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Hacking Education Begins with Good Habits and Practical Knowledge
I often talk with youth (here and here are some examples) about how what they are doing in high school and/or university may not be giving them everything they need. There are lot of ways, however, that the system can be used to provide opportunities to get the basics that…
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Irony Incarcerated
Below is a picture of a product made by unpaid Texas prison inmates who work for extra privileges (like time off of their sentence, the ability to buy goodies at the commissary, exercise in the yard, etc.). They get rooming, food, clothing, and rudimentary medical care as well as some…
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Justice Elena Kagan’s Pro–Spider-Man Ruling
A suit involving an inventor trying to retain royalty payments for a web slinging glove (shoots silly string actually) after the patent ran out on the toy. Marvel didn’t want to pay royalties. Inventor wanted them to keep coming… Kagan sets out to see that Justice triumphs. 😉 “The parties…
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‘Why Grow Up?’ by Susan Neiman
@aoscott reviews Why Grow Up? Subversive Thoughts for an Infantile Age. the present and its technological lures and discontents, thankfully, are not really [Susan Neiman‘s] concern, any more than the jeremiad is her chosen form; she comes across as a patient pedagogue rather than an angry scold. She sprinkles in a few…
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Revisionist Betrayal
We owe it to ourselves and to our descendants to be always open to reconsidering history. But there is a difference between taking back up an account to make it more rigorous and adopting a wholesale lie that makes us feel better about our racism or somehow justified in our…
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For Consideration: Sales Pitching
Ideas are not offered for slow consideration anymore so much as they are offered for quick sale. That thought came to me this morning while watching a documentary. I don’t really think it matters what the film series was… this was something that had been building for a while and it…
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The racism of millennials
The danger in invoking the myth of the presupposed racial tolerance of millennials (and subsequent generations) is that it works to absolve today’s society of actively confronting and undoing the damage of the legacy of slavery, segregation and institutionalized racism. We think racism will just die out with older generations.…
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Pope Francis and Integral Ecology | Becoming Integral
The new encyclical by Pope Francis, Laudato Si’: On the Care of our Common Home, contains many references to “integral ecology,” including an entire chapter by that title. It’s relatively clear that Francis is working with the integral ecology proposed by the Brazilian liberation theologian Leonardo Boff, who draws on the…
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James Joyce — Modern Psychonaut – disinformation
James Joyce’s influence on Psychonaut Culture Sourced through Scoop.it from: disinfo.com
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Leonard Nimoy’s son beams up ‘Mr. Spock’ documentary
Adam Nimoy is unique. He’s the only person who can claim to be both the first Trekkie and the son of Spock, the Star Trek Enterprise’s science officer. Not that that dual existe… Sourced through Scoop.it from: mashable.com
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Explosive intervention by Pope Francis set to transform climate change debate
The most anticipated papal letter for decades will be published in five languages on Thursday. It will call for an end to the ‘tyrannical’ exploitation of nature by mankind. Could it lead to a step-change in the battle against global warming? Sourced through Scoop.it from: www.theguardian.com
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IF YOU BUILD IT, THEY WILL COME: ART CONSPIRACY 2005 – 2015
Originally posted on Human2Human: Texas Theater in Dallas. Photo credit: Art Conspiracy DALLAS: In 2005 when public relations professional Cari Weinberg got a call to help get the word out about an artsy, one-night fundraiser being held in an old, unused theater in Dallas, she was psyched! “We were excited,…
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After the hipsters are all gone… #Yuccies!
David Infante, over at Mashable, muses on what comes next after the age of the hipster. Very much worth considering… Yuccies [Young Urban Creatives] are the cultural offspring of yuppies and hipsters. We’re intent on being successful like yuppies and creative like hipsters. We define ourselves by our purchases, just…
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Ursula K. Le Guin: We can Envision Better than Capitalism
“We live in capitalism,” said Le Guin, “Its power seems inescapable… So did the divine right of kings.”
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Down with Activism; Up with Revolution
…we imagine that we are revolutionaries when we are nothing more than temporary rebels. Activism is far from revolution, and the left at the centres of capitalism is dominated by activists and activist groups––NOT revolutionaries and revolutionary movements. The most popular and predictable activist strategies, which haven’t changed or succeeded since the 1960s,…
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Free to Be Miley
[Miley Cyrus] says she has come to consider her own sexuality — even her own gender identification — fluid. “I am literally open to every single thing that is consenting and doesn’t involve an animal and everyone is of age. Everything that’s legal, I’m down with. Yo, I’m down with…
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