TED-Ed animated lesson explores the basic unit of math. Also see how Fibonacci changed the world with the invention of arithmetic.
05/22 2012
05/22 2012
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05/22 2012
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04/09 2012
What space looks like to kids – a selection of winning artwork from the Space Foundation Student Art Contest. One has to wonder, what are we robbing kids of as we confront the grim future of space exploration?
04/09 2012
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04/07 2012
All The News That’s Fit To Post – how the graphics department of The New York Times design’s the world’s most respected newspaper, a teaser for Gestalten’s Visual Storytelling.
04/07 2012
Minds of Modern Mathematics – wonderful free iPad app on the history of math from IBM Research, inspired by IBM’s seminal exhibit at the 1964 World’s Fair, Mathematica: A World of Numbers…and Beyond.
Also see Errol Morris’s short film about the IBM math and engineering pioneers of the same era, who “caught the way the world works,” with original music by Philip Glass.
04/07 2012
So you know, why old books smell. Also see this new research on why old paper turns yellow.
Then again, old-book smell is part of the joy of books.
04/07 2012
1. Good design is innovative
2. Good design makes a product useful
3. Good design is aesthetic
4. Good design helps us to understand a product
5. Good design is unobtrusive
6. Good design is honest
7. Good design is durable
8. Good design is consequent to the last detail
9. Good design is concerned with the environment
10. Good design is as little design as possible
Dieter Rams’ timeless principles of good design. (via explore-blog)
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