February 2012
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Pioneering British abstract artist finally gets... →
“He is one of the earliest and most accomplished of all British abstract artists, but also one of the least known and most overlooked.
Until last weekend, John Cecil Stephenson had been largely neglected with no public gallery or museum staging any exhibition of his work in almost 40 years – an injustice finally righted by Durham Art Gallery, 47 years after his death.”
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Innovation and the Bell Labs Miracle →
(Bell Labs in New Jersey in 1966. The long hallways encouraged interaction among researchers.)
“In his recent letter to potential shareholders of Facebook, Mark Zuckerberg noted that one of his firm’s mottoes was “move fast and break things.” Bell Labs’ might just as well have been “move deliberately and build things.” This sounds like the quaint pursuit of men who carried around...
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Mies Detroit 365: chrysler = mid-century modern? →
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Today I stumbled on an interesting article about how architecture is used by automakers to sell more than the car.
While I surely am no expert in automotive design, even if I have friends who are, I do agree with this sentiment from the article [emphasis added]:
The value exchange…
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The Carbon Footprint of a Shrimp Cocktail →
“VANCOUVER, CANADA—In many parts of Latin America and Asia, large swaths of coastal mangrove forests have been cut down and turned into shrimp farms. Not only does this deforestation destroy habitat for birds and cause other ecological problems, but it also releases a large amount of the carbon stored in mangrove soil—so much, in fact, that the shrimp end up having a sizable carbon...
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WatchDriver jailed for using bus ‘as weapon’ against cyclist
“A bus driver who used his bus like a “weapon” to knock a cyclist to the ground has been jailed for 17 months, a court official said. Gavin Hill was shown on CCTV in an exchange with cyclist Phillip Mead before he lurched the bus sharply into the cyclist’s path, throwing him from his bike. The incident,...
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