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• Watch Steven Pinker’s “Language and Thought” talk at TED

  
  { design@tive } information design — Authority: 127
  In an exclusive preview of his book The Stuff of Thought , Steven Pinker looks at language and how it expresses what goes on in our minds — and how the words we choose communicate much more than we realize. Steven Pinker’s books have been like bombs tossed into the eternal nature-versus-nurture debate. ...
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• M.I.T. Considers Increase in Student Body by 300–and Swears It’s Not About Revenue

  
  Great College Advice — Authority: 420
  During rough economic times, it’s hard to get at the reasons college make policy changes. According to Jacques Steinberg in today’s New York Times , M.I.T. is considering an increase in the size of its student body . On its face, this is simply a move to return the campus to the size it was back in the 1980s ...
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• Watch Amy Smith’s “Simple designs that could save millions of childrens’ lives” talk at TED

  
  { design@tive } information design — Authority: 127
  Fumes from indoor cooking fires kill more than 2 million children a year in the developing world. M.I.T. engineer Amy Smith details an exciting but simple solution : a tool for turning farm waste into clean-burning charcoal. Mechanical engineer Amy Smith ’s approach to problem-solving in developing nations is ...
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• Watch David Merrill’s “Natural Interactions with Digital Content” Seminar on People, Computers, and Design at Stanford University

  
  { design@tive } information design — Authority: 127
  The graphical user interface has become the de facto metaphor for most of our diverse activities using computers, yet the desktop environment provides a one size fits all interaction. Tangible and ubiquitous computing research, along with recent consumer products such as the Wii and the iPhone, suggest an ...
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• Meraki Wants to WiFi Your School for Just $8 Per Student, Sort of, Act Now

  
  San Francisco Citizen — Authority: 510
  Oddly-named Meraki  wants to WiFi up your K-12 school with a quickness, so all the kids can watch the Lady Gaga ( coming December 13th, 2009!)  without all those pesky wires about. See? “Meraki , the cloud-based wireless networking company , launched its “Wireless For Schools” program today, offering ...
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• Secret State Monitors Protest, Represses Dissent

  
  War On You: Breaking Alternative News — Authority: 570
  Secret State Monitors Protest, Represses Dissent By Tom Burghardt October 12, 2009 “ Dissident Voice ” — As social networking becomes a dominant feature of daily life, the secret state is increasingly surveilling electronic media for what it euphemistically calls “actionable ...
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