A genius is the one most like himself
— Thelonius Monk
Planet Pete
Things in my orbit.
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2011-10-19
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2011-10-12
“If I get in there and think about it too much I’ll just muck things up, you know… I really will….My paintings are a lot smarter than I am, that’s for sure.” - Fred Valentine
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2011-09-07
…a pencil sharpener—that highly satisfying, highly philosophical implement that goes ticonderoga-ticonderoga, feeding on the yellow finish and sweet wood, and ends up in a kind of soundlessly spinning ethereal void as we all must.
— Pnin by Nabokov…genius. Happy back-to-school, kids and parents!
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A stunning pic of Saturn eclipsing the sun, from NASA, taken by the Cassini spacecraft.
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2011-09-02
Brazenhead Books is a “secret” bookstore, somewhere on the Upper East Side of NYC. This video is beautiful, and it’s now on the list for my next visit to the city.
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2011-07-14
Lorenzo Duran cuts leaves into intricate images like this tiny forest-scape!
Source: photojojo
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2011-06-06
[Flash 9 is required to listen to audio.]East Harlem - Beirut
(via goodforyourears)
Source: SoundCloud / Revolver USA
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2011-06-03
(via newspaperblackout)
Source: mayannee
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2011-03-21
The internet and education - Khan Academy
Over a year ago I wrote about using the internet to supplement education. Recently a Los Altos public school started piloting the use of internet lectures to supplement two 5th grade math classes. Check out the TED talk from the founder of Khan Academy, which provides pre-recorded lecture content (free to anyone on the site).
In the talk, Khan Academy founder Salman Khan quotes a teacher who says:
“We use your videos to flip the classroom. You’ve already given the lectures. So now what we do is… I assign the [video] lectures for homework, and what used to be homework, I now have the students doing in the classroom.”
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2011-02-22
[Flash 9 is required to listen to audio.]Crazy - Yeasayer / Seal cover
People of my generation: take a listen to this cover of Seal’s “Crazy”, by Yeasayer.
Source: thelastexit
