Design and status
Where impracticality used to be a sign of status, we now associate that status with good design.
Posted June 13, 2013 at 6:39pm
10 Fascinating Data Visualization Projects
People from data scientists to artists are using visuals to relay information. Here are 10 effective examples.
Posted June 13, 2013 at 11:03am
Jony Ive Redesigns Things
Piergiorgio Degli Esposti
Sociologia e Diritto dell’Economia
Sociology and Business Law
Università di Bologna
Strada Maggiore 45
40125 Bologna
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Posted June 13, 2013 at 9:58am
Pioneers Press Book of the Day!
The Urban Homestead: Your Guide to Self-Sufficient Living in the Heart of the City
by Kelly Coyne
The Urban Homestead is the essential handbook for a fast-growing new movement: urbanites are becoming gardeners and farmers. By growing their own food and harnessing natural energy, they are planting seeds for the future of our cities.
(via thisbigcity)
Events like the Oscars and the Super Bowl generate what game theorists call ‘common knowledge, which itself has value… If you thought nobody else was watching, would you really give up your Sunday night for such an event? Perhaps you would, but I would guess you are in the minority. The awareness that others are watching, and that you will be able to communicate with them about what happens, changes the cost-benefit calculus of the potential viewer.
— Read John Cassidy’s economic theory about the Oscars: http://nyr.kr/YwjPua (via newyorker)
(Source: newyorker.com, via newyorker)
