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  1. Never apologize. Never explain.

  2. Notes on Singapore

  3. The ambiguous border of “we”

  4. Being comfortable with uncertainty

  5. Getting results for anyone

  6. The skills of exploration

  7. Involved in and a part of life

  8. Our place in the world

  9. Top 10 songs of 2015

  10. Newton's queries

  11. Estovers

  12. The hedonic treadmill

  13. The grain of prevailing wisdom

  14. Fugitive phenomena

  15. The practice of awareness

  16. Harsh empathy

  17. Real people

  18. Design + Banter 18

  19. JAM 2015

  20. Designed against

  21. Unpublic spaces

  22. Switchtracking

  23. An endless source of comfort

  24. From other-where

  25. Opportunities to practice

  26. Cartographic omissions

  27. Between two frames

  28. The beyond-world

  29. The tale of the drill

  30. Murakami's screw

  31. Ask more questions

  32. Ecological relationships

  33. Shul

  34. Open nudges

  35. Ruins

  36. Unpleasant noise

  37. Solastalgia and soliphilia

  38. Grandmother sources

  39. The Peel mantra

  40. Firing failures

  41. Subjects of experiments

  42. Jevons’ paradox

  43. Protopia

  44. Guided collaboration

  45. Lessons learned while playing-music

  46. The apprenticeship of observation

  47. Error is architecture

  48. Zooming out

  49. Storylistening

  50. Spiral of silence

  51. Tolstoy's screw

  52. The third side

  53. Measurement creates a pointer

  54. Reading and writing is useless

  55. Universal design

  56. A pointless and mean-spirited quest

  57. STEAM

  58. Filter bubble

  59. Pluralistic ignorance

  60. Social proof

  61. Use community

  62. First prototype

  63. Exam results

  64. Perfect systems

  65. An earnest and pure world

  66. Connective listening

  67. Weapons are tools

  68. Give information to people who can do something with it

  69. The miracle of flight

  70. Parrot talk

  71. Intimate worlds where students become explorers

  72. Let's try

  73. Creating opportunities

  74. Uncertainty is celebrated

  75. The power of small actions

  76. We want them to be active

  77. The single most effective way to improve education

  78. Jugyokenyku

  79. Autonomy is different from independence

  80. Use your words

  81. Reading isn't magical

  82. All strategies are allowed

  83. There’s no such thing as mistakes when you’re practicing

  84. The habit of compromise

  85. A long hike with no trail

  86. Sitting alone

  87. Festina lente

  88. Numbers game

  89. Harkness table

  90. There is no right answer

  91. Two sides of the same coin

  92. The power of the small story

  93. Answer getting vs problem solving

  94. The experience of play

  95. Schools are dream factories

  96. Their own birdhouse

  97. Dictionaries are human

  98. Water rocket

  99. Radicants

  100. A culture of testing

  101. Teachers

  102. Patient problem solving

  103. Imagination in all of its applications

  104. Franklin's Gambit

  105. Hulling rice

  106. Curiosity comes first

  107. A step in the right direction

  108. Science is people

  109. A context in which other people can think

  110. What we know gets in the way

  111. Ideas

  112. Five whys

  113. Authentic, challenging tasks

  114. Standardized

  115. Basic and applied research

  116. Mutable laws

  117. Failure is the handmaiden of wisdom

  118. Technology precedes understanding

  119. Discontinuous improvement

  120. Extrinsic vs intrinsic motivation

  121. I'll be your mirror

  122. The value in winning

  123. Wonderful complexities

  124. PB&Js

  125. Se hace camino al andar

  126. All hands on deck

  127. Playing defense

  128. Books are like sharks

  129. There is no such thing as a bad book for children

  130. We are obligated to support libraries

  131. The goodness/adoption paradox

  132. Information is light

  133. It's complicated

  134. The Buxton test

  135. Popcorn profits

  136. Design beyond the screen

  137. Mirroring

  138. The rule of seven touches

  139. Carbolic-acid remedies

  140. Kielder marathon race report

  141. Mentoring innovation

  142. Marathon mantra(s)

  143. Banana equivalent dose

  144. Technobiophilia

  145. Listening up

  146. Technology and design solutions

  147. Innovation vs invention

  148. Technology precedes needs

  149. Local maximum

  150. Natural cooperation

  151. The butler lie

