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In a phone call from the Capitol immediately after the State of the Union address last night, President Obama informs...
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Winter made a face today. A stupid face. So we walked all over it. With our goatness.
Dreamy Vermont at its dreamy best.
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(CBSNewYork / AP) - Samantha Garvey has good reason to be the...
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Nurse Reveals Top 5 Regrets of the Dying
From Arise India Forum:
“For many years I worked in palliative care. My patients were...
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Reinventing Urbanism in a Time of Economic Crisis
Manuel Castells, University Professor and Wallis...
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Is America a Failing State?Paul Higgins: Piece by Umair Haque at HBR - Well worth a critical read
Full Story: HBR
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Visual Dictionary: Teaching computers to recognize objects.
We present a visualization of all the nouns in the English language arranged by...
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Scientists Hack Kinect to Study Glaciers and Asteroids | Wired Science | Wired.com
Last summer, Ken Mankoff shimmied...
New soundtrack audio bite ~ “Ambrosia”. “I come not, Ambrosia for any of the purpose thou hast named” ~ Cervantes
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.@LydiaBreakfast: what do you think of the wait-&-see approach for a new CEO http://t.co/htnCxQjY. I think it’s smart to start w/ patience & w/ a plan/strategy. Too often we dive into new leadership positions w/no real plan, ready to make changes w/o taking time to assess the environment. There is also nothing wrong with enjoying the transition & having a little fun meeting the new team.
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4 Tips For Starting A Farm In Your City [Video] | Fast Company
Consider this paradox: 49 million Americans live with daily food insecurity, 23 million live in urban food deserts, and collectively we’re all getting fatter. Simultaneously vacant lots, concrete grooves, and other desolate, empty spots dot urban landscapes, while a quarter of traditional agricultural land is severely degraded according to the UN.
Enter the urban farm: a fast, smart, cheap way to bring healthy food closer to those who need it, transform ugly vacant spaces into lush gardens, and promote a healthier, greener, more connected urban community.
A recently released video by the American Society of Landscape Architects uses case studies from edible-city innovators, such as Cleveland and Detroit, to offer practical advice for bringing urban farms to your backyard (or corner lot or rooftop). Here are four helpful tips:](http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m481uvQNpl1qzs4rbo1_500.jpg)
4 Tips For Starting A Farm In Your City [Video] | Fast Company
Consider this paradox: 49 million Americans live with daily food insecurity, 23 million live in urban food deserts, and collectively we’re all getting fatter. Simultaneously vacant lots, concrete grooves, and other desolate, empty spots dot urban landscapes, while a quarter of traditional agricultural land is severely degraded according to the UN.
Enter the urban farm: a fast, smart, cheap way to bring healthy food closer to those who need it, transform ugly vacant spaces into lush gardens, and promote a healthier, greener, more connected urban community.
A recently released video by the American Society of Landscape Architects uses case studies from edible-city innovators, such as Cleveland and Detroit, to offer practical advice for bringing urban farms to your backyard (or corner lot or rooftop). Here are four helpful tips:
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“The function of education is to teach one to think intensively & to think critically. Intelligence plus character - that is the goal of true education
~ MLK”
In today already walks tomorrow ~Friedrich von Schiller
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The dons of elite education could batten down the hatches and try to preserve the limited-supply model that has served them well (see: newspapers, record labels, publishing houses). Or, they can choose to embrace the openness and radically democratic accessibility the Internet makes possible.
This morning two of the top universities announced a collaboration that signals they are taking the latter path: MIT and Harvard are each pouring $30 million into a nonprofit partnership edX, which they hope will make the top-notch faculties and courses of their schools available for free to millions of people around the world — free for anyone with an Internet connection. In presenting edX, the initiative’s new president, Anant Agarwal, called the opportunity presented in online education ‘the single biggest change in education since the printing press.’
PORTLAND — I help lead one of America’s cities – Portland, Oregon. It is known for being a well-planned city. It’s not. At least, not as well as we want it to be. And not as well-planned as every American city must be.
When I talk about planning, I’m not just referencing plotting spots on a map where new bikeways will run, or where new business districts will pop up. Instead, I’m talking about how to understand the specific and real human challenges we face, and then how to establish priorities that are shared by community members and government. This is what creates a real playbook to guide future decisions.
“We need plans based less on politics and more on the facts; plans with integrated strategies and a short list of specific measures to provide public accountability for real results. … For example, Portland’s last city plan, developed over 30 years ago, focused on limiting sprawl, urban renewal, light rail (instead of highways), and helping to inspire new business sectors, including clean-tech. As a result, we have lowered total carbon emissions 6 percent while the rest of the U.S. has increased more than 10 percent. And, we’ve done it while growing our population and jobs.”
“From George W. Bain, 1915: Oh! for the day when “each sex will be the equal of the other in the average, each above the other in specialties; when each can see in the other a source of inspiration,” and worthy to have been created in the beginning a “little lower than angels” and in the end to be crowned with glory and honor.”
George W. Bain, “Wit, Humor, Reason, Rhetoric, Prose, Poetry and Story,” 1915
“The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort & convenience, but where he stands at times of challenge & controversy ~ MLK”
