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  • Intellitics, Inc. — The Participation Company

    tags: weblog-group participation deliberation democracy government online internet

  • Find duplicate files on a Mac with Gemini from MacPaw

    tags: macintosh software utility

  • Fever° Red hot. Well read.

    tags: rss feed-reader feeds news software server reader

  • Can Educational Research Be Both Rigorous and Relevant?

    tags: education research practice pedagogy design rigor relevance

  • Interview with Design based Research Experts

    “Much has been written about Design-based Research, but what about hearing from some of the experts themselves? These short interviews, conducted at AERA International Convention in 2006, provide some specific insights from some notable researchers in the field of Design-based Research.”

    tags: design research education practice pedagogy

  • ICSTI.ORG

    “ICSTI, the International Council for Scientific and Technical Information, offers a unique forum for interaction between organizations that create, disseminate and use scientific and technical information. ICSTI’s mission cuts across scientific and technical disciplines, as well as international borders, to give member organizations the benefit of a truly global community.”

    tags: information standards information-science e-science library metadata

  • Home – National Information Standards Organization

    “NISO is where content publishers, libraries, and software developers turn for information industry standards that allow them to work together. Through NISO, all of these communities are able to collaborate on mutually accepted standards — solutions that enhance their operations today and form a foundation for the future.”

    tags: information standards national information-science e-science library metadata

  • iOS apps and the address book: who has your data, and how they’re getting it | The Verge

    tags: privacy iphone apple computers social-media internet security

  • Path addresses privacy controversy, but social apps remain a risk to users

    tags: privacy software computers social-media

  • Your personal data isn’t safe and it’s worse than we thought | Digital Media – CNET News

    tags: privacy software computers mobile

  • Marshall McLuhanThe Wisdom of Saint Marshall, Holy Fool | aether

    tags: media criticism 20c global-village metaphor trickster religion media-studies

  • Web Interface Design

    “Interface design encompasses three distinct, but related constructs–usability, visualization, and functionality (Vertelney, Arent, & Lieberman, 1990). Recently, a fourth component of interface design has emerged as a critical factor–accessibility. Interface design is most often associated with the development of Web pages, computer software, and multimedia, but is relevant to the creation of any instructional media or technical equipment. “

    tags: interface design web-design computers information-science information-architecture usability visualization functional access

  • SciFund Success and Social Media

    tags: crowdsourcing fundraising science citizen-science social

  • The Citizen Cyberscience Summit

    tags: citizen-science cyberscience online conference

  • NASA – NASA Science Aircraft to Travel the Globe in 2012

    “With missions scheduled throughout the year, 2012 is shaping up to be an extraordinary time for NASA’s Airborne Science Program and Earth system science research. Multiple aircraft and specialized instruments will operate in the United States, Europe, Asia and South America this year in support of studies conducted by NASA and the Earth science community, improving scientists’ understanding of our planet.”

    tags: science nasa atmosphere climate weather meteorology aircraft 2012

  • Social media tool aims to help journalists find undiscovered, reliable sources on Twitter | Poynter.

    tags: social-media technology tools journalism media sources

  • Why we’re seeing the ugly new face of capitalism – The Globe and Mail

    “In contest after contest, business is getting what it wants: lower taxes and lower wages. But their victories are just making it harder for families and communities to get on with their business. The snatch-and-grab ethos that has emerged in the wake of the global economic crisis may fatten an individual corporation’s bottom line; but if too many companies play this game, everyone but the giants are going to lose. “

    tags: economics capitalism politics jobs work

  • Matt Ridley on Crowd-Sourced Science | Mind & Matter – WSJ.com

    tags: citizen-science science crowdsourcing media journalism big-time

  • Kinect Body Tracking Reaps Renown – Microsoft Research

    tags: technology history as-it-happens motion computer visual gaming

  • COMPASS Online

    COMPASS is dedicated to helping ocean scientists connect themselves and their science to the wider world. By giving scientists the communication tools they need, and by bridging the worlds of science, journalism and policy, COMPASS works to ensure that ocean science is better understood and used by society.

    tags: oceanography science communication organization

  • Obama, Explained – Magazine – The Atlantic

    tags: politics people(BarackObama)

  • How Your Cat Is Making You Crazy – Magazine – The Atlantic

    “Jaroslav Flegr is no kook. And yet, for years, he suspected his mind had been taken over by parasites that had invaded his brain. So the prolific biologist took his science-fiction hunch into the lab. What he’s now discovering will startle you. Could tiny organisms carried by house cats be creeping into our brains, causing everything from car wrecks to schizophrenia? A biologist’s science- fiction hunch is gaining credence and shaping the emerging science of mind- controlling parasites.”

    tags: biology parasites evolution disease psychology psychopathology brain neuroscience

  • Overcoming Bias : Missing Work Stories

    “Stories need conflict. For stories about soldiers, detectives, politicians, artists, doctors, lawyers, and teachers, we know of socially acceptable types of conflict, which do not challenge key ideals. But stories about conflicts in ordinary jobs more easily violate key ideals, and trigger moral outrage.”

    tags: business work story-telling story mortality

  • Stumbling and Mumbling: Morality & the left

    tags: politics morality argument leftism

  • Stumbling and Mumbling: The “scarce talent” con

    “Bank bosses have played a trick which countless ordinary workers do. The IT support guy who introduces lots of “security features” to his firm’s IT systems, or the secretary who has an incomprehensible filing system, make themselves indispensable by inconveniencing others.”

    tags: banking business management managerial complexity income economics rewards incentives talent

  • Stumbling and Mumbling: (Non) performativity in economics

    “I could, of course, put this more crudely. Economics is performative when it serves the interest of the powerful, and not performative when it doesn’t. In this sense, the problem is not with economics, but with a class structure that causes the “real world” to be a corrupted and perverted form of a market economy.”

    tags: economics performativity power markets ideology class risk

  • Overcoming Bias : What Is Econ Advice?

    “Imagine that economists were surveyed and had to choose how they’d best like to describe economic policy recommendations, as: Morals – Arguing for the morality of actions, Deals – Helping groups find and make deals, or Showing Off – Academics do hard things in order to be certified by other academics as impressive, so that students, patrons, and readers can gain status by affiliating with them. Economic policy analysis is such a hard thing. I’d bet that at least 25% would choose option #2, and even more among those whose style leans sci/tech. And #2 seems to me a better public face for economists to present to the world – economists will prosper more overall if they say this is what they are doing.”

    tags: economics argument purpose genre academic communication style goals

  • Electronic Security a Worry in an Age of Digital Espionage – NYTimes.com

    tags: security espionage travel business corporate 21c digital

  • Slidevana – Keynote Themes and Powerpoint Templates

    Slidevana is the ultimate presentation toolkit. With over 130 beautifully rendered slides, Slidevana gives you the tools you need to quickly create presentations that impress and inspire your audience.

    tags: keynote themes powerpoint templates

  • parallax-view

    tags: film cinema movies reviews criticism weblog-group

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  • New Research Paper Presents 30 General Design Considerations for Online Deliberation Systems

    tags: design deliberation online systems research collaboration

  • Diagnosing the Snow Deficit of December : Image of the Day

    tags: weather meteorology 2011 climate country(UnitedStates) science

  • Diary of a Recipe Addict: Sweet & Spicy Bacon Chicken

    tags: recipes food cooking

  • Pinterest / Home

    tags: bookmarking social-media networks

  • Trust key in healthcare | Otago Daily Times Online News : Otago, South Island, New Zealand & International News

    Increasing regulation is not the way to make sure doctors and other health professionals behave well, the dean of the University of Otago’s law school, Prof Mark Henaghan, says. Instead, too much regulation could be counter-productive, undermining the trust that should underpin the patient-health professional relationship. In a recently published book Health Professionals and Trust: The Cure for Healthcare Law and Policy, Prof Henaghan says external regulation and surveillance may lead to compliance but such behaviour is not likely to be as enduring as a professional commitment to act in trustworthy ways.

    tags: medicine health-care trust communication law

  • STAR CITY SCENE • View topic – Non-meteorologist’s guide to meteorology (for NERDS!!!!!!)