  152. The myth of methodology

  153. Put the customer first. Invent. Be patient.

  154. Telling actions

  155. Retrospective certainty

  156. Mental playfulness

  157. Plural possessive

  158. Lessons from the mountain

  159. Teaching boys

  160. The human factor

  161. Diminished substitutes

  162. Slowly, with great struggle

  163. Starting as they eventually went on

  164. Bring something to it

  165. No Content Found

  166. Do Runners Have a Sugar Addiction?: Is the White Stuff Running You down and Wearing You Out? Probably.

  167. Biomechanics of Barefoot Running and Their Implications for Running Injuries

  168. Sensory feedback of the sole

  169. Form is what matters in running

  170. The Once and Future Way to Run

  171. Kneed to Know: Strengthening your hips brings relief to sore knees.

  172. Switching to a Forefoot Strike: How Does it Affect Lower Back Movement and Shock Applied to the Body

  173. Glute Inhibition or Glute Weakness?

  174. Why Barefoot Doesn’t Automatically Mean Midfoot

  175. Pelvic Stabilization, Lateral Hip and Gluteal Strengthening Program

  176. Learning to Run Barefoot: Where Should You Begin?

  177. Stability exercises for running

  178. Fitness matters more than weight

  179. Dialing back the miles

  180. Barefoot Running: The Science Behind the Fad

  181. Where your foot is landing

  182. Go “Nip to Hip” With Your Hands

  183. Barefoot walking form

  184. Custom running shoes might not prevent injuries

  185. All you need is feet

  186. Alienated majesty

  187. The dinner guest test: on rejoining facebook

  188. Concentration not inspiration

  189. Third places

  190. Narcissism of minor differences

  191. Vygotsky's thoughts

  192. One pound weights

  193. 100 studies

  194. The view from above

  195. The next larger context

  196. Yes and

  197. Commonplace books

  198. The slow hunch

  199. The ice cream fallacy

  200. All models are wrong

  201. Never the twain shall meet

  202. Crabbing

  203. Between two languages

  204. The flickering flame of civilization

  205. Handrails

  206. In defense of descriptivism

  207. The morals of an ape

  208. The long, slow birth of Chewbacca

  209. Perfectly flawed

  210. Beyond the myth of the lone genius

  211. Bricolage and the adjacent possible

  212. The glittering world of the salons

  213. Baby slings & cyborgs

  214. Cruel anchors

  215. The ever-present deluge

  216. The myth of creativity

  217. By any other name

  218. On generalists

  219. The monochrome desert of “its”

  220. The paradox of peanut butter

  221. Passion in context

  222. Vote for the future of the web

  223. To nudge or not to nudge

  224. Toward the quotidian

  225. Motivation filtered through opportunity

  226. Imaginary value

  227. The purpose motive

  228. Waste not, want not

  229. Broadcasting the living room

  230. Your Posthumanism Is Boring Me

  231. The Architecture of Piles

  232. Are we born with an innate sense of right and wrong?

  233. Needs must

  234. The world without elevators

  235. Cities, people and maps

  236. Beautiful seams

  237. Yahoo! design pattern library & social patterns

  238. Regaining a kind of paradise

  239. How to deal with nosy neighbors

  240. Fail better together

  241. In the beginning were lists

  242. Vonnegut after Dresden

  243. Civic Republicanism

  244. The oldest living things in the world

  245. The reinvention of attention

  246. Hey is this you on here? Twitter scam

  247. Using Tweetie 2 with StatusNet

  248. Using Tweetie 2 with identi.ca

  249. Save Ernest Marples

  250. Rumors of the apostrophe's death are greatly exaggerated

  251. Just one person

  252. Will the Manhattan Project Always Exist?

  253. Why the Dreyfus Affair Matters

  254. iPhone RSS reader showdown: Byline, Newsstand and NetNewswire

  255. The pie's the limit

  256. Microsoft and SVG? In the same room?

  257. Real time trends? There's a map for that.

  258. Wabi sabi

  259. The Thames is back on the map (and possibly zones)

  260. Hampstead Heath

  261. All the London you need

  262. Standards.Next - Cognition and accessibility

  263. Design for Life contestants online and on twitter

  264. Book titles, if they were written today: my favorite so far

  265. A question for New Yorkers (and others)

  266. If you choose not to decide

  267. In the zone

  268. Best thing since bifocals

