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  • Is a résumé relevant in the age of online courses and open source projects?

    Is a résumé relevant in the age of online courses and open source projects? Stack Exchange, arstechnica.com This Q&A is part of a biweek­ly series of posts high­light­ing com­mon ques­tions encoun­tered by technophiles and answered by users at Stack Exchange, a free, community-powered net­work of 80+ Q&A sites. davidk01 asks: My resume is no… http://flpbd.it/XbZep…

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  • Yes, Ayn, There Is a Social Instinct

    Yes, Ayn, There Is a Social Instinct | The Crux discovermagazine.com Eric Michael John­son has a mas­ter’s degree in evo­lu­tion­ary anthro­pol­o­gy focus­ing on great ape behav­ioral ecol­o­gy. He is cur­rent­ly a doc­tor­al stu­dent in the his­to­ry of sci­ence at Uni­ver­si­ty of British Colum­bia look­ing at… http://flpbd.it/GVRyf Related articles Ayn Rand is Fiction (evergreeninstitute.wordpress.com) Lawmaker Wants…

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  • Leonardo Ulian’s mandalas meld spirituality and technology

    Leonardo Ulian’s mandalas meld spirituality and technology By Kimber Streams, theverge.com Artist Leonar­do Ulian has cre­at­ed a series of sym­met­ri­cal man­dalas by sol­der­ing togeth­er col­or­ful com­put­er com­po­nents. The result is a beau­ti­ful col­lec­tion of orga­nized cir­cuit­ry, which Ulian says was intend­ed to com­bine t… http://flpbd.it/SuRVn Related articles Mona Lisa in Paris a copy, tests confirm…

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  • Need A Career Role Model? Indiana Jones Is Your Guy

    Need A Career Role Model? Indiana Jones Is Your Guy By Tom Teodorczuk, fastcompany.com What does an archaeologist-slash-action hero out to save the world from maniacal Nazis have to do with battling boring corporate bureaucracy? Everything. Wall Street. Glen­gar­ry Glen Ross. The Man in the Gray Flan­nel Suit.… http://flpbd.it/9rGZB Related articles Charlie Ergen on Dish’s…

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  • Making Visible the Invisible: Meaning, Not Content, Matters in Social Data

    Making Visible the Invisible: Meaning, Not Content, Matters in Social Data Eric Openshaw and Alexander Pentland, Vice Chairman, Deloitte and Founder/Director, MIT Connection Science and Engineering Center, allthingsd.com There is no ques­tion that in today’s con­nect­ed world — where few activ­i­ties go untracked and undig­i­tized — social data is every­where, being gen­er­at­ed by the ter­abyte.…

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  • People and Their Stuff

    People and Their Stuff: Huang Qingjun’s “Family Stuff” and Sannah Kvist’s “All I Own” core77.com The Chi­nese phrase si da jian lit­er­al­ly trans­lates as “four big things,” and in 1950s China, it referred to four objects every fam­i­ly want­ed to own: A sewing machine, a bicy­cle, a wrist­watch and a radio. Over the decades the…

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  • How To Be A Happy And Successful Creative Freelancer

    How To Be A Happy And Successful Creative Freelancer (Or Work With One) fastcocreate.com Freelancers share their best practices for being their own boss, and why you should so totally just do it. When talk­ing to cre­ative free­lancers, there’s one phrase that’s often repeat­ed: “I don’t mean to sound cheesy or cliché but…” What… http://flpbd.it/doJLS…

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  • Would You Recognize Yourself With A Completely Symmetrical Face?

    Would You Recognize Yourself With A Completely Symmetrical Face? By Jordan Kushins, fastcodesign.com Julian Wolkenstein explores a scientific concept of beauty with a unique portrait series. Beau­ty is in the eye of the behold­er. Right? Even though every­one’s charmed by wild­ly dif­fer­ent kinds of phys­i­cal char­ac­ter­is­tics (thank… http://flpbd.it/v6WiS Related articles Non Turing-Recognizable from symmetric difference…

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  • Colossal | A blog about art and visual ingenuity

    Colossal | A blog about art and visual ingenuity. By Christopher on, thisiscolossal.com Accord­ing to the Nation­al Ocean­ic and Atmos­pher­ic Admin­is­tra­tion less than five per­cent of the world’s oceans have been explored, mean­ing that 95% of what lies deep under­wa­ter on Earth has yet to be seen by human eyes. One per­son wh… http://flpbd.it/rkX3u Related…

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  • Why You Need to Discover Your Inner Artisan

    Why You Need to Discover Your Inner Artisan Jessica Stillman, inc.com START IT UP Thought the “artisanal everything” movement was over? Think again. Instead, it’s extending to include a greater variety of workers, argues a handful of experts. Sev­er­al months ago we chart­ed the rise of a new type of… http://flpbd.it/2AsqI Related articles Artisans (studiofotograficoiris.wordpress.com)…

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  • Olympus Announces Two Mirrorless PENs

    Olympus Announces Two Mirrorless PENs And A High-End Compact Charlie Sorrel, cultofmac.com Olym­pus joins the Pho­tok­i­na news bukake-fest with two new PEN cam­eras and a smart com­pact. Olympus is entering Photokina week with three new cameras: the E-PM2 and E-PL5 for its PEN Micro Four Thirds lineup, and the X-Z2 as a flagship comp… http://flpbd.it/Wl1a7…

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  • China’s DIY Culture

    China’s DIY Culture By Clay Dillow, popsci.com Home Depot is closing its last seven big-box stores in China, citing a lack of a DIY ethos among the Chinese. But while sales may be flat, China’s maker culture still thrives. Have YOU ever built yourself a helicopter? Over the week­end, the Wal… http://flpbd.it/LeyW0 Related articles How…

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