Looks like an alternative to CodePen for my webdev lecture…
Thimble is an online code editor that makes it easy to create and publish your own web pages while learning HTML, CSS & JavaScript.
Great do’s and don’ts posters about designing for accessibility (via t3n.de).
The Oatmeal: How to be perfectly unhappy.
Olivia Laing presents an imaginative portrait of the elusive musician Arthur Russell.
Stop deferring to the experts. Economics demands everyone’s attention.
In this excerpt from a lecture at the Royal Society of Arts (RSA), cleverly animated by Cognitive Media, the South Korean-born economist Ha-Joon Chang argues that leaving matters of economics exclusively in the hands of experts risks perpetuating the status quo and all the social ills that go along with it.
Wolves Change Rivers.
How the return of just 66 [wolves rejuvenated Yellowstone]((aeon.co)’s entire ecosystem.
This is where your smartphone battery begins.
Workers, including children, labor in harsh and dangerous conditions to meet the world’s soaring demand for cobalt, a mineral essential to powering electric vehicles, laptops, and smartphones.
_Try to guess what Google will suggest. _
Without tenure, professors become terrified sheep.
When the tenure system is functioning well, it creates intellectually healthy environments that allow professors to challenge automotive and pharmaceutical industry claims, to hold our government and our military accountable, and to be at the vanguard for positive social change.
The desire to fit in is the root of almost all wrongdoing.
Immorality is frequently motivated by a readiness to conform to law and convention in opposition to our own values. In these cases, it’s not that we care too little about others; it’s that we care too much. More specifically, we care too much about how we stack up in the eyes of others.