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Global Inequality - 0 views

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      Alex Maguid on 10 Dec 11
       
      THis is great because it show us how it from the 1800 to now there has been a dramatic increase in global inequality.
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The Learning Generalist: March 2011 - 0 views

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      Jake Izenberg on 13 Dec 11
       
      this site has a video on my topic the contains good information. Not only is there a video, but under it contains more information on my subject. In this information there's interesting facts and history on what I'm learning for TF5M 
  • exploring the effects of new media on society and culture
  • anthropologist
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  • society
  • Facebook
  • The knowledge is all around people and a lot of advanced technology is so ubiquitous that it makes connection, organising, sharing and learning easier than ever before
  • new culture and environment
  • how important media was
  • media helped the people there in a big way
  • For example
  • The other examples
  • Media is therefore not just tools and communication
  • they mediate relationships. Media changes, relationships change and the culture changes.
  • Think about how we watch TV. We watch TV for the content, but the content drives relationships. We watch TV while at dinner, we congregate in groups to watch sport. These are the conversations that create our culture
  • Now this kind of stuff should be showing it's effect on education, but it doesnt - 43% of students are bored, up from 20% in the 80s
  • a brief history of the phrase
  • Let's analyse it over time. In the pre-60s "Whatever" meant "That's what I meant". After the 60s it became synonymous with "I don't care" or a "Meh...".
  • Whatever
  • it's a way for people to raise their personality and not be indistinguishable. More people want to be important today - more people want to be the new American Ido
  • So why is American Idol popular
  • From the late 90s to now, people have adopted the "I'll do what I want" meaning for "Whatever". It's an empowered generation and free culture
  • It's a very broad cultural phenomenon which is driving a search for identity and recognition
  • We all need identity and recognition and the media keeps bombarding us with messages of the kind of people we should become. The search for the authentic self leads us towards self-centered modes of self-fulfillment and disagreement on several things - values, views, approaches. We're more disengaged and more fragmented. The new media revolution is creating the cultural background for this kind of a change.
  • micro-learning
  • Jake Izenberg on 13 Dec 11
     
    TF5M    info + video 
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Homo floresiensis: the Hobbit - 0 views

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      mauromongiat on 09 Dec 11
       
      The homo floriensis Would be a small human if it did'nt have such a small brain. The fact that the brain of the homo floriensis is so small is a proof that it is a different specie from the homo sappien.
  • The brain size of the floresiensis skull is extraordinarily small, at 380cc. This is as small as any australopithecine ever discovered, and fairly typical for a chimpanzee. (Chimps range from about 300 to 500cc, averaging about 400cc, but are physically bigger than floresiensis.) This is smaller than would be expected even for a dwarf form of Homo erectus, and suggests there was active selection for a small brain size for some reason. (Human pygmies, incidentally, are nothing like H. floresiensis; their brains are almost as large as those of normal-sized humans)
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Human Family Tree | The Smithsonian Institution's Human Origins Program - 0 views

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  • Alyssa Cohen on 13 Dec 11
     
    Interactive 'human family tree' website that simply illustrates the earliest ancestors to today's homo sapiens. 
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Miner's "Body Ritual among the Nacirema" - 0 views

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    "Body Ritual among the Nacirema"
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HHMI's BioInteractive - Lecture Series and Informal Talks - 0 views

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  • Flash HD, Flash Medium, Flash Low
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      Daryl Bambic on 23 Nov 11
       
      This is a great topic for TFAD assignment.
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NOVA | The Nurture of Nature - 0 views

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  • Harvard naturalist E. O. Wilson published his seminal Sociobiology in 1975. The book unleashed a heated debate over whether social behaviors such as altruism or aggression could have a genetic basis, a controversy that helped spur the now vigorous research into such mysteries.
    • Daryl Bambic
      Daryl Bambic on 13 Dec 11
       
      This is the 'founder' of the very controversial sociobiology theory of human behaviour.
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Webspeak: The Secret Language of Teens - ABC News - 0 views

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  • The use of language in a new way is really a good thing," said Deborah Tannen, Ph.D., linguistics professor at Georgetown University in Washington, D.C.
    • Stephanie dore
      Stephanie dore on 11 Mar 11
       
      Not everyone thinks the slang is a bad thing. Deborah Tannen Ph.D. thinks that the adolescent population's slang means that they are adapting.
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Webspeak: The Secret Language of Teens - ABC News - 0 views

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  • "I've been texting so much that I wrote the letters 'u-r' instead of 'y-o-u-r' and the letter 'r' instead of the word 'are,'" said Michelle Sloan, a Clarksburg High freshman, of a paper she wrote for school. "My teacher came up to me and told me my mistake, and I felt kind of stupid."
    • Stephanie dore
      Stephanie dore on 11 Mar 11
       
