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nycdigital:

Very exciting: Over 27 prestigious institutions in the running to lead NYC’s next engineering school.

nycedc:

In December, Mayor Bloomberg issued a challenge to help diversify the City’s economy and boost the growing technology sector by developing a new applied science and engineering research campus in New York City. This week, we formally received 18 proposals from 27 academic institutions around the world to develop the new applied sciences campus.

The institutions that submitted the responses are:

• Åbo Akadmi University, Finland
• Amity University, India
• Carnegie Mellon University with Steiner Studios
• Cornell University
• Columbia University and the City University of New York
• The Cooper Union
• École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, Switzerland
• Indian Institute of Technology Bombay, India
• Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology, Korea
• New York University, Carnegie Mellon, the City University of New York, the University of Toronto, and IBM
• The New York Genome Center, with Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Columbia University Medical Center, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, Mount Sinai School of Medicine, New York University, Rockefeller University, and the Jackson Laboratory
• Purdue University
• Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
• Stanford University
• The Stevens Institute of Technology
• Technion-Israel Institute of Technology, Israel
• The University of Chicago
• The University of Warwick, United Kingdom

Governor’s Island, one of the possible sites for the new applied sciences campus.

vimeoawards:

In an effort to make it easier for more of you to attend the first annual Vimeo Festival, we have reduced the price of a Festival pass to $120. For students, it’s just $90.

We slashed the price because first and foremost we want to make sure you can be there. This Festival is about gathering…

cameronmoll:

This morning I tweeted about a lack of inspiration and having to trudge through it. In response, @brainhofj tweeted about the following:

This handwritten letter is by Austin Madison, Pixar animator of Rex, the green dinosaur in the Toy Story series (among other characters he’s…

laliberty:

ilyagerner:

• Original article above.
• my response
• Chain w/ laliberty and moorewr comments
• laliberty’s riposte, portions of which are quoted below. LALiberty:

And while the United States’ so-called “Free Banking era” was undoubtedly less restricted than what we have today, it was still heavily manipulated by the state and hardly representative of true free banking as it is promoted today.

This is reminiscent of Western Marxist apologetics. The Soviet Union wasn’t really communist, you see. It was a statist abomination. If only Bukharin did this, and Trostky did that, and Lenin did the other thing, then we would have had genuine communism. How dare the imperialist running dogs judge our pristine utopia by the example of the USSR, Cuba, North Korea, et al.

…

Just because big government Whigs called something “free banking” 150 years ago does not mean it is anything like the “free banking” I support today - any more than what people who called themselves “liberal” 100 years ago believed has to do with what people who call themselves “liberal” believe today. It is not simply something that wasn’t “implemented properly” (especially since numerous times my metric -as you quote later - was in showing improvement through decreasing levels of involvement). Such fallacious assertions tell me all I need to know about the seriousness of our conversation - and that you likely skimmed over the heft of the post that explains the ways in which “free banking” was something counter to its namesake.

There are genuine disagreements about banking and monetary policy, to be sure. In addition to my Keynesian college classes, Milton Friedman was an early influence in my understanding of economics, so I once held a central bank as a given in a functional society. A free market in currency is not without its [minor] risks, though I maintain that those risks are better responded to and contained - and thus minimized - when control is dispersed among all individuals making mutually beneficial exchanges as opposed to being concentrated in a coterie of politicians and plutocrats. But since your responses now seem to amount to scoring points with those perhaps too lazy to read my responses (as evidenced in that you are directing your post to your followers and not to me), I’m afraid we’ll just have to agree to disagree. Personally, I don’t know how you can disagree with incontestable historical evidence and sound logical conclusions, but there’s no point in continuing this circuitous debate when the case I’ve already presented appears ignored in favor of an ostensibly related but false narrative that implies intellectual hollowness on my part. 

cnnmoneytech:

Hide yo whereabouts! Apple’s watching you.

OK, maybe that’s a bit dramatic. But the privacy debate is back after a couple of security researchers found what they call “a scary amount of detail on our movements” being recorded on the iPhone.

According to researchers Alasdair Allan and Pete…

Well, maybe not nothing. Nothing is a little extreme. But is it possible to own close to the nothing? I hope to have the answer to that question soon. Inspired by a a book or two, I’ve decided to try to see if I can rid my life of most of the clutter. The goal? Condense my life into 2 bags and 2…

iknowhatiknow:

1. Beauty or Beast: It’s basically All-or-Nothing Thinking. You think about your appearances in extremes.

2. Unfair-to-Compare: Perfectionism. You place your appearance on some unrealistic or extreme standard. It’s like an obsession with a fantasy. When you don’t meet these…

realvillagevoice:

At exactly 4pm this afternoon, a creaking of chairs could be heard across the 3rd floor of 36 Cooper Square, and then an eerie silence as over 50 union employees and sympathizers walked off the job at the Village Voice, as a sign of dissatisfaction over the lack of…