    Why do they call it meteorology if it’s the study of the atmosphere and not the study of space rocks? Because ‘meteor’ refers to things in the atmosphere called hydrometeors (water vapor, ice, hail) and lithometeors (non-water things – dust, ash, sand) and how they change forms and interact in different ways to rain on your golf game. It’s an ungodly communistic Frankenstein-like amalgamation of math, chemistry, physics, geography, intuition, experience, and gut feelings.

    tags: meteorology weather guide

  • MASS MoCA – Katharina Grosse: One Floor Up More Highly

    At MASS MoCA the artist has applied her atmospheric veils of paint to four mounds of soil which seem to spill from the upper balcony into the enormous space below. Stacks of Styrofoam shards rise out of the seductive mountains of color, mirroring the white of the gallery walls — the metaphorical canvas of Grosse’s tremendous painting. While the sprawling installation provokes associations with a psychedelic, glacial landscape, Grosse’s work is not representational.

    tags: art sculpture design modern-art state(Massachusetts) museum contemporary 2011

  • Ultrafast Trades Trigger Black Swan Events Every Day, Say Econophysicists – Technology Review

    The US financial markets have suffered over 18,000 extreme price changes caused by ultrafast trading, according to a new study of market data between 2006 and 2011

    tags: technology finance markets algorithms technology-effects economics econophysics complexity

  • COPIA – Home

    tags: e-books books reading social

  • Reading List for Course on Science and Environmental Communication | Age of Engagement | Big Think

    tags: environmental communication science bibliography reading syllabi

  • Open source anti-theft solution for your laptop, phone and tablet – Prey

    tags: security software tracking laptop crime macintosh iphone

  • Is the Keyboard Going the Way of the Typewriter? – IEEE Spectrum

    tags: interface input-device typewriter computer technology keyboards

  • Maria Popova’s Beautiful Mind | Mother Jones

    tags: interview information habit curation information-overload

  • Brain Pickings

    tags: weblog-individual photography literature art information habit curation

  • ::: wood s lot ::: “the fitful tracing of a portal”

    tags: weblog-individual photography theory literature poetry art

  • 40+ Helpful Resources On User Interface Design Patterns – Smashing Magazine | Smashing Magazine

    tags: design computers ux user usability web-development web-design patterns interface reference

  • UI-Patterns.com

    “User Interface Design patterns are recurring solutions that solve common design problems. Design patterns are standard reference points for the experienced user interface designer. “

    tags: design computers ux user usability web-development web-design patterns interface reference

  • Operating System Interface Design Between 1981-2009 | Webdesigner Depot

    tags: os history gui design interface computer desktop

  • Compare Credit Cards | Get the Best Credit Card Offer

    tags: money finance credit-cards shopping consumer

  • Udacity – Educating the 21st Century

    tags: education university academia online learning internet distributed future

  • TouchMic MityMic – Voice Recording and Interview Mic | TouchMic.com

    tags: audio voice recording microphone iphone research interview

  • M-AUDIO – Fast Track Pro – 4 x 4 Mobile USB Audio/MIDI Interface with Preamps

    The Fast Track Pro delivers all the mobile recording flexibility of the Fast Track USB, plus even more professional features. You get 2 front-panel mic/line inputs complete with phantom power for condenser microphones, inserts for outboard effects balanced and unbalanced analog outputs, S/PDIF digital I/O, MIDI I/O, and more. Fast Track Pro also features near-zero latency direct hardware monitoring and low-latency ASIO software monitoring, plus an A/B source switch and dual output pairs for DJ-style cueing. Fast Track Pro is compatible with most popular PC and Mac music software. USB connection and bus power along with class compliancy for Mac OS X* make it a breeze to set up.

    tags: audio microphone recording tool

  • Best Podcasting Microphone | bin-false.org

    tags: podcasting microphone reviews

  • r4stats.com: R info for SAS, SPSS, and Stata Users

    tags: r statistics learning tips education

  • JGR – Java GUI for R – RForge.net

    JGR (speak ‘Jaguar’) is a universal and unified Graphical User Interface for R (it actually abbreviates Java Gui for R).

    tags: r statistics software

  • Locus Online – posts from Locus Magazine » 2011 Recommended Reading List

    tags: sf book recommendations best-of-the-year 2011

  • Locus Online Reviews » A Dozen of the Best from 2011

    tags: sf book recommendations best-of-the-year 2011

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  • Got Medieval

    tags: weblog-individual history medieval

  • Newspapers, Paywalls, and Core Users « Clay Shirky

    “To understand newspapers’ 15-year attachment to paywalls, you have to understand “Everyone must pay!” not just as an economic assertion, but as a cultural one. Though the journalists all knew readership would plummet if their paper dropped imported content like Dear Abby or the funny pages, they never really had to know just how few people were reading about the City Council or the water main break. Part of the appeal of paywalls, even in the face of their economic ineffectiveness, was preserving this sense that a coupon-clipper and a news junkie were both just customers, people whose motivations the paper could serve in general, without having to understand in particular.”

    tags: journalism media publishing publisher economics money paywall

  • Will Joel Garreau & Jamais Cascio Prevail — Along With The Rest Of Us? | ACCELER8OR

    ““There are three scenarios: Heaven – in which our inventions conquer pain, suffering, stupidity, ignorance, and even death. Hell – in which our creations wipe out the human race or all of life on earth within a generation. And Prevail – which argues that these first two scenarios are technodeterministic. “In the Prevail Scenario, what really matters – as always – is not how many transistors we get to talk to each other, but how many ornery, imaginative, unpredictable human beings we can bring together to arrive at surprising ways to co-evolve with our challenges. Because only in this bottom-up way will humans really control their destinies, rather than have them controlled by our creations.””

