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Manuela Falcão
Manuela Falcão

Manuela Falcão

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From 10 things you need to learn in design school if you’re tired of wasting your money by Mike Monteiro

Design has as much to do with art as a lobster has to do with a carrot cake.

From Simone de Beauvoir’s Political Philosophy Resonates Today by The Establishment

The existential maxim “existence precedes essence” underpins de Beauvoir’s philosophy. For her, as for Jean-Paul Sartre, we are first thrown into the world and then create our being through our actions. While there are facts of our existence that we can’t choose, such as being born, who our parents were, and our genetic inheritance, we shouldn’t use our biology or history as excuses not to act. The existential goal is to be an agent, to take control over our life, actively transcending the facts of our existence by pursuing self-chosen goals.

From Reflections on leaving the Lab by MIT Media Lab

What altered my journey was the declaration by Media Lab co-founder Nicholas Negroponte: “Bio is the new digital.” I knew absolutely nothing about biology, but I wondered: Is it really appropriate to make these con…

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‘Noroit’ or — ‘Pirates of The Caribbean’ Rivette Style.

Colin Edwards

A new generation of collaboration tools

Caio Braga

O mundo está chato? Ele só está começando a ficar legal.

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