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Contents contributed and discussions participated by Ruth Cuadra

Ruth Cuadra

US Postal Service's official online store is on eBay - 0 views

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    Is this future of quasi-govenment enterprise?
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Le Laboratoire's Ophone Is A Smartphone For The Nose That Knows - 0 views

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    Ophone? Olfactory experiences to be delivered digitally like email or instant messages. Can you smell the sympohony?
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Yellow fever mosquito detected in California - 2 views

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    Here's a possible trend NO one could have imagined. "The nightmare scenarios is it gets established in California and then a mosquito bites someone with an imported case of dengue." 
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California College of the Arts Launches Two New MBA Programs: MBA in Strategic Foresigh... - 1 views

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    MBA in Strategic Foresight is designed to develop leaders who can inspire companies, NGOs, and governments to imagine better futures. Students also learn to manage the processes of creating and implementing new business models and strategies in order to make those futures real.
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Guerrilla Wayfinding: User-Powered Signs Aid Exploration - 2 views

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    What are you missing out on in your own city by sticking to your established routes each day, or driving instead of walking?
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The Next Big Thing: "Sit-able Cities" - 1 views

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    Sit-able places are key, interdisciplinary focal points where the delight of "placemaking" and cultural traditions of "watching the world go by" merge with the sometimes conflicting domains of law and politics, economic development, public safety, gentrification and the homeless.
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Mixed results for de Blasio's housing mandate - 0 views

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    Likely new mayor of NY wants inclusionary zoning to require developers to build affordable housing
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First 3D Movies From a Single Pixel Camera - 0 views

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    Researchers can now track a moving object and create a 3D film of its motion
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2013 Great Places in America - 0 views

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    great places ("you know them when you see them" as we say in our baseline report) are listed in 3 categories: neighborhoods, streets and public places.
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Wearable tech revenue to hit $19B by 2018 - 0 views

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    forecast that worldwide spending on wearable technology will hit $1.4 billion this year. By 2018, that figure will hit $19 billion
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Amaze project aims to take 3D printing 'into metal age' - 0 views

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    interesting to note that the Amaze project will be unveiled at London's Science Museum
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Museums and the Recession - 1 views

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    Some observations about how museums have changed since 2008 and the Great Recession
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The End Of The Library | TechCrunch - 0 views

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    The internet has replaced the importance of libraries as a repository for knowledge. And digital distribution has replaced the role of a library as a central hub for obtaining the containers of such knowledge: books. Will this happen to museums too?
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Project for Public Spaces | Leadership Spotlight: Marisa Novara on Making the Case for ... - 1 views

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    What are the places that draw people together and create a sense of community? They want a way to feel connected to other people in the place that they share.
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A look at cities that are leading the way in urban sustainability - 0 views

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    Not all of these are the usual suspects to be on such a list: Bogota, Melbourne, Copenhagen, Mexico City, Munich, Rio de Janeiro, New York, San Francisco, Singapore, and Tokyo.
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Swapping Parking for Public Space on Irving: Merchants May Have Warmed Up - 0 views

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    owners of businesses that front the small chunk of parking spaces that would be replaced with the bulb-outs might gain as their street becomes more attractive
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The Uncataloged Museum: Take 5 x 2 Years = ? - 0 views

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    Do you have a personal strategic plan?
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Twitter Gets Real in the Form of a Hotel - 0 views

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    Really?  How would you design an exhibition devoted to Twitter?
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The Smart Desk: Exercise While Working « NextNature.net - 0 views

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    Has a touch-screen to control and track movements and can tell exactly how many calories a person burns by standing for part of the working day.
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'Heavy with guilt' may be more than a metaphor - 0 views

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    The increased sense of weight was found to be related to participants' heightened feelings of guilt, and not other negative emotions, such as sadness or disgust.
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