things You Learned In School
We live in an exciting and interesting time — one when some of our most commonly accepted ideas, traditions and principals are being challenged. This past week featured a fascinating read in the Wall Street Journal asking “Are Playgrounds Too Safe?”, making the case that “decades of dumbed-down playgrounds, fueled by fears of litigation, concerns about injury and worrywart...
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Thanksgiving Dinner: History Designed It, And Top...
Long Read via Fast Company Design
Forget what your kindergarten teacher taught you; there’s no such thing as the original Thanksgiving. “It’s a nice myth that was created in 1841,” says Andrew Smith, contributor to The Oxford Encyclopedia of Food and Drink in America, referencing the story we all know so well. “The Puritans—the pilgrims—they’d celebrate days of thanksgiving, but it...
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Makerbot 3D Photo Booth Creates Personal Portraits
Image via Core 77
If you’re in the NYC area, you’re in luck! As PSFK reported, “At the official launch of its NoHo store, Makerbot introduced its own 3D printing photo booth, taking photography beyond digital. While not as detailed as the one we recently profiled in Japan, users will get a monochrome version of their head.
Amazingly, the service costs a total of $25....
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Did Blowing into Nintendo Cartridges Really Help?
Mental Floss article by: Chris Higgins
Excerpt: First up, Vince Clemente, producer of Ecstasy of Order: The Tetris Masters — a documentary about players of the classic NES Tetris. Clemente said, “[Blowing in the cartridge] is actually terrible for the games and makes the contacts rust. You’re really not supposed to do it. But it works. [laughs]” This sums up the problem: although intellectually...
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I Saw The Future Of Advertising And It's Pretty...
by Rob Schwartz, Global Creative President TBWA
Last week I had the distinct privilege of judging the Tomorrow Awards, an advertising award show dedicated to showing the future of communications, today. That’s right, along with my fellow “Monster Judges” from all over the world, we were tasked to scout out and celebrate the best ideas that point the way forward although they have been launched in...
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“Elections belong to the people. It’s their decision. If they decide to...”
– Abraham Lincoln
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October 2012
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Bad Moon Rising: The Science of Werewolves
Petrus Gonzales (1648), the first recorded case of hypertrichosis. Public domain.
The werewolf legend — and shape-shifting in general — is quite possibly as old as civilization itself. How Stuff Works points to “The Epic of Gilgamesh,” one of the oldest written works, as a possible “first mention” source for werewolves. Gilgamesh discovers that the goddess Ishtar — who has amorous designs on...
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“The one thing that doesn’t abide by majority rule is a person’s...”
– Harper Lee, To Kill A Mockingbird
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“Here’s to the corkscrew - a useful key to unlock the storehouse of wit,...”
– W.E.P. French
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?uestlove To Teach Class About Classical Albums
This is the best thing ever (but prepare yourself for a jealousy like no other). NYU has hired The Roots drummer, ?uestlove, to co-teach a course titled “Classic Albums”. He’ll join Grammy winning producer Harry Weinger this spring to teach the course at the Clive Davis Institute for Recorded Music at NYU’s Tisch School of the Art.
The course will include lectures on...
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