All posts tagged: IFTTT
Voting paradoxes explained
With almost every election comes a push from some to change the way Americans elect their representatives in government. The problem is, there’s no perfect method of voting. The Exploratorium has produced a video that looks at how different voting methods fail in different ways, including through the spoiler effect, cyclic preferences, and the failure of monoticity. In short, every potential way of voting allows for some irrational outcome to arise out of the […]
Trump supporters are living in a reality shaped by television, says a Harvard professor
Donald Trump’s enduring popularity has surprised just about everyone. And no wonder, argues Harvard political theorist Danielle Allen. Half the nation consistently fails to understand the other half because the US is a nation divided between those who watch the news and those who read it. The conversations on the two different media are starkly different, she says, making it increasingly difficult for those who read news to understand the perspective of those who watch […]
Is Capitalism Compatible With Democracy?
Part 2 of the TED Radio Hour episode Democracy On Trial About Yanis Varoufakis’s TED Talk Yanis Varoufakis proposes a provocative idea: democracy is not compatible with capitalism. He argues corporations have gained too much control and advocates for an “authentic democracy.” About Yanis Varoufakis Yanis Varoufakis teaches economic theory at the University of Athens. He is the former Minister of Finance of Greece. via Education : NPR http://ift.tt/2fm12Ef
Visualizing the U.S. – Mexican border
This is a lovely piece of work. I’ve given my computational photography class an assignment to make an image using only google earth or google maps as their source material. I showed this to them for inspiration. It’s hypnotic and shows in an elegant way the impossible absurdity of a wall. https://theintercept.com/2016/10/18/best-of-luck-with-the-wall/ via FlowingData http://ift.tt/2dZQCe1
Laser Etched Paintings
Laser Etched Paintings by Georgios Cherouvim Interesting. I”ll show these to my computational photography class. We have an upcoming assignment to use the laser cutters to create a photograph on some non-traditional material. More Here via prosthetic knowledge http://ift.tt/2fc7hgY