  269. Design For Life

  270. Great urban parks

  271. The fragmented future of otrops.com

  272. Typedia

  273. David Byrne's Perfect City

  274. New Tube map: no zones, no Thames

  275. Another font-face test

  276. Networked identity

  277. Typekit Test

  278. Every city begins as a slum

  279. WordPress Mobile Plugins

  280. Campaign or Spampaign?

  281. Better search through experimentation

  282. Celebrity obsession is unhealthy

  283. Uncertainty is inevitable

  284. Conspicuous expression

  285. The right words

  286. Library school

  287. Socially interesting tools

  288. Wearing in

  289. The purpose of computation

  290. Moderinism and all its prefixes

  291. What we're doing to Twitter

  292. Enlightened trial and error

  293. The flow of music

  294. No Content Found

  295. Without bees

  296. Calvino's bravery

  297. The paradox of fiction

  298. Healthy agriculture

  299. The map creates the territory

  300. Debt is not a good product

  301. London Web Standards May: Structuring CSS

  302. Tricky code

  303. London to Brighton (again)

  304. Internal corporate values

  305. Toxic wealth

  306. Robustness principle

  307. Involved learning

  308. London IA mini conference

  309. Users

  310. London Web Standards April

  311. WordCamp UK 2009 update

  312. Naked for a day

  313. CSS tables and border widths in Safari

  314. Bushy Park 10k

  315. My 15 Albums

  316. London Corpse Walks

  317. Testing laconi.ca

  318. Create more value than you capture

  319. Jealous guardians

  320. The internet properly used

  321. Map & territory

  322. No Content Found

  323. WordCamp UK 2009 venue: Cardiff

  324. Snow Day!

  325. Respect and serve

  326. War dividends

  327. Collecting dust

  328. Darwin: What's the Big Idea? (Part 1)

  329. Worth doing badly

  330. Offensive line

  331. My Favorite Albums of 2008

  332. I Ran the Whole Thing

  333. Goal Set Met

  334. Can't be learned at school

  335. The pain of independence

  336. You're a dog

  337. My head is in the way

  338. Done and done

  339. Short-term support of dangerous leaders

  340. Open water

  341. The Protestant ethic

  342. The Gold Mountain

  343. Happenstance

  344. The world is magical

  345. All of Me

  346. From errors

  347. Found art

  348. Fateful secrets

  349. The future is local

  350. Give Us Your Money (for the trees)

  351. I need your advice

  352. The beers what I drank

  353. Flickr backlog

  354. New Glasses

  355. Death Cab For Cutie

  356. Why I loved Speed Racer

  357. Back on the bike

  358. I blame Twitter

  359. It's the little things

  360. Twice around the Common

  361. We're doing it again!

  362. Almost compost

  363. Classic blogging

  364. A Year Already?

  365. Shutdown Day

  366. Another random book meme

  367. 106 books of pretension

  368. Capital Ring, Stage 5

  369. Latest creations from bonboh

  370. Bag that Uke

  371. Capital Ring, Stage 4

  372. Miles to Go Before He Eats

  373. Jef Van Campen: artist

  374. Little Bulldog Design is Live!

  375. Stupid Amounts of Fun

  376. Top 5 books for 2007

  377. iTorture and the eMusic Downgrade Saga

  378. Go, Speed Racer, Go

  379. The Joy of Scumm

  380. Slight Twinge of Regret

  381. 6+4: One more week of apple snacks

  382. I have a tree!

  383. Looks like I picked the wrong week to quit junk food

  384. Guess where I won't be buying Christmas presents

  385. 6+4 Week 3: Apple Snacks

  386. 6+4: 1 week delay

  387. Another Van Campen blog

  388. 6+4 Week 2: Drink 3 liters of water

  389. Best Blog Name Ever?

  390. My sister takes the silver medal!

  391. 6+4 Week 1: Get up at 6am

  392. Capital Ring, Stage 2

  393. 6 + 4 = better habits?

  394. Uber Cool Nerd King

  395. New Job

  396. Resting and running

  397. We did it!

  398. J is for...

  399. T-shirt Love and Podrunning

  400. Can I have some more, please?

  401. Lovable Films and Quotable Quotes

  402. Nostalgia

  403. A Very Cheesy Pop Star

  404. We run for the trees

  405. Four Things

  406. Unfinished business

  407. Capital Ring, Stage 1

  408. 10 Films for Bluish Days

  409. A Whole New Perspective

  410. Mr. Fred: model revolutionary

  411. Piratical Observations

  412. I take it all back (well, most of it)

  413. The Lives of Others

  414. Another Fantastic List

  415. An Imperfect List of Fantastic Books

  416. At long last