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Gaming consol - totally Opensource! - 0 views

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  • Shaun Frenza on 30 Sep 10
     
    I thought this might fit into the question of open-source business models... Gaming is a huge part of our society and now its blending with open source!
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ScholarSearch - 0 views

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  • Open government (View details) Perritt, H Government Information Quarterly, 1997, Vol.14(4), p.397-406 [Peer Reviewed Journal] updating... Full text available (GetIt) Add to e-Shelf
  • Ariel Szuch on 17 Sep 10
     
    Article: "Open Government" by H Perritt
  • Ariel Szuch on 17 Sep 10
     
    This article has a very interesting section on why open government is important to a democratic society.
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Pepe Escobar: Don't Mess With My Burqa, Monsieur - 0 views

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  • Megan Stern on 01 Oct 10
     
    One of the great virtues that the French Revolution promoted was tolerance. If the French society was to follow through with its contractual obligations, it would be rising up in rebellion against its government about now.
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Anthropological history of YouTube - 0 views

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  • Brad Twining on 28 Sep 10
     
    Presented at the Library of Congress by a professor from Kansas State. It is almost an hour long, but a great talk! He talks about the impact of YouTube on society and culture and how revolutionizing it and Web 2.0 has been.
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Capitalism and Its Critics, Fall 2006 | OER Commons - 0 views

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  • This course examines the implications of economic theories for social and political organization in the context of the historical evolution of industrial societies.
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Communist Manifesto (Chapter 3) - 0 views

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    • Kristi Koerner
      Kristi Koerner on 04 Oct 10
       
      The conflict with Christianity is interesting.
  • disastrous effects of machinery and division of labour
    • Erin Hamson
      Erin Hamson on 04 Oct 10
       
      are these laid in contrast to the benefits?
  • It proclaimed the German nation to be the model nation
    • Erin Hamson
      Erin Hamson on 04 Oct 10
       
      city upon a hill
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  • The Socialistic bourgeois want all the advantages of modern social conditions without the struggles and dangers necessarily resulting therefrom. They desire the existing state of society, minus its revolutionary and disintegrating elements. They wish for a bourgeoisie without a proletariat.
    • Erin Hamson
      Erin Hamson on 04 Oct 10
       
      want everyone to be like them
  • It is summed up in the phrase: the bourgeois is a bourgeois — for the benefit of the working class
  • These proposals, therefore, are of a purely Utopian character.
  • the concentration of capital and land in a few hands; overproduction and crises; it pointed out the inevitable ruin of the petty bourgeois and peasant, the misery of the proletariat, the anarchy in production, the crying inequalities in the distribution of wealth, the industrial war of extermination between nations, the dissolution of old moral bonds, of the old family relations, of the old nationalities.
    • Parker Woody
      Parker Woody on 05 Oct 10
       
      Interesting how they appeal to the family and the loss of morals
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Learning in the Light of Faith - 0 views

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  • When I was just out of graduate school, I attended my first meeting of the American Physical Society in New York City. A highlight was a special event arranged by the conference organizers: the great science fiction writer Isaac Asimov had been invited to speak to us.
  • Hour after hour he wrote down the stories he found in books in the university library about people protesting the invention of things like machines to spin thread and to weave cloth, steam-powered trains, automobiles, airplanes, etc. All of these advances were perceived by the general public either to be physically dangerous or to be a threat to the livelihoods of workers in trades that were about to be destroyed by these advances.
  • when he started to write science fiction, he remembered all of this work he had done. So while his fellow writers were all rhapsodizing about the thrill of rockets and space travel (long before such things were possible), he wrote a story about how the local populace showed up at the launch site with torches and pitchforks in opposition to space travel. Years later, when rockets and travel outside of the earth’s atmosphere became possible, there were protests, and many of Mr. Asimov’s colleagues were astounded that he had predicted so far in advance that this would occur.
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  • “Why,” Mr. Asimov then asked us, “among all of these talented and visionary writers, was I the only one who was able to predict that this resistance to change would occur?” He let us think about the question for an uncomfortably silent minute, then leaned into the microphone and said in an intense voice that I still vividly remember: “It’s because people are stupid!”
  • The lesson I take from my memory of this experience is that the proper attitude to have when confronted with the vast complexity both of the universe and of the ideas and activities of the people who live on this small planet orbiting an ordinary star far away from the center of things in our galaxy is profound humility.
    • Andrew DeWitt
      Andrew DeWitt on 19 Oct 10
       
