Berlin design studio Blond and Bieber’s project
that uses algae to create colorful dyes for textile
printing has won a competition for young designers
organized by Lodz Design Festival.
This project has been chosen winner of the Make
Me! competition at Poland. The studio founders, Essi
Johanna Glomb and Rasa Weber created an analogue
textile-printer that produces its own dye using
different types of algae. Various species of micoalgae
are naturally pigmented with blue, green, brown
and red tones. This pigments can be extracted using
heat and distillation, then turned into natural dyes.
The duo built a machine from beech wood to house
all the elements needed to create and print with the
algae dyes. The prints are photo sensitive and change
tone over time when exposed to sunlight, creating a
“biodynamic color palette”.
Source: Blond and Bieber’s Algaemy coloured dyes win Lodz Design Festival
prize. Dezeen Magazine. dezeen.com
Is sitting the new smoking?
From standing desks and fitness trackers to groundbreaking
pilot experiments in high schools in several cities, the movement
to sit less and stand more is gaining momentum. Which is
a good thing, because new evidence suggests that the more than
eight hours the average American spends sitting every day could
be exacting a serious toll.
There’s a big difference between exercising too little and sitting
too much, because a standing body uses energy altogether differently
from a sedentary body —and also from an exercising one.
We burn calories at a different rate, store them in different ways,
and our brains function differently, too. While data is still emerging,
one experiment with high school kids found that standing in
class instead of sitting improved their test scores by 20%.
This Is Your Body On Sitting
The human body consumes energy in three main ways: every
cell needs energy to go about its daily business, whether it’s a
muscle cell that contracts and flexes or a liver cell that produces
enzymes; we also need to break down the food that we eat;
finally, we need energy to move, whether we’re pulling on a shirt
or riding a bike. That latter energy —let’s call it activity energy—
is further divided into the sweat-inducing kind that you use on
the treadmill or in yoga and another kind, which scientists have
cleverly called NEAT: non-exercise activity thermogenesis. This
includes nearly everything you do requiring movement: folding
the laundry, walking up a flight of stairs, even fidgeting.
The human body is designed to move, and a moving body is
a needy body, siphoning off calories to make sure every cell is
doing what it’s supposed to do. But even when we’re not exercising,
we’re moving and using energy. That’s why NEAT matters.
A body that’s sitting isn’t expending energy, so the signals that
normally result in you moving —and which, in turn, burn calories—
start to check out, molecularly bored with not being called
into duty. Meanwhile, the processes that build up fat get busier.
When that happens, it gets harder and harder to get off the chair.
People who sit at their desks most of the time, for example,
only polish off 300 NEAT calories a day compared to, say, a coffee
shop barista who spends most of his or her shift standing —
and burning up to 1,300 extra calories daily.
There’s also intriguing evidence that sitting less may shortcircuit
some bodily processes that lead to diabetes. When we eat
meals, our bodies experience a surge in blood sugar that peaks
about an hour after we eat. If we’re sedentary and relatively immobile,
our muscles and cells aren’t soaking up that glucose to
fuel its daily activities. So all that extra sugar gets turned into
fat. If we take a walk after lunch, however, some of that sugar is
burned off in order to keep us on our feet and propel us forward.
The less sugar that’s left after that activity, the less that gets
turned into fat and contributes to obesity and eventually diabetes.
Becoming a body in motion
Even if you’re wired in some ways to sit, can you become a
stand-up person? Absolutely, says Dr. James Levine, director
of the Mayo Clinic-Arizona State University Obesity Solutions
Initiative and probably best known as the inventor of the first
treadmill desk. Just as sedentary behavior can change the brain
and body to prefer sitting, getting up and becoming more active
will prompt you to want to stay in motion. And that can have
benefits on productivity and possibly creativity as well.
“By simply changing your work style, from a chair-based work
style to a [standing] one, you can burn 500 to 1,000 extra calories
a day,” says Levine. And remember it’s not just the calories that
count, it’s all about health.
Source: Sitting is killing you, by Alice Park. time.com Image: time.com
Prolonged
sitting and standing
is unproductive
Sitting 9.6 hours every day for
months or years, can lead to:
• Back pain
• Lower back pain
• Joint pain
• Swollen legs
• Heart disease
• Colon cancer
• Varicose veins
Keeping the body in an upright
possition over time requires
considerable muscular effort
which causes:
• Muscular strain in the back
and neck
• Joint compression
• Varicose veins
What can you do?
You need to balance. So...
