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Brian Earley

Boolefest a celebration of the life of George Boole - 0 views

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digiciv boolefest web2.0

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    • Brian Earley
      Brian Earley on 14 Oct 10
       
      Activities arranged around Boole's impact.  Lectures for 4 nights straight.
    • Brian Earley
      Brian Earley on 14 Oct 10
       
      link to a cool video also.
    • Brian Earley
      Brian Earley on 14 Oct 10
       
      Final Project: I think our class could create a short biography about some character from class discussion that would be as good or better than this video.
  • Brian Earley on 14 Oct 10
     
    Boolefest! I tried twitter and found this week long event at the University of Lincoln.  We had Boole day on Sunday 10/10/10.  Way to go binary.
Brandon McCloskey

Glenn Beck - Current Events & Politics - Glenn Beck: Restoring Honor - 0 views

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digiciv mormonism honor

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  • Brandon McCloskey on 21 Oct 10
     
    While not everyone believes everything that Glenn Beck says, he has successfully used digital media as a way to promote virtues and honor in our country. I watched the video of this event and was very impressed.
Gideon Burton

Free Online Invitations, Announcements, Save-the-Dates and Party Guest List Management ... - 0 views

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event

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  • Gideon Burton on 25 Nov 10
     
    For event planning, here is a service for sending out attractive and free invitations.
anonymous

Twitter, Facebook, and social activism : The New Yorker - 2 views

www.newyorker.com/...101004fa_fact_gladwell

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      anonymous on 03 Feb 12
       
      Do you agree with this?
  • This is in many ways a wonderful thing. There is strength in weak ties, as the sociologist Mark Granovetter has observed. Our acquaintances—not our friends—are our greatest source of new ideas and information. The Internet lets us exploit the power of these kinds of distant connections with marvellous efficiency. It’s terrific at the diffusion of innovation, interdisciplinary collaboration, seamlessly matching up buyers and sellers, and the logistical functions of the dating world. But weak ties seldom lead to high-risk activism.
  • The evangelists of social media don’t understand this distinction; they seem to believe that a Facebook friend is the same as a real friend and that signing up for a donor registry in Silicon Valley today is activism in the same sense as sitting at a segregated lunch counter in Greensboro in 1960.
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  • Boycotts and sit-ins and nonviolent confrontations—which were the weapons of choice for the civil-rights movement—are high-risk strategies. They leave little room for conflict and error. The moment even one protester deviates from the script and responds to provocation, the moral legitimacy of the entire protest is compromised.
    • anonymous
      anonymous on 03 Feb 12
       
      But it was just a phone.
  • A networked, weak-tie world is good at things like helping Wall Streeters get phones back from teen-age girls.
  • These events in the early sixties became a civil-rights war that engulfed the South for the rest of the decade—and it happened without e-mail, texting, Facebook, or Twitter.
  • “It is time to get Twitter’s role in the events in Iran right,” Golnaz Esfandiari wrote, this past summer, in Foreign Policy. “Simply put: There was no Twitter Revolution inside Iran.”
  • The cadre of prominent bloggers, like Andrew Sullivan, who championed the role of social media in Iran, Esfandiari continued, misunderstood the situation. “Western journalists who couldn’t reach—or didn’t bother reaching?—people on the ground in Iran simply scrolled through the English-language tweets post with tag #iranelection,” she wrote. “Through it all, no one seemed to wonder why people trying to coordinate protests in Iran would be writing in any language other than Farsi.”
  • What mattered more was an applicant’s degree of personal connection to the civil-rights movement.
Gideon Burton

NationBuilder - the Community Organizing System - 1 views

nationbuilder.com

open government advocacy cms social media

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  • Gideon Burton on 21 Feb 12
     
    An excellent integrated tool for advocacy, campaigns, and creating change. This organizes supporters and integrates the live web and social media, events, fundraising, etc.
Danny Patterson

Timeline of Charles Darwin's life - 0 views

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Charles Darwin

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  • Danny Patterson on 16 Oct 10
     
    This is a fun timeline of the events attributable to Charles Darwin's life. It includes information regarding his life, his death, and how he has affected society and science after his death.
David Potter

Website that archives the history of events from the atomic age - 0 views

www.atomicarchive.com

digiciv ;atomic

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  • David Potter on 11 Nov 10
     
    Website that archives the history of events from the atomic age
Andrew DeWitt

YouTube - Fictionalized Criticality Accident - 0 views

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youtube criticality fictionalized nuclear

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  • Andrew DeWitt on 11 Nov 10
     
    An event in the study of nuclear weapons.  See my blog post for more info  http://bit.ly/903zlH
Sean Watson

The FP Twitterati 100 - 1 views

www.foreignpolicy.com/...the_fp_twitterati_100

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  • Sean Watson on 23 Jun 11
     
    These days, everyone from the Dalai Lama to Bill Gates is on Twitter, the microblogging platform founded in 2006. During breaking news events like the death of Osama bin Laden or for following the Arab uprisings, it's become an invaluable tool for keeping up to speed. But for many, it's still just another place to promote their own work, rather than engaging in a more natural give-and-take. So how do you tell who's really worth following? FP's got you covered. Here are 100 Twitter users from around the world who will make you smarter, infuriate you, and delight you -- 140 characters at a time.
Shuan Pai

