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The World’s First Trillionaire
Originally posted on The Dish: Elliot Hannon wonders who it will be: The two industries are best positioned to take a billionaire to the next level are technology and retail, for the same reason: Both use a global labor pool to make affordable products, inexpensive enough that workers can soon become the…
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Baudelaire Contra Photography… and Memes?
With a nod in the direction of Modern Disappointment for the inspiration from a comment on the Idea Channel post I put up a few days ago. …During this lamentable period, a new industry arose which contributed not a little to confirm stupidity in its faith and to ruin whatever…
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Chomsky: Business Elites Are Waging a Brutal Class War in America | Alternet
Well, there’s always a class war going on. The United States, to an unusual extent, is a business-run society, more so than others. The business classes are very class-conscious—they’re constantly fighting a bitter class war to improve their power and diminish opposition. Occasionally this is recognized. We don’t use the…
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Art and the Alter-Modern Philosophical Network
If the Society of Control is in part about the delivery of knowledge and information through constantly modulating networks, then maybe the PBS Idea Channel gives us an inkling of how Millennials will philosophize via the interweb. Here are a few examples centered on art and aesthetics: Related articles More…
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Neal Smatresk: The UNLV president fights back over budget cuts – VEGAS INC
I believe this fellow will be the next president at the University of North Texas in Denton. The general belief by many people in our state — and it’s kind of a national belief — is that `those higher ed people they’re kind of fat and well paid and don’t…
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A Permanent Slump? | Paul Krugman
…what if the world we’ve been living in for the past five years is the new normal? What if depression-like conditions are on track to persist, not for another year or two, but for decades? You might imagine that speculations along these lines are the province of a radical fringe.…
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America’s angriest white men: Up close with racism, rage and Southern supremacy – Salon.com
On the extreme Right, by contrast, race is a proxy for class. Among the white supremacists, when they speak of race consciousness, defending white people, protesting for equal rights for white people, they actually don’t mean all white people. They don’t mean Wall Street bankers and lawyers, though they are…
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Adjunct. The modern indentured servant.
Originally posted on modern disappointment.: By Sinnamon Rohl I’m an adjunct. That means that when I am in the classroom with you, I’m your professor. But when I am in the company of other faculty or administration in the educational institution under which I am employed, I am a second-class…
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Featured Author: Tracy James Jones
Originally posted on Sharon C. Williams-Author: Tracy James Jones from Dallas and Waxahachie, Texas, is a blogger, book reviewer, indie author, former actor & artist who writes multicultural romantic drama. Literary portfolio includes four published novels, a collection of short stories, and two original screenplay projects. “Writing is a passion…
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MENTAL HEALTH CARE – WHO NEEDS IT?
Originally posted on Sheri Lawrence de Grom: Mental Health Care – Who Needs It? The Fourth House By – Sheri de Grom I couldn’t believe what I’d just heard. It couldn’t be possible. Yet when I looked up and saw the determined look on my husband’s face, I knew…
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The Semantic Apocalypse
Originally posted on Speculative Heresy: Last week, I was privileged to be a respondent to a lecture entitled “The End of the World As We Know It: Neuroscience and the Semantic Apocalypse”. (Held at Canada’s premier interdisciplinary department: The University of Western Ontario’s Centre for the Study of Theory and…
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Brain Drain and Brain Gain
In a new book, “Paying the Professoriate,” to be published this month, Mr. Altbach and his co-editors examine academic salaries, contracts and benefits in publicly funded universities in 28 countries. They depict a world increasingly divided “into two categories — brain drain and brain gain,” as countries with more resources…
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Eleven Nations “Up in Arms”
The borders of my eleven American nations are reflected in many different types of maps—including maps showing the distribution of linguistic dialects, the spread of cultural artifacts, the prevalence of different religious denominations, and the county-by-county breakdown of voting in virtually every hotly contested presidential race in our history. Our…
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The best science and technology podcasts – Telegraph
Really nice resource for the curious. The best science and technology podcasts, from astronomy for beginners to consumer advice, selected and updated by Pete Naughton via The best science and technology podcasts – Telegraph.
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Sheryl Sandberg: “Men need to do more childcare and housework” – Salon.com
For her new book, “What Will It Take to Make a Woman President?,” veteran journalist Marianne Schnall interviewed high-achieving women about why the highest glass ceiling in the land is still in place. The following is taken from her talk with Sheryl Sandberg, Facebook’s chief operating officer. Marianne Schnall: Why…
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The government needs to reform its relationship with technology
…MindMixer works to create a platform to more easily create dialogues between citizens and political figures. Bowden explains it as bringing the “town hall meeting concept online.” At heart, though, is the understanding that the government needs to integrate and utilize up-to-date technology with the political process. Indeed, Obamacare would…
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Are we all screwed if we refuse to stand up and push back?
In December 2012, a pink-haired complex systems researcher named Brad Werner made his way through the throng of 24,000 earth and space scientists at the Fall Meeting of the American Geophysical Union, held annually in San Francisco. This year’s conference had some big-name participants, from Ed Stone of Nasa’s Voyager…
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