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Shuan Pai

Baby Albert - 0 views

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    Baby Albert Experiment by John Watson
Shuan Pai

Bobo Doll Experiment - Learning From Role Models - 0 views

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    bobo doll experiment by albert bandura
David Potter

Student voices from World War II and the McCarthy Era - 0 views

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    In this oral history website Brookyn College students narrate two historical episodes: their experiences of working on farms during World War II, and the events surrounding the suspension of the Vanguard, the student newspaper in a postwar McCarthy era climate
David Potter

The World On the Brink: John F. Kennedy and the Cuban Missile Crisis - 0 views

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    This web page comes from the John F. Kennedy Presidential Library and Museum. It gives a brief overview of the Cuban missile crisis
Kevin Watson

History of Aviation: Leonardo da Vinci made the First Real Studies of Flight in the 148... - 0 views

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    Good timeline of the history of flight.
Morgan Wills

Freud, "Civilization and its Discontents," 1930 (excerpt) - 0 views

  • If private property were abolished, all wealth held in common, and everyone allowed to share in the enjoyment of it, ill-will and hostility would disappear among men.
  • But I am able to recognize that the psychological premises on which the systems based are an untenable illusion.
    • Megan Stern
       
      Freud says something worthwhile.
  • It is always possible to bind together a considerable number of people in love, so long as there are other people left over to receive the manifestations of their aggressiveness
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  • horrors of the recent World War
    • Erin Hamson
       
      Something people would like to forget, but which shapes their world views. 
    • Morgan Wills
       
      definitely. Looking at much of Europe's reticence to join the US in armed conflict is a case in point.
  • s the factor which disturbs our relations with our neighbor and which forces civilization into such a high expenditure [of energy]
  • civilized society is perpetually threatened with disintegration
    • Erin Hamson
       
      Tyranny to Anarchy to Tyranny
  • instinctual passions are stronger than reasonable interests.
  • commandment to love one's neighbor as oneself -- a commandment which is really justified by the fact that nothing else runs so strongly counter to the original nature of man
  • liverance from our evil
  • The communists believe they have found  the path to de
  • Since everyone's needs would be satisfied, no one would have any reason to regard another as his enemy; all would willingly undertake the work that was necessary.
    • Erin Hamson
       
      The problem is that people have more than needs. 
  • but we have in no way altered the differences in power and influence which are misused by aggressiveness, nor have we altered anything in its nature. Aggressiveness was not created by property
  • If we were to remove this factor, too, by allowing complete freedom of sexual life and thus abolishing the family, the germ-cell of civilization, we cannot, it is true, easily foresee what new paths the development of civilization could take; but one thing we can expect, and that is that this indestructible feature of human nature will follow at there.
  • We can now see that it is a convenient and relatively harmless satisfaction of the inclination to aggression, by means of which cohesion between the members of the community is made easier
  • n this respect the Jewish people, scattered everywhere, have rendered most useful services to the civilizations of the countries that have been their hosts;
  • find its psychological support in the persecution of the bourgeois
  • s Civilization imposes such great sacrifices not only on man's sexuality but on his aggressivity, we can understand better why it is hard for him to be happy in that civilization.
  • primitive man was better off in knowing no restrictions of instinct.  To counterbalance this, his prospects of enjoying this happiness for any length of time were very slender.
  • Civilized man has exchanged a portion of his possibilities of happiness for a portion of security.
    • Erin Hamson
       
      John Locke
  • But I shall avoid the temptation of entering upon a critique of American civilization; I do not wish to give an impression of wanting myself to employ American methods.
Jake Corkin

Einstein's theory of relativity explained with four letter words (or smaller). - 0 views

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    This is a great summary of how the theory actually works and it is done using small words (four letters or less). and it brings in a lot of the history of it all, including newton and aristotle's theories and how they were broken.
Gideon Burton

Amateur Revolution | Fast Company - 0 views

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    Charles Leadbeater's seminal discussion of Pro-Am efforts
Gideon Burton

PressThink: The People Formerly Known as the Audience - 0 views

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    Seminal article by Jay Rosen picking up off of Dan Gillmor's idea of the former audience and applying this to journalism.
Gideon Burton

We the Media - 7. The Former Audience Joins the Party (by Dan Gillmor) - 0 views

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    Chapter from Dan Gillmor's book, We the Media
Kristen Nicole Cardon

Collected Quotes from Albert Einstein - 0 views

  • "Common sense is the collection of prejudices acquired by age eighteen."
  • "...one of the strongest motives that lead men to art and science is escape from everyday life with its painful crudity and hopeless dreariness, from the fetters of one's own ever-shifting desires. A finely tempered nature longs to escape from the personal life into the world of objective perception and thought."
  • "Not everything that counts can be counted, and not everything that can be counted counts." (Sign hanging in Einstein's office at Princeton)
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    I guess I just really like what brilliant people have to say :)
Megan Stern

"The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock" by T.S. Eliot - 0 views

  • In the room the women come and go Talking of Michelangelo.
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    Also worth reading.
Brad Twining

Don Norman on 3 ways good design makes you happy - 0 views

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    Interactive transcript with the video.
Brad Twining

Usability testing, discount usability and usability metrics - 0 views

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    A short article about how to increase usability
Brad Twining

Don Norman - The Design of Everyday Things - 0 views

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    Summary, chapter by chapter of Don Norman's Book
Chase McCloskey

The Roots of Modernism - 0 views

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    The page on Modernism and Politics also has some interesting insights.
Brian Earley

Definitions of Jungian Terms from Marie Louise von Franz - 0 views

  • Alter ego: (Latin) The other aspect of oneself, a second ego; also, one's doppelgänger.
    • Brian Earley
       
      Who knew Batman had a doppelganger
  • Extroversion, extroverted: Directed outwardly. A psychic attitude, characterized by a concentration of interest on objects; easily susceptible to outer influences.
    • Brian Earley
       
      I always thought of extroverts and introverts as to social abilities.  The introvert seems like the more desirable of these two ideas.
  • Introversion, introverted: Directed inwardly; a concentration of energy on inner-psychic processes, oriented to an inner evaluation of experience.
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    Carl Jung created his own terms to describe his ideas.  
Brian Earley

Carl Jung and Tarot Meanings Dictionary H - P - 1 views

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    Look at individuation.  Jungian terms spread even to the mystical outskirts.
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