Industrial Revolution in America - 0 views

www.allsands.com/...americanhistory_zlu_gn.htm

industrial revolution america

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  • Shuan Pai on 04 Oct 10
     
    Concise description of the IR in America.
Katherine Chipman

The Crystal Palace/ The Great Exhibition of 1851 - 0 views

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crystal palace

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  • Over 13,000 exhibits were displayed and viewed by over 6,200,000 visitors to the exhibition.
  • The London Borough of Bromley, who own the park today, together with the Crystal Palace Foundation, have recently submitted an outline proposal the National Heritage Lottery Fund to restore much of the park to its former glory.
  • The Crystal Palace itself was destroyed by fire on  November 30th 1936, following which the area lost much of its focus and began to decline. But many of the most important events in the history of the Crystal Palace took place in the grounds, which retain much of their original overall layout today and are a Grade II listed historic park.
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  • The park also contained unrivaled collections of statues, many of which were copies of great works from around the world, and a geological display which included a replica lead mine and the first attempts anywhere in the world to portray life-size restorations of extinct animals, including dinosaurs.
  • This "bigger and better" building was divided into a series of courts depicting the history of art and architecture from ancient Egypt through  the Renaissance, as well as exhibits from industry and the natural world.
  • The Crystal Palace was originally designed by Sir Joseph Paxton in only 10 days and was a huge iron goliath with over a million feet of glass.
  • The Great Exhibition of 1851 in London was conceived to symbolize this industrial, military and economic superiority of Great Britain. 
  • Kristi Koerner on 04 Oct 10
     
    More on the crystal palace.
Andrew DeWitt

Learning in the Light of Faith - 0 views

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byu devotional learning light faith ross spencer future shock physics research science

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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".
Erin Hamson

The Frontier In American History: Chapter X - 0 views

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  • As the American pioneer passed on in advance of this new tide of European immigration, he found lands increasingly limited
    • Erin Hamson
      Erin Hamson on 12 Oct 10
       
      The close of the Frontier
  • . But the captains of industry by applying squatter doctrines to the evolution of American industrial society, have made the process so clear that he who runs may read.
  • it seemed not impossible that the outcome of free competition under individualism was to be monopoly of the most important natural resources and processes by a limited group of men whose vast fortunes were so invested in allied and dependent industries that they constituted the dominating force in the industrial life of the nation
    • Erin Hamson
      Erin Hamson on 12 Oct 10
       
      Unregulated turn of events, the people were turned loose and made the best of it. What is wrong with this? They set the standards, and there is no room for competition.
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  • Mr. Harriman
  • mastering the economic forces of the nation
    • Erin Hamson
      Erin Hamson on 12 Oct 10
       
      According to Adam Smith and the free market economy theory, the people are the best regulators. This sounds like socialism...
  • The Granger and the Populist were prophets of this reform movement. Mr. Bryan's Democracy, Mr. Debs' Socialism, and Mr. Roosevelt's Republicanism all had in common the emphasis upon the need of governmental regulation of industrial tendencies in the interest of the common man
  • "the State University and the public school system which it crowns would be the strongest evidence of its fitness which it could offer."
  • "general system of education ascending in regular gradations from township schools to a State University, wherein tuition shall be gratis and equally open to all," expresses the Middle Western conception born in the days of pioneer society and doubtless deeply influenced by Jeffersonian democracy.
    • Erin Hamson
      Erin Hamson on 12 Oct 10
       
      applying pioneer principles of avaliability and indivdualism to education and other opportunities to suceed in life as presently constituted.
  • propaganda to induce students to continue
    • Erin Hamson
      Erin Hamson on 12 Oct 10
       
      Want everyone to go to college to become their best individual self.
  • all under the ideal of service to democracy rather than of individual advancement alone
  • The times call for educated leaders.
    • Erin Hamson
      Erin Hamson on 12 Oct 10
       
      And have yet to cease to call for experienced leaders. Which is why we are all sitting here reading this, to become educated leaders.
  • The test tube and the microscope are needed rather than ax and rifle in this new ideal of conquest
    • Erin Hamson
      Erin Hamson on 12 Oct 10
       
      influence of technology on life
  • It is hardly too much to say that the best hope of intelligent and principled progress in economic and social legislation and administration lies in the increasing influence of American universities.
  • able to think for themselves, governed Dot by ignorance, by prejudice or by impulse, but by knowledge and reason and high-mindedness,
  • The learning of the few is despotism; the learning of the many is liberty.
  • At first pioneer democracy had scant respect for the expert.
    • Erin Hamson
      Erin Hamson on 12 Oct 10
       
      individualism
  • That they may perform their work they must be left free, as the pioneer was free, to explore new regions and to report what they find; for like the pioneers they have the ideal of investigation, they seek new horizons.
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      Erin Hamson on 12 Oct 10
       
      application of pioneer ideals
  • Thus it is the function of the university to reveal to the individual the mystery and the glory of life as a whole
    • Erin Hamson
      Erin Hamson on 12 Oct 10
       
      opening the mind to new ideas and ideals
Shuan Pai

Google Timeline of American Industrial Revolution - 1 views

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google timeline american industrial revolution

