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After Catenary pointed out a quote from Kennedy, I got curious and found the snippet of his first major campaign speech on March 18, 1968. The original post in AlterNet.org “Robert F. Kennedy Challenges Gross Domestic Product” contains a small video illustrating his words: Too much and too long, we seem to have surrendered community [...] Via the BLDGBLOG I’m learning that the Liverpool Biennial is running an international exhibition entitled MADE UP, celebrating the power of artistic imagination. As part of its catalog Geoff Manaugh wrote an essay on the notion of made-up cities, challenging the assumption that everyone who lives in a city knows what it is [...] When I posted the living city back in January I had only read a journalistic interpretation from the original research. Thanks to Allison Pinto for pointing me to the original paper: Growth, innovation, scaling, and the pace of life in cities. While the notion of cities having a certain metabolism [...] Via The Human Rights Action Center a very visual and abridged version of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, soon to be 60 years old. Bringing the world together through its diversity With the ultimate objective of documenting all the cultures of the world in a collection of documentaries, the project Cultures on Film states its mission as: Diffuse hatred and prejudice through documentary films that expose viewers to unrealized elements of cultures from every country in order to encourage each other [...] Last week the Nobel Foundation awarded the Nobel Prize in Economic Sciences to Paul Krugman for his analysis of trade patterns and location of economic activity. A good summary of his work can be found in the post About the work in The New York Times. In his own words the [...] Via Joi Ito’s blog: The Creative Commons people produced the video “A Shared Culture” which aside of being a great introduction to the idea behind the organization makes some great quotes such as What does it mean to be human if we don’t have a shared culture and what does a shared culture mean if you [...] |
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