April Joyner |
Assorted, bite-size musings on entrepreneurship, entertainment, education, race, social justice, life, etc. |
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Notes"While war is always the easiest solution to anybody’s funding problem, you don’t want war to be the modern day driver of space….So going forward, the economic argument is a strong one, but it’s not a simple ‘A goes to B.’ It’s not ‘We need more innovation, so let’s fund innovation companies.’"Neil deGrasse Tyson, on the rationale for supporting NASA
Funnily enough, I hear the last line of this quote a lot in relation to encouraging startups. There might be some lessons here for the entrepreneurial community. For more on this topic, check out this Q&A I did with Eugene Fitzgerald of MIT on innovation, back in December 2010.(Source: The Atlantic)
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Images from The Unthinkable Mind’s Ebony “Frontal Lobe” Flowers’ final project which was an illustrated collection of short autobiographical...
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Buying Tumblr is a big enough deal for Yahoo that they...
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Independent learning suggests ideas such as “self-taught,” or “autodidact.” These imply that independence means working solo. But that’s just not...
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Backtracking is our recurring look back at the pop music that shaped our lives....
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Google Glass apps: everything you can do right now
We test every Google Glass app so you don’t have to
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“The 24 Most Melodramatic Pieces Of Yahoo/Tumblr Fanart” should be enough to make you question if you’re really that angry about this buyout,...
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Yahoo Meeting Minutes - 05.20.13 by Lee Crutchley | Quoteskine on Flickr.
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Tumblr. + Yahoo! = !!
I’m delighted to announce that we’ve reached an agreement to acquire Tumblr!
We promise not to screw it up. Tumblr...
