WIKIREUSE : JULIA CHRISTENSEN. WIKIREUSE is a 2007 commission of New Radio and Performing Arts, Inc., (aka Ether-Ore) for its Turbulence web site. It was made possible with funding from the Jerome Foundation. As superstores abandon buildings in order to move into bigger stores, what will become of the walls that they leave behind? It is within the answer to this question that we are seeing the resourcefulness and creativity of communities across the United States, as they struggle to deal with a challenge that is emerging all over the country: the empty big box store.
Through travel, the study of community, and exploration of the urban landscape, Julia Christensen has been researching the way people build their towns amongst the increasing presence of corporate real estate, creating the context for their own lives. Julia Christensen began investigating how communities are reusing the big box in the winter of 2002. Her book, Big Box Reuse, will be published by MIT Press in November of 2008.
IDV User Experience. Library of Congress Picks 88 Unobjectionable Books that "Shaped America" The Library of Congress, established by President John Adams, has announced its list of "88 Books that Shaped America," determining that two-thirds of America's cultural history took place in only the last 112 years. That at least is the evidence from the publication dates, just 27 of which are from before the twentieth century. Only 20 predate the Civil War. Suck on that, Francis Hopkinson, Susanna Rowson and Charles Brockden Brown! Phyllis Wheatley, you did your people great honor, but you just didn't shape America. All those people were big sellers.
Hopkinson signed the Declaration of Independence. These lists are more or less designed to rub you the wrong way, so I have two big beefs. There are some interesting choices. There's a pronounced split between "shaping" and literary value. If we are talking about shaping America, where's Leon Uris' Exodus, which ignited popular support for Israel while spending years on the bestseller list? Anyway, here's the full list: Full Spectrum Reading List: 7 Great Books by TED 2012 Speakers. By Maria Popova Anatomy of introversion, inside the brain’s optimism bias, and a blueprint for doomsday from PC Guy.
TED time is once again upon us, with this year’s conference, themed Full Spectrum, a mere week away. In preparation, and true to the Brain Pickings pre-TED tradition, here are seven exceptional books by some of this year’s TED speakers, spanning everything from psychology to children’s books to satire — a full spectrum, indeed. (Catch up on reading lists from years past: TEDGlobal 2010, TED 2011 Part 1 and Part 2, TEDGlobal 2011 Part 1 and Part 2.) The question of what makes us happy is likely as old as human cognition itself and has occupied the minds of philosophers, prophets, and scientists for millennia. Underpinning the narrative is a fascinating and dimensional lens on the constant interplay of reason and emotion, intuition and rationality. Human rationality depends critically on sophisticated emotionality. Share on Tumblr. Air France 447, the FedEx hijacking, and other amazing stories about airplanes and airplane crashes.
KAREN BLEIER/AFP/GettyImages. Every weekend, Longform shares a collection of great stories from its archive with Slate. For daily picks of new and classic nonfiction, check out Longform or follow @longform on Twitter. Have an iPad? Download Longform’s brand-new app. Long articles about airplanes, like long articles about cruise ships, tend toward the tragic. Nobody writes about a flight gone smoothly. William Langewiesche • Vanity Fair • January 2009 There were so many ways the two planes could have avoided the collision. “The same bewilderment afflicted others within earshot of the impact.
Jeanne Marie Laskas • GQ • Mar 2008 Life as an air-traffic controller at LaGuardia: “Controllers here, as in a lot of towers, still use ’strips.’ Jeff Wise • Popular Mechanics • December 2011 The transcript of a disaster: "Human judgments, of course, are never made in a vacuum. "Here is a synopsis of what occurred during the course of the doomed airliner's final few minutes S.C. " ’I’m gonna kill you!’ India. Hackintosh. Interesting Books on the Brain & Mind. 40 Awesome Infographic Designs which Helping Analysts. HISTORY DIRECTORY. Graphs Infographics. Documents in Law, History and Diplomacy.
