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As the product of the decentralized networked-era culture, [Occupy Wall Street] is less about victory than sustainability. It is not about one-pointedness, but inclusion and groping toward consensus. It is not like a book; it is like the Internet.
– Think Occupy Wall St. is a phase? You don’t get it - CNN.com7 months ago / 0 notes / / Source:
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Is Occupy Wall Street for real? →
Don’t just read the top answer with the photos.
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But luckily we’re not climate scientists.
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“…these kinds of peer-to-peer transactions that are going to do to central currency what Craiglist did to newspapers.”
The rhythm between Rushkoff and his interviewer limps at times — too much speaking before the other is finished. But what a solid ending.
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Playboy Interview: Steven Jobs (1985) →
A gold mine.
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to feel comfortable being wrong before being right; to live in the world as a careful observer, open to different experiences; to play with ideas without prematurely judging oneself or others; to persist through difficulties; and to have a willingness to be misunderstood, sometimes for long periods, despite the conventional wisdom.
– Peter Sims, on Finding Creativity Through Imperfection - NYTimes.com9 months ago / 0 notes / / Source:
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I have repeatedly said that in my opinion the idea of a personal God is a childlike one. You may call me an agnostic, but I do not share the crusading spirit of the professional atheist whose fervor is mostly due to a painful act of liberation from the fetters of religious indoctrination received in youth. I prefer an attitude of humility corresponding to the weakness of our intellectual understanding of nature and of our own being.
– Albert Einstein’s religious views - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia9 months ago / 0 notes / / Source:
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We didn’t build libraries for an already literate citizenry. We built libraries to help citizens become literate. Today we build open data portals not because we have a data or public policy literate citizenry, we build them so that citizens may become literate in data, visualization, coding and public policy.
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THE SOUNDS OF NEURONS TALKING
In 2008, biologist and author Professor Brian Ford localised the sound of neurons communicating with one another.
Cultured brain cells in the lab, when sending an impulse or what’s known as spiking, make a crazy little buzz sound around 40Mhz. Professor Ford took this sound and stretched it out to 20 seconds to hear what is inside the spike. He believes since that nerve cells are the most developed, they do more than just turn on and off, which is what sends or receives signals and where many believe thought to originate from….he believes that the thought is in the nerve cell. Via. Image.
Eerily reminiscent…