      Coming from a teen herself, she can see how IM is effecting her vocabulary and grammar. She seems to think that this is because of the technology used for socializing. This is a problem that is coming to the classroom and is not just saying on the outside. 
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Animal cognition - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia - 0 views

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  • artificial language comprehension in the bottlenosed dolphin using cognitive research methods
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      Chrissy Le on 11 Dec 11
       
      It's very interesting to think of animals being able to communicate between each other through various ways whether it be by speech, appearance, smell, etc.
  • Animal cognition From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
  • study of the mental capacities of non-human animals.
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  • comparative psychology,
  • animal intelligence
  • mostly concerns mammals, especially primates, cetaceans, and elephants, as well as dogs, cats, and rodents.
  • and fish,
  • began in the late 1950s
  • John Lilly
  • other animals do have minds and that humans should approach the study of their cognition accordingly.
  • bottlenosed dolphins
  • particularly monkeys
  • Spatial cognition
  • The ability to properly navigate and search through the environment is a critical task for many animals.
  • Research in 2007 shows that chimpanzees in the Fongoli savannah sharpen sticks to use as spears when hunting, considered the first evidence of systematic use of weapons in a species other than humans.
  • Language
  • The modeling of human language in animals is known as animal language research.
  • Consciousness
  • The sense in which animals can be said to have consciousness or a self-concept has been hotly debated; it is often referred to as the debate over animal minds.
  • It has been suggested that metacognition in some animals provides some evidence for cognitive self-awareness.[11] The great apes, dolphins, and rhesus monkeys have demonstrated the ability to monitor their own mental states and use an "I don't know" response to avoid answering difficult questions. These species might also be aware of the strength of their memories.
  • This page was last modified on 26 November 2011 at 11:42.
  • Daryl Bambic on 11 Dec 11
     
    Indeed it is an interesting topic. Please don't bookmark wikipedia articles but maybe check out one of their references on the topic. You could also use some of the names of the anthropologists working in this field that we learned about. Susan Savage Rumbage was one who was featured in the documentary 'Ape Genius' and who worked with Kanzi.
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The Virtual Choir - Eric Whitacre - 0 views

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  • Daryl Bambic on 13 Jan 12
     
    the humanizing force of the internet's connectivity is redefining what it means to be human
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My Library - 0 views

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      kayla lipson on 13 Jan 12
       
      This article is talking about how technology affects schools, and more specifically how is it affecting a certain school. The author explains the way we use our technology, its importance, and many other important factors. 
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FEMINIST ANTHROPOLOGY - 0 views

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      Catherine Delisle on 26 Apr 11
       
      This website is extremely important for my project. It explains in detail the three main waves of feminist anthropology, including the important names (Elsie Clews Parsons, Margaret Mead, etc). It also explains the four main theories in feminist anthropology, which is important to understand it as a whole.
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Discovering the genetic roots of humanity - 0 views

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      michelle tappert on 14 Dec 11
       
      Check out how you can use genetics to understand human origins!
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BBC News - Did the discovery of cooking make us human? - 0 views

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      kelsey sazant on 13 Dec 11
       
      Am example of how cooking helped us become human is not only an evolutionary aspect but also socially. 
  • "Our ancestors most probably dropped food in fire accidently. They would have found it was delicious and that set us off on a whole new direction."
  • Erectus also had a similar body shape to us. Shorter arms and longer legs appeared, and gone was the large vegetable-processing gut, meaning that Erectus could not only walk upright, but could also run.
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  • So being human might all be down to energy.
  • Cooking is essentially a form of pre-digestion, which has transferred energy use from our guts to our brains.
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Planet of the Apemen: Battle for Earth | Watch Free Documentary Online - 0 views

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    Why homo sapiens survived and the other hominids did not.
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Cisco: 50 Billion Things on the Internet by 2020 [Infographic]| The Committed Sardine - 0 views

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    the internet of things
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Princeton University - Anthropologist Mann builds body of evidence with evolution studies - 0 views

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    building for next year
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NOVA | Classifying Life - 0 views

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  • "King Philip Crossed Over For Gold and Silver
    • Daryl Bambic
      Daryl Bambic on 02 Dec 11
       
      This is an easy way to remember the hierarchy of biological classifications.
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Feminist Anthropology - Anthropological Theories - Department of Anthropology - The Uni... - 0 views

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      Catherine Delisle on 26 Apr 11
       
      This website is very credible because it belongs to the University of Alabama. It talks about the main concepts of feminist anthropology and of the big names such as Margaret Mead and Ruth Benedict. It also talks about their views and the ones that contradicted them.
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