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Maria Popova
Creator and Author, “Brain Pickings”
Maria Popova is a reader and a writer, and writes about what she reads on Brain Pickings (brainpickings.org), which is included in the Library of Congress archive of culturally valuable materials. She has also written for The New York Times, Wired UK, and The Atlantic, among others, and is an MIT Fellow. She is on Twitter @brainpicker.
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Wind turbines are more likely to prompt an association with the Northern California hills, where wind farms grace the vast landscape with their unseemly efficiency, than with the hustle-and-bustle of […]
Apple carved its way as a formidable innovator in everything from UI design to the app economy. Now, they’re taking the lead on materials innovation. The company recently acquired an […]
Some time ago, we featured Denver’s B-Cycle bikesharing program. Today, we are looking at an innovative twist on the traditional bikesharing model. SoBi, The Social Bicycle System, is a minimalist […]
What makes your city the next big smart city? That’s exactly what Next American City, a nonprofit quarterly magazine advocating for urban sustainability, is asking in a new partnership with […]
Over the past couple of years, pop-up spaces have populated the entire spectrum of trendiness and utility, manifesting as anything from retail hotspots to smart emergency shelter. Their conceptual origin […]
Over the past few weeks, we’ve beenmentioning the James Dyson Award, effectively the world’s most prestigious student-design competition. Yesterday, the winner of the award’s U.S. round was announced: The Copenhagen […]
Who hasn’t suffered the frustrations of moving large boxes, ungrippable, awkward and back-bending? Move-It, a simple kit of self-adhesive cardboard parts by designer David Graham, offers a potent antidote by […]