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Sample Chapter for Fung, A.: Empowered Participation: Reinventing Urban Democracy. - 2 views

  • They began with simple measures such as trimming tall trees to make the park's interior visible from the stree
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      Trimming the trees was a smart and affordable way to help people see what was being done in the park. The criminals in the park probably had no idea the city was trimming the trees so they could see what was going on.  
    • jeffrey hernandez
       
      Trimming the trees was a smart and affordable way to help people see what was being done in the park. The criminals in the park probably had no idea the city was trimming the trees so they could see what was going on.  
    • jeffrey hernandez
       
      Trimming the trees was a smart and affordable way to help people see what was being done in the park. The criminals in the park probably had no idea the city was trimming the trees so they could see what was going on.  
jeffrey hernandez

President Obama's Executive Power Grab - Newsweek and The Daily Beast - 3 views

  • what could Obama do without Congress
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      Without congress Obama has been struggling to get things done, leaving only few policies Obama could push through. Like lowering the interest rates, so homeowners could keep their homes.  
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Wired 11.09: PowerPoint Is Evil - 3 views

  • Everything is wrong with these smarmy, incoherent graphs: the encoded legends, the meaningless color, the logo-type branding. They are uncomparative, indifferent to content and evidence, and so data-starved as to be almost pointless.
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      These graphs aren't coherent nor meaningless, most people are visual learners and looking at these graphs with color and labels helps it to become very clear for someone to understand and remember. 
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Patternicity: Finding Meaningful Patterns in Meaningless Noise: Scientific American - 7 views

  • I argue that our brains are belief engines: evolved pattern-recognition machines that connect the dots and create meaning out of the patterns that we think we see in nature.
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      Ever since I was in pre-school I remember connecting the dots, it's something children have been taught and doing their whole life.
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Uzodinma Iweala - Stop Trying To 'Save' Africa - 3 views

  • magazine spreads with celebrities pictured in the foreground, forlorn Africans in the back.
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      In some cases celebrities are using the struggles of people in Africa and their help they are giving them as a publicity stunt. 
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The Road to Serfdom - Readers Digest, April 1945 Condensation - 7 views

  • while democracy seeks equality in liberty, socialism seeks equality in restraint and servitude."
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      Its interesting to me that people could find socialism a good idea when in comparison with democracy. Just this line makes me nervous to be in a socialist country.  
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The endowment effect: It’s mine, I tell you | The Economist - 11 views

  • The value someone puts on something should not, therefore, depend on whether he actually owns it.
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       i agree with this statement because majority of society is always trying to find ways to maximize their well beings
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Joanna Moorhead on the best country to give birth | Life and style | The Guardian - 18 views

  • But there is more to the horrors of Zinder. Many of the women who come here will have travelled long distances, often in agony, to reach the hospital
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      transportation is a serious issue for the many who dont have access to medical services, a mobile heath service should be developed so everyone can receive proper care  
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