• Check your posture every
20-30 minutes
• Switch between sitting
and standing
• Take breaks
• Stretch
Remember: Standing up 16
times for 2 minutes is healthier
than excercising for 32 minutes
straight.
Source: “Why prolonging sitting and
standing is unproductive” designtaxi.com
Dharma Inc. / Funders and founders.
1 Clear a tickling throat.
Scratch your ear. When the
nerves in the ear are stimulated,
it creates a reflex in the
throat that can cause a muscle
spasm that relieves the tickle.
2 Experience supersonic
hearing.
If you’re chatting
up a mumbler at a cocktail
party, lean in with your right
ear. It’s better than your left at
following the rapid rhythms of
speech. If, on the other hand,
you’re trying to identify that
song playing softly in the elevator,
turn your left ear toward
the sound. The left ear is better
at picking up music tones.
3 Calm yourself with cold water.
Nerves getting the
best of you. Take a deep breath
and spash cold water on your
face. This triggers the mammalian
diving reflex that is
genetically in all animals. The
lower temperature of the water
and you holding your breath
also causes your body to think
it’s diving into cold water.
This reflex allows you to use
oxygen more efficiently.
4 Clear your stuffed nose.
Alternate thrusting your
tongue against the roof of your
mouth, then pressing between
your eyebrows with one finger.
This causes the vomer bone,
which runs through the nasal
passages to the mouth, to rock
back and forth. The motion
loosens congestion; after 20
seconds, you’ll feel your sinuses
start to drain.
5 Prevent acid reflux at
night.
Sleep on your left
side. The esophagus and
stomach connect at an angle.
When you sleep on your right,
the stomach is higher than the
esophagus, allowing food and
stomach acid to slide up your
throat. When you’re on your
left, the stomach is lower than
the esophagus, so gravity’s in
your favor.
6 Cure your toothache.
Just
rub ice on the back of your
hand, on the V-shaped webbed
area between your thumb and
index finger. This technique
reduces toothache pain by as
much as 50 percent compared
with using no ice. The nerve
pathways at the base of that V
stimulate an area of the brain
that blocks pain signals from
the face and hands.
7 Unstitch your side.
If
you’re like most people,
when you run, you exhale as
your right foot hits the ground.
This puts downward pressure
on your liver (that is on your
right side), which then tugs
at the diaphragm and creates
a side stitch. The fix: Exhale
as your left foot strikes the
ground.
8 Thaw your brain freeze.
Press your tongue flat
against the roof of your
mouth, covering as much as
you can. Since the nerves in
the roof of your mouth get
extremely cold, your body
thinks your brain is freezing,
too. In compensating, it overheats,
causing an ice-cream
headache. The more pressure
you apply to the roof of your
mouth, the faster your headache
will subside.
9 Swallow big pills.
Take
a drink of water, and tilt
your head forward instead of
backward. The capsule should
float, and will be at the back of
your throat, ready to swallow.
Spiritual path
Walking a spiritual path
is a way of discovering
and developing oneself and
one’s spirituality. Specifically,
it helps us become aware of
our relationship to everything
around us.
In our journey of
self-discovery, sometimes
we are guided by a teacher
who is also a student of the
path. Walking a path involves
learning what it means to be
of service and being willing to
labour in the pursuit of growth
and learning. This pursuit is
not a self-centred one; it is
never undertaken for the sake
of personal gain.
Spirituality involves acting
consciously and taking
responsibility for our behaviour
and our thoughts, as well as
our relations with others. Both
entail an awareness of the way
in which we lead our lives.
While there are many
different paths of spiritual
growth, they all have one thing
in common, and that is following
a discipline. Some paths
are based upon a religion and
involve worship or prayer.
Others may teach through
such disciplines as meditative
exercises, chanting, physical
movements or postures. Still
others use labour or some
other service as a vehicle for
learning. Many paths combine
all of these elements.
If we walk a path with a particular
goal in mind, spiritual
enlightenment for example, or
knowledge, we will be walking
for the wrong reason. We
should not so much seek to acquire
knowledge, as to become.
Although reaching a specific
end point should not be our
purpose in walking a path, it is
important that we make some
forward progress.
Source: Walking a spiritual path.
www.humanenergy.net
Image: wonderfulengineering.com
Sunpower Generator
Rawlemon believes in producing energy where
people actually live; in our cities. And they will
do this without sacrificing beauty, the transparency
of a window, or a comfortable living environment.
They just finalized a crowd-funding campaign on
Indiegogo, and are now working hard to supply all of
their wonderful backers.
