“Learning never exhausts the mind.” ~ Leonardo da Vinci

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The Notebooks of Leonardo da Vinci

Volume I
philosophy, anatomy, human, proportions, medicine, optics, acoustics, botany, geology.

Volume II
flight, flying machines, mathematics, the nature, of water hydraulics,
experiments, inventions

Volume III
precepts of the painter, colour, light & shade, perspective, sculpture
architecture, music jests, fables.

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Sir Ken Robinson: Bring on the learning revolution!

Sir Ken Robinson (born Liverpool, 4 March 1950) is an author, speaker and international advisor on education in the arts to government, non-profits, education and arts bodies. He was Director of The Arts in Schools Project (1985-89), Professor of Arts Education at the University of Warwick (1989 - 2001) and was knighted in 2003 for services to education. Originally from a working class Liverpool family, he now lives in Los Angeles with his wife Marie-Therese and children James and Kate. Continue reading at Wikipedia

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What Is Meaning?

By Scott Soames

The tradition descending from Frege and Russell has typically treated theories of meaning either as theories of meanings or as theories of truth conditions. However, propositions of the classical sort don't exist, and truth conditions can't provide all the information required by a theory of meaning. In this book, one of the world's leading philosophers of language offers a way out of this dilemma.

"In this short book, Scott Soames makes a major contribution to the general theory of meaning. Along the way he provides a beautiful, concise critical account of several previous attempts to formulate such a theory. What Is Meaning? will be required reading for serious researchers in philosophical and linguistic semantics."--Gilbert Harman, Princeton University

To read the entire book description or a sample chapter, please visit: press.princeton.edu

Julian Louie

Photography and photomontage by dS Art Studio. Spring 2010 Fashion Week New York.

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"Don't take life too seriously... no one gets out alive anyway"

- from a bathroom wall at King Street Station, Seattle, WA

Did you know? Interesting Facts about the world and technology

Plato

Good people do not need laws to tell them to act responsibly, while bad people will find a way around the laws.

Plato

Touch Yello

Exemplarily pushing the envelope, Yello manifests optimistic compatibility with past, present, and future.

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"Sell Access & Experiences, Not Media Files".

Media scarcity is dead. In the future my son will have a flash drive that he will pay $29 for that will have the capacity to hold all movies and music ever released by a major label, studio or tv/cable network. It will take 30 seconds to clone the data over the network to a friend who will pay $14.99 for a device with double capacity a year later. How does the media industry survive such a coming disruption? Continue reading ...

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10-inch iPod Touch

Apple Tablet To Redefine Newspapers, Textbooks and Magazines

Everything about reading on the Web is designed to shorten your attention span. Every link promises that whatever you’re currently reading isn’t nearly as interesting as the thing behind the link.

Mark Twain

What gets us into trouble is not what we don't know.
It's what we know for sure that just ain't so.

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Delete: The Virtue of Forgetting in the Digital Age

"A fascinating book. . . . [Mayer-Schönberger] argues that technology has inverted our millennia-old relationship with memory. . . . So what's the solution? Mayer-Schönberger argues that we need to stop creating tools that automatically remember everything. Instead, we need to design them to forget."--Clive Thompson, WIRED Magazine

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Unocosa Warning!

" Act early and prepare and research - never act at end and be desperate "

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Remember Nietzsche

"The historian looks backward. In the end he also believes backward"

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