    tags: futures futurism optimism technology determinism transhumanism singularity

  • Flattened « how to save the world

    “Fearful and flattened. That’s what our industrial growth culture wants and needs of its members, now that it is a global monoculture strained to its absolute limits. Unless exercised in a culturally-approved way (such as “competitive” sports, wars, or abuse of one’s work or social “subordinates”), or locked away behind closed doors where there is plausible deniability, anger is now met with quick and violent suppression. Peaceful but angry demonstrations are met with heavily-armed stormtroopers. Anyone who even discusses angry resistance to the ecological desolation of our planet, to the theft and pillaging of Earth’s resources for the benefit of a tiny rapacious 1%, or to wars over oil or ideology, is branded a “terrorist” and subject to “disappearance”, extraordinary rendition to torture prisons, and/or indefinite imprisonment. Likewise, feelings of debilitating grief, which I think are perfectly normal in our terrible world, have been pathologized and are now treated with large doses of anti-depressants or, failing that, ostracism and/or incarceration or other institutionalization. Our industrial culture teaches us to self-victimize. We are to blame, we are told, for our own unemployment and poverty (due to personal laziness or lack of moral fibre). We are to blame, too, for our own chronic illnesses (due to our poor eating and exercising habits). Suicide is, of course, treated not only as a sign of irresponsibility, but as a crime.”

    tags: emotion fear grief growth capitalism culture future depression

  • Mythbusters Banned From Discussing RFID By Visa And Mastercard | Disinformation

    Host Adam Savage of Mythbusters tells how Visa, Mastercard, and Discover had the Discovery Channel put the kibosh on an episode that would have revealed just how “trackable and hackable” the RFID chips found in many credit cards are. It’s a telling example of how corporate advertisers serve as the gatekeepers of mainstream media/entertainment:

    tags: rfid business advertising corporatism television media

  • JAH – Dec. 2011 – Conservatism: A Round Table

    “In recent years there has been a remarkable expansion of historical scholarship on twentieth-century American conservatism. This new literature comprises a rich and exciting body of work, one that is in direct dialogue with developments in contemporary U.S. politics. Kim Phillips-Fein offers an assessment of the state of the field, suggesting an evolution away from writing about conservatism as a “backlash” against the 1960s and toward seeing it as a political movement gaining strength over the entire postwar period. She outlines how the new scholarship on conservatism might alter how we teach the narrative of the twentieth century, and she suggests some of the interpretive questions that remain about the place of conservatism in American history. Following Phillips-Fein’s article, the conservatism scholars Alan Brinkley, Donald T. Critchlow, Martin Durham, Matthew D. Lassiter, Wilfred M. McClay, and Lisa McGirr offer perspectives on the state of the field.”

    tags: history conservatism american american-studies

  • Jon Taplin’s Home Page » American Crack-Up

    “This election should be fought on this pie chart. Where are we going to spend our collective wealth? On guns, jet fighters and tanks or on schools, hospitals and roads. This will mean that the Democrats will have to have the courage to fight the “soft on terrorism” brickbrats thrown by Newt or Mitt. Ron Paul is already used to hearing this bullshit, and it doesn’t seem to be bothering him.”

    tags: politics government defense budget money military-industrial-complex

  • PLoS Computational Biology: Early Warning Signals for Critical Transitions: A Generalized Modeling Approach

    Critical transitions are sudden, often irreversible, changes that can occur in a large variety of complex systems; signals that warn of critical transitions are therefore highly desirable. We propose a new method for early warning signals that integrates multiple sources of information and data about the system through the framework of a generalized model. We demonstrate our proposed approach through several examples, including a previously published fisheries model. We regard our method as complementary to existing early warning signals, taking an approach of intermediate complexity between model-free approaches and fully parameterized simulations. One potential advantage of our approach is that, under appropriate conditions, it may reduce the amount of time series data required for a robust early warning signal.

    tags: complexity transition crisis warnings risk modeling signals

  • Facebook, Google, and the Future of the Online ‘Commons’ – James Fallows – Technology – The Atlantic

    tags: social-media facebook google commons online internet culture technology environment

  • Optimal Layout – The ultimate window manager, for Mac OS X

    tags: macintosh software utility windows

  • So whaddaya think: should we put truthtelling back up there at number one? » Pressthink

    tags: media-reform media-studies media journalism news truth

  • opting out of social media – mamamusings

    tags: social-media facebook twitter optout attitude research ideas

  • filmgirl/TextMate-Themes – GitHub

    tags: textmate themes software

  • Katie’s Tech Travel Bag « KatieFloyd.me

    tags: travel hints tips technology computers equipment

  • Everything You Thought You Knew About Learning Is Wrong | GeekDad | Wired.com

    tags: learning education memory study psychology

  • Post List[Letters to Earth: Astronaut Don Pettit]

    tags: weblog-individual space astronomy

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  • Finance Bill Reminder Software for Mac – Chronicle | LittleFin LLC

    tags: macintosh software money

  • Review: TranscriptPad — review and manage depositions on your iPad – iPhone J.D.

    tags: ipad software macintosh transcript

  • Announcing Principles of Biology, an Interactive Textbook by Nature Education

    Nature Education is delighted to announce the launch of a new series of affordable, high quality interactive textbooks in college-level science. The first textbook in the series, Principles of Biology, is intended for university-level biology courses. The first title in the series is Principles of Biology, intended for introductory biology classes.

    tags: education publishing interactive biology textbook

  • Cartels Are an Emergent Phenomenon, Say Complexity Theorists – Technology Review

    Under certain market conditions, cartels arise naturally without collusion. This raises important questions over how the behavior should be controlled.

    tags: economics monopoly emergence complexity markets

  • the small science collective

    A collaboration of scientists, artists, students, and anyone else interested in science, this project produces small zines and web comics on a variety of topics . Read online, download zines, and share your ideas here!

    tags: science design community education teaching pedagogy zine publishing art

  • Fear of Repression Spurs Scholars and Activists to Build Alternate Internets – College 2.0 – The Chronicle of Higher Education

    tags: freedom technology education security computers networks internet

  • The Law of Online Sharing – Technology Review

    Facebook’s impending problem is that even if the company enables future pacemakers to share our every heartbeat, the company cannot automate caring—the most important part of the feedback loop that has driven the social Web’s ascent. Nothing can support exponential growth for long. No matter how cleverly our friends’ social output is summarized and highlighted for us, there are only so many hours in the day for us to express that we care. Today, the law of social sharing is a useful way to think about the rise of social computing, but eventually, reality will make it obsolete.

    tags: social-media facebook sharing online community attention behavior psychology technology-effects

  • Serious Service Sag – Adaptive Path

    This is a big gap where businesses choose to invest in their services. They spend a lot of money to tell you how great the service is, and then, all too often, the service doesn’t live up to the hype. Brands become hypocrites thanks to their own investments.

    tags: business advertising management service service-economy investment budget

  • The Predator State | Mother Jones

    Today, the signature of modern American capitalism is neither benign competition, nor class struggle, nor an inclusive middle-class utopia. Instead, predation has become the dominant feature—a system wherein the rich have come to feast on decaying systems built for the middle class. The predatory class is not the whole of the wealthy; it may be opposed by many others of similar wealth. But it is the defining feature, the leading force. And its agents are in full control of the government under which we live.

    tags: economics politics public-interest public government failure predator-or-prey state

  • National Public Rodeo | Business | Vanity Fair

    When most people hear “NPR,” they think Cokie Roberts, Nina Totenberg, Robert Siegel, and for some on the far right, all that is wrong with the mainstream liberal media. But beneath the veneer of the “Minnesota nice,” a simmering battle has been waged, and in the balance hangs NPR’s future and perhaps even its soul—as either a nonpartisan defender of in-depth journalism or a target of the partisan sniping of the sound-bite era. David Margolick explores how NPR’s management managed to squander the advantages of the national dole, deep-pocketed donors, a roster of top-notch reporters, and the loyalty of legions of devoted Click and Clack fans—and whether it can recover from the annus horribilis of 2011.

