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Brittany Teei - Curious Minds, He Hihiri i te Mahara Brittany Teei (Rarotonga, Avatiu, Atiu, Ngāi Tahu) is Co-founder of KidsCoin, an educational software program that teaches children good money habits. What do you do on an average work day? There’s no such thing as an average workday for me! I do many varied tasks and jobs ranging from working with developers on website development, to planning out UX [user experience] and UI [user interface] designs, to social media marketing and working in the communities. It really depends on the needs of the business and what the priorities are at the time. I also make a point everyday to do some physical exercise; whether that be yoga, netball, tennis or simply walking to work and enjoying the view along the way. 5 Old News Stories the Media Pretended Were New This Year Looking back on 2013, you'd think America spent the whole year recovering from the vapors and waking up between fainting spells. Whether the story was Kanye making a baby with a Kardashian or Miley Cyrus and her pancake butt making a spectacle of herself at the VMA Awards, the Internet reacted to major news stories with expressions that are usually only found on Taylor Swift after walking in on her parents doing it. Getty Images Entertainment/Getty ImagesActual picture of me watching C-Span. Forget "selfie" -- the word of the year should have been "incredu-rage," a word I just made up to describe how we handle unexpected events now. Did you know that when the Breaking Bad finale aired, our collective gasps of disbelief turned the tide of global warming?

25 Spectacular Movies You (Probably) Haven't Seen Pt. 2 Human Traffic Very unique comedy about the drug/club culture in the UK. Five friends ponder society, drug use and their own lives as they go about their usual weekend of snorting, smoking, popping, dancing and sex. The Matador How Any Company Can Think Like A Startup Common wisdom states that startups are hothouses for creativity and innovation, while large corporations are too jammed up with bureaucracy and hierarchy to push the envelope and arrive at new solutions. It’s why more and more companies are trying to “think like a startup,” some even forming smaller divisions that can operate more nimbly and loosely within the larger structure. But is it that simple? Is simply being small and new a recipe for creative thinking, and if so, what happens when a startup gets bigger, and older (presumably everyone’s goal)? How can we define what’s working so well at the startup level, in order to cement these principles as part of a company culture that can be maintained throughout growth? My branding and design consultancy works almost exclusively with startups, but in my previous life as a brand planner at large global advertising agencies working on multinational clients, I had my share of exposure to how the “other side” operates.

Thomas Piketty - capitalisback Capital is Back: Wealth-Income Ratios in Rich Countries 1700-2010 Thomas Piketty & Gabriel Zucman List of Files - July 2013 (updated, December 2013) This research is available in two formats: long version (full-length working paper version, including data appendices), or short version (article version published in QJE, 2014). Piketty, T., and G. Providing girls with role models for computer science careers / Transitions and vocational pathways / Videos Tim Harford: In the digital technologies programme, we were looking to make connections with industry on areas that were relevant to what we were teaching. We approached a range of companies and we told them what we were looking for. We told them which subjects we studied and what the girls were looking for. We asked if they could help us. All of the companies we approached were very helpful. So far this year we’ve had a company called Catalyst who sent an accessibility specialist to visit us and talk to our class about that topic, and we had another company in Wellington here, called Abletech, who sent four of their developers, twice now actually, to talk about programming and web development.

6 True Stories from History Creepier Than Any Horror Movie History books are full of grisly details about who got stabbed, what town got burned to the ground, and which kings married their cousins -- so imagine the stuff that gets edited out. Or, you know, read about it in this article instead. As part of our continuing quest to tell you the stuff your teachers didn't want you to know, here are some gruesome and little-known addenda to some of the most famous moments in history. #6. The Man Who Tried to Save Lincoln Went All The Shining on His Family National Archives and Records Administration

Danny Perez Directs The Music Video For Hot Chips &Look At Where We Are& We’ve been eagerly awaiting Hot Chip’s new album for the past two years (meanwhile listening to old songs “Over and Over” again), so when the British electro outlet released In Our Heads this June, we were psyched to hear their new take on dance music. The band teamed up with visual sorcerer and Creator Danny Perez who directed the music video for “Look At Where We Are,” produced by The Creators Project. Perez’s collaboration with Animal Collective produced the visual album ODDSAC back in 2010—an audiovisual assault on the senses where sound and imagery bombarded the viewer into another world.

(Almost) Everything You Ever Wanted to Know About Creativity 1Share Synopsis To be creative can be as simple as seeing something everyone else sees, but thinking what no one else thinks about it. Thomas Piketty's Capital in the 21st Century To sum up: modern growth, which is based on the growth of productivity and the diffusion of knowledge, has made it possible to avoid the apocalypse predicted by Marx and to balance the process of capital accumulation. But it has not altered the deep structures of capital -- or at any rate has not truly reduced the macroeconomic importance of capital relative to labor. I must now examine whether the same is true for inequality in the distribution of income and wealth.