Word: tooled
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...houses that you do not know to be useful, or believe to be beautiful." Even though the design world has come a long way since Morris' treatises governed the Arts and Crafts movement, his golden rule is as useful today as it was in the 19th century as a tool for singling out great design. In this special supplement to TIME, we endeavor to identify what we call the Design 100, the people and ideas behind today's most influential design. Or, more specifically, the designers and impresarios who are creating useful and beautiful products, furniture, objects, buildings, houses, fabrics...
...referendum, accessible at uc.fas.harvard.edu, will gauge student sentiment on a new version of the academic calendar endorsed by the UC earlier this month. A successful referendum would represent an advocacy tool for Petersen, who is urging Harvard’s governing boards to change the calendar...
...It’s so much more personal than that,” Ferguson says. In their presentations, Ferguson and Kroiter gave the animation students a chance to try their hands at the innovative medium. While students tended to keep their drawings simple, the accessibility and intrigue of the tool were demonstrated in spades. Upon trying it himself, this reporter couldn’t help but be reminded of the Nintendo Wii—using a wand in space to accomplish things on screen. “The Wii uses different technology,” Kroiter explains...
...will be interesting to see just how exercised the Democrats and the media get over that revelation. It confirms the widespread impression in Washington that the Federalist society has become more important as a tool for career advancement among Republican lawyers than as a forum for discussing and strengthening the conservative legal agenda. And it is tangible proof that Gonzales' team was giving weight to political and ideological purity as they assessed which U.S. attorneys they planned to retain or fire...
...serious learning disability to the mere flick of a neural switch and because, by doing so, it holds out a tantalizing possibility that one day a cure may be as simple as flicking that switch in reverse. Cohen Kadosh hopes the result will allow scientists to develop a diagnostic tool for dyscalculia based on neuroimaging. Identifying children with developmental dyscalculia would let parents intervene earlier to teach important math concepts, just as they can intervene today to help dyslexic children read better...