Like all Rawlemon products, the Beta.ray 1.00
outdoor generator features a breakthrough patented
micro dual axis tracking unit for full environmental
integration, with the lowest possible weather impact
that won’t break your budget.
Beta.ray 1.00 (6,000€)
comes with a hybrid collector to convert daily electricity
and thermal energy at the same time. While
reducing the silicon cell area to 25% with the equivalent
power output by using our ultra transmission
Ball Lens point focusing concentrator, it operates
at efficiency levels of nearly 57% in hybrid mode. At
nighttime the Ball Lens can transform into a highpower
lamp to illuminate your location, simply by
using a few LED’s.
The station is designed for off grid
conditions as well as to supplement buildings’ consumption
of electricity and thermal circuits like hot
water. Source: www.rawlemon.com
Adopt a jaguar
Jaguars once lived as far north as the Grand Canyon,
but habitat loss, overhunting and killings in
retaliation for livestock losses drove these big cats
from much of their native range.
Today a small, fragile
population of jaguars is fighting for survival in Mexico,
and occasionally crossing the border and offering
hope for the permanent return of jaguars to the U.S.
Your adoption helps Defenders’ work to ensure jaguar
habitat remains healthy and intact, and provides
vital support for their work with communities and
governments to protect jaguars in the southwestern
U.S. and northern Mexico.
All donations support our work to protect and
restore the wildlife and wild places you care about.
Adopt a Jaguar Group 45 usd a month
Adopt a Jaguar Family 25 usd a month
Adopt a Jaguar 15 usd a month
Named “America’s Best Wildlife Charity” by Reader’s
Digest, Defenders of Wildlife has been a leading
innovator in developing the most effective ways to
conserve imperiled wildlife and wild lands for over 65
years.
Your adoption donation will immediately be put
to use where it is most needed to achieve these goals.
Defenders of Wildlife: secure.defenders.org
Education for all
The Nobel Peace Prize for 2014 was awarded to
Kailash Satyarthi and Malala Yousafzay for their
struggle against the suppression of children and young
people and for the right of all children to education.
Children must go to school and not be financially
exploited. In the poor countries of the world, 60% of
the present population is under 25 years of age. It is a
prerequisite for peaceful global development that the
rights of children and young people be respected. In
conflict-ridden areas in particular, the violation of
children leads to the continuation of violence from
generation to generation.
Showing great personal courage, Kailash Satyarthi,
maintaining Gandhi’s tradition, has headed various
forms of protests and demonstrations, all peaceful,
focusing on the grave exploitation of children for
financial gain. He has also contributed to the development
of important international conventions on
children’s rights.
Despite her youth, Malala Yousafzay has already
fought for several years for the right of girls to education,
and has shown by example that children and
young people, too, can contribute to improving their
own situations. This she has done under the most
dangerous circumstances. Through her heroic struggle
she has become a leading spokesperson for girls’ rights
to education. Source: www.nobelprize.org
Images: N. Elmehed. ©Nobel Media 2014 / Claude Truong-Ngoc
What is IoT, and how does it relate to
machine-to-machine, or M2M?
The Internet of Things is a term
used to describe the next wave of
innovation that our industry is going
through. Traditionally, we have thought
primarily of humans connecting to
the internet, but IoT is really the next
step, where “things” are also connecting
to the internet and to each other.
M2M describes part of IoT, which is
machine-to-machine communication.
What challenges do IoT and the massive
amount of data being generated
by these devices present?
IoT brings a number of challenges:
First, there are infrastructural challenges.
All these devices will have
to be connected, which means the
networks to support them have to be
able to support that new load. Each of
these devices will be producing a lot of
high-volume, low-value data. Some of
these devices will generate very small
pieces of data, but there will be lots of
pieces. The industry will have to cope
with that new volume of big data and
be able to manage it from the devices
up through gateways all the way back
to the enterprise.
Second, once we have that data,
what are we going to do with it? This
opens up a whole new opportunity for
us to continue to drive and to continue
to innovate, providing new applications
and services based on that data.
What opportunities does IoT present
for application developers, and what
should they be thinking about when
designing connected devices?
We have thought primarily of
humans connecting to the internet,
but IoT is really the next step, where
‘things’ are also connecting. The world
is definitely going to change for application
developers. We usually think
of developing applications for humans
and then having the interaction with
those applications coming from their
devices. Now, application developers
are starting to develop code that will
run on very small devices. Then they
will extend their application development
on the server side to be able to
include those devices, which will add
new richness and nearly endless new
possibilities.
