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Hace poco me he unido a Snapchat. Ya me llamaba la atención desde hacía un tiempo, pero el impulso definitivo me lo dio Emilio Cano en el episodio #876 Soy un anciano y tú también, donde comentaba sus aventuras con esa red social. Así que me dije, adelante. Llevo ya un poco más de una […] Read More

Diez excelentes consejos de mi amigo Álex Barredo que debes tener en cuenta en el momento de poner en marcha una newsletter. Me gustan, sobre todo, porque son tremendamente prácticos, nacidos de la experiencia. Un ejemplo: Ten voz propia. Si va a leer lo mismo que en un montón de lugares tu lector se va […] Read More

Varios vídeos y una lista de Spotify. Me gusta sobre todo ésta: Segovia’s “mere name,” writes Joseph Stevenson, “was enough to sell out houses worldwide.” A prodigy whose technique was “superior to that which was being taught at the time,” Segovia made his debut at the age of 15. Just a few years later, he […] Read More

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Un corto divertido. Director, animator, and puppeteer Bretislav Pojar explores human fallibility though simple paper cutout shapes in Balablok (1972). A masterful piece of wordless storytelling, the stop motion short film won the Cannes Film Festival's Palme d'Or du court métrage in 1973. From the National Film Board of Canada: Here is an animated replay […] Read More

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Qué chulo: From the National Film Board of Canada and director René Jodoin, this is Notes on a Triangle (1966), a ballet of three hundred geometric transformations, animated into divisions, alignments, and patterns. Waltz music by Maurice Blackburn. Per Enriching Mathematics, "Imagine replacing the triangle with a kite, or a rhombus, or an arrowhead, or..." […] Read More

Lo más raro es descubrir que sabes quién es John Giorno. Por cierto: A Show of Love for John Giorno’s Poetry, Art, and Life […] Read More

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El país en cuestión es Suecia, y desde hace unos días te lo puedes descargar en forma de mapa para Minecraft: Full Sweden as virtual and playable world in Minecraft! It becomes a reality when the National Land Survey releases a landscape model to the popular computer game. The model is based on the maps […] Read More

While cannibalism is not an unknown practice, especially in times of famine, it was never as widespread as shown in these 16th-century atlases. Maps, going back to antiquity, have always been about more than just charting geography; they affirm structures of power, including the control of unseen land, and act as an imperialist tool for reinforcing […] Read More

Qué pinta más estupenda tiene este juego: A board/lever game of marbles and balance, in homage to the Greek mathematician of the same name. Origen: 'Rock Me Archimedes' Marble Balance Game — Tools and Toys […] Read More

Qué monos: Students at Lemmchen elementary school in Mainz, near Frankfurt, Germany perform Kraftwerk’s classic “Die Roboter,” complete with adorable cardboard robot costumes. Origen: ‘We are the Robots’: German elementary school kids do Kraftwerk | Dangerous Minds h/t Xavier […] Read More

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Saben demasiadas cosas. Y vienen a por nosotros […] Read More

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Lo he generalizado: Sometimes writing it wrong is writing it better. Origen: A Glimpse Into the Creative Writing Process | Scott Adams Blog […] Read More

Me encanta: (vía Sunday photoblogging: pinhole self-portrait — Crooked Timber) […] Read More

And then it occurs to me: maybe Twitter — maybe social media more generally — really is a young person's thing after all. Intrinsically, not just accidentally. Origen: Twitter and emotional resilience - Text Patterns - The New Atlantis […] Read More