      This is how we ought to deal with future shock: "humility"
  • Andrew DeWitt on 19 Oct 10
     
    Great Devotional Talk by Ross Spencer.  Includes a great reference to "Future Shock".
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Digital Age Damaging Learning | Nicholas Carr - 2 views

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  • Gideon Burton on 15 Oct 10
     
    Carr's contrarian ideas are discussed here. He obviously overstates concerns but the points are each worth debating. 
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I Tweet, Therefore I Am - 0 views

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  • Madeline Rupard on 12 Oct 10
     
    Interesting idea about how the internet may be forming our character. Maybe not the best thing.
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New Rules for Online Living - PCWorld - 0 views

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  • Megan Stern on 12 Oct 10
     
    Not too long ago, the Internet was the American frontier, where society was more primitive and you could live very much how you wanted. Now, as more and more settlers move in, more and more rules pop up in attempts to restrain how we live virtually.
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The Story of the Triangle Fire: Part 2 - 0 views

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  • Even today, sweatshops have not disappeared in the United States. They keep attracting workers in desperate need of employment and illegal immigrants, who may be anxious to avoid involvement with governmental agencies. Recent studies conducted by the U.S. Department of Labor found that 67% of Los Angeles garment factories and 63% of New York garment factories violate minimum wage and overtime laws. Ninety-eight percent of Los Angeles garment factories have workplace health and safety problems serious enough to lead to severe injuries or death.
  • Katherine Chipman on 05 Oct 10
     
    Yikes! Horrible working conditions are not completely gone from even our society today.
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Great blog about the Enlightenment in England and France - 0 views

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  • David Potter on 29 Sep 10
     
    this blog is reviewing a book about the Enlightenment. It makes several interesting points about the Royal Society of London.
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Freud, "Civilization and its Discontents," 1930 (excerpt) - 0 views

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  • 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
      Megan Stern on 30 Oct 10
       
      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
      Erin Hamson on 01 Nov 10
       
      Something people would like to forget, but which shapes their world views. 
    • Morgan Wills
      Morgan Wills on 02 Nov 10
       
      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
      Erin Hamson on 01 Nov 10
       
      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
      Erin Hamson on 01 Nov 10
       
      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
      Erin Hamson on 01 Nov 10
       
      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.
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Theories of Religion in Early 20th Century Psychology@Everything2.com - 0 views

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  • Freud believed humanity is moving through three stages of development: Tribal, Religious, Scientific.  He believed society would eventually cast off the unnecessary and unfounded ideals of religion in trade for the exactitudes and truth offered by the scientific method.
  • Unlike Sigmund Freud, who believed religion to be an illusory wish fulfillment for the weak minded, Carl Jung advocated religion as an indispensable part of an individual's psychological development. Jung viewed the mind as having three components: the ego, the personal unconscious, and the collective unconscious. Freud's vision of the mind did not include a collective unconscious. Instead, Freud proposed a moral super-ego, which grew to become the mind's administrator according to a learned sense of morality. Jung believed the self-actualizing properties of Freud's super ego pre-exist in the mind as a collective unconscious which is to be discovered through introspection as opposed to learned from experience.
  • Kristi Koerner on 02 Nov 10
     
    Good contrast btw Freud and Jung
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G. Stanley Hall - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia - 0 views