Developing on these devices is definitely
a new and different domain for
most application developers. We refer
to these devices as being resource constrained.
They might have a smaller
memory footprint, and they don’t have
a human on the other end that can
click on an option or push a button to
upgrade. A lot of these devices will be
field-deployed in some cases for 10 or
15 years without anyone ever touching
them. All this will push developers to
shift and adapt to this new embedded
development style.
On the server side, these are new
device clients that will have to be
integrated into existing infrastructure, while also integrated with data that
we get from other “things” in order to
create those new applications. Oracle
is evolving and enhancing the Java
platform, which has been used on a
wide range of devices for quite some
time, specifically for IoT. A Java developer
will be able to write code, and it
will run on a very small device all the
way up to a very large device. We are
working to make it as easy as possible
for Java developers to reuse their Java
skills for IoT development.
How do you see IoT, big data, and
cloud converging?
We now have several major developments
happening in our industry:
cloud, big data, social, mobile, and
IoT. It’s going to take a tremendous
amount of orchestration and coordination
across the industry to make
sure we’re able to harness all those
trends at the same time.Take mobility.
With innovation in smartphones and
tablets, we can easily do e-commerce
and connect to our social apps from
these devices. With IoT, mobile device
use is going to expand significantly.
These same devices are becoming the
ultimate remote controls for us to connect
and control the physical environment
around us. For example, with
home automation, I can use my phone
to turn the lights and the alarm system
off and on, to look at energy consumption,
and to manage home entertainment
—whether I’m there or not.
As far as cloud, it becomes an enabling
technology for IoT. For a lot of
organizations, adding devices and the
huge amount of data they generate to
their existing infrastructures or their
back-end systems simply won’t scale,
and they will need to rethink how
those infrastructures are set up. They
will look to cloud service providers to
make that happen for them.
Besides home automation, what are
other emerging markets for IoT?
IoT will affect every business. We’re
seeing early adoption in healthcare,
including lifestyle health devices,
patient monitoring, and home healthcare
or telehealth. Another big area is
telematics —the automotive industry
is already connecting vehicles so that
manufacturers can remotely monitor
and support their vehicles. It is also a
way for them to collect data on vehicles
out there in the real world, which
they then put into further design and
innovation.
Telematics also applies to fleet
management and logistics, managing
things such as delivery vehicles to
make sure they are running efficiently,
and rental car companies, so they can
push in-vehicle service offers or information
to enable you to book a hotel
or dinner reservations from the car.
Industrial automation is another
category, especially in the area of
manufacturing and process automation.
All this technology will enable
companies to pull more data off of machinery
that’s in factories in order to
get a better idea of what’s happening
on the factory floor.
Connect the dots
“I dropped out of Reed College after
the first six months, but then
stayed around as a drop-in for another
18 months or so before I really quit. So
why did I drop out?
It started before I was born. My
biological mother was a young, unwed
college graduate student, and she
decided to put me up for adoption.
She felt very strongly that I should
be adopted by college graduates, so
everything was all set for me to be adopted
at birth by a lawyer and his wife.
Except that when I popped out they
decided at the last minute that they
really wanted a girl. So my parents,
who were on a waiting list, got a call
in the middle of the night asking: “We
have an unexpected baby boy; do you
want him?” They said: “Of course.”
My biological mother later found out
that my mother had never graduated
from college and that my father had
never graduated from high school. She
refused to sign the final adoption papers.
She only relented a few months
later when my parents promised that I
would someday go to college.
And 17 years later I did go to
college. But I naively chose a college
that was almost as expensive as
Stanford, and all of my working-class
parents’ savings were being spent on
my college tuition. After six months,
I couldn’t see the value in it. I had no
idea what I wanted to do with my life
and no idea how college was going to
help me figure it out. And here I was
spending all of the money my parents
had saved their entire life. So I decided
to drop out and trust that it would all
work out OK. It was pretty scary at
the time, but looking back it was one
of the best decisions I ever made. The
minute I dropped out I could stop
taking the required classes that didn’t
interest me, and begin dropping in on
the ones that looked interesting.
It wasn’t all romantic. I didn’t have
a dorm room, so I slept on the floor in
friends’ rooms, I returned coke bottles
for the 5¢ deposits to buy food with,
and I would walk the 7 miles across
town every Sunday night to get one
good meal a week at the Hare Krishna
temple. I loved it. And much of what I
stumbled into by following my curiosity
and intuition turned out to be priceless
later on.