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Ethnicity, race and religion[edit] Antisemitic conspiracy theories[edit] Antisemitism has, from the Middle Ages, frequently taken on characteristics of conspiracy theory. Antisemitic canards continue to circulate. In the second half of the 19th century conspiracists claimed that Jews and/or Freemasons were plotting to establish control over the world. Samuel A. List of country subdivisions by GDP over 100 billion US dollars.
This is a list of first-level country subdivisions which have a nominal Gross domestic product in excess of US$ 100 billion. Those subdivisions which are the largest in their respective countries are shown in bold. Note: the use of nominal GDP and currency conversion in this list makes inter-area comparison difficult List[edit] See also[edit] References[edit] 10 Search Engines to Explore the Invisible Web. Not everything on the web will show up in a list of search results on Google or Bing; there are lots of places that their web crawlers cannot access. To explore the invisible web, you need to use specialist search engines.
Here are our top 12 services to perform a deep internet search. What Is the Invisible Web? Before we begin, let's establish what does the term "invisible web" refer to? Simply, it's a catch-all term for online content that will not appear in search results or web directories. There are no official data available, but most experts agree that the invisible web is several times larger than the visible web. The content on the invisible web can be roughly divided into the deep web and the dark web. The Deep Web The deep web made up of content that typically needs some form of accreditation to access.
If you have the correct details, you can access the content through a regular web browser. The Dark Web The dark web is a sub-section of the deep web. 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10. Zombie Wiki - Zombies, Undead, Survival Guide. Wookieepedia, the Star Wars Wiki. Drugs use map of the world | News. Elemental | Wired Science. Books. Udacity - 21st Century University. World Internet Usage Statistics News and World Population Stats. Critical & Creative Education. Math websites. NASA. Mars. Philosophy. Learning languages. Infographs. Visual Thinking. Practical mapping. Bionics. Understanding the Brain. R- geo examples. HIT - Health Informatics.
Emergencies. Visualizing Economics. 12 Dozen Places To Educate Yourself Online For Free - StumbleUpon. 8 Things Everybody Ought to Know About Concentrating - StumbleUpon. “Music helps me concentrate,” Mike said to me glancing briefly over his shoulder. Mike was in his room writing a paper for his U.S. History class. On his desk next to his computer sat crunched Red Bulls, empty Gatorade bottles, some extra pocket change and scattered pieces of paper.
In the pocket of his sweat pants rested a blaring iPod with a chord that dangled near the floor, almost touching against his Adidas sandals. Mike made a shift about every thirty seconds between all of the above. Do you know a person like this? The Science Behind Concentration In the above account, Mike’s obviously stuck in a routine that many of us may have found ourselves in, yet in the moment we feel it’s almost an impossible routine to get out of. When we constantly multitask to get things done, we’re not multitasking, we’re rapidly shifting our attention. Phase 1: Blood Rush Alert When Mike decides to start writing his History essay, blood rushes to his anterior prefrontal cortex. Phase 2: Find and Execute. 100 Amazing How-To Sites to Teach Yourself Anything | Rated Colleges - StumbleUpon.
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Technology Math S.O.S. Science Creativity. 9 Tactics for Rapid Learning (That Most People Have Never Heard Of) &... - StumbleUpon. Whenever the subject of why some people learn faster comes up, I get a whole host of common answers: Some people are just naturally smart. (Often implying you can’t improve)Everyone is “smart” in their own way. (Nonsense, research indicates different “intelligences” often correlate)IQ is all in the genes.
(Except IQ changes with age and IQ tests can be studied for, like any other test) There may be some truth to these claims. Considering the upcoming launch of my rapid learning program, I wanted to share my favorite tactics to learn faster, retain information better or just enjoy the process of learning more: #1 – Pegging (or How Mental Magicians can Perfectly Recall Hundreds of Numbers) One of my favorite learning tactics, that is rarely mentioned, is pegging. The systems I’ve seen typically work with a special cheat sheet.
From there, you can translate any series of numbers into a series of letters. Here’s a quick way to separate the rapid learners from the average learners. Life Hacks: Institute of Hacking. Visualizing Economics.