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"At the end of the 19th century, an amateur meant someone who was motivated by the sheer love of doing something; professional was a rare, pejorative term for grubby money-making."
"Although the politics of China remains communist, the economics might be called Advanced Mercantilist."
Lockhart argues in part essay, part dialogue between Salviati and Simplicio, that math is an art to be discovered, not to be taught by rote.
Kids from the Westman Islands gather at night and rescue birds fooled by the town's lights.
Using GPS and some scripted logic, Mikal Hart built a box that a newly-married couple could only open at one spot on earth.
Features an preview of their album, How to Make Friends.
News to me, he died in January of this year. He was a giant in Chinese language studies, and helped shape some of my understanding when studying Mandarin.
When strangers do make threats against women they generally make a move when the woman is alone, so by definition you cannot have possibly been there to see and know what the woman has had to deal with in the past.
She's turning the presentation into a series on how to get strangers to talk to you in different situations.
A cautious, ecologically minded and technologically savvy planner? Say it ain't so.
[T]he scary thing about [Jack] Gunter's painting is that all of us have seen that development somewhere in the Northwest, be it Snoquamlie Ridge or North Vancouver.
PDX comes out ahead in both results and attitude, she says.
Shot in 1965 for the CBC. Who's up for recreating this in present-day Vancouver?
Gene Becker on how designers will have to do to meet our high expectations.
He crocheted a container with an "oddly-familiar symbol" to diffuse the smell of citrus at bus stops and the Canada Line.
The train leaving Vancouver towards Portland leaves at 6:40 AM and arrives at 2:45 PM.
The revolution, in a way, has consumed the revolutionary. He cannot escape.
Storytelling is one of the oldest ways to communicate, so scenarios can help us understand the future, he says.
Better arts scene, cheaper liquor licenses, later hours conspire to make PDX more fun than YVR, says Christine McLaren.
A 365 days project on Flickr showing a figuring of the Portland Trailblazers star in various settings I love examples like this of people using a prop to experience and document their environment.
