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This week: Compton’s forthcoming art center, a Lebanese artist’s workshops for displaced children, dog sledding in Yukon, the NGA goes viral on TikTok, stop-motion versus AI, and more.

The Fabulous Engineering and Design of Duct Tape

Bill Hammack, aka The Engineer Guy , is an amazing engineering educator and in this video he explains how duct tape is designed to simultaneously do three things well: “a) adhere with light pressure, b) stay in place, yet c) be removable”. Controlling the stickiness of tape is

Post-Digital Digital Glitch Collages

I really love these collages by Anton Elfilter ( Instagram , Threads ). They are digital-ish? But also not? And does anyone else see the influence of Hilma af Klint in these? (via moss & fog ) Tags: Anton Elfilter · art · design

White-collar sweatshops

How did law firms and other professional workplaces become places of such crushing and soulless work? - by Dylan Gottlieb Read on Aeon

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Attention and effort

The door-to-door salesperson had no leverage. If he was at your door, he wasn’t at anyone else’s door. Every minute you spent with him was a minute he had to spend with you. While it was a tough gig, no one doubted that something was motivating this person enough to put at

9 Things a Woman Couldn’t Do in 1971

More than a century after women’s suffrage in the United States, it’s not enough to bone up on the platforms of female primary candidates (though that’s an excellent start). A Twitter user and self-described Old Crone named Robyn urged her fellow Americans to take a good long