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Educate Girls and Change the World

Girl Rising — a new documentary from Oscar nominated filmmaker Richard E. Robbins — consists of nine different girl’s stories of how education factored into her life circumstances.

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Parking Meter History

The history of the parking meter — originally designed to have a positive affect on traffic flow and shopping.

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SVA/BBC Design Film Festival

Overview of the second annual SVA/BBC Design Film Festival.

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Envisioning Design: Education, Culture, Practice

The Department of Art at the University of Northern Iowa is hosting a symposium April 26-27 called Envisioning Design: Education, Culture, Practice.

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Flickr Collection of the Week: Signs of Pittsburgh

Bright cursive hope and rust-covered despair, sigils of titans and corner store shingles, the quick and the decaying done for, encomiums to vanished glory and the name of an immortal beer-and-a-shot bar.

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Atrocity Prevention Challenge

USAID, Humanity United and OpenIDEO have partnered to pursue ways to prevent mass atrocities – that is, deliberate mass violence against civilians.

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Drunk Texts from Famous Authors

Drunk Texts from Famous Authors by Jessie Gaynor

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Surf Movie Classics

A collection of 250 classic surf movie posters.

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Movie Title Stills Collection

A roundup of movie related things for a dreary Wednsday.

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The Me Bird

The Me Bird: Brazilian Design Studio, 18bis, Reinterprets Neruda Poem

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Call for Student Submissions

:output is the biggest international competition for students in design and architecture.

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The Covers of Time

90 years of the cover of Time in 120 seconds.