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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.
    • Erin Hamson
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      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
Jeffrey Chen

romanticism overview - 0 views

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nature romanticism recent

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  • Jeffrey Chen on 12 Oct 10
     
    For those who are not too keen on romanticism, this is the site for you!
Madeline Rupard

"All the trees of the field shall clap their hands": My new photography blog/ visual essay - 3 views

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digiciv blog art photography tumblr visual truth mormon communication

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  • Madeline Rupard on 25 Oct 10
     
    A visual essay of some of my own photography that I feel/hope conveys spiritual truth AND artistic truth. See my blog post at http://tamesequels.blogspot.com for my discussion about these two kinds of truths. All of these pieces are taken with a low resolution camera phone to try and convey that artistic beauty can be found in this world with the humblest means and mediums. This is one of my new art projects. I have always had an interest in photography, so this has been a good chance for me to experiment. I will try to post a photo on this site every day.
  • Mike Lemon on 25 Oct 10
     
    I like what you are doing, especially the wires photograph. I believe it ties in nicely to the sublime we talked about during Romanticism, that there is a glimpse of God in nature.
Kristi Koerner

The Social Contract and Constitutional Republics - 0 views

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natural rights social contract

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    Essay on the social contract
Jeffrey Chen

Gene positioning effects evolution - 0 views

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paper evolution digiciv

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  • Jeffrey Chen on 19 Oct 10
     
    "We usually think of natural selection as acting directly on the genes that influence a specific trait," said Leonid Kruglyak, one of the co-authors on the paper and the William R. Harman '63 and Mary-Love Harman Professor in Genomics at Princeton. "This paper shows that there is an indirect evolutionary force that can override this direct effect -- selection acting on neighboring genes that just happen to travel together on a chromosome with the genes that influence the trait."
Bri Zabriskie

YouTube - 'Oceans' Trailer 3 HD - 1 views

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sublime romanticism nature

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  • Bri Zabriskie on 07 Oct 10
     
    Talk about sublime! 
Gideon Burton

Coase's Penguin: Or, Linux and The Nature of the Firm - 0 views

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economics Yochai Benkler Ronald Coase peer-production commons labor open seminal

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  • I suggest that we are seeing is the broad and deep emergence of a new, third mode of production in the digitally networked environment. I call this mode "commons-based peer-production," to distinguish it from the property- and contract-based models of firms and markets. Its central characteristic is that groups of individuals successfully collaborate on large-scale projects following a diverse cluster of motivational drives and social signals, rather than either market prices or managerial commands.
  • Gideon Burton on 23 Oct 10
     
    A seminal article from Yochai Benkler about changes to economic theory in the digital age.
Kristen Nicole Cardon

Collected Quotes from Albert Einstein - 0 views

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quotes einstein science history

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  • "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)
  • Kristen Nicole Cardon on 27 Oct 10
     
    I guess I just really like what brilliant people have to say :)
Shuan Pai

Naturalistic Observation - Research in the Natural Environment - 0 views

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    explains naturalistic observation
Mike Lemon

G. Stanley Hall - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia - 0 views

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psychology

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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.
James Wilcox

Einsteins Theory of Relativity - 0 views

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digiciv albert einstein physicist

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  • the principle of relativity
  • We advance a step farther in our generalisation when we express the tenet thus: If, relative to K, K1 is a uniformly moving co-ordinate system devoid of rotation, then natural phenomena run their course with respect to K1 according to exactly the same general laws as with respect to K. This statement is called
  • (in the restricted sense).
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  • two general facts which at the outset speak very much in favour of the validity of the principle of relativity
  • The principle of relativity must therefore apply with great accuracy in the domain of mechanics
    • James Wilcox
      James Wilcox on 28 Oct 10
       
      Basically I get out of this the fact that Einstein is a genius and can quite literally think outside of the box.  In fact he can think at the box from any angle in multiple dimensions and then describe it.  Although I am sure I am not getting this 100%, I do see that the light is working on his end.
LeeAnne Lowry

Freud a Fraud? - 0 views

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digiciv psychology

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  • LeeAnne Lowry on 03 Nov 10
     
    So pretty much no one is buying what he's selling.
Andrew DeWitt

Modernism - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia - 0 views

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modernism digiciv wikipedia culture philosophy

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  • From the 1870s onward, the ideas that history and civilization were inherently progressive and that progress was always good came under increasing attack.
  • Darwin's theory of evolution by natural selection undermined the religious certainty
  • Karl Marx argued there were fundamental contradictions within the capitalist system
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  • The miseries of industrial urbanism and the possibilities created by scientific examination of subjects brought changes that would shake a European civilization which had, until then, regarded itself as having a continuous and progressive line of development from the Renaissance. With the telegraph's harnessing of a new power, offering instant communication at a distance, the experience of time itself was altered.
Brandon McCloskey

BBC NEWS | Technology | Learning to love Web 2.0 - 0 views

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web2.0 DigiCiv

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  • Impressive services
  • Only last week Google splashed out on Writely, a web-based word processor that requires no downloads or installation and just runs in a browser window.
  • They are just the tip of an iceberg
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  • Maybe Web 2.0 is a transitional phase, and once we get used to interacting with online tools in a more natural way and dispense with static web, we will move to a world of true distributed computing.
  • We'll need to make sure that the successful Web 2.0 companies don't just sit on progress because it doesn't serve their business plans, like so many other computing companies have done in the past and continue to do today. If Web 2.0 is the first stage in a revolution, we need to make sure it's a permanent revolution.
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