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The Filter Bubble and the Case for Useless Knowledge

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My avid advocation for interdisciplinary studies is very well-know…to my friends. It’s really a problem I’ve personally dealt with and have come up against when deciding what job I want to have. You see, I’m neither right nor left-brained; I’m smack dab in the middle of the Type A and Type B personality; I am [...]

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NordicTrack with Google Maps, but is the run still boring?

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via nordictrack.com I hate treadmills. The name just makes me think of gerbils’ futile efforts. I saw a commercial today for the NordicTrack X7I which let’s you program your run based on a geographical areas terrain using Google Maps. You can even see yourself running around the map – they call it progress, I still [...]

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The iPad: Where are the women on Apple’s branding team? – Feministing

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via feministing.com Ann on Feministing posted this neato picture of Steve Jobs holding up the iPad, which sounds suspiciously like a feminine hygiene product. But the iPad doesn’t come with wings, so boo on Apple for that! Here is the problem with not doing user testing or doing bad user testing: you come out with [...]

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