2011 Year in Review: Best of Design Milk | Design Milk
design-milk.comOk, here they are… the absolute best of the best, crème de la crème, most popular posts of the year. If you read only ONE post on Design Milk, this is it!
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Up-and-coming Taiwanese designers Chay Su and Rika …
DARPA Invests In Megapixel Augmented-Reality Contact Lenses
By Clay Dillow, popsci.comThe augmented reality future we were long ago promised has been slow to come around, perhaps restrained most by the basic biology of our own eyes, which are unable to properly see detailed images placed very near the pupils. But via…
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Researchers turn brain waves from thoughts of words into actual words, in a breakthrough that could benefit comatose and locked-in patients.
Mind-Blowing Installation Makes You Feel Like You’re Walking On A Cloud
By Suzanne LaBarre, fastcodesign.comPictures, nice as they are, don’t do it justice: The feeling you get at Doug Wheeler’s newest work is at once dizzying and delightful.
I waited in line for two hours Saturday to slip on a pair of hospital booties and spend a few minutes,…
The man who hand-draws mathematical fractals - New APPS: Art, Politics, Philosophy, Science
newappsblog.comA year later a mathematician came into the store where JP worked as a sales person. He saw some of JP’s drawings and urged JP to take some college math courses. JP had barely passed his high school math exams. But he went back to school an…
5 Things Men Are Not Allowed To Wear
Chelsea Fagan, thoughtcatalog.comIf you are the kind of man who, on his way out for a night on the town or an afternoon with friends, decides to finish his otherwise respectable outfit of decent jeans and a well-cut shirt with a pair of scuffed New Balances, ugh.
As a wom…
Project to overhaul maths and science teaching
By Nick Collins, Science Correspondent, telegraph.co.ukA panel of leading science and education experts are spearheading a project aimed at overhauling the way science and maths are taught in schools.
A panel led by Sir Martin Taylor, Warden of Merton College, Oxford, is conducting a three-ye…
No One Tell These Rich Kids They’re Wasting $100,000 Trying to Be Indie Rock Stars
Max Read, gawker.comA round of applause, please, for Abner and Harper Willis, two heartbreakingly earnest brothers from Maine, who have done more to help the economy than anyone we know by spending $109,000 at a variety of American businesses, all in a…
Talentless rich kids
If you’re fun, vapid and have low standards, people will want to party with you. But they won’t respect you.
If you have inconsistent, hypocritical or self-centered standards, people will be repulsed by you.
If you have consistently high standards people will be slightly afraid of you, but they will respect you. They might even be drawn toward you. What’s consistent? Years at least.
If you want to be loved and admired, there’s not much you can do. That’s purely subjective and has a lot to do with your personality. Just be authentic 100% of the time. If you have their respect on top of it, then you have a genuine opportunity to lead.
AMOG or tastemaker status. I’m not a groupie in anyone’s world and I don’t expect that in mine either. Just be original, and play fair.
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Why life begins and ends on Earth
By Steve Jones, telegraph.co.ukAdvanced life is unique to our planet - despite Stephen Hawking and SETI’s best hopes, argues Steve Jones.
Stephen Hawking’s 70th birthday reminds us of his celebrated claim that, given the thousands of Earth-like planets outside …
