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Curiosity and creativity and discovery and wonder; they aren’t traits of youth, they’re traits of learning. If you want to feel younger and you want to replicate the conditions of youth, do that.
Benjamin Salka, CEO of Story Pirates
speaking at CreativeMornings/NewYork (*watch the talk)
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Truth. Richard Feynman, Jonah Lehrer, and Neil deGrasse Tyson would all agree.
Source: explore-blog
Great project at Copenhagen Central Park by Danish-American based architects MLRP. The reflective pavilion was created as part of the new Interactive Playground Project in Copenhagen.
Mirror House by http://www.mlrp.dk/
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We’re at TEDxEast today…
Great chart that unpicks the difference between a “well-organized” conversation and one that is actually well designed. This might seem like a little thing, but I’d go so far as to argue that, as human beings are essentially the most critical element in any innovation initiative, this is precisely an area in which we should all invest much more attention and care. It’s likely the topic will get more attention soon, as my colleague, Chris Ertel is working on abook about designing strategic conversations at this very moment—along with Lisa Kay Solomon, who teaches the MBA in Design Strategy course at California College of Arts. For now, take a look at some of their early findings (and other charts of this ilk) in this piece they wrote for the Design Management Review. Well worth the read.
Source: thoughtyoushouldseethis
I wrote about Crazy and Proud for The New York Times in February, while Lowell Handler was raising money for the project through Kickstarter.
In 1999, Lowell Handler, who has Tourette’s syndrome, began teaching photography to mentally ill women at a city shelter. He has already reached his $3,300 goal and will use all the money he raises by his deadline — Saturday night — to make an e-book of the photographs taken by these women, accompanied by audio interviews he conducted with them.
“I found that these women in these shelters were taking better photographs than the students I taught in colleges,” Mr. Handler said. The students “knew a little about photography, but they knew nothing about life,” he said, adding, “The women knew nothing about photography, but they knew everything about life.”
The e-book was funded, and is now on sale to general public. The first chapter is free on the Crazy and Proud website.
(via kickstarter)
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From our “Exquisite Corpse” event last Friday at the Standard EV, part of the PEN World Voices Festival.
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A new book explains how “social jet lag” is interfering with our internal clocks:
Modern human beings are not much like mimosas. It’s true that both have biological clocks, but only one of us has culture. And culture, delightful as it is, turns out to radically complicate—“fuck up” would not be an overstatement—our relationship to time.
Among species, we humans are to time what Polish villagers have long been to place: unhappy subjects of multiple competing regimes. The first regime is internal time: the schedule established by our bodies. The second is sun time: the schedule established by light and darkness. These two we share with houseplants and virtually every other living being. But we are also governed by a third regime: social time. That sounds benign enough, like afternoon tea with a friend. But don’t be fooled. Social time is the villain in this drama, out to turn you against health, happiness, nature, sanity, even your own inner self.
Source: lgrd.co
