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The name says it all
“Poetry is when you make new things familiar and familiar things new.” Which isn’t a bad definition of what our job is, to help people appreciate what is unfamiliar, but also to gain a greater appreciation, and place a far higher value on those things which are already existing.
Traveling Through Time and Stars
A slideshow of astronomical images from SEED magazine, one of the few physical publications I’d consider actually consider a subscription to.
Democratizing Innovation »
When I say that innovation is being democratized, I mean that users of products and services—both firms and individual consumers—are increasingly able to innovate for themselves. User-centered innovation processes offer great advantages over the manufacturer-centric innovation development systems that have been the mainstay of commerce for hundreds of years. Users that innovate can develop exactly what they want, rather than relying on manufacturers to act as their (often very imperfect) agents. Moreover, individual users do not have to develop everything they need on their own: they can benefit from innovations developed and freely shared by others.
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Hip-Hop INF
PAULO:
• Pearls For Swine - The Kilimanjaro Darkjazz Ensemble
• All Things To All Men - Cinematic Orchestra (Feat. Roots Manuva)
• Baggage For Sale - Shuanise
• Young Heartache - Bullion
• El Diciembre de este Julio - Tonossepia
• Deux Three - Mike Slott
• It Started As a Remix - 1000 names
• FWD - Nosaj Thing
• Electric Bird - Yoggy One
• Babel Fish - Tiago
• Polkadot Blues - Hudson Mohawke
• Workinonit - J Dilla
• Darkest Light - Lafayette Afro Rock Band
DR.STRANGELOOP:
• 0:0-0:37 Milieu - Universe Inside You
• 0:37-1:20 Shlohmo - Couch (sl underwater mix)
• 1:20-1:50 Steve Reich - Different Trains, After the War (sl history’s history mix)
• 1:50-2:45 Sigur Ros - Refur (sl Tak Sigur Ros mix)
• 2:45-4:10 Nest - This is What I Get (sl broken conscience mix)
• 4:10-4:20 Particle Kid / Strangeloop - really tiny bridge
• 4:20-5:40 Seven Saturdays - Early Morning Fog Bank
• 5:40-6:25 Nest - Jumpy Geetar Slide (nostalgia mix)
• 6:25-10:15 Ben Olsen / Strangeloop / Shlohmo - Asa Nisi Masa
• 10:15-11:31 Flashbulb - Miles and Miles
• 11:31-12:57 Strangeloop - Love All Day
• 12:57-16:20 Nest - Travers Geetar Gallop
• 16:20-20:17 Múm / Sjorn - She Introduces Herself
• 20:17-21:30 Strangeloop - Something New Everyday
• 21:30-23:20 Austin Peralta / Strangeloop - Endless Planets (transition 4)
• 23:20-30:00 Flying Lotus - Ambient Practice 11.18.08
The neuroscience of mindfulness »
You can experience the world through your narrative circuitry, which will be useful for planning, goal setting, and strategizing. You can also experience the world more directly, which enables more sensory information to be perceived. Experiencing the world through the direct experience network allows you to get closer to the reality of any event. You perceive more information about events occurring around you, as well as more accurate information about these events. Noticing more real-time information makes you more flexible in how you respond to the world. You also become less imprisoned by the past, your habits, expectations or assumptions, and more able to respond to events as they unfold.
An Epidemic of Fear: How Panicked Parents Skipping Shots Endangers Us All »
The rejection of hard-won knowledge is by no means a new phenomenon. In 1905, French mathematician and scientist Henri Poincaré said that the willingness to embrace pseudo-science flourished because people “know how cruel the truth often is, and we wonder whether illusion is not more consoling.” Decades later, the astronomer Carl Sagan reached a similar conclusion: Science loses ground to pseudo-science because the latter seems to offer more comfort. “A great many of these belief systems address real human needs that are not being met by our society,” Sagan wrote of certain Americans’ embrace of reincarnation, channeling, and extraterrestrials. “There are unsatisfied medical needs, spiritual needs, and needs for communion with the rest of the human community.”
Looking back over human history, rationality has been the anomaly. Being rational takes work, education, and a sober determination to avoid making hasty inferences, even when they appear to make perfect sense. Much like infectious diseases themselves — beaten back by decades of effort to vaccinate the populace — the irrational lingers just below the surface, waiting for us to let down our guard.
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