    tags: media journalism race celebrity pundits media-reform management controversy bias right-wing public-radio

  • Jonathan Schaffer’s Page

    tags: people acdemic philosophy fundamentalism epistemology

  • Human Complexity 2012

    ” The initial 2012 conference will be based on an Institute for Advanced Topics in the Digital Humanities (IATDH) sponsored by the National Endowment for the Humanities and the UNC Charlotte Complex Systems Institute this past year that was dedicated to computer modeling in the humanities and social sciences. In keeping with the theme of the IATDH, the topic for our first conference will be: Modeling Complexity in the Humanities and Social Sciences.”

    tags: complexity humanities cfp conference 2012

  • International Association of Computing And Philosophy

    “The IACAP exists to promote scholarly dialogue and research on all aspects of the computational and informational turn, and on the use of information and communication technologies in the service of philosophy”

    tags: computers philosophy professional-association

  • DIPIR Project – Home

    Check the bibliography. “DIPIR is an IMLS-funded project led by Dr. Ixchel Faniel and Dr. Elizabeth Yakel. Together with partners at The Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research, the University of Michigan Museum of Zoology, and Open Context, they are studying data reuse in three academic disciplines to identify how contextual information about the data that supports reuse can best be created and preserved. The project focuses on research data produced and used by quantitative social scientists, archaeologists, and zoologists. The intended audiences of this project are researchers who use secondary data and the digital curators, digital repository managers, data center staff, and others who collect, manage, and store digital information. Knowledge gained from the study will help guide current and future international practices for curating and preserving digital research data.”

    tags: research project archives science data-curation school(UMich) bibliography

  • Panel: Young Adult Speculative Fiction – SF Signal – A Speculative Fiction Blog

    tags: fiction literature young-adult sf fantasy review discussion

  • Future of Leap Seconds

    tags: time measurement metrology standards calendar infrastructure

  • Leap seconds: Their time has come | The Economist

    But possibly no longer. Next week, the International Telecommunication Union (ITU) is meeting in Geneva, and one of the items on its agenda is the abolition of the leap second. If the assembled delegates vote in favour, then the next leap second (which will be added one second before midnight on June 30th, causing clocks set to UTC to display 23:59:59 for two seconds instead of one) will be one of the last—and the answer to the question “what time is it?” will have ceased to have anything to do with the revolutions of the heavens.

    tags: time metrology measurement standards

  • 99% Invisible

    tags: podcast radio infrastructure invisible

  • Too Much Information with Benjamen Walker

    “Too Much Information is the sober hangover after the digital party has run out of memes, apps and schemes. Host Benjamen Walker finds out that, in a world where everyone overshares the truth 140 characters at a time, telling tales might be the most honest thing to do.”

    tags: podcast radio

  • Douglas Rushkoff – Blog – CNN: Why I am learning to code and you should, too

    “Most adults realize that, say, Facebook is engineered to increase the value of our “social graphs” to its customers, the corporations and research firms that buy this data. We understand that we’re not the customers, but the product. The more critically we engage with all of the iPhones and Google searches in our lives, the better we can tell what they want from us. But I no longer think that’s enough. It took a few centuries after the invention of text for regular people to learn how to read and write. The printing press, which democratized print by reducing the cost of manuscripts, certainly helped. Now that we live in a world with newspapers, road signs, package labels and drug inserts, almost no one still questions the idea that teaching kids to read is a good thing, or that basic literacy makes us more likely to create value for ourselves or our employers.”

    tags: computer-science computers literacy programming education learning

  • Your body wasn’t built to last: a lesson from human mortality rates « Gravity and Levity

    “This is the Gompertz law, in cartoon form: your body is deteriorating over time at a particular rate. When its “internal policemen” are good enough to patrol every spot that might contain a criminal 14 times a day, then you have the body of a 25-year-old and a 0.03% chance of dying this year. But by the time your police force can only patrol every spot 7 times per day, you have the body of a 95-year-old with only a 2-in-3 chance of making it through the year.”

    tags: biology age aging science statistics explanation health death longevity mortality

  • Climate change becomes a flash point in science education – latimes.com

    “Some states have introduced education standards requiring teachers to defend the denial of man-made global warming. A national watchdog group says it will start monitoring classrooms.”

    tags: climate climate-change science denial education teaching evolution controversy

  • The Rise of the New Groupthink – NYTimes.com

    “Solitude is out of fashion. Our companies, our schools and our culture are in thrall to an idea I call the New Groupthink, which holds that creativity and achievement come from an oddly gregarious place. Most of us now work in teams, in offices without walls, for managers who prize people skills above all. Lone geniuses are out. Collaboration is in. “

    tags: solitude silence computers technology-effects social media behavior creativity novelty brainstorming business

  • Thomas Edsall’s The Age of Austerity, reviewed – Slate Magazine

    “The Age of Austerity: How Scarcity Will Remake American Politics by veteran political reporter Thomas Edsall, suggests that’s a mistake. Writers both friendly and hostile to the banking establishment have focused on the continuity at some high levels of policymaking. Ben Bernanke has stayed on as top central banker; Timothy Geithner slid from the New York Fed to the Treasury after Obama’s inauguration; TARP was a bipartisan collaboration between Nancy Pelosi and George W. Bush, continued by his successor. Various former investment bankers have shuffled in and out of office in Washington. Lost or marginalized in these tales is the extraordinary partisan political mobilization of the past several years.”

    tags: book review recession economics politics partisanship polarization

  • The End of Mass Media Mentalities and the Sciences « The Scholarly Kitchen

    tags: technology-effects mass media science

  • Unicode – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

    tags: computer teaching history code computer-science standard infrastructure

  • Commercial code (communications) – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

    tags: computer teaching history code computer-science commercial telegraph

  • ASCII – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

    tags: computer teaching history code computer-science

  • I Endorse These Messages | Easily Distracted

    tags: education pedagogy graduate-school social-science humanities methods teaching

  • Prospects for the Commons in 2012 | David Bollier

    tags: commons 2012 future

  • BJ Fogg’s Website

    ” My expertise is creating systems to change human behavior. I call this “Behavior Design.” I devote about 50% of my time to Stanford and 50% to industry innovation. For me, working in both worlds makes sense: My Stanford work makes me better in industry. And what I learn in industry improves my Stanford research. I’m always eager to help other innovators. “

    tags: people technoloy innovation persuasion

  • Contrary Brin: Are we “evolving” toward becoming “marching morons”?

    tags: evolution evolutionary-psychology intelligence creativity

  • Precarious Thought – Jacobin

    Comments, mostly con, on “The precariat is a flexible workforce reliant on short-term employment. They’re temps, part-timers, seasonal laborers, freelancers, even interns — people without traditional unions to rely on. There is nothing below them, only the safety net’s tatters. “[Their] lives and identities are made up of disjointed bits, in which they cannot construct a desirable narrative or build a career, combining forms of work and labour, play and leisure in a sustainable way.””

