Great panorama of Crystal Mt. Washington with Rainier in the background.
"Institutions will try to preserve the problem to which they are the solution."
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New York Medical School Widens Nontraditional Path For Admissions : NPR
This is exactly what I was talking about in my TED talk. Creative, outside-the-box thinkers are crucial in redefining healthcare and making it sustainable. We don’t need any more traditional-thinking doctors to maintain the status quo. This makes me think of the Shirky Principle:
“Institutions will try to preserve the problem to which they are the solution.”
We need less institutional types, and more creative doctors.
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Voices of Coal: Jay Julius, Lummi tribal member and fisherman
(Source: vimeo.com)
"In 2010, only 19,390 students in the United States out of some 14 million took the Computer Science Advanced Placement test. This number represents only 0.6% of all AP tests taken that year. This at a time when five of the top ten fastest growing jobs will be in a computer related field and two of the top three top bachelors salaries are in computer science and engineering."
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we must fix this
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This is a big problem, has to be fixed.
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Really cool approach to innovation from a surprising source.
Nordstrom Innovation Lab: Sunglass iPad App Case Study (by Nordstromcom)
I was born in 1946, just when the boomer wave began. Bill Clinton was born that year, too. So was George W. Bush, as was Laura Bush. And Ken Starr (remember him?) And then, the next year, Hillary Rodham was born. And soon Newt Gingrich (known as “Newty” as a boy). And Cher (Every time I begin…
Google rides mobile search growth and retail store rumors to record $800 share price
It may be a symbolic number, but it’s all coming together for the boys in Mountain View
architecture pictures to follow soon this week, i promise.
in the meantime, a map of l.a that shows, pretty clearly, the gigantic-ness (which is a real word, according to me) of los angeles.
http://archinect.com/news/article/18228916/comparison-of-other-major-cities-that-can-fit-inside-la
it perhaps helps to understand l.a in terms of it’s sprawl and it’s size. in some ways l.a would make more sense to the world (and, well, to me) if it were considered more of a county, containing about 100 or 200 smaller cities and towns, than a city proper. but as a city proper it’s fascinating and baffling and odd and utopian and dystopian all in equal measure. which is a big part of why i live here.
moby
