So I'm using my own writings as a kind of testing ground for a book that has an interdependency between word and image as a kind of seductive force.

Liza Donnelly Drawing on humor for change

So, a good sort of contrast is Chicken McNuggets.

Participation of the very poor and of the young is highlighted as a challenge.

But if you look at creative practice as a form of research, or art as a form of R D for humanity, then how could a cyber illusionist like myself share his research?

Should we view it, you know, as original intent, like a sort of a Scalia version of the Bible?

They look upon their body as a form of transport for their heads, don't they?

In digital marketing, white papers are often referred to as a form of content marketing.

So human history is viewed as sort of this downhill slide from the good old days.

And it's also become a very, very valuable sort of advertising revenue for J J as well.

First, within each video, the Brat Pack characters are used as a kind of template for performing the social reality of each group.

JS One remix is about individuals using our shared culture as a kind of language to communicate something to an audience.

It evokes the container metaphor of communication, in which we conceive of ideas as objects, sentences as containers, and communication as a kind of sending.

In the twentieth century, the superpowers supported insurgency and counterinsurgency as a type of proxy conflict.

They are full of love and life. Forced for decades to wear headscarves or face arrest, thousands of Iranian women are now taking a chance on the internet and sharing photos of themselves unveiled and in public as an act of defiance.

(Descartes describes the difference between imagination as a sort of vision, or image, and intellect as conceptualizing things by symbolic manipulation.

And sort of measure the impact. Stuff like this are things I made, just to sort of understand what these things are.

I went from desk dwelling computer nerd to the kind of guy who bikes to work for fun.

They're paintings I made and put a PalmPilot in the middle as a kind of display that's sort of thinking, I'm abstract art. What am I? I'm abstract.

It is also our signature act as a species, the one thing we do that no other creature does.

So the same space that appears to be a kind of closed volume, when seen from the other side becomes a kind of open vista.

But when you make those associations, you want them to come together in a kind of synergy in the story, and what you're finding is what matters. The meaning.

I come to also look at this as this fear that we have as men, this fear that just has us paralyzed, holding us hostage to this man box.

It is as simple as that. In today's Netherlands, assertiveness is seen as a good thing, modesty as a form of self chastisement.

There has been a continued increase in the costly build up of precautionary reserves as a form of self insurance against volatility in international capital flows.

I see traditional music like a kind of rebellion, in which people can really speak their voice, especially traditional songs from other parts of the former Yugoslav Republic.

On street corners everywhere, people are looking at their cell phones, and it's easy to dismiss this as some sort of bad trend in human culture.

It is thought that in the early days of its existence as a species, the California condor lived off the carcasses of the megafauna , which are now extinct in North America.

I began to be fascinated by plastic, so I spent four months making eight plastic blocks perfectly optically transparent, as a kind of release of stress.

It's got these jewel like light organs on its belly that it uses for a type of camouflage that obliterates its shadow, so when it's swimming around and there's a predator looking up from below, it makes itself disappear.

That is disturbing because the main Millennium Development Goal halving extreme poverty by 2015 is only a minimalist Goal, a kind of damage control.

And then at night the idea is that it would be used as kind of a rave situation, where the people could cut loose, and the music and the lights, and everything.

Just one eye, looking at you, and eliminating everything else about a face, but just to consider gaze in an isolated way as a kind of, as an element.

So, what I like to say, you know, this being sort of Bay Area, Silicon Valley is that we think of McDonald's as sort of the Microsoft of the dining experiences.

They all have their breakfast and complain about everyone right there. And it's a great experience, and I really encourage you to drop in at that diner during that time, because that's quite essential American experience.

And here, the first thing you can see is that this building, the roof is a very warm kind of overcoat blanket, a kind of insulating garden, which is also about the celebration of public space.

So in some sense we want this to feel like an amplifier for the player's imagination, so that with a very small number of clicks a player can create something that they didn't really think was possible before.

Individual chimpanzees are much stronger than human beings, but as a species, we can, and do, hold them captive, and essentially helpless, in zoos and laboratories.

Adult stem cells are throughout our body, including the blood forming stem cells in our bone marrow, which we've been using as a form of stem cell therapy for over 40 years.

There is a court case between us in the Syrian courts which I had hoped I would drop after the fall of the Assad regime as a form of forgiveness, as I believe that is part of the solution for Syria to become peaceful again.

Reaction time tests involve little thinking, and merely ask people to respond as fast as they can to simple stimuli.

Guideline Daily Amounts (GDAs) are a nutrition facts label that originally began in 1998 as a collaboration between the UK government, the food industry and consumer organizations.

It's 350 people on the committee for Oklahoma City, which is why we thought of this as a sort of ad hoc, spontaneous solution that expanded on Union Square and the places that were ad hoc memorials in the city already.

Or you can view it as an evolutionary psychology kind of thing did our genes invent this as a kind of trick to get us to behave in certain ways? The ant's brain, parasitized, to make us behave in certain ways so that our genes would propagate?

Streets of Afghanistan, a life size photo exhibition by Afghan and Western photographers organized by the non profit organization Mountain2Mountain now plans to bring the exhibit to Kabul as public street art.