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▶ Is Facebook Changing Our Identity? | Idea Channel | PBS Digital Studios – YouTube
For me, the most interesting issue here is my Facebook, my Twitter, my Youtube and my blogging alter the people who would be in the 100-200 folks that I am capable of knowing and interacting with regularly throughout life. As noted in the video, this is called the Dunbar Number. Because…
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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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Lessons In Leadership: It’s Not About You. (It’s About Them) :| NPR
As an existential philosopher in the lineage of Karl Jaspers, I concur with the notion that being a leader is about listening and bringing folks to compromise. When we act like there is one problem with one solution, we very much are looking at the world as though technical or…
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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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New eBook: Bridging the Bipolar Gap by Dawn Figueroa
At the age of 24 Dawn was preparing to move to Colorado with her boyfriend when she was overtaken by a manic episode which included severe anxiety, hallucinations, and paranoia. She recalls driving around a hospital parking lot debating whether or not she could survive if she did not go…
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Art and Inner Spaces
“Oh my God, does art engender humanity? It awakens your humanity. But humanity has nothing to do with political theory. Political theory is in the interests of one group of humanity, or one ideal for humanity. But humanity—my heavens, that’s what proper art renders. We have a paradox. Going into…
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On the Waterfront
“I could have been a contender” — Rod Steiger and Marlon Brando “We’ll work if Terry works…” — Lee J. Cobb, Marlon Brando, Karl Malden, and Eva Marie Saint
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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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Willing Embrace
In order to open up a cipher of the Encompassing Good, our mindfulness must turn to what obtains eternally, hold it as an idea, keep it in memory, and by loving it, embrace it in the will. A paraphrase of St. Teresa Benedicta of the Cross (Edith Stein) Posted by…
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