    tags: labor work class temporary consulting review commentary economics

  • PHD Comics: More Quantum Gradnamics

    tags: humor comic academia graduate-school

  • History 62, The History of Reading, Spring 2012 | Easily Distracted

    tags: syllabi reading history 2012

  • Geek of the Week: Bill Sleeper, 96-year-old tech enthusiast – GeekWire

    tags: people technology age enthusiasm

  • Sense about Science – Equipping people to make sense of science and evidence

    “We are a charitable trust that equips people to make sense of scientific and medical claims in public discussion.”

    tags: science public-understanding understanding charity country(UK) sensemaking

  • Schumpeter: Romney the revolutionary | The Economist

    tags: politics economics business management consulting history 20c

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  • Boston Review — Claude S. Fischer: Not So Nasty, Brutish, and Short

    “Even if we don’t fully understand the reasons for the decline in rates of violence, the decline is real, and Pinker describes it vividly and lucidly. He nonetheless worries, as well he should, that his audience will not remember this Good News. Some parts of it have been told before. For instance, a commission appointed by Lyndon Johnson to explain the civil disorders of the 1960s reported that violence in the United States had dropped greatly over the course of its history. Though noted by the media at the time, that information was soon forgotten, and so the surprise on Pinker’s book tour. “

    tags: book review violence history psychology psychohistory evolutionary-psychology culture

  • Stumbling and Mumbling: Cakes, capitalism & happiness

    “But why do we spend too much time on comfort goods and ordinary consumer spending and not enough on creative activities? One reason, says Pugno is that the latter require investment in “leisure skills” – the ability to play an instrument, garden or appreciate art. Such investment, like any other, is costly. At any point in time, therefore, we might prefer the zero-cost option of comfort goods. But this means we never acquire the skills needed to make best use of our leisure.”

    tags: economics spending consumerism behavior talent leisure skill

  • interfluidity » Why is finance so complex?

    “Finance has always been complex. More precisely it has always been opaque, and complexity is a means of rationalizing opacity in societies that pretend to transparency. Opacity is absolutely essential to modern finance. It is a feature not a bug until we radically change the way we mobilize economic risk-bearing. The core purpose of status quo finance is to coax people into accepting risks that they would not, if fully informed, consent to bear.”

    tags: banking complexity opacity transparency game-theory risk money economics

  • The Institutional Revolution: Measurement and the Economic Emergence of the Modern World, Allen

    “In The Institutional Revolution, Douglas W. Allen offers a thought-provoking account of another, quieter revolution that took place at the end of the eighteenth century and allowed for the full exploitation of the many new technological innovations. Fundamental to this shift were dramatic changes in institutions, or the rules that govern society, which reflected significant improvements in the ability to measure performance—whether of government officials, laborers, or naval officers—thereby reducing the role of nature and the hazards of variance in daily affairs. Along the way, Allen provides readers with a fascinating explanation of the critical roles played by seemingly bizarre institutions, from dueling to the purchase of one’s rank in the British Army.”

    tags: book publisher history 18c institutions revolution organizations

  • Uni-ball Kuru Toga High Grade Auto Lead Rotation Mechanical Pencil – 0.5 mm – Black Body – JetPens.com

    tags: shopping pens pencil writing

  • The richness of Twitter | Felix Salmon

    “On top of that, Twitter is a snapshot of life, not of the news. If you were to listen to all the conversations in your city right now, some of them would be about the news; most would not. Many of them would be about celebrities, because the purpose of celebrities is in large part to give everybody something to talk about — a shared cultural touchstone. It’s hardly a surprise, then, that celebrities are popular on Twitter. But that doesn’t mean in any sense that they’re supplanting the news.”

    tags: twitter news journalism information social-media fads

  • Overcoming Bias : Dear Young Eccentric

    “Think of it this way. When some folks go out of their way to show off their defiance and rebellion, others go out of their way to publicly squash such rebellion, to assert their dominance. But if you are not overtly rebellious, you can get away with a lot of abstract idea rebellion — few folks will even notice such deviations, and fewer still will care. So, ask yourself, do you want to look like a rebel, or do you want to be a rebel?”

    tags: rebellion weird ideas eccentricity creativity novelty behavior

  • How Art History Majors Power the U.S. Economy: Virginia Postrel – Bloomberg

    “The students who come out of school without jobs aren’t, for the most part, starry-eyed liberal arts majors but rather people who thought a degree in business, graphic design or nursing was a practical, job-oriented credential. Even the latest target of Internet mockery, a young woman the New York Times recently described as studying for a master’s in communication with hopes of doing public relations for a nonprofit, is in what she perceives as a job-training program. The higher-education system does have real problems, including rising tuition prices that may not pay off in higher earnings. But those problems won’t be solved by assuming that if American students would just stop studying stupid subjects like philosophy and art history and buckle down and major in petroleum engineering (the highest-paid major), the economy would flourish and everyone would have lucrative careers. That message not only ignores what students actually study. It also disregards the diversity and dynamism of the economy, in good times as well as bad.”

    tags: education economics jobs work humanities

  • The Cascadia Subduction Zone

    tags: literature journal criticism feminism

  • DARK AGES AMERICA — Blog for Morris Berman

    Morris Berman is well known as an innovative cultural historian and social critic. He has taught at a number of universities in Europe and North America, and has held visiting endowed chairs at Incarnate Word College (San Antonio), the University of New Mexico, and Weber State University.

    tags: weblog-individual america decline

  • Huge US command-&-control airship gets quantum optics • The Register

    Pentagon boffinry powerhouse DARPA has announced plans to fit a giant new US military command and control airship – known as “Blue Devil Block 2″ – with through-the-air optical links offering bandwidth normally achievable only by fibre cables. This is to be done using newly-applied technology developed in the 1990s for use in astronomical telescopes.

    tags: technology military astronomy optics military-industrial-complex technology-adoption

  • Raritania

    tags: weblog-individual writing sf reviews

  • Brian Basham: Beware corporate psychopaths – they are still occupying positions of power – Business Comment – Business – The Independent

    Cut to a pleasantly warm evening in Bahrain. My companion, a senior UK investment banker and I, are discussing the most successful banking types we know and what makes them tick. I argue that they often conform to the characteristics displayed by social psychopaths. To my surprise, my friend agrees. He then makes an astonishing confession: “At one major investment bank for which I worked, we used psychometric testing to recruit social psychopaths because their characteristics exactly suited them to senior corporate finance roles.”

    tags: business psychology pathology sociopathy success

  • Raritania: A Revolution of Falling Expectations: Whither the Singularity?

    tags: sf fiction singularity review expectation future vision

  • Strange Horizons Reviews: 2011 In Review, reviewed by Our Reviewers

    tags: best-of-the-year 2011 sf fiction fantasy film recommendations reviews

  • tiara.org

    Tiara.org is the personal homepage of Alice Marwick, aka alicetiara. I am a social software researcher based in Boston and New York City.

    tags: people research social-media weblog-individual

  • Learning German | Deutsche Welle

    tags: foreign-language learning german

  • Treating a Nation of Anxious Wimps

    We’ve become a nation of hypochondriacs. Every sneeze is swine flu, every headache a tumor. And at great expense, we deliver fantastically prompt, thorough and largely unnecessary care. There is tremendous financial pressure on physicians to keep patients happy. But unlike business, in medicine the customer isn’t always right. Sometimes a doctor needs to show tough love and deny patients the quick fix. A good physician needs to have the guts to stand up to people and tell them that their baby gets ear infections because they smoke cigarettes. That it’s time to admit they are alcoholics. That they need to suck it up and deal with discomfort because narcotics will just make everything worse. That what’s really wrong with them is that they are just too damned fat.  Unfortunately, this type of advice rarely leads to high patient satisfaction scores.  

