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Alex Maguid

World / Global Inequality | Inequality.org - 0 views

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Inequality

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    • Alex Maguid
      Alex Maguid on 07 Dec 11
       
      This would be a nice simple definition of what is global inequality
  • Global inequality refers to the extent to which income and wealth is distributed in an uneven manner among the world’s population
  • redit Suisse numbers released in October 2010 show that the richest 0.5 percent of global adults hold well over a third of the world’s wealth.
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  • The best estimates for wealth’s concentration at the global economic summit come from Forbes magazine. Forbes annually tallies the fortunes of the world’s billionaires. The world’s 1,210 current billionaires, Forbes reported in March 2011, hold a combined wealth that equals over half the total wealth of the 3.01 billion adults around the world who, according to Credit Suisse, hold under $10,000 in net worth.
    • Alex Maguid
      Alex Maguid on 07 Dec 11
       
      Interesting statistics and facts that would be great for my TFAD
    • Alex Maguid
      Alex Maguid on 07 Dec 11
       
      To summarize this page it gives several stats and facts on how the worlds richest people are richer then the total of all the poorest people and how they have finally come out with sound reports with more statistics proving their theory. 
    • Alex Maguid
      Alex Maguid on 10 Dec 11
       
      The reference in this text is incredible because you can use their database for your use and you can compare the incomes of different countries.
    • Alex Maguid
      Alex Maguid on 10 Dec 11
       
      This text gives us a statistic on how some adults are just insanely rich compared to the common man
    • Alex Maguid
      Alex Maguid on 10 Dec 11
       
      More sites that i can go on to find info
mauromongiat

Homo floresiensis: the Hobbit - 0 views

www.talkorigins.org/...flores.html

Homo_floriensis evolution specie anthropology brain origins

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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)
Marie-Lise Pagé

Deep Thoughts on What Makes Humans Special | LiveScience - 1 views

www.livescience.com/p-thoughts-humans-special.html

humans mind unique

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  • share characteristics with humans such as politically motivated aggression, empathy and culture, but humans take them to a level without parallel among animals
    • Marie-Lise Pagé
      Marie-Lise Pagé on 08 Dec 11
       
      Like we saw in the video Ape Genius
  • ey fall short of humans when considering secondary theory of mind
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  • uch capabilities allow humans to enjoy delicious stories with layers of intrigue and gossip,
  • humans can commonly extend empathy over time and space
  • exceptions as a mental illness that afflicts humans and animals alike.
  • obsessive-compulsive disorder sufferers ritualistically act out the same behavior again and again.
  • apolsky suggested two reasons not to worry
  • ne of the few differences between humans and chimps comes from the amount of cell division for brain cells
  • human behaviors stand out by reaching levels of complexity unseen in any other part of the animal world, according to a neurobiologist
  • What makes humans special comes in no small part from the sheer quantity of available brain power – at least 300,000 brain cells for each neuron in a fruit fly brain.
  • Marie-Lise Pagé on 08 Dec 11
     
    This website has a lot of information to help me in my project because it really helps me understand what makes the human mind unique. I also like that it compares to the Apes. It expalins the diffrences between the Apes and us. It also explains what makes us Human. However, it has a lot of scientific vocabulary that's hard to understand.
Jake Izenberg

