Education against all odds in Afghanistan – audio slideshow
As they say, education is light.
Every member of society should have knowledge.
Through knowledge we can solve all our problems.(via Toni Greaves/Mercycorps)
by Guardian
"When reached by phone said Wineburg, after a brief pause on the line, “the purpose of education is to create unpleasant experiences in us. … The Latin meaning if education is ‘to go out.’ Education is not about making us feel warm and fuzzy inside.” Wineburg questioned the idea that the New York City Department of Education would want to “shield kids from these types of encounters.” He said the goal of education is to “prepare them,” adding “this is how we dumb down public schools."
by CNN
This manifesto for visual culture from Rencontres d’Arles is a fine addition to these 5 manifestos for the creative life.
by explore-blog
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What’s the line between healthy motivation and unrealistic self-abuse? Pinterest banned harmful “thinspiration” boards last week, but how the site plans to monitor people’s pinboards, or differentiate between the harmful and the innocuous, is still unclear.
“I’m 27, have my head screwed on my shoulders, and yet there is still something about seeing those gorgeous, super-skinny girls dancing around on a beach that makes me want to lose weight,” said [blogger Liz] Morris. “Imagine a 15-year-old who doesn’t know better!”](http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m1k1l8DWNi1qf5y35o1_500.jpg)
What’s the line between healthy motivation and unrealistic self-abuse? Pinterest banned harmful “thinspiration” boards last week, but how the site plans to monitor people’s pinboards, or differentiate between the harmful and the innocuous, is still unclear.
“I’m 27, have my head screwed on my shoulders, and yet there is still something about seeing those gorgeous, super-skinny girls dancing around on a beach that makes me want to lose weight,” said [blogger Liz] Morris. “Imagine a 15-year-old who doesn’t know better!”
by thedaily.com
"According to Miss Representation, the organization that launched the [#NotBuyingIt] hashtag, women make up about half of the Super Bowl’s audience and they’re more likely than men to tune in for the ads, rather than the game. Miss Representation notes that while they wield more household purchasing power than their male partners, 90 percent of women think advertisers don’t understand them. Super Bowl ads do an especially good job of missing the point by acting as though dudes are the only ones watching."
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Twitter Talks Back to Sexist Super Bowl Ads | Mother Jones
This is largely what confuses me about sexist advertising. When you want someone’s money why would you silence or ignore them?
Also read: Ten Lady Innovators Best Buy Could’ve Put in Its Super Bowl Ad
(via meganwest)
by Mother Jones
11 year old Kodu developer received by President Obama at White House Science Fair!
Hannah Wyman, 11, who attends St. Anna’s School in Leominster, Mass., won the grand prize in her age group (9-12) for her video game, “Toxic,” in Microsoft’s first-ever U.S. Kodu Cup. In Hannah’s game, which is now available for free on the Kodu Game Lab site, a player must solve puzzles and collect coins in order to remove soot from trees, zap pollution clouds to clean the air, and convince friends to plant more trees, all in an effort to save the environment.
by fuselabs
Developer Scott Garner has created a still life painting that isn’t so still. The piece utilizes Unity 3D (a game development tool), motion sensors and a basic C application to recreate gravity. So if you tilt the painting, the items in the piece magically tumble over — like it’s right out of the Harry Potter series. (via Interactive Still Life Proves That Code is Art)
"As a woman who writes about technology, I find booth babes insulting, embarrassing and anachronistic… They imply that only men are interested in technology and that women are just the accessories that dangle redundantly from your mobile phone."
– Olivia Solon | It’s time to ditch the booth babes - Wired UK (via courtenaybird)
by wired.co.uk
The Printing Dress by Microsoft Research is an exploration into wearable technology. Read about it here.