    tags: medicine health health-care cost risk expectation

  • John Brockman: the man who runs the world’s smartest website | Technology | The Observer

    Interview with founder/editor of the edge.org

    tags: interview arts science online forum

  • Infinite Stupidity | Conversation | Edge

    A tiny number of ideas can go a long way, as we’ve seen. And the Internet makes that more and more likely. What’s happening is that we might, in fact, be at a time in our history where we’re being domesticated by these great big societal things, such as Facebook and the Internet. We’re being domesticated by them, because fewer and fewer and fewer of us have to be innovators to get by. And so, in the cold calculus of evolution by natural selection, at no greater time in history than ever before, copiers are probably doing better than innovators. Because innovation is extraordinarily hard. My worry is that we could be moving in that direction, towards becoming more and more sort of docile copiers.

    tags: evolution learning innovation creativity social-media technology-effects evolutionary-psychology biology imitation epistemology facebook internet

  • 5 tips for using your Apple gear to stay fit and healthy in 2012 — Apple News, Tips and Reviews

    tags: fitness health software macintosh iphone review

  • TUAW Best of 2011 wrap-up and editor picks | TUAW – The Unofficial Apple Weblog

    tags: macintosh iphone ipad software recommendations best-of-the-year 2011

  • Fitbit

    tags: health tracking business iphone quantified-self fitness exercise technology

  • Radio Paradise – eclectic commercial free Internet radio

    tags: radio music streaming audio entertainment

  • REAPER | Audio Production Without Limits

    REAPER is digital audio workstation software: a complete multitrack audio and MIDI recording, editing, processing, mixing, and mastering environment.

    tags: audio software digital

  • Withings – Homepage – Withings smart and connected objects

    tags: health tracking business iphone quantified-self

  • From underwear to aircraft noise: logging 70 years of social change

    The summer of 2011 marks the seventieth anniversary of the very first Government Social Survey. In celebration, the Office for National Statistics (ONS) pays tribute to the thousands of interviewers who have asked the public questions on everything from underwear to aircraft noise. We have delved into the archives and picked surveys from 1941, 1951, etc to mark each decade.

    tags: country(GreatBritain) state survey government statistics polling social

  • BBC News – Why state surveys asked about bras and haddock

    From bra ownership to television interference, the government has wanted to know some strange stuff about people in the UK. Now a history of social surveys reveals why.

    tags: surveys history country(GreatBritain) statistics state government polls tracking social

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  • CodeRunner — krillapps

    tags: macintosh software editor programming

  • TidBITS Entertainment: How I Dared to Try iTunes Match and Actually Enjoyed It

    tags: macintosh iTunes tips software

  • Papers 2 and Papers for the iPad: the ultimate journal reading combination | TUAW – The Unofficial Apple Weblog

    tags: ipad software pdf academic research

  • App Store – Pigs in Trees

    tags: iphone games software

  • PDF Expert – Fill forms, annotate PDFs for iPad on the iTunes App Store

    tags: iphone ipad pdf software

  • Road Trip Weather for iPhone 3GS, iPhone 4, iPhone 4S, iPod touch (3rd generation), iPod touch (4th generation) and iPad on the iTunes App Store

    tags: iphone software weather travel

  • iPhone Wallet – iPhone 4S Case – iPhone 4 Case – SFBags – WaterField Designs

    tags: iphone wallet cases shopping

  • Toddy Gear

    tags: iphone ipad shopping

  • Massive Health + Massive Health + Home

    tags: health medicine data-sharing sharing volunteer information privacy iphone

  • Make ‘paste and match style’ the default behavior – Mac OS X Hints

    tags: macintosh tip utility

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  • Sampling the Multiverse: Three from 2011 – The Barnes & Noble Review

    tags: sf reviews fiction 2011

  • Fired Up: The Year’s Best Science Fiction And Fantasy : NPR

    tags: sf recommendations list best-of-the-year 2011

  • Omnivoracious: 2011 Overlooked Books? Unique Fantasy, SF, and Horror You Might Have Missed

    tags: books recommendations 2011 list sf fantasy best-of-the-year

  • American Class System – We Are Not All Created Equal, by Stephen Marche – Esquire

    In ten years, the next generation will no longer have the faintest illusion that the United States is a country with equality of opportunity. The least they’re entitled to is some honesty about why.

    tags: america inequality decline

  • Holiday Gift Guide: iPhone Apps for the Home | TUAW – The Unofficial Apple Weblog

    tags: iphone software application recommendations

  • Noahpinion: The liberty of local bullies

    I have often remarked in the past how libertarianism – at least, its modern American manifestation – is not really about increasing liberty or freedom as an average person would define those terms. An ideal libertarian society would leave the vast majority of people feeling profoundly constrained in many ways. This is because the freedom of the individual can be curtailed not only by the government, but by a large variety of intermediate powers like work bosses, neighborhood associations, self-organized ethnic movements, organized religions, tough violent men, or social conventions. In a society such as ours, where the government maintains a nominal monopoly on the use of physical violence, there is plenty of room for people to be oppressed by such intermediate powers, whom I call “local bullies.”

    tags: libertarianism libertarian ideology power control oppression freedom

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  • Henry Rollins: The Column! Henry Speaks On His Consciousness-Expanding Trip to the Library of Congress With Ian MacKaye – Los Angeles Music – West Coast Sound

    tags: LibraryOfCongress libraries library preservation archive music punk

  • Bleach baths may help kids with eczema

    tags: skin eczema

  • Sensitive Skin Survival

    tags: weblog-individual skin eczema

  • PLoS ONE: Temporal Patterns of Happiness and Information in a Global Social Network: Hedonometrics and Twitter

    tags: twitter science network-analysis complexity happiness psychology patterns

  • Two Theories of Home Heat Control* – Kempton – 2010 – Cognitive Science – Wiley Online Library

    People routinely develop their own theories to explain the world around them. These theories can be useful even when they contradict conventional technical wisdom. Based on in-depth interviews about home heating and thermostat setting behavior, the present study presents two theories people use to understand and adjust their thermostats. The two theories are here called the feedback theory and the valve theory. The valve theory is inconsistent with engineering knowledge, but is estimated to be held by 25% to 50% of Americans. Predictions of each of the theories are compared with the operations normally performed in home heat control. This comparison suggests that the valve theory may be highly functional in normal day-to-day use. Further data is needed on the ways this theory guides behavior in natural environments.

    tags: philosophy psychology explanation folk-psychology science folk theory expertise laypeople

  • The misunderstood limits of folk science: an illusion of explanatory depth – Rozenblit – 2010 – Cognitive Science – Wiley Online Library

