February 2011
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The Great Thinkers
This Jung quote posted by Schmudde has 1199 likes.
January 2011
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Seeing Spots-Atul Gawande follow up on hotspotters →
A follow up from Atul Gawande on his article about reducing medical costs by attending to hotspots, a small group of patients whose care is often the largest percentage of costs. It is an illuminating article and this adds further insight to the whole picture.
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“The competition for a Kindle book isn’t the hardcover. The competition is a game...”
– Compared to what? – the domino project with Seth Godin
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WatchA moment, a canvas and yet it is not static. So simple. Don’t bail out. Be mindful. This one and another are at video painting by Marc Atkinson.
I found Marc through a mention of a moving poem project where they “buried the 16mm film and unearthed it two weeks later”. I just have to follow the link.
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Saturday Morning Cartoons: The Thomas Beale Cipher... →
Two video shorts:
The Thomas Beale Ciper 10 min with innovative animation and hidden clues … Ok, it was like watching animated ETSY shops. 1895 - 29 minutes of whoa, “what the hell was that?”, a lot of chuckles and I loved it.
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“Do not consult your past to create your future. Yesterday ended last night.”
– source unknown via a young thinker and artist
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Lower Costs and Better Care for Neediest Patients... →
We’ve been looking to Washington to find out how health-care reform will happen. But people like these are its real leaders.
An amazing in depth article illuminating the cost reductions resulting from focused intense personal service to those individuals that need it the most. They are most often the hot spots of escalating costs. How are they found? Look at your data.
The data work...
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Leave the libraries alone!
I love the public library service for what it did for me as a child and as a student and as an adult. I love it because its presence in a town or a city reminds us that there are things above profit, things that profit knows nothing about, things that have the power to baffle the greedy ghost of market fundamentalism, things that stand for civic decency and public respect for imagination...
Orion at 3.40 →
3:40. If you’ve looked out on the world at that hour, you have an idea about this flash fiction from Ira Socol.
descent →
Flash fiction from Ira Socol.
The fog rose from the Irish Sea … the senses shift in the night.
Not sure what to make of it all but I love it.
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Remember Googlezon? - John Battelle's Searchblog →
Still a great little video and a fun piece of storytelling.
“Every child has known God,
Not the God of names,
Not the God of don’ts…
But...”
– Hafiz (translated by Daniel Ladinsky)
I AM The Documentary | Official Site
In his latest project, a documentary entitled I AM, Shadyac asks some of today’s most profound thinkers, two questions – What’s wrong with our world, and what can we do about it?
“This is a massive change, but it is neither expensive nor difficult beyond the...”
– Ira Socol from his proposed REMIX of Middle School. (Yeah, he asks what have you go to loose?)
This is an inspiring read from a “designing what works” perspective”. Be sure to read the link on encouraging bullying. It is illuminating.
SpeEdChange: A Middle School that Works via...
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Compassion or Supersillyousness
From the Charter for Compassion
It is also necessary in both public and private life to refrain consistently and empathically from inflicting pain. To act or speak violently out of spite, chauvinism, or self-interest, to impoverish, exploit or deny basic rights to anybody, and to incite hatred by denigrating others—even our enemies—is a denial of our common humanity. We acknowledge that we...
“The intricate linear geometric and symmetrical artworks of the Shepibo Indians,...”
– dataisnature.com » The Generative Song & Sound Pattern Matrixes of the Shipibo Indians
“I’m a gamer, I’m exuberant.”
– Jane McGonigal
Reality Is Broken: Why Games Make Us Better and How They Can Change the World | Brain Pickings
Her TED TALK, which is included in this article, is worth watching.
exuberant : 1. Full of unrestrained enthusiasm or joy.
Suspiracle →
a set from Woolgathersome on Flickr
I love these yet find them somehow disturbing … probably because they are so disorienting.
Florida Farmworkers Win Pay Increase - NYTimes.com →
Workers earn, on average, an estimated $10,000 to $12,000 a year. The new agreement could increase earnings to about $17,000 if new buyers come to the table.
They have been working on this for 15 years! I just read this 09 article on living conditions in Immokalee, Florida where these workers people live.
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“I need a toilet brush and a Japanese pickle-press and something to read.”
– On the Borderland. (Acclimation.)
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In Tibet, An Edible Rebellion/Food for Thinkers at... →
A post from the anonymous, High Peaks Pure Earth … the only place on the internet where you can read what Tibetans and Chinese people within the People’s Republic of China are saying about Tibet
Great post about the food as a tool of national identity and political resistance … eating tsampa and drinking sweet tea.
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Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal
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Torture Without Trace: Songs by Detained Tibetan... →
Drink sweet tea and listen to music.
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rejectamentalist manifesto →
That’s China Mieville. Short, scathing, fun and always politically correct. : )
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Note to SF Writers
A hundred billion years from now, any galaxy that’s not resident in our neighborhood will have been swept away by swelling space for so long that it will be racing from us at faster than the speed of light. … Light emitted by such galaxies will therefore fight a losing battle to traverse the rapidly widening gulf that separates us. The light will never reach Earth and so the galaxies will...
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For Whole-Grain Pancakes, Try a Little... →
Don’t freak out at the first picture … I honestly thought the pine nuts were maggots! I have no idea why I kept reading. Luck I guess … the ideas are great and the recipes look yummy. Cardamom Oatmeal Pancakes (w/apricots and almonds)
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Molecular Visualizations of DNA →
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A Simpler Page ... by design →
An example of manifesting all that is possible … by design. Wow! This article is about content on the digital canvas ” with nuance, balance, and mastery of implementation” for me, the reader. It’s really a wonderful read and education in building, sharing, change and design. Read it. You’re in 21st century!
by Craig Mod at A List Apart. Tag as elegant. thx...
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Hey Walmart, It's Not Enough!
Wal-Mart Plans to Make Its House Brand Healthier - NYTimes.com
Sam Kass, the White House chef who doubles as top adviser on matters of nutrition asks:
… do we think this is a significant step in that direction, and do we think there is a method in place to track progress, and do we think this will have the impact we are pushing for.
No, 25% in 5 years is not enough. Do it now! Reduce...
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“… we face the shameless cynicism of a global order whose agents only...”
– LRB · Slavoj Žižek · Good Manners in the Age of WikiLeaks
So far, the WikiLeaks story has been represented as a struggle between WikiLeaks and the US empire: is the publishing of confidential US state documents an act in support of the freedom of information, of the people’s right to know, or...
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