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Sleep Suit - Forrest Jessee

forrestjessee.com/Sleep-Suit
The Sleep Suit attempts to challenge the idea of personal space in relationship to the human body and its surrounding environment. The project is inspired by Buckminster Fuller’s practice of Dymaxion sleeping, which involves taking four thirty-minute naps over a period of 24 hours, and explores the material requirements for such conditions. Architecturally, the very close relationship between the human body and the suit acts as the generator of form as well as a tool to negotiate bet...

Driving Positive Change: A Conversation with Margaret Stewart – The U.S. Digital Service – Medium

medium.com/the-u-s-digital-service/driving-positive-change-a-conversation-with-margaret-stewart-c51644ec6f85
Liz Odar, U.S. Digital Service: How do you approach building products that are used by such a large number of people across the globe? Margaret Stewart: What’s important is that we don’t approach our…

One Child: The Story of China's Most Radical Experiment - Mei Fong - Google Books

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An intimate investigation of the world's largest experiment in social engineering, revealing how its effects will shape China for decades to come, and what that means for the rest of the world

How many secrets do you have?

github.com/frankmcsherry/blog/blob/master/posts/2017-02-08.md
This is a quick post, ruminating on the difference between two flavors of differential privacy in common use. I'm a fan of one, and the other weirds me out a bit. I think I have started to get a handle on why that is.

The story of a designer conquering mathematics.

blog.framer.com/a-story-of-a-designer-conquering-mathematics-d0fd4585f0ba
Mathematics was frustrating. When I was young it seemed to be pointless to spend too much time on solving mathematical problems whilst you have so many other things to do! When I was a university…

Front-end Developer Handbook 2017 · GitBook

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front-end-handbook-2017: The resources and tools for learning about the practice of front-end development in 2017. Written by Cody Lindley sponsored by

Lottie

airbnb.design/lottie/
Easily add high-quality animation to any native app. Lottie is an iOS, Android, and React Native library that renders After Effects animations in real time, allowing apps to use animations as easily as they use static images.

Homework done in a snap | Socratic

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Take a photo of your question and get answers, explanations, videos and definitions. Socratic makes learning on your phone easy.