co-founder of @bigcar — artist, designer of spaces, places & projects, photographer, writer & explorer + most of all, father & husband in a great family
Reggie Jackson, a.k.a. Mr. October, was called a lot of things during his storied baseball career. A new documentary on Amazon Prime goes beyond the nicknames. via @NYTimes https://t.co/MPHqvad9jT
Jim Walker (@walkerjj), executive director at Big Car Collaborative (@bigcar) recently wrote a guest post all about music in public spaces for our blog: https://t.co/mL9lGYfWaV
Jim also worked with us on the the Hawthorne Community Center's park in Indianapolis!
"Music in #publicspaces should be carefully considered as a complementary element to the overall comfort and ambience." —@bigcar's @walkerjj
Read our new article "The Ambiance of Life: Music in Public Spaces": https://t.co/mL9lGYfoln
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. @walkerjj and Susan Neville share the story of groundbreaking Indiana author Marguerite Young in our latest episode of Words and Music on @WQRTFM made possible by @INHumanities https://t.co/Zu5f3aywfH
Could I Survive the ‘Quietest Place on Earth’? Legends tell of an echoless chamber in an old Minneapolis recording studio that drives visitors insane. I figured I’d give it a whirl. Via @nytimes https://t.co/dpngCiLbyI
Voters See Democracy in Peril, but Saving It Isn’t a Priority — New York Times/Siena College poll found other problems have seized voters’ focus — even as many don’t trust this year’s election results & are open to anti-democratic candidates. via @NYTimes https://t.co/jmzjt62Ald
Early Cormac McCarthy Interviews Rediscovered — The Pulitzer Prize-winning author has done vanishingly few interviews during the course of his career. In these early ones, some newly uncovered, he is less guarded. via @NYTimes https://t.co/E6kuuLluDA
Big Car co-founders Shauta Marsh and Jim Walker talk with @CharitableAdvis about the responsibilities of nonprofits in taking on the difficult challenges and social issues in their communities. https://t.co/xSnKLlOjId
I’ve always heard about how all new MLB baseballs are rubbed with mud before being used in games. This is the story of how and why and where the mud comes from. via @NYTimes
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Google Sidelines Engineer Who Claims Its A.I. Is Sentient — Blake Lemoine, the engineer, says that Google’s language model has a soul. The company disagrees. via @NYTimes https://t.co/w3n3HbZjfZ
“Student disengagement is a problem for everyone… College prepares students for socially essential careers … and to be citizens who bring high-level intellectual habits to bear on big societal problems …” via @NYTOpinion https://t.co/ZFPksFqJb2
A Look Inside the Textbooks That Florida Rejected — The state rejected dozens of math textbooks. The New York Times reviewed 21 of them to figure out why. via @NYTimes https://t.co/EYPbQuTT0P