For over 13 years, architect Mickey Muennig (and girlfriend and children) lived in the tiny Greenhouse—his 1976 take on the then-popular dome and his celestial artistic response. From the deck of the outdoor bath, you can see up the coast.
Inside the one-room house, the reclaimed-redwood platform bed hangs on slender steel rods fastened to the ceiling. The ceiling cap is a vent—the house’s thermostat.
baby run away with me to here please
If somebody doesn’t make this a reality by the time I have my masters degree in Electromechanical Engineering, so help me God, I (along with fellow engineers) will make it happen.
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The Sailor’s Heart
I seek escape,
towards salty shore,
so that my mind may forget,
what time has made me scorn.
With planks beneath my feet,
and sails in the air,
I shall fear no thing,
because my soul shan’t dare.
The sea is my love,
though mine is at home,
its because of this,
that I long to roam.
Sure that my feet,
shall return to the shore,
and to kiss those lips again,
will be my implore.
But for now escape,
is what I seek,
so that I don’t forget,
that my heart isn’t weak.
-Sean Woleslagle
Coursera joins a raft of ambitious online projects aimed at making higher education more accessible and affordable. Many of these ventures, however, simply post entire lectures on the web, with no interactive component. Others strive to create brand-new universities from scratch.
Founders Daphne Koller and Andrew Ng say Coursera will be different because professors from top schools will teach under their university’s name and will adapt their most popular courses for the web, embedding assignments and exams into video lectures, answering questions from students on online forums — even, perhaps, hosting office hours via videoconference.
This sounds like worth keeping an eye on. It seems like it could go a long way towards disrupting the traditional educational model. In case you were wondering which schools, here you go: Stanford, Princeton, the University of California at Berkeley, the University of Pennsylvania and the University of Michigan. Not a bad list.
