December 2010
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WatchWatch
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Tom Wujec: Build a tower, build a team.
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Garbage Island →
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Brilliance.
Daniel Tammet is a writer, linguist and educator. A 2007 poll of 4,000 Britons named him as one of the world’s “100 living geniuses”. He is the creator of ‘Optimnem’, a website company that has provided language learning instruction to thousands around the globe. His 2006 memoir ‘Born On A Blue Day’ describing his life with high-functioning autistic...
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Powerful Imperfections →
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Superman in class →
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Chained Melody
designlanguage: I had been playing with alternative (and possibly inaccessible) ways to visualize music notation, and came up with this. Theoretically, someone could play the melody from this single line if they knew the first note, though reading the subtle differences in radius would be a challenge. I may experiment with other songs in the future, but here is one for the holidays:
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black | daché: Love You Six Ways →
blackdache: Eros is romantic, passionate, love—what Tennov labeled limerence. In this type of relationship, love is life’s most important thing. Lee said a search for physical beauty or an ideal type also typifies this type of love. Ludus is a game-playing or uncommitted love. Lying is part of the game. A…
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Why Social Closeness Matters →
pk11: There is considerable evidence that social species develop mechanisms to aid in identifying and evaluating kin, in-group members, and individuals otherwise relevant to one’s survival. Considering social cognition from this perspective, neural mechanisms may have evolved for distinguishing personally significant social information
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Friendships that make you grow as a person. →
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