    People feel they understand complex phenomena with far greater precision, coherence, and depth than they really do; they are subject to an illusion—an illusion of explanatory depth. The illusion is far stronger for explanatory knowledge than many other kinds of knowledge, such as that for facts, procedures or narratives. The illusion for explanatory knowledge is most robust where the environment supports real-time explanations with visible mechanisms. We demonstrate the illusion of depth with explanatory knowledge in Studies 1–6. Then we show differences in overconfidence about knowledge across different knowledge domains in Studies 7–10. Finally, we explore the mechanisms behind the initial confidence and behind overconfidence in Studies 11 and 12, and discuss the implications of our findings for the roles of intuitive theories in concepts and cognition.

    tags: philosophy psychology explanation folk-psychology science folk theory expertise laypeople confidence illusion

  • Discerning the Division of Cognitive Labor: An Emerging Understanding of How Knowledge Is Clustered in Other Minds – Keil – 2010 – Cognitive Science – Wiley Online Library

    The division of cognitive labor is fundamental to all cultures. Adults have a strong sense of how knowledge is clustered in the world around them and use that sense to access additional information, defer to relevant experts, and ground their own incomplete understandings. One prominent way of clustering knowledge is by disciplines similar to those that comprise the natural and social sciences. Seven studies explored an emerging sense of these discipline-based ways of clustering of knowledge. Even 5-year-olds could cluster knowledge in a manner roughly corresponding to the departments of natural and social sciences in a university, doing so without any explicit awareness of those academic disciplines. But this awareness is fragile early on and competes with other ways of clustering knowledge. Over the next few years, children come to see discipline-based clusters as having a privileged status, one that may be linked to increasingly sophisticated assumptions about essences for natural kinds. Possible mechanisms for this developmental shift are examined.

    tags: philosophy psychology explanation folk-psychology science folk theory expertise laypeople understanding knowledge division labor

  • The Feasibility of Folk Science – Keil – 2010 – Cognitive Science – Wiley Online Library

    If folk science means individuals having well worked out mechanistic theories of the workings of the world, then it is not feasible. Laypeople’s explanatory understandings are remarkably coarse, full of gaps, and often full of inconsistencies. Even worse, most people overestimate their own understandings. Yet recent views suggest that formal scientists may not be so different. In spite of these limitations, science somehow works and its success offers hope for the feasibility of folk science as well. The success of science arises from the ways in which scientists learn to leverage understandings in other minds and to outsource explanatory work through sophisticated methods of deference and simplification of complex systems. Three studies ask whether analogous processes might be present not only in laypeople but also in young children and thereby form a foundation for supplementing explanatory understandings almost from the start of our first attempts to make sense of the world.

    tags: philosophy psychology explanation folk-psychology science folk theory expertise laypeople

  • ScienceDirect – Cognition : Two dogmas of conceptual empiricism: implications for hybrid models of the structure of knowledge

    Concepts seem to consist of both an associative component based on tabulations of feature typicality and similarity judgments and an explanatory component based on rules and causal principles. However, there is much controversy about how each component functions in concept acquisition and use. Here we consider two assumptions, or dogmas, that embody this controversy and underlie much of the current cognitive science research on concepts. Dogma 1: Novel information is first processed via similarity judgments and only later is influenced by explanatory components. Dogma 2: Children initially have only a similarity-based component for learning concepts; the explanatory component develops on the foundation of this earlier component. We present both empirical and theoretical arguments that these dogmas are unfounded, particularly with respect to real world concepts; we contend that the dogmasarise from a particular species of empiricism that inhibits progress in the study of conceptual structure; and finally, we advocate the retention of a hybrid model of the structure of knowledge despite our rejection of these dogmas.

    tags: cognition concepts knowledge philosophy psychology explanation

  • Path

    tags: iphone social web2.0 journal application

  • You Have Downloaded – We show what you downloaded

    tags: bittorrent privacy tracking online activity intellectual-property piracy

  • Fearing Terrorism, U.S. Asks Journals to Censor Articles on Virus – NYTimes.com

    tags: biology microbiology regulation secrecy virus medicine research scholarly-communication terrorism

  • How Airplanes Fly

    Good example for the “illusion of explanatory depth”

    tags: science explanation flying physics complexity illusion psychology expertise

  • 12 Days of Christmasy Citizen Science Projects | SciStarter Blog

    tags: citizen-science projects

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  • Richard Butsch | Rider University

    tags: people academic sociology communication media-studies

  • Paleontology: A Philosophical Introduction // Reviews // Philosophical Reviews // University of Notre Dame

    tags: book review philosophy science paleontology

  • World Library and Information Congress

    tags: information-science conference professional-association

  • e-Science Events | e-Science Community

    tags: evenets conference e-scholarship e-science

  • Discovering Autism: Unraveling an epidemic – latimes.com

    tags: autism psychology diagnosis disease history personality

  • UnderstandingSociety: Structural adjustment for the middle class?

    tags: money economics income-distribution wealth american work labor class class-war

  • Robert Paterson’s Weblog: Libraries – The Hacker Space – Future of the Real New Economy

    tags: libraries library future hackerspaces hacking hackers makers making

  • The 1 Percent Club’s Misguided Protectors – NYTimes.com

    tags: income-distribution economics income business wealth money

  • You Say You Want a Devolution? | Style | Vanity Fair

    “For most of the last century, America’s cultural landscape—its fashion, art, music, design, entertainment—changed dramatically every 20 years or so. But these days, even as technological and scientific leaps have continued to revolutionize life, popular style has been stuck on repeat, consuming the past instead of creating the new.”

    tags: style history fashion culture american art clothing

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  • American Sociological Association: Intelligent People Have “Unnatural” Preferences and Values That Are Novel in Human Evolutionary History

    “More intelligent people are statistically significantly more likely to exhibit social values and religious and political preferences that are novel to the human species in evolutionary history. Specifically, liberalism and atheism, and for men (but not women), preference for sexual exclusivity correlate with higher intelligence, a new study finds.”

    tags: intelligence evolution sociology evolutionary-psychology

  • American Democracy? | Savage Minds

    “Many hopeful individuals cite internet-based social media as a networked communications system capable of improving democracy by routing around the corporate “noise” and towards a vibrant non-market public sphere. The internet has produced new conditions for peer-to-peer and disintermediated communication, it is true. But what the cynical scholars and activists are saying might be true as well. Democracies require explicitly engaged citizens that demand civically minded, accessible, and participatory media systems to thrive. Are these pre-conditions for democracy being met in America?”

    tags: media democracy america media-reform media-studies communications technology

  • UnderstandingSociety: David Graeber’s reflections on money, debt, and violence

    “The book is difficult to characterize. It’s about debt and money through history, but it’s really not a work in economic history. It offers a lot of ethnographic detail about borrowing, lending, gifting, and reciprocating, but it’s not really a work of anthropology. And it offers morally valenced language to describe debt and credit, but it’s not really a polemical critique of the present financial system. It is certainly an engaging, interesting, and thought-provoking book, and Graeber appears to know a great deal about the social and institutional histories of the main civilizations of Eurasia.”

    tags: book review history economics debt anthropology

  • U.S. Intellectual History: Marking Time through War

    “In my introduction, I found it important to deal briefly with Randolph Bourne’s warning that war was “the health of the state” because through war the state exercised its ultimate power to command sacrifice. What Bourne probably didn’t imagine was that his country would enter a period of almost perpetual war. And thus, as war became a constant presence in American society, it also became something more than the political barometer Bourne suggested. I argue that war grew from a moment to reckon with immediately following America’s atomic bombing of Japan (the photo above is from Hiroshima) to, in our time, a source of almost theological inspiration for the nation. Along the way, a variety of actors also considered how the idea of war had grown increasingly commonplac”

    tags: war militarism military american american-studies history state time

  • Aaron’s Twitter Viewer

    “I made this little program so you can view and link to a whole conversation from Twitter in context.”

