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The lost culture of New Island is 43,500 years old (above).
Flaunt: Designing effective, compelling and memorable portfolios of creative work. Buy the book or PDF.
The doormat, the jerk and the lizard brain.
Livid Instruments’ new Builder is a line of DIY parts that make it easy [...]

The United States spends more on medical care per person than any country, yet life expectancy is shorter than in most other developed nations and many developing ones (above).
Robert Henke, aka Monolake shares his custom Max for Live devices.
How to dispose of old electronics in a responsible way.
Top 7 Best Green iPhone Apps.
Ira Glass on [...]

A.V. Club interviews John Crowley on the occassion of the 25th-anniversary of Little Big (above)

We are all mutants say scientists.
Books to read now, from Seed magazine.
Forget design thinking and try hybrid thinking.
Human Centered Design Toolkit from IDEO.
Spirograph, spirographs, spirography.
Get your Philip K. Dick collection boxed set from The Library of America and save $30.
Researchers have [...]

We Are The Friction (above) is a book of illustration and short fiction created by 12 pairs of international writers and illustrators
Hiroshima: The Lost Photographs
A short manifesto on the future of attention.
The mystery of Times New Roma.
Finalists for the 2009 James Dyson Award.
Lessons from slime mold: how to survive and thrive in ever-changing organizational environments.
Top [...]

Sp #1 (above): soot on plexiglass by Daniel Adam Turner
We love (and wish we could afford) Aether’s jackets.
Design Ignites Change promotes and encourages talented high school and college students across the country to use design thinking and innovation to create messages for, and solutions to, pressing social problems.
Complete Yale courses now on iTunes U.
Eros, a [...]

The State: The Complete Series (above) is finally available on DVD (affiliate link).
Consumers get paid to reduce their emissions.
The fifth edition of The Oblique Strategies by Brian Eno and Peter Schmidt is now available.
Michael Bay as Generative Art: Explosion Action Painting with oF.
An essay against Situationism.
Open Atrium is a customizable, open-source team portal.
Music Made from [...]

Get yer grub on with these Aluminum Snack Boxes (above) from SIGG.
Malcolm Gladwell reviews Free by Chris Anderson.
No Lifeguard On Duty is the name of this beautiful photographic series of abandoned swimming pools by J Bennett Fitts.
The Feast Conference gathers the world’s greatest innovators from across industries and society to empower, inspire and engage each [...]

Hayo Miyazaki’s Ponyo (above), a story inspired by Hans Christian Andersen’s fairy tale ‘The Little Mermaid.’ (video)
Futurespeak: Shane Hope’s keywords defined.
Gary Hamel on managing Generation Y.
The evidence is growing that privately owned, consumer-driven, small-scale, geographically distributed renewables could deliver a 100% green-energy future faster and cheaper than big power projects alone.
The Sears Tower is going [...]