schematic thoughts, projects, objects and ideas for any given day

11th October 2011

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Oh, I was looking for the light saber… BBC News - Real-life Jedi: Pushing the limits of mind control http://t.co/tWa8H3aD

10th October 2011

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RT @TheNewDeal: We Don’t Want Welfare, We Want Jobs. We Don’t Hate Business, We Want Fairness. We Don’t Want Handouts, We Want Justice. #OWS

5th October 2011

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“Joggey the what now?” O jogo do pau chega aos comics. O execuntante é o vilão Dr. Aesop (via reddit)

“Joggey the what now?” O jogo do pau chega aos comics. O execuntante é o vilão Dr. Aesop (via reddit)

2nd October 2011

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Video: Uma versão fascinante de uma das músicas populares mais emblemáticas das Beiras - Senhora do Almurtão http://t.co/B8zQAcpW

1st October 2011

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Uma versão fascinante de uma das músicas populares mais emblemáticas das Beiras - Senhora do Almurtão

Tagged: música popularyoutubevideo

12th September 2011

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John Landis’ Burke and Hare has a couple of great shots of Dr. Knox’s anatomy theatre.

John LandisBurke and Hare has a couple of great shots of Dr. Knox’s anatomy theatre.

Tagged: anatomy

3rd September 2011

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Tagged: skeletonanatomyanatomical plateAndreas Vesalius16th century

Source: codex99.com

30th August 2011

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From the commentary section: it is quite similar to political debates. It is interesting the conversation turns to G_d so quickly - why did that happen?

AI vs. AI. Two chatbots talking to each other (by CornellCCSL)

Source: youtube.com

16th August 2011

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Why Bother with Marshall McLuhan? » The New Atlantis →

In these circumstances, with so many ways to go wrong, I am tempted to suggest that McLuhan now be ignored — to argue that his greatest long-term value has been his ability to provoke people who are, if not simply smarter than he was, then more patient, methodical, and scholarly. McLuhan’s attempts to account for the general landscape of media are fragmentary and inconsistent; those of his friend Neil Postman, who in following McLuhan’s example virtually created the field of “media ecology,” are far superior in evidential detail and conceptual clarity. McLuhan’s interest in literary modernism, and especially in Joyce and Pound, yielded a few memorable apothegms; but his student and friend Hugh Kenner, inspired and directed by him, produced major, field-transforming work on both writers. McLuhan’s thoughts about oral and literate cultures, dependent largely on his reading of a few scholars of ancient oral poetry, lack historical grounding and intellectual rigor; but another of his students, Walter Ong, would make a great scholarly career specifying the lineaments of that historical transformation. The work of each of those scholars is far superior to anything that McLuhan ever wrote.

16th August 2011

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“The Anatomy of Influence”: Six Questions for Harold Bloom—By Scott Horton (Harper's Magazine) →

If we are a democracy, what are we to make of the palpable elements of plutocracy, oligarchy, and mounting theocracy that rule our state?

— From The Anatomy of Influence: Literature as a Way of Life.

22nd June 2011

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Niké!

It is in the compelling zest of high adventure and of victory, and in creative action, that man finds his supreme joys.
- Antoine De Saint-Exupery

Niké!

It is in the compelling zest of high adventure and of victory, and in creative action, that man finds his supreme joys.

- Antoine De Saint-Exupery

Tagged: victoryartcreation

9th June 2011

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Now THIS is shock and awe!
fadedandblurred:

The eruption of the Puyehue volcano in the Andes mountains of southern Chile last weekend provided some spectacular images of the force of nature.
[via The Big Picture]

Now THIS is shock and awe!

fadedandblurred:

The eruption of the Puyehue volcano in the Andes mountains of southern Chile last weekend provided some spectacular images of the force of nature.

[via The Big Picture]


Source: fadedandblurred

8th June 2011

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RT @Society: Unnatural Selection: Choosing Boys Over Girls, and the Consequences of a World Full of Men - by Mara Hvistendahl. http://am …

8th June 2011

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8th June 2011

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It Takes a Global Village: Distributed Cognition and the Digital-Age Classroom - the abstract

(The abstract of the paper I presented two weeks ago at the McLuhan Galaxy Conference in Barcelona)

By applying McLuhan’s “Global Village” and “Collective

Unconscious” metaphors to computer-mediated communication and online

social applications, this paper analyses some of the challenges and opportunities

of teaching “digital natives” in connected classrooms, in order to illustrate

changes brought to higher education by the distribution of cognition by

computers and digital networks. Discussing the relevance of generational

determinism for this debate, my argument will focus on the restructuring of

communication and information flows, from the standpoint of the effects of

information availability and literacy. I argue that the concept of “distributed

cognition” can enlighten the new practices brought to higher education

classrooms by the generalized use of information and communication

technologies.

Tagged: digital nativesMcLuhandistributed cognitionglobal villagedigital collective unconscious