Mayor Bloomberg’s Geek Squad Todd Heisler/The New York Times Michael Flowers, right, oversees a small group of tech-savvy and civic-minded statisticians working across from City Hall. The antiquated answer would have been to have the health department send inspectors to restaurants on blocks with backed-up sewers and hope by chance to catch a busboy pouring the contents of a deep fryer into the street. Enter the city’s Office of Policy and Strategic Planning, a geek squad of civic-minded number-crunchers working from a pair of cluttered cubicles across from City Hall in the Municipal Building.
Facebook's Buggiest Page Was Created on Purpose Lithuanian video artist Laimonas Zakas, who enjoys web production as a hobby, created a Facebook Page called Glitchr that messes with Facebook codes. The art project has garnered more than 12,657 likes so far. Don't be afraid to visit the harmless Facebook Page. It just takes your chat navigation line and causes it to appear in the sprawling line down your screen. Voila, art. Zakas was inspired to start this project in May when he received a Facebook notification in a blue bubble instead of the standard red one. Zeitgeist 2012 – Google 2012 was a year of big moments, from global games to historical elections and everything in between. With this site, we've analyzed over one trillion queries to showcase what the world searched for. How We Did This We studied an aggregation of over one trillion searches (or queries) that people typed into Google Search this year. We used data from multiple sources, including Google Trends and internal data tools.
Free Art Instruction Videos- Movies-Tutorials By Matt Fussell Welcome to TheVirtualInstructor.com's vault of art instruction videos and tutorials. All of these art instruction videos are original and are made with artists of all abilities in mind. At the moment, we offer you over 300 art instruction videos. Most of the videos are free to watch while others require membership. These videos cover a broad spectrum of media including painting, drawing, printmaking, fundamentals and theory, digital art and more. Bayesian statistics Bayesian statistics is a subset of the field of statistics in which the evidence about the true state of the world is expressed in terms of degrees of belief or, more specifically, Bayesian probabilities. Such an interpretation is only one of a number of interpretations of probability and there are other statistical techniques that are not based on "degrees of belief". Outline[edit]
Dennis Hwang Dennis Hwang, or Hwang Jeong-mok, (born c. 1978[1]) is a graphic artist who designs the festive logos for Google on special days. Biography[edit] He received a degree from Stanford in arts and computer science.[3] Career[edit] Yes, You Can Teach and Assess Creativity! A recent blog by Grant Wiggins affirmed what I have long believed about creativity: it is a 21st-century skill we can teach and assess. Creativity fosters deeper learning, builds confidence and creates a student ready for college and career. However, many teachers don't know how to implement the teaching and assessment of creativity in their classrooms. While we may have the tools to teach and assess content, creativity is another matter, especially if we want to be intentional about teaching it as a 21st-century skill.
Silver lining (idiom) Under a cloud (with a silver lining) (1920). A cartoon depicting George Lansbury. Captions: Under a cloud (with a golden lining) Comrade Lansbury. "Thanks to my faithful brolski not a drop has touched me." 6 Incredible Twitter Powered Art Projects Twitter has brought us many things. It lets us communicate in real-time about breaking news events, it lets us share content like photos, music, and videos, and it lets us do business in new ways. But Twitter is also being used to power some very intriguing and beautiful virtual art projects. Tweets are being visualized and mashed up with other content in ways that create stunning online art. In this post we'll highlight six incredible experimental art projects that are using Twitter as a basis for their awesome creations.
Tie-Dye Looking T-Shirts This was a big hit today in my afterschool class today – a pseudo tie dying project but without all the unsafe ingredients. My sample had just a couple of circles on it, but these creative students filled their shirts with lots of color, I love it!! 1. Proteus syndrome Proteus syndrome, also known as Wiedemann syndrome (named after the German paediatrician Hans-Rudolf Wiedemann), is a congenital disorder[1]:554 that causes skin overgrowth and atypical bone development, often accompanied by tumors over half the body.[2]:776 Proteus syndrome is highly variable,[3] and is named after the Greek sea-god Proteus, who could change his shape. Presentation[edit] Proteus syndrome causes an overgrowth of skin, bones, muscles, fatty tissues, and blood and lymphatic vessels. Proteus syndrome is a progressive condition wherein children are usually born without any obvious deformities.
Google logo The current Google logo was launched on September 19, 2013. The major difference in comparison with the previous logo was the flattening of shadows on the lettering in line with the current layout. It was launched to everyone on October 2, 2013. Google subsidiary YouTube has also featured some custom logos to highlight special events occurring on the site; these have been unofficially nicknamed "Yoodles".[citation needed] History[edit] Art and design The current national curriculum programmes of study for art and design at key stages 1 and 2 have been disapplied with effect from 1 September 2013 and are no longer statutory. This means that schools are free to develop their own curricula for art and design that best meet the needs of their pupils, in preparation for the introduction of the new national curriculum from September 2014. Further details are available via the link on this page. Art and design remains a compulsory national curriculum subject at key stages 1 to 3. New statutory programmes of study will be introduced from September 2014. The disapplied programmes of study for art and design at key stages 1 and 2, and the attainment target level descriptions, are accessible from the links on these pages.
Neurofibromatosis type I Patient with multiple small cutaneous neurofibromas and a 'café au lait spot' (bottom of photo, to the right of centre). A biopsy has been taken of one of the lesions. Back of an elderly woman with NF-1 Neurofibromatosis type I (NF-1) is a tumor disorder that is caused by the mutation of a gene on chromosome 17 that is responsible for control of cell division. NF-1 causes tumors along the nervous system.