New media and culture | TAB - 1 views

www.tab-beim-bundestag.de/...ab074.html

Culture and New Media

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  • The goal as stated was to show »current and future impacts of the development of new media on the concept of culture, cultural policy, the cultural industry and cultural activities
  • sociological focus
  • understanding of the media
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  • socio-cultural
  • two levels
  • first level
  • second level
  • media are understood as the socio-technical and cultural practices of distributing and storing information which are used to shape communication and interaction and so help determine collective perception and experience in the everyday world
  • New Media« are media based technically on digitalisation, miniaturisation, data compression, networking and convergence.
  • transform the modes of communication in a way which departs from the established familiar forms of interpersonal communication, either direct or via media.
  • overarching trends
  • we use the findings of the unique series of international surveys of mass communication
  • current media development
  • Competition through supplementation is increasingly turning into predatory competition for increasingly scarce time budgets
  • (PCs with multimedia capability, Internet, mobile radio
  • different levels of Internet use
  • cultural content
  • newspaper reading
  • TV viewing
  • groups and humanity as a whole
  • Changes in readership and reading behaviour
  • dramatic changes in reading strategies
  • reading motivation
  • This threatens to erode a cultural technique which is the basis not only for reading books and newspapers but also for using the New Media.
  • Trends in scientific concepts of culture
  • example
  • necessary to look at historical processes of change in the understanding of culture
  • social sciences
  • In future we can in any case expect greater individualisation and differentiation in media use patterns, the »average user« will ultimately become a construct remote from reality.
  • almost general expansion of the concept of culture
  • a renewed interest in the culture of the individual
  • between cultural and media development
  • Recently the history of concepts of culture in social sciences
  • philosophical
  • overcoming colonialism
  • This makes cross-border movements, interculturalism and hybridisation more important for cultural theory; media development, transnational cultural relationships, intercultural exchange and migration become even more important topics for research.
  • Cultural development, New Media and media culture
  • the media is mostly given outstanding and still growing cultural significance
  • recent debates
  • finally the increase in the importance for the understanding of culture of new (or what are perceived as new) cultural communities, groups and contexts.
  • communications technologies
  • the current status of the concept of culture in science and politics is not a fashionable phenomenon, but rather »evidence of a significant social development«, a »development from the domination of things to a domination of knowledge«
  • There is disagreement inter alia about whether cultural development is tending to blend with media development (or already has blended with it) and whether cultural theory should accordingly be primarily (or even exclusively) pursued in terms of media cultural theory
  • Media markets: an overview
  • Cultural globalisation and the New Media
  • In dealing with the interactions between the change in concepts of culture and recent media development, the mutually impacting trends of individualisation and cultural globalisation become issues leading to further depths. Both issues are extremely important for the current debate on media development.
  • individualisation« or »personalisation
  • media services with a customised nature
  • sociological theories of individualisation as such. Besides socio-structural individualisation promoted inter alia by decoupling class membership and consumption, processes like isolation/privatisation and autonomisation – in other words, competent coping with media-based growth in cultural options for choice and action – should be noted (A. Honneth)
  • economic globalisation
  • cultural globalisation
  • show on the one hand that the development of the New Media has aroused (often vague-seeming) fears and hopes, while euphoria over technology and pessimism over culture are relatively evenly divided between the political and social trends. Conversely, there is also the tendency in these debates to pursue older scientific arguments and view the development of the New Media in the context of specific media-historical, social-theoretical or philosophical considerations.
  • unanimous agreement that the New Media, and particularly the Internet, are of central importance
  • The current crisis in traditional concepts of culture is apparently closely connected with the recent development in the media, as the New Media change the cultural significance of physical proximity and separation
  • Connected individuals – according to a widespread view – grow through interactive and communicative actions beyond the limits of local communities and national societies, and are able to participate in transnational cultural exchanges and make themselves felt as an individual, a member of a group or of an international movement.
  • economic and cultural globalisation are highly controversial issues in political and scientific debate
  • Content
  • Communication channels
  • Terminals and associated components
  • Digital interactive TV
  • Mobile radio and UMTS
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      Jake Izenberg on 09 Dec 11
       
      Goog information 
  • The three basic studies carried out for TAB
  • Jake Izenberg on 09 Dec 11
     
    teacher for 5 minutes   This is a great article for my topic and has a lot of information that is useful for me. There are examples, studies and more. The lay out is well done and it is organized well. 
mariakanarakis

By the Color of Our Skin: The Illusion of Integration and the Reality of Race. - Review... - 0 views

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color skin illusion integration reality race find reason anthropology evolution science human brain

