UCSD’s Geisel Library turns 50 as the place to ‘think and wonder, wonder and … Posted on Sat Sep 5, 2020, 11:13 pm It seems like the last thing you’d find at UC San Diego’s Geisel Library, whose futuristic facade inspired a key scene in the sci-fi movie “Inception.” But the grab-and-go dispenser will soon be put …
‘Let’s understand the ocean through art’ Posted on Sat Sep 5, 2020, 8:00 pm And in an effort to “rally support” from other like-minded donors, this time last year it seeded the Ocean Academy Fund, managed by the privately owned Swiss bank Lombard Odier’s Fondation …
Virtual reality in 3 dimensions – the Metaverse arrives Posted on Sat Sep 5, 2020, 4:26 pm Why not just live on Facebook at the same time as you live in the real world. The term was coined in Neal Stephenson’s 1992 science fiction novel Snow Crash, a book that has had remarkable …
San Diego Design Week celebrates creativity and innovation Posted on Sat Sep 5, 2020, 11:15 am Don Norman, director of the Design Lab at the University of California San Diego and author of “The Design of Everyday Things,” enlarges our idea of design: “Everyone is a designer. We design when we ..