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Organizational Ethnography: Studying the Complexity of Everyday Life

books.google.co.uk/books
“The road to revelatory findings begins […] with starting to realise what is new and surprising to us as strangers to the field”

To-Do Lists Are Discouraging. This Productivity Trick Is a Lot More Fun.

slate.com/articles/business/the_ladder/2016/05/the_done_list_is_a_productivity_hack_that_s_the_opposite_of_a_to_do_list.html
And though my system might seem excessively self-congratulatory, I encourage you to consider adapting it to your own work. It has been an invaluable tool for setting goals, improving my productivity, and getting a handle on my impostor syndrome.

La nature est un champ de bataille: essai d'écologie politique

editions-zones.fr/spip.php
À l’automne 1982, les habitants du comté de Warren, dans le nord-est de la Caroline du Nord, se sont mobilisés pendant six semaines contre l’installation d’une décharge de déchets toxiquesnote. Quatre ans plus tôt, en 1978, une entreprise de gestion des déchets industriels avait entreposé illégalement dans la région d’importantes quantités de biphényles polychlorés (BPC), une substance utilisée notamment dans les transformateurs électriques et la peinture. Une fois découvertes, l’Éta...

StackEdit – In-browser markdown editor

stackedit.io/
Full-featured, open-source Markdown editor based on PageDown, the Markdown library used by Stack Overflow and the other Stack Exchange sites.

An Interaction Model for Visualizations Beyond The Desktop

hal.inria.fr/hal-00847218
We present an interaction model for beyond-desktop visualizations that combines the visualization reference model with the instrumental interaction paradigm. Beyond-desktop visualizations involve a wide range of emerging technologies such as wall- sized displays, 3D and shape-changing displays, touch and tangible input, and physical information visualizations. While these technologies allow for new forms of interaction, they are often studied in isolation. New conceptual models are n...

Physical and tangible information visualization

hal.inria.fr/tel-00981521/
Visualizations in the most general sense of external, physical representations of information are older than the invention of writing. Generally, external representations promote external cognition and visual thinking, and humans developed a rich set of skills for crafting and exploring them. Computers immensely increased the amount of data we can collect and process as well as diversified the ways we can represent it visually. Computer-supported visualization systems, studied in the...

What Russia looked like before 1917 … in color - The Washington Post

washingtonpost.com/news/in-sight/wp/2016/04/19/what-russia-looked-like-before-1914-in-color/
Photographer and chemist Sergei Mikhailovich Prokudin-Gorskii documented the Russian empire in full color images years before the 1917 revolution.