    tags: twitter tool conversation

  • Browse vs. Search: Which Deserves to Go?

    tags: hci interface design search browsing

  • Secret Fed Loans Gave Banks $13 Billion Undisclosed to Congress – Bloomberg

    tags: economics wall-street banking crisis the-fed money loan recession same-old-story bailout

  • Barbara Czarniawska – Gothenburg Research Institute, University of Gothenburg, Sweden

    tags: people organizations academic institutions objects

  • GeoData@Tufts

    Welcome to the Tufts Geospatial Data Repository Search, discover, preview, and retrieve geospatial data from multiple repositories

    tags: gis data data-curation data-exploration curation archive geography repository

  • Model Thinking

    tags: online education complexity modeling social-science

  • Professor Allen Tough: Futurist, Scientist, Author

    tags: people education adult-education academic seti science

  • New Illinois center to develop smarter infrastructures, smarter publics | Coordinated Science Laboratory

    tags: academic-center research infrastructure school(UIllinois)

  • Infographic: What the New Digital Divide Looks Like – COLORLINES

    The defining question of the information age is no longer who’s online, but how they got there. In a Colorlines.com investigation, Jamilah King explains how big telecom created two Internets—one in which consumers and their content enjoys some, limited protection and another in which they are left prey to mobile wireless companies’ decisions. People of color, who have closed the traditional digital divide with their smartphones, are streaming into the latter space—and as a result, racial inequity is being wired into the 21st century economy.

    tags: internet culture regulation access race cell-phone

  • How Doctors Die « Zócalo Public Square

    tags: death health medicine technology health-care doctors expertise

  • Nuts and Bolts: Inviting Interaction by Jane Bozarth : Learning Solutions Magazine

    So much learning is informal and unconscious; often learners don’t think of it as “learning something” but as “solving a problem.” Research from Allen Tough tells us that the typical (in the research, middle-class) adult engages in five self-directed learning projects a year, investing an average of 100 hours in each. The problem is, most adults don’t think of themselves as embarking on self-directed learning projects. They think of it as figuring out how to build a deck, or how to win at World of Warcraft, or how to get the best deal on a new car. They choose their own methods, from Googling, to practicing, to asking Joe the coworker, to attending workshops at the local hardware store.

    tags: learning education informal work adult-education social-media

  • The Age of the Essay

    by Paul Graham

    tags: writing essay education literature criticism

  • The Research Bust – The Chronicle Review – The Chronicle of Higher Education

    tags: research academia citation-analysis productivity humanities

  • Robert Reich (The Most Important Economic Speech of His Presidency)

    tags: politics politicians obama economics class speech liberal

  • Threepenny: Young, Discharged into Clouds

    On the fifth floor I spent 10 days learning how to walk never far above the earthworms, never far below the sky. The darkness there

    tags: poem

  • The Deepening Paradox — KarlSchroeder.com

    “So are we alone? Well, there is one other possibility, at this point. I’ve lately been trumpeting my revision of Clarke’s Law (which originally said ‘any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic’). My revision says that any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from Nature. (Astute readers will recognize this as a refinement and further advancement of my argument in Permanence.) Basically, either advanced alien civilizations don’t exist, or we can’t see them because they are indistinguishable from natural systems. I vote for the latter.”

    tags: seti intelligence extraterrestrial space exploration astrobiology fermi-paradox

  • Open the Future: “To Prevail”

    “To Prevail is to accept that our technological tools are changing how our humanity expresses itself, but not changing who we are. It is to know that such changes are choices we make, not destinies we submit to. It is to recognize that our technologies are manifestations of our culture and our politics, and embed the unconscious biases, hopes, and fears we all carry — and that this is something to make transparent and self-evident, not kept hidden. We can make far better choices about our futures when we have a clearer view of our present. To Prevail is to see something subtle and important that both critics and cheerleaders of technological evolution often miss: our technologies will, as they always have, make us who we are. Human plus a Computer equals a Human.”

    tags: technology computers technology-effects future futures optimism pessimism determinism

  • World building 201: Heuristics – Charlie’s Diary

    tags: sf fiction literature worldbuilding

  • Google’s Book Search: A Disaster for Scholars – The Chronicle Review – The Chronicle of Higher Education

    tags: google-books google digital-library digitization metadata business academic humanities history publishing

  • The Prevail Project

    “The Prevail Project aims to be the worldwide clearinghouse for humanistic response to rapid technological change. Its goal is to accelerate bottom-up, enlightened triumph in the face of exponential challenges the way the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency accelerates technology. Its core hope is that in the face of unprecedented transformation, humans will continue to prevail, shaping their own futures, toward their own ends, rather than being the pawns of their explosively powerful technologies. For the only enduring advantage is to learn faster than the competition. And the best way to anticipate the future is to invent it yourself.”

    tags: future technology humanism technology-critique

  • The End of Cyberspace: Keywords of human-computer differences

    “One of the reasons that predictions about the death of the library, office, workplace, book, etc. in the age of the Internet have not come to pass is that these older institutions or technologies had uses that went beyond the strictly functional ones of information processing, storage, retrieval, etc.. Offices, for example, aren’t just places where knowledge workers move zeros and ones around; the good ones are creative spaces that offer workers access to unique stores of informal knowledge. “

    tags: human computers technology-effects technology memory

  • The Partisan and the Political

    “To summarize the thesis: ordinary people hate partisanship, and elites hate ideology. Hence the elite is constantly attempting to misrepresent the latter as the former. And the masses sometimes respond by repudiating ideology when they mean to reject partisanship. “

    tags: politics partisanship ideology economics class

  • Boston Review — Occupy the Future

    “Editor’s Note: We have closely followed the Occupy movement and welcome both the attention it has drawn to societal problems and its potential to re-democratize American politics. As part of our continuing engagement with the protests, we are publishing a series of opinion essays by Stanford University professors exploring key issues raised by Occupy. The following statement from the group introduces the series.”

    tags: wall-street occupations protests activism politics economics ideology

  • Contrary Brin: Atlas Shrugged: The Hidden Context of the Book and Film

    tags: review movie libertarianism ideology

  • Library as Incubator Project |

    The Library as Incubator Project was created by Erinn Batykefer, Laura Damon-Moore, and Christina Endres, three graduate students at the UW-Madison School of Library and Information Studies. The Project highlights the ways that libraries and artists can work together and features: Visual artists, performing artists, and writers who use libraries in their communities for inspiration, information, and as gallery space Collections, libraries and library staff that incubate the arts, and the ways that artists can use them effectively Free-to-share resources for librarians looking to incubate the arts at their libraries Ideas for artists looking to connect with their communities through library programming

    tags: libraries library art collaboration

  • On Not Going Back to School | Easily Distracted

    tags: education open-education autodidact credential school

  • William S. Becker: Let’s Talk About the Future We Want

    tags: future vision UN global international

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