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  • Leonard Steinhorn (who is white) and Barbara Diggs-Brown (who is black) argue that th
  • fantasy of representational diversity hinders actual racial progress, which they define as black and white integration.
  • see it: America lives an "integration illusion," which they define as "the public acclaim for the progress we have made, the importance of integration symbolism, the overt demonstrations of racial harmony, the rejection of blatant bigotry, the abstract support to neighborhood and school integration - all coupled with a continuing resistance to living, learning, playing and praying together."
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  • By the Color of Our Skin is not a policy book. It aims to describe America's black-white condition, not to point the way to racial harmony
  • Blacks and whites live, learn, work, pray, play, and entertain separately.
  • Desegregation, they say, "means the elimination of discriminatory laws and barriers." Integration, by contrast, is "governed by behavior and choice."
  • "America is desegregating," the authors write. "But we are simply not integrating."
  • One Nation, Indivisible, would point to my friends as examples of America's racial progress.
  • They cite statistics that show residential segregation is receding: 83 percent of blacks and 61 percent of whites have at least one member of the other race in their neighborhood, a huge increase from 30 years ago.
  • They give integration an almost impossibly strict definition. It's not enough for whites to interact with blacks with whom they share space, whether residential, professional, or personal interest. Whites must actively seek out and embrace blacks.
  • American culture doesn't exist apart from black American culture. Some of this integration may be virtual - corporate ads and university brochures, for example.
  • Yet due to centuries of separation, black Americans have developed a culture that is distinct from, even as it exerts a disproportionate influence on, America's white or mainstream culture.
  • mariakanarakis on 09 Dec 11
     
    This is a good site for my PLN "The Illusion of Skin Colour". Yellow: info Blue: examples Green: statistics Pink: word searches/ definitions
mariakanarakis

By the Color of Our Skin: The Illusion of Integration and the Reality of Race. - Review... - 0 views

findarticles.com/...pg_2

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  • residentially segregated
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      mariakanarakis on 09 Dec 11
       
      Definition: Blacks and Whites don't live in the same areas (ex. neighborhoods). 
  • this is a result of choice, not legal compulsion.
  • "It's not a segregated town. It's just not an integrated town. There's a difference."
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  • Seven in 10 blacks attended schools that were at least 50 percent black in the 1996-97 school year, according to a June 1999 study
  • same study found that nearly four in 10 blacks attended schools at least 90 percent black. The typical white student attended a school that was 81 percent white.
  • Blacks and whites experience myriad pressures that keep them separate, a fact that becomes clear when you attempt to straddle the race line, talk to people who have, or simply read the newspaper.
  • The aversion to whites is so strong that, even in schools where few are present, black students who excel academically are ridiculed for "acting white." This is a serious problem.
  • If black women dare to date interracially, they may receive random threats of violence from black men who encounter them in public.
  • suffered verbal assaults on the streets of every city in which we've lived and some where we haven't. If black men date white women, they too can expect such attacks from blacks. There are strong pressures to stay within the group.
  • black cliques erect insuperable cultural barrier of tastes and behavior that are unintelligible to whites
  • blacks excommunicated for "acting white," whites who adopt black culture are likely to face resistance at home and in their former cultural community. They're labeled "wannabes" and "wiggers."
  • makes developing deep friendships hard
David Bono-Raftopoulos

Stone tools influenced hand evolution in human ancestors, anthropologists say - 0 views

www.sciencedaily.com/...110307101504.htm

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  • features in the bones and musculature of the human hand and wrist associated with specific gripping and manipulatory capabilities that are different from those of other extant great apes
  • confirmed Charles Darwin's speculation that the evolution of unique features in the human hand was influenced by increased tool use in our ancestors.
  • humans split from the last common ancestor
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  • Africa a
  • ow, researchers Dr Stephen Lycett and Alastair Key have shown that the hands of our ancestors may have been subject to natural selection as a result of using simple cutting tools
  • apes,
  • 2.6 million years ago,
  • show that 'biometric' variation
  • Darwin proposed that the use of stone tools may have influenced the evolution of human hands.
  • David Bono-Raftopoulos on 09 Dec 11
     
