Art Lessons – Dragon
Step-by-step instructions, and Strongbad models some fine art feedback skills as well… And Trogdor comes in the NIIIIIGHT!!!!!
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Big scary circles
From New Scientist: The work, to be published in PloS One, revealed a core of 1318 companies with interlocking ownerships (see image). Each of the 1318 had ties to two or more other companies, and on average they were connected to 20. What’s more, although they represented 20 per cent of global operating revenues, the 1318 […]
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Kutiman, the video remix artist best known for ThruYOU, changes it up a little on this video – he still pulls together disparate strains of YouTube musicianship into something that stands alone as compelling performance, now he adds other global street flavours to capture the visual mood of the day: There’s even a brief cameo […]
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“It’s my business, your business, it’s all business… it’s the business of advertizing.” Via James Fallows. As an aside, UBC is in the process of deciding which US-hosted external email service our students will be using: Microsoft or Google.
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I was unfamiliar with how mycorrhizal networks connect the roots of trees, facilitating the sharing of resources. Dr. Suzanne Simard writes: Graduate student Kevin Beiler has uncovered the extent and architecture of this network through the use of new molecular tools that can distinguish the DNA of one fungal individual from another, or of one […]
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