Lara provides what is probably the most perceptive take on my 'walking CV' argument in the book. I should probably be giving Lara some money at this point shortly before (or after? No idea) lying on a couch whilst she nods silently as I ramble on breathlessly... Surely all of us – especially...

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Pearltrees [pearltrees.com] is a new online visualization tool that allows users to organize their favorite content found on the Web as a network graph, which then reveals the connections between the interests of people. Or, in other words, Pearltrees is a somehow alternative visual version of...

[Image: From The Night the Lights Went Out by the staff of the New York Times]. I'm excited to say that I will be leading a research seminar at the Pratt Institute's School of Architecture in the spring of 2010. I've decided to post the general course description here...

Women who thought they were getting a dose of testosterone behaved more aggressively and selfishly--whether or not they'd really been given the hormone. Women who got testosterone and didn't know it were actually more altruistic. The researchers suspect macho testosterone lore created a "license to misbehave" in the women who thought they were under its influence....

[Some amazing links here and some very important points. To be digested, slowly, like ideas passing through all four stomachs of a cow. More anon]. Jason: An online university strikes me as a great idea, although "proletarian" I assume is the idea, not a proposed title. My limited understanding of this is that online universities, although claiming to offer "courses" and "lessons", don't actually do this. They don't have any sort of institutional substance. They are more geared towards acquiring knowledge and skills, rather than a degree. Perhaps I haven't followed the full history of your blog on this topic, and not living or working in the UK means I don't have any real interest in the...

In this week’s roundup of Art21 artist news you’ll read about a forty-million dollar art collection in Las Vegas, a major exhibition of work by Korean and Korean American artists, an installation made of yogurt caps, a massive concrete sculpture in Canada, and more: On December 17, Season 5 artist...

We love a good hoodie. No surprise there. Two out of three of us are zipped into one now.

It's the perfect, throw-on, carefree piece of clothing that works on the weekend, in the office, and even, sometimes, under a coat at night.

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