    Quite Interesting, and quite helpful.
David Bono-Raftopoulos

Darwin's Theory - 0 views

bioweb.cs.earlham.edu/...theory.html

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  • the search for a mechanism of evolution. The first was Jean Lamarck. The second was one of the greatest figures in biology, Charles Darwin.
  • mechanism
  • mechanism
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  • Assume that there were salamanders living in some grasslands. Suppose, Lamarck argued, that these salamanders had a hard time walking because their short legs couldn't trample the tall grasses or reach the ground. Suppose that these salamanders began to slither on their bellies to move from place to place. Because they didn't use their legs, the leg muscles wasted away from disuse and the legs thus became small.
  • passed this acquired trait
  • legless salamanders evolved
  • no legs.
  • by inheriting the acquired characteristic of
  • Darwin's Background
  • o have extraordinary talents.
  • genius, did not at first appear
  • Darwin disliked school
  • d observing birds and collecting insects to study.
  • sent to medical school in Scotland
  • "intolerably dull
  • interested in attending natural history lectures.
  • university at Cambridge, England, in 1827.
  • Darwin be chosen for the position of naturalist on the ship the HMS Beagle.
  • to collect specimens, make observations, and keep careful records of anything he observed that he thought significant.
  • Principles of Geology by Charles Lyell,
  • In the Andes he observed fossil shells of marine organisms in rock beds at about 4,300 m.
  • One reason that Darwin was so eager to study life on land was that he suffered from terrible seasickness and couldn't wait to get off the Beagle.
  • thousands
  • trekked hundreds of miles through unmapped region.
  • catalog his specimens and write his notes.
  • praised by the scientific community.
  • experts for study.
  • bird specialist
  • Darwin's bird collections from the Galapagos Islands, located about 1,000 km west of South America.
  • 13 similar
  • Other experts
  • believe that species change over time.
  • evidence f
  • In 1837 Darwin began his first notebook on evolution. For several years Darwin filled his notebooks with facts that could be used to support the theory of evolution.
  • fossils of similar relative ages are more closely related than those of widely different relative ages.
  • He ran his own breeding experiments and also did experiments on seed dispersal.
  • David Bono-Raftopoulos on 09 Dec 11
     
    Very interesting document, it is a credible site, and has multiple pages of information about Darwin's Theory of Evolution. Helped me quite a bit for my TFAD assignment. 
Alyssa Cohen

The Human Family Tree : Discovery News - 1 views

news.discovery.com/...-human-evolution-timeline.html

human family tree

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  • Alyssa Cohen on 08 Dec 11
     
    This is a credible site that's very interesting. It's almost like an interactive timeline, so you can start from 5-10 million years ago, all the way till now. It helps me start the family tree from the beginning. 
sydney goldman

empathic response based on gender - 3 views

www.philanthropy.iupui.edu/...ewomenmoregenerousthanmen.aspx

psychology brain studies

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  • sydney goldman on 08 Dec 11
     
    This is a very interesting and credible site that goes into depth about the emphatic responses of women vs. men when it come to donating to charities.
adam unikowski

NOVA | The Four-Winged Dinosaur - 0 views

www.pbs.org/...four-winged-dinosaur.html

nova dinosaur anthropology

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  • n 2002
  • In 2002
  • the 130 million-year-old creature
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  • debate over the origin of flight
  • Or were the extra wings useless for flight and likely to have been for some other purpose, such as attracting a mate?
  • Dubbed Microraptor, the crow-sized fossil is one of the smallest dinosaurs ever found
  • Did it array its arm- and leg-mounted wings in the style of an early 20th-century biplane to produce high lift at low speed?
  • Did it use them to create a single lifting surface for efficient, swift gliding?
  • Chinese stone quarry where the fossil was discovered
  • Artists have historically played an important role in paleontology by helping to reconstruct the appearance and behavior of ancient animals.
  • For years the debate has been a standoff between two camps—those who believe dinosaurs were the ancestors of birds, and those who do not.
  • Believers in the dinosaur-bird connection have generally assumed that flight must have begun from the ground up, with fast-running dinosaurs that eventually got airborne as feathered arms evolved into wings,
  • Skeptics of the bird-dinosaur link say it would have been physically impossible for running dinosaurs to overcome gravity and get off the ground.
  • Larry Martin
  • speaks out for the minority view that birds descended from non-dinosaur tree dwellers.
  • Microraptor is the unexpected missing link that has reignited the debate
  • adam unikowski on 08 Dec 11
     
