La rosa de los vientos

Ideas propias y ajenas que recojo durante el viaje.

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The internet, women and trolls explained by johnoliver (via https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PuNIwYsz7PI)

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#nowlistening Why SaaS revenue worth more than traditional software sales (via a16z Podcast)

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Why girls do better than boys at school (2:26 audio)

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Sending an email message is like sending a postcard, anyone can see it!

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Minerva: achieving extraordinary

Push education further

More information: Minerva schools

The Atlantic September 2014: 

The Future of College? A brash tech entrepreneur thinks he can reinvent higher education by stripping it down to its essence, eliminating lectures and tenure along with football games, ivy-covered buildings, and research libraries. What if he's right?

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Series of posters created for the love of math, nature, art, and education.

Prints available: http://meganemoore.storenvy.com/

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If only there were one for reticulated splines, the set would be complete!

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Questions, punched cards and math by Randall Munroe @xkcd

Great @TED talk

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The BULLY Project Movement http://www.thebullyprojectmural.com/index.html

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George Harrison Week

Don't miss this! Beck, Norah Jones, Dhani Harrison and Paul Simon playing George's songs.

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In a 1786 letter to a friend, Thomas Jefferson called for “the diffusion of knowledge among the people. No other sure foundation can be devised for the preservation of freedom and happiness.” 1 Jefferson saw clearly what has become increasingly evident since then: the fortunes of a nation rest on the ability of its citizens to understand and use information about the world around them.

Teaching About Evolution and the Nature of Science (Preface)

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“For more wonder, rewild the world” by George Monbiot. Narration from TED talk, watch the full talk, here: http://bit.ly/N3m62h

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Addiction clinic

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I’m back! I have an MFA degree and a sunburn from a wonderful week in Disneyworld, and I am looking forward to all that life offers a bird-crazy illustrator!

I have posted a few of these, but I thought it would make sense to have them all in one post. This is the result of my final project for my MFA—a series of recently extinct birds.  Someday I hope I can make this into a full-fledged (pun unintended) book! It was a great learning experience and I look forward to continuing work on it.

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The Diatonic Phrygian Tetrachord

Now listening to "Spinning on Air: The World's Most-Used Musical Sequence!"

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Ignorance more frequently begets confidence than does knowledge: it is those who know little, and not those who know much, who so positively assert that this or that problem will never be solved by science.

Charles Darwin (February 12, 1809–April 19, 1882) in The Descent of Man

Song: “Charlie Darwin” by The Low Anthem

iTunes :: Amazon :: Back to Brain Pickings

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Radical philosopher, polymath, film star, cult icon, and author of over 30 books, Slavoj Žižek is one of the most controversial and leading contemporary public intellectuals, simultaneously acclaimed as the ‘Elvis of cultural theory’ and denounced as ‘the most dangerous philosopher in the West’. In this special lecture for Intelligence Squared from July 2011, Žižek argues that global capitalism is fast approaching its terminal crisis and that our collective responses to economic Armageddon correspond to the five stages of grief – ideological denial, explosions of anger, attempts at bargaining, followed by depression and finally acceptance of change. Referencing everything from Kafka, the "Hollywood Marxism" of Avatar, the Arab Spring and WikiLeaks, he presents a roadmap for finding a way beyond the madness.

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Uno de los tantos uruguayos que admiro.

"...Dice mi padre que un solo traidor puede con mil valientes; él siente que el pueblo en su inmenso dolor hoy se niega a beber en la fuente clara del honor...."