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Bystanders to Genocide - Samantha Power - The Atlantic - 5 views

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  • And most crucial, what could the United States have done to save lives?
    • Dana Sacca
      Dana Sacca on 29 Nov 12
       
      I don't think anything could have been done. By Clinton's reaction he obviously had more important things on his plate than those being killed off in Rwanda. This is saddening and sickening. There was such a big hype about "Kony 2012" and yet nothing was done about this?
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Dan Pink: The puzzle of motivation | Video on TED.com - 6 views

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      Dana Sacca on 16 Nov 12
       
      He brings the people into his talk by starting it with a personal story. I agree that if you want people to work better you need to reward them, or threaten them, the if... then scenarios. I like how this is science based. "Rewards narrow our focus." The reward does restrict our possibilities because we want to get to the reward, thus we try to do the task asap, meaning cutting corners and such things. It is very interesting that given a bigger reward cognitive skill is poorer, but mechanical skill is greater. The data shows that incentives narrow our creativity to the point that we can't think or get things done.
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Sample Chapter for Fung, A.: Empowered Participation: Reinventing Urban Democracy. - 0 views

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    #1 Dana Sacca on 11 Nov 12
     
    "Changing a name, of course, cannot itself raise test scores, make classes more orderly, build classrooms, or increase children's readiness for middle and high school."

    I agree. Kids do not pay attention to names of the places they are at to determine how well they do on tests and such. It is more of how the institution is set up and how well the teachers are that prepare them for their future. In high school all my teachers kept saying that they are preparing me for college; I didn't care about the name of my high school. In the end they really didn't prepare me at all, but I still tried my hardest. The name of the school had nothing to do with how prepared I was for college. It was the opportunities the school provided that prepared me, or well didn't prepare me.
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McAllen, Texas and the high cost of health care : The New Yorker - 4 views

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  • Yet public-health statistics show that cardiovascular-disease rates in the county are actually lower than average, probably because its smoking rates are quite low. Rates of asthma, H.I.V., infant mortality, cancer, and injury are lower, too. El Paso County, eight hundred miles up the border, has essentially the same demographics.
    • Dana Sacca
      Dana Sacca on 09 Nov 12
       
      If the area is generally healthier why would they have such high health care costs? Shouldn't they be lower because not many people really need them
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Dan Dennett: Dangerous memes | Video on TED.com - 2 views

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      Dana Sacca on 05 Nov 12
       
      He has very strange trasitions between subjects. I like how he connects the infectious fluke to emotions that infectious to humans. Memes are very strange. There are different species, some that can be pronounced and some that can't. Why were memes feared? And why does "meme" now a days mean pictures with funny comments on them? Againt things repeat themselves no matter how much you try to keep them from happening again. I like how he says the way to fight memes is to inform yourself and fix it rather than just be mad about it. Very smart man.
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Are political parties growing more unified? - 4 views

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  • they have more sharply defined, and sharply distinct, viewpoints than they once did. Democrats and Republicans are now, he writes, “ideologically coherent to the point where they make even Europe’s parliamentary parties look muddled by comparison.
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      Dana Sacca on 01 Nov 12
       
      They are becoming so polarized that nothing will be able to be accomplished when things do come up.
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President Obama's Executive Power Grab - Newsweek and The Daily Beast - 3 views

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  • But now the president was doing something that he’d previously deemed impossible, and that Congress had repeatedly forbidden: singlehandedly granting relief to an entire category of young immigrants, as many as 1.7 million people, who’d otherwise be subject to deportation.
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      Dana Sacca on 01 Nov 12
       
      How can he singlehandedly do this? I thought with checks and balances he couldn't do anything without approval from the other two branches?
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Data & Design How-to's Note 1: Where is your evidence? | Drawing by Numbers - 2 views

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  • Activists have many opportunities to use diverse forms and types of evidence to tell a story, words, numbers and statistics are important, but they are not the only form of evidence.
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      Dana Sacca on 29 Oct 12
       
      There are many different ways to get evidenec, so why aren't they all used? Its mainly only numbers used as evidence.
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Uzodinma Iweala - Stop Trying To 'Save' Africa - 3 views

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  • News reports constantly focus on the continent's corrupt leaders, warlords, "tribal" conflicts, child laborers, and women disfigured by abuse and genital mutilation.
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      Dana Sacca on 12 Oct 12
       
      I never really understood why news does this. Why do you focus on the negative? I feel like society has become increasingly negative. But the negativity makes sense because when things become frustrating you get discouraged and give up. There needs to be a balance between negative and positive. When there is positive it is up lifting and gives people hope. The news shouldn't focus on just negative because that contributes to the discouraging factor.
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ThickCulture » A multidisciplinary blog about public discourse, multicultural... - 1 views

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  • Then the candidate makes truly vile remarks questioning the President’s patriotism during an on-going attack on American personnel
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      Dana Sacca on 03 Oct 12
       
      I don't understand why it is necessary for candidates to bash each other. They each have different views, they each have different voters, I don't see the need to have to bash on another candidate to gain voters. If anything that would make me not want to vote for them.
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What Makes Us Happy? - Joshua Wolf Shenk - The Atlantic - 0 views

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  • Your wife had a cancer scare
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      Dana Sacca on 21 Sep 12
       
      Why does it have to be from a guys point of view?
  • funders expect results quickly
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      Dana Sacca on 21 Sep 12
       
      Impatient
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The endowment effect: It’s mine, I tell you | The Economist - 11 views

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      Dana Sacca on 18 Sep 12
       
      Getting food is a survival instinct. No one wants to starve to death. So getting and savoring the most filling food is the priority. Toys don't really matter because everyone gets bored of them eventually.
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Does the Invisible Hand Need a Helping Hand? - Reason.com - 8 views

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      Dana Sacca on 18 Sep 12
       
      There is a pattern that humans get better joy out of doing things that get them socially accepted buy others.
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