Let me give you one example:
Reed College at that time offered
perhaps the best calligraphy instruction
in the country. Throughout the
campus every poster, every label on
every drawer, was beautifully hand
calligraphed. Because I had dropped
out and didn’t have to take the normal
classes, I decided to take a calligraphy
class to learn how to do this. I learned
about serif and san serif typefaces,
about varying the amount of space
between different letter combinations,
about what makes great typography
great. It was beautiful, historical, artistically
subtle in a way that science can’t
capture, and I found it fascinating.
None of this had even a hope of any
practical application in my life. But ten
years later, when we were designing the
first Macintosh computer, it all came
back to me. And we designed it all into
the Mac. It was the first computer with
beautiful typography. If I had never
dropped in on that single course in
college, the Mac would have never
had multiple typefaces or proportionally
spaced fonts. And since Windows
just copied the Mac, it’s likely that no
personal computer would have them. ...
Of course it was impossible to connect
the dots looking forward when I was in
college. But it was very, very clear looking
backwards ten years later.
Again, you can’t connect the dots
looking forward; you can only connect
them looking backwards. So you have
to trust that the dots will somehow connect
in your future. You have to trust
in something —your gut, destiny, life,
karma, whatever. This approach has
never let me down, and it has made all
the difference in my life.”
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Source: ‘You’ve got to find what you love,’ Jobs says.
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Rise up, sedentary sentients, and
unleash that untapped potential within by marching endlessly towards a brilliant
future of focused work. Step forward into a world of infinite potential, bounded only
by the smooth arcs of a wheel.
Step forward into the Hamster Wheel Standing Desk
that will usher in a new era of unprecedented productivity.
This project is a collaboration
at Pier 9 between artist-in-residence Robb Godshaw and Instructables
developer Will Doenlen. Since you cannot buy this one, you’ll have build it yourself,
after downloading the instructions at www.instructables.com, a place that lets you
explore, document and share your creations.
“Ideas are like fish.
If you want to catch
little fish, you can stay
in the shallow water.
But if you want to
catch the big fish,
you’ve got to go
deeper. Down deep
the fish are more
powerful and more
pure. They’re huge
and abstract. And
they’re very beautiful.”
–David Lynch
Filmmaker
This little lunar
explorer receives power
from your USB
port to illuminate
spaces with
brilliant LED light
after dark. Flip his
visor back and forth to
turn the light on
and off. Long and
flexible adjustable cord.
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Designed by
kawamura-ganjavian, this is the smallest
and most fun member of the Ostrich
Pillow Family! Bringing you quality napping
within arm’s reach.
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1. Learn by helping others.
2. Be around the people
who motivate you and
who have the knowledge
you wish to possess.
3. Believe in yourself.
4. Prioritize what’s
important to you.
5. Challenge yourself.
6. Let the internet be
your best friend
in the process of
learning on your own.
The Bachelor of Education (B.Ed,
BS) program objective is to prepare
highly qualified teachers with the
knowledge, disposition, and skills that
support standards-based education,
student-centered teaching and learning,
and an orientation to social education.
The Bachelor of Education (B.Ed, BS)
program is offered online via distance
learning. After evaluating both academic
record and life experience, AIU
staff working in conjunction with Faculty
and Academic Advisors will assist
students in setting up a custom-made
program, designed on an individual
basis. This flexibility to meet student
needs is seldom found in other distance
learning programs. Our online program
does not require all students to take the
same subjects/courses, use the same
books, or learning materials. Instead,
the online Bachelor of Education (B.Ed,
BS) curriculum is designed individually
by the student and academic advisor.
It specifically addresses strengths and
weaknesses with respect to market opportunities
in the student’s major and
intended field of work. Understanding
that industry and geographic factors
should influence the content of the curriculum
instead of a standardized onefits-
all design is the hallmark of AIU’s
unique approach to adult education.
This philosophy addresses the dynamic
and constantly changing environment
of working professionals by helping
adult students in reaching their professional
and personal goals within the
scope of the degree program.
Important:
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no means is it a complete or required
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Want to learn more about the curriculum
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Technology
Measurement and Evaluation
Classroom Management
Psychology of the Exceptional Child
Curriculum Planning
Reading in the Secondary School
Instructional Leadership
Supervision of Instruction
Research Methods & Procedures
Teaching Strategies
Reading Skills & Comprehension
Issues and Innovations
Communication & Investigation
(Comprehensive Resume)
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Experiential Learning (Autobiography)
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Each Bachelor of Education graduate
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papers either online in the public
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and periodicals worldwide.
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cultural differences. An excellent grasp
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