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For Your Reading & Viewing Pleasure

The Future of Free Speech, Trolls, Anonymity and Fake News Online  - Pew Research Center

How State Archivists Are Taking on Avalanches of Email Data - StateTech

Kansas: Bill Would Put State Library Under Legislature’s Control  - Lawrence Journal-World

NASA Unveils New Searchable Video, Audio and Imagery Library for the Public- PR Newswire

A New Facebook Feature Can Connect You with Your Representatives - Mental Floss

On the Accidental Origins of Beloved Books - Literary Hub

Studies in the News – a weekly compilation of policy-tested articles and reports compiled by the California Research Bureau

Sunnyvale Public Library — What a Library Does in the Heart of Silicon Valley - TechSoup for Libraries

This Little-Known Math Genius Helped America Reach the Stars - Smithsonian

Women’s March memorabilia preserved as history in Sutro Library - Golden Gate Xpress

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Why hasn't diversity in STEM improved since 2001? #stem

Media Labs hosted the No Permission, No Apology conference in which Megan Smith, MIT grad and United States’ Chief Technology Officer, spoke about diversity in STEM.  Smith's speech focused on the unconscious bias within the industry and how the next generation of diverse graduates can create change within the industry.

Unfortunately the 250 attendees (made up of mostly women) have an uphill battle.  According to "recent research by Change the Equation, a coalition of Fortune 500 firms, and the 2016 US News/Raytheon STEM Index", the field of STEM today is as diverse as it was 15 years ago.  Like Smith alluded too, unconscious bias plays a heavy role in STEM's diversity problem.  People hire who they know, and most white males know other white males.

Still the upsides are there.  With recent initiatives geared towards improving diversity in the STEM fields, the Media Labs conference is another great opportunity to expand the pool of qualified applicants.  “I was very inspired to hear about the work that other women have done in the past."  Aliyah Smith, a UMBC sophomore majoring in mechanical engineering, said after hearing Megan Smith speech.  "It’s always good to remember that women have not all of a sudden become interested in technology; we just haven’t been acknowledged.”

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David Rose, visiting scientist at the MIT Media Lab, talks about "enchanted objects" and the future of new gadgets. #Cubeit

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50 ADVICE FROM WIM WENDERS TO ASPIRING FILMMAKERS

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Charles Bae, A former UCSD student, worked on this skate film shot in San Francisco.  He says, "frame rates were all over the place. the slow slow stuff was at around 300fps but most of the slow motion stuff was around 90-120fps."   

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Well done steadicam 12 minute long sequence (albeit it's to showcase a fashion line).  

One continuous take, no cuts. Music by Ryan Hope and Alex Jones (AlbionSound).

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Skateboard tricks at 1,000 frames per second shot with a Redlake high speed camera.

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So tonight at Storycode – a periodic transmedia & storytelling meetup – I was excited to hear Pete Higgin and Colin Nightingale from Punchdrunk talk about the development of Sleep No More in its current incarnation and their approach to storytelling.