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  • There, Hall objected vehemently to the emphasis on teaching traditional subjects, e.g., Latin, mathematics, science and history, in high school, arguing instead that high school should focus more on the education of adolescents than on preparing students for college.
  • Hall believed that humans are by nature non-reasoning and instinct driven, requiring a charismatic leader to manipulate their herd instincts for the well-being of society. He predicted that the American emphasis on individual human right and dignity would lead to a fall that he analogized to the sinking of Atlantis.
  • Hall coined the phrase "storm and stress" with reference to adolescence, taken from the German Sturm und Drang movement. Its three key aspects are conflict with parents, mood disruptions, and risky behavior.
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Alan Turing Gay? - 1 views

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  • anonymous on 04 Nov 10
     
    Not sure if this is correct, but when I searched some blogs for Alan Turing, a large number of the hits on the first page mentioned the fact that he was gay.
  • Daniel Zappala on 04 Nov 10
     
    Yes, Alan Turing was homosexual, and he was convicted of it since it was illegal in the UK at the time. He was given a choice of prison or chemical castration and chose the latter. He lost his security clearance and was unable to continue his cryptography work for the government. Several years later he committed suicide. It's a sad story of how gays have been treated in the past despite their contributions to society.
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History Magazine - The Impact of Refrigeration - 0 views

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  • Refrigeration brought distant production centers and the North American population together. It tore down the barriers of climates and seasons. And while it helped to rev up industrial processes, it became an industry itself.
    • Shuan Pai
      Shuan Pai on 16 Nov 10
       
      Allowed all types of food to be made available year-round
  • Ice was harvested and stored in China before the first millennium. Hebrews, Greeks, and Romans placed large amounts of snow into storage pits and covered this cooling agent with insulating material.
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  • For centuries, people preserved and stored their food — especially milk and butter — in cellars, outdoor window boxes or even underwater in nearby lakes, streams or wells.
  • food preservation used time-tested methods: salting, spicing, smoking, pickling and drying.
  • Shuan Pai on 16 Nov 10
     
    how the invention of refrigerators affected society
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Take Cover: Living Under a Mushroom Cloud, a collection at the Museum at the Wisconsin ... - 0 views

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  • By the late 1950s, officials of the Eisenhower administration, after having seen the results of numerous atomic bomb tests, had a fairly realistic idea of how difficult it would be to survive a nuclear bomb blast. They continued, however, to disseminate somewhat dubious survival information, primarily to give the American public a sense of hope and control over their own lives. They also believed that a public confident of surviving an atomic war would support the federal government's decision to increase its own atomic arsenal, even though its existence could provoke a nuclear war with the Soviet Union.
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Fear! Living Under a Mushroom Cloud, a collection at the Museum at the Wisconsin Histor... - 0 views

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  • America's post-World War II period is often portrayed as a time of affluence and contentment, but fear of atomic war and Communist infiltration also marked the era and affected the decisions Americans made about their lives and futures. Fear of atomic bomb attacks on the nation's cities helped motivate people to move to the relative safety of the suburbs. Some Americans built fallout shelters to protect their families while others, shocked by the prospect of nuclear annihilation at any moment, sought to live for the present.
  • Once the first atomic bomb was dropped on Japan, Americans realized a new era in history, one defined by the ability of humans to destroy their world.
  • Positive portrayals of atomic bomb blasts, along with toys and games that made light of atomic bomb destruction like those in the case below, may have helped diffuse some of the fear the American public felt about the bomb by desensitizing them to the devastation an atomic bomb could cause.
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  • While "atomic fiction" depicted possible fearful scenarios using atomic bombs and radiation, documentary sources illustrated the reality. Newspapers, magazines, books, and pamphlets described in vivid detail the effects of nuclear bombs on the Bikini Atoll, Hiroshima, and Nagasaki, kept Americans abreast of the latest atomic developments and their destructive forces, and explained the devastating results if a bomb were to be dropped on the United States. All combined to reinforce the fear Americans had about anything atomic
  • Atomic Age fears provided science fiction writers with the inspiration for hundreds of stories, many of which conveyed political and moral messages as they shocked and entertained American readers and movie audiences. Three story types had emerged by the mid-1950s: the first dealt with atomic warfare; the second showed dinosaurs or fantastical beasts awakened or created by atomic blasts; and the third type depicted human deformities resulting from atomic experiments gone awry.
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