A new series of personal essays about job loss, mental health, and the undying pursuit of art.

When we drove out of the mountains that morning it was hot, the sun climbing higher in the sky, heating up the plants and the air around us and the metal of our car as it barreled down a neck of highway woven like thread through the Pennsylvania Laurel Highlands. Ethan was in his car seat, chatting away, my wife Michelle and I both quizzing him about our weekend stay in the mountains — often asking if we had seen a black bear while hiking two days earlier. “Yes we did!” he kept answering, a certain electricity in his words.

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Trillion is the new billion. No longer is government spending talked about in terms of a mere ten digits. With the recent flurry of government spending, we are going to need another three zeros to make sense of it all. One trillion dollars is a number that few people can comprehend, let alone your standard nine digit calculator. So what does one trillion dollars look like? Link

Multitouch Barcelona is at the moment one of the most interesting artistic collective. It was founded by four young designers, based in Barcelona, who work across interaction and New Media, and develop platforms linked to entertainment, play and experiment, by constantly exploring the communication between people and technology.

Contrary to many different projects made in this last period in this field, MultiTouch was able to show, in his artistic projects, the human aspects, and opened up another interesting option in the education and entertainment fields.

Here is an interview of Xavier Vilar de Paz, one of the four collective founders that will tell us in a better way how MultiTouch was ...