School for Hackers
Mark Frauenfelder, the co-founder of Boing Boing, shares his vision of hands-on education after attending a DIY festival in Detroit
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Monday, September 20, 2010
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Mark Frauenfelder, the co-founder of Boing Boing, shares his vision of hands-on education after attending a DIY festival in Detroit
The New Republic
How can Martin Peretz, head of The New Republic, get away with saying "Muslim life is cheap"? It's simple: he's got the white, Ivy League elite on his side.
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Don't believe it? Look at who's lining up behind a ballot initiate in California and working with the World Wildlife Fund
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It's fine for some Baby Boomers to talk about taxing their inheritance to pay down the debt—but that's all we've had for the last 30 years: talk
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The 50 essential works of technological art and literature from history you need to know, from H.G. Wells to "The Anarchist Cookbook" and beyond
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The history of corporate marketing and the obesity epidemic make changing the name of the infamous ingredient a crime
A journalist is welcomed to Sudan with an AK-47 and six hours of tense government questioning in an unmarked and unlisted "ghost house"
Jonathan Franzen's juvenile prose creates a world in which nothing important can ever happen
In 2003, Congress voted for temporary cuts. Now with the deficit at $1.3 trillion, we want to make them permanent?
With the rise of more sophisticated writing and darker themes, what can we expect from the genre?
Forget Obama's approval rating or the unemployment rate and focus on conservative turnout
Number 1: They're not characters. They're archetypes. Get over it.
When critics of the Recovery Act say it didn't work, they don't explain what the job even is: filling a crater left by the recession
Truly understanding the Civil War requires you imagining life as a slaveholder—especially if you are black
What the Boomers owe America, a Doonesbury retrospective, autism's first child, Joe Biden's unexpected career, and more