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  • Shuan Pai on 04 Oct 10
     
    Just a good way to look at the different events that occurred during the Industrial Revolution
Andrew DeWitt

Media alert: BYU ROTC plans Veteran's Day events Nov. 11 - 0 views

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byu media alert ROTC veteran day news

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  • Andrew DeWitt on 11 Nov 10
     
    I won't be in class Thursday because of this, will someone take notes for me?
David Potter

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

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digiciv ; atomic

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  • David Potter on 11 Nov 10
     
    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
Brandon McCloskey

Real-time computing goes from Wall Street to High Street - 0 views

www.bbc.co.uk/...business-11444051

digiciv economy

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  • If the company could monitor sales of ice cream - or bottled water or sun tan cream - on hot days like this one and then gauge future demand, he said, it could alter the way the company behaved
  • Real-time - the act of responding to events as they happen - is changing the way that the world behaves.
  • The software has also been blamed for exacerbating the financial crisis. Computer programmes automatically sold stocks as fear spread in the markets, because their algorithms have built-in "sell" orders.
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  • SAP's software is also being deployed on offshore oil rigs and even in hospitals around the world. This allows diabetic patients, for example, to have their blood sugar levels monitored and insulin administered if it gets dangerously high.
  • Future applications that are being discussed include the military, such as real-time monitoring of troop and tank movements. StreamBase is already used by the US National Security Agency to monitor security threats. "It's difficult to think of an industry that isn't affected by real-time," Mr Palmer says.
  • Brandon McCloskey on 08 Nov 10
     
    How real-time computing is affecting economics
Megan Stern

Three Special Events in the History of Technology for Creating, Organizing, and Sharing... - 0 views

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digiciv digital humanities history technology paradigm

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  • Megan Stern on 05 Nov 10
     
    Captures the whole spirit of our class.
James Wilcox

Airplane Timeline - Greatest Engineering Achievements of the Twentieth Century - 0 views

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digiciv

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    • James Wilcox
      James Wilcox on 15 Nov 10
       
      I love helicopters!  But I never knew that they had been around for so many years.
  • 1947   Sound barrior broken U.S. Air Force pilot Captain Charles "Chuck" Yeager becomes the fastest man alive when he pilots the Bell X-1 faster than sound for the first time on October 14 over the town of Victorville, California.
  • 1952   Discovery of the area rule of aircraft design Richard Whitcomb, an engineer at Langley Memorial Aeronautical Laboratory, discovers and experimentally verifies an aircraft design concept known as the area rule. A revolutionary method of designing aircraft to reduce drag and increase speed without additional power, the area rule is incorporated into the development of almost every American supersonic aircraft. He later invents winglets, which increase the lift-to-drag ratio of transport airplanes and other vehicles.
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  • 1904   Concept of a fixed "boundary layer" described in paper by Ludwig Prandtl German professor Ludwig Prandtl presents one of the most important papers in the history of aerodynamics, an eight-page document describing the concept of a fixed "boundary layer," the molecular layer of air on the surface of an aircraft wing. Over the next 20 years Prandtl and his graduate students pioneer theoretical aerodynamics.
  •   1917   The Junkers J4, an all-metal airplane, introduced Hugo Junkers, a German professor of mechanics introduces the Junkers J4, an all-metal airplane built largely of a relatively lightweight aluminum alloy called duralumin.
  • 1925-1926   Introduction of lightweight, air-cooled radial engines The introduction of a new generation of lightweight, air-cooled radial engines revolutionizes aeronautics, making bigger, faster planes possible.
  • 1933   First modern commercial airliner In February, Boeing introduces the 247, a twin-engine 10-passenger monoplane that is the first modern commercial airliner. With variable-pitch propellers, it has an economical cruising speed and excellent takeoff. Retractable landing gear reduces drag during flight.
  • 935   First practical radar British scientist Sir Robert Watson-Watt patents the first practical radar (for radio detection and ranging) system for meteorological applications. During World War II radar is successfully used in Great Britain to detect incoming aircraft and provide information to intercept bombers.
  • 1937   Jet engines designed Jet engines designed independently by Britain’s Frank Whittle and Germany’s Hans von Ohain make their first test runs. (Seven years earlier, Whittle, a young Royal Air Force officer, filed a patent for a gas turbine engine to power an aircraft, but the Royal Air Ministry was not interested in developing the idea at the time. Meanwhile, German doctoral student Von Ohain was developing his own design.) Two years later, on August 27, the first jet aircraft, the Heinkel HE 178, takes off, powered by von Ohain’s HE S-3 engine.
  •   1939   First practical singlerotor helicopters Russian emigre Igor Sikorsky develops the VS-300 helicopter for the U.S. Army, one of the first practical singlerotor helicopters.
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