    This very interesting because it shows how people though that birds are decedents of dinosaurs. Then there are the non believers that do not believe that dinosaurs were the ancestors of birds. The four winged dinosaur Microraptor had brought up this debate again. Microraptor is the missing link that reignited this debate. This website is credible because at the bottom of the page it gives the name of the man who made the site and it is part of pbs.
Alex Maguid

Inequality.org | News, Data & Statistics on Income, Health, Social Inequality - 0 views

inequality.org

inequality

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      Alex Maguid on 07 Dec 11
       
      The goal to this site is to inform the people with stats,video's and articles on inequalities. The type of inequality varies from social to global. 
    • Alex Maguid
      Alex Maguid on 07 Dec 11
       
      Go to global inequality's due to the fact that my TFAD is on that very subject and that I have highlighted some things.
  • Alex Maguid on 07 Dec 11
     
    This sight is delightful because it gives you information on global inequality's as well as social inequality's. On top of that awesome stuff they put video's that help the reader understand the topic. It is very credible because they have a about us section where you can see the founder and even contact her if need be. They even tell you where the founder is working so you know that the person is not abandoning the website. Also on top of all that the site is founded by an organisation by the name of IPS where there are senior scholars involved 
Alex Maguid

Contact | Inequality.org - 0 views

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      Alex Maguid on 07 Dec 11
       
      Here is a positive sign in terms of credibility.
Daryl Bambic

NOVA | Classifying Life - 0 views

www.pbs.org/...classifying-life.html

classification interactive science

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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.
Daryl Bambic

The Primates: Humans - 4 views

anthro.palomar.edu/...prim_8.htm

evolution anthropology

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  • all lack external tail
  • thumb that is sufficiently separate from the other fingers to allow them to be opposable for precision grips.
  • sexually dimorphic--males are 5-10%
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  • we are omnivorous.
  • same arrangement of internal organs and bones
  • many of the same diseases
  • share several important blood types
  • Unlike apes, our arms are relatively short and weak compared to our legs
  • modern human brain is 3 times larger in volume
  • toes became shorter and the big toe moved up into line with the others.
  • The pelvis
  • Nature very likely selected for longer legs
  • downside of the evolutio
  • we are quite similar to the African apes anatomically and genetically, especially to the chimpanzees and bonobos
  • minor anatomical differences between humans and apes
  • 46 chromosomes
  • longer legs require less up-and-down movement while running and, therefore, reduce the amount of energy needed to move rapidly
  • allow humans to travel farther with the same calorie expenditure
  • changes in the pelvis which unfortunately included a narrower birth canal in females. 
  • A partial evolutionary solution to this birth difficulty for humans was fetuses being born at a less mature stage, when their bodies are smaller.  The trade off is that human newborn babies are more vulnerable.
    • Daryl Bambic
      Daryl Bambic on 02 Dec 11
       
      This vulnerability translates itself into an immature brain.  In the baby's first year, the brain grows dramatically.  In fact, humans have more synapses (connections between neurons) at this young age than in any other time of life.
  • Evolving a larger brain comes at a steep energy cost.  The human brain uses about 25% of the energy derived from the nutrients that we consume and 20% of the oxygen.
  • HAR1F regulator gene beginning about 6 million years ago
  • 7th and 19th week after conception
  • People have much more complex forms of verbal communication than any other primate species.  We are the only animal to create and use symbols as a means of communication.
  • We also have more varied and complex social organizations.  The most distinctive feature of humans is our mental ability to create new ideas and complex technologies. 
  • mental levels equivalent to a 3-4 year old human child
  • they do not have the capability of producing human speech and language
  • Female chimpanzees, gorillas, and other non-human primates usually remain capable of conception and giving birth even when they are very old
  • Daryl Bambic on 02 Dec 11
     
    A text for the students.
Daryl Bambic

Intelligent Design Network :: Seeking Objectivity in Origins Science - 0 views

www.intelligentdesignnetwork.org/index.htm

intelligent design

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  • Daryl Bambic on 02 Dec 11
     
    Propose this site as an evaluation activity to the students.
Daryl Bambic

Overview - Google Guide - 0 views

www.googleguide.com/...overview

search tools guide google

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  • Daryl Bambic on 28 Nov 11
     
    This is a must bookmark for all students, teachers and anyone researching on the web.
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