Searching for evidence of Trump’s personal giving – Washington Post Nice mix of digital and non– also a glimpse into this reporter’s workflow

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anime.js – a Collection by Julian Garnier on CodePen A 1.4-Billion-Pixel Map of the Gulf of Mexico Seafloor – Eos The geology of the Gulf of Mexico (GOM) is dynamic, driven not by plate tectonics but by the movement of subsurface bodies of salt. Floating labels are problematic – Simple = Human – Medium Forms are not a source of entertainment. The floating label won’t make users enjoy using forms. Users don’t care. They just want the outcome. stutrek/scrollMonitor: A simple and fast API to monitor elements as you scroll The Office for Creative Research Good morning, We are a hybrid research group, working at the intersection of technology, culture and education. We build user-focused tools, public space interventions and forward-looking prototypes in the service of understanding and humanizing complex data systems. Summer 2017 Schedule – ANTH 101 “This class was inspiring on many levels when I took it in Fall 2016. I look forward to seeing the challenges progress on here, as well as possibly doing some of them again, on my own.” Donald Trump has a very strange theory about exercise – CNNPolitics.com Trump believed the human body was like a battery, with a finite amount of energy, which exercise only depleted. So he didn’t work out. When he learned that John O’Donnell, one of his top casino […]