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Mathematics, Food, and Idiocy

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Female sexual submission has never really been shocking. Right now, we are in the middle of a sexual counter-revolution. The backlash is on against even the limited amount of erotic freedom women have won over fifty years of hard campaigning: abortion and birth control are under attack, sexual health clinics are kitted out with bomb detectors and staffed by doctors who come to work wearing bullet-proof vests, and a fully-grown woman is denounced as a slut and a whore by male commentators across America by suggesting as part of a congressional hearing that yes, she may once or twice have had intercourse for pleasure rather than procreation. And until very recently, Rick Santorum, a man who considers contraceptives morally wrong, was a semi-serious contender for leader of the free world.

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With the medieval streets of Jaffa less than a mile away, Tel Aviv doesn’t immediately come across as the next technology hub. However, it has been building successfully on Israel’s status as the “start-up nation” to attract scores of innovative entrepreneurs over the past few years.
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Tel Aviv has come up with a spatial strategy. According to Huldai, “Tel Aviv has developed co-working space as a solution to providing start-ups with shared office facilities they can rent from one month to a year until they are ready to take on their own space. Furthermore, the co-working space provides a synergetic community that is crucial at this stage.”

Developers of Skolkovo — an unbuilt prototype for a new city just outside Moscow — have taken a more radical approach. They envision a full-fledged “innocity” that could become an open-source blueprint for future urban development. The city is expected to house more than 30,000 workers when completed later this decade. The multi-billion dollar project has been heralded as a sea change for Russian urban planning.
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While the government of Tel Aviv has been helping individual start-ups take root in Israel’s established technology industry, Russia is attempting to build such an industry from the ground up. This has prompted a new openness to working with partners from around the world.

polis: A Tale of Two Technology Cities

Two different approaches of using innovative city design to encouraging start-ups. It is my opinion that the design of cities is going to be one of the most important factors in success in the future and more cities should really be thinking about how they could innovate to better support the people and businesses that they want to house.

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I so desperately want this survival kit.

Agency Self Promo 2012


JUST IN CASE ® 
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The perfect gift for friends and clients (only the ones we want to keep).

Modern mexican design for the end of times.

01 — Chocolate Abuelita ® : Dark chocolate laced with cinnamon and covered in sugar. With more than 70 years in the market, this classic delight will make you feel well under any circumstances. 
02 — Doméstica Yellow Notebook ® : A design classic from Monterrey. Tell the story, write like John, draw like el Bosco, or use it to start a fire.
03 — Simple Knife ® : Clean affordable design, a minimal hunting tool for animals or zombies. 
04 — 40 Emergency Black Matches ® : Start a fire, get warm, light your way with style. Black is beautiful.
04 — Xtabentun D’aristi ® : Original Mayan liqueur from Casa D’aristi in Yucatan, one of our favorite brands of 2011. Celebrate like the old times!
05 — Basic Water ® : Drink wisely, survive up to ten days with one liter. 

Enjoy!
Happy 2012 

(Via io9 and behance)