Patrick James
Influencers is a short documentary by Paul Rojanathara and Davis Johnson that explores how trends in music and fashion spread from small groups of influential people to the public at large. It looks like it might become required viewing for everyone from artists to marketing departments.
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Debunking 'Green Living': Combatting Climate Change Requires Lifestyle Changes, Not Organic Products
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Infographic: Understanding Social Enterprise
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Billr: The App for Dining on a Budget (Without Annoying Your Friends)
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TED's Taboo: What's Too Controversial for the Hipster Confab?
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Is it Time to 'Occupy Teach For America'?
Prepare yourself for operatic levels of intensity and lots of Elon Musk.
Amir Bar-Lev, the director behind My Kid Could Paint That, has made a documentary on Pat Tillman and his misrepresented death. The Tillman...
A new film from the photographer Chris Jordan documents how plastic trash from faraway cities is killing birds on the remote Midway Islands.
In the Citizens United case last month the Supreme Court ruled that corporations could spend without limit in political campaigns. At the time...
MTV's VMAs attracted the most social media attention ever. How do we know? Why should we care?
5 easy ways to make everything ombre.
I wasn’t always the type to design my own envelopes, sew my own skirts, and hold an annual craft day for friends.
Marriage is linked to a heightened risk for significant weight gain among women. For men, the pounds come a little bit later—after the divorce.
A new study finds that you're more likely to install solar panels if other people in your zip code have them.
"Sharing is Contagious" charts how we are increasingly growing up sharing files, photos, knowledge, and daily thoughts—and how these...
Let's face it, the Schoolhouse Rock version of how a bill becomes a law is a gross oversimplification. In reality there are lobbyists and...
Are you a hipster? Of course you're not. Maybe partly because no one can agree what one actually is.
In a perfect world, every ingredient listed in every product would be tested for safety, and nothing sold at the store would contain any...
So you've gotten an education: now what? Learn how to build a network for yourself.
In 2000 slam poet Taylor Mali set a goal of inspiring 1,000 people to become teachers. This month, he reached it.
Here are some links, and here are some others..
We've talked a lot about Race to the Top on this blog-from its initial announcement to what states were doing to apply for the funds to which...
A UC Berkeley study results an amazing mini-movie of what your brain does while you're learning.
