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Erin Hamson

Compulsory Voting - 0 views

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open open movement government

shared by Erin Hamson on 20 Sep 10 - No Cached
  • "will of the electorate"
  • Governments must consider the total electorate
  • Candidates can concentrate their campaigning energies on issues rather than encouraging voters to attend the poll
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  • Voting is a civic duty
  • benefits of political participatio
    • Erin Hamson
      Erin Hamson on 20 Sep 10
       
      In the old sense liberty is the ability to participate in government, why would you turn this down?
    • Erin Hamson
      Erin Hamson on 20 Sep 10
       
      Through forcing people to the polls you encourage them to think about what they are doing, and they don't have to vote for anyone
  • Erin Hamson on 20 Sep 10
     
    This is website a friend posted to my blog, that relates to my post on open government and compulsory voting.
alexandergunnarson

Survey: Americans don't know much about religion - 0 views

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digiciv religion poll

shared by alexandergunnarson on 30 Sep 10 - No Cached
  • alexandergunnarson on 30 Sep 10
     
    It's unfortunate. But on the upside, we know the most about our religion and religions in general than any other religious group does (besides atheists and agnostics, which aren't really a "religious" group).
Morgan Wills

Johanna Schmitt: 'Natural Selection in an Age of Global Change' | Today at Brown - 0 views

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natural selection Brown Schmitt global change

shared by Morgan Wills on 16 Oct 10 - No Cached
  • A famous early example of natural selection in action was actually discovered right here in Providence by a Brown professor, Hermon Carey Bumpus. Passing by the Atheneum (just a few blocks from here on Benefit Street) after a severe blizzard in January 1898, Professor Bumpus found a flock of English house sparrows that had been knocked down by the storm. A typical scientist, he picked them all up and took them back to his lab, where some revived and some didn’t. When he measured them he discovered that the living were morphologically different from the dead. That was a case of natural selection acting in a single night!
  • Some of those experiments have already produced results — such as the rapid, pervasive, and dangerous evolution of antibiotic resistance in bacteria.
  • And a Gallup poll on Darwin’s birthday this February showed that only 39 percent of the American public overall “believes” in the theory of evolution.
  • Morgan Wills on 16 Oct 10
     
    I've always wondered if Natural Selection is different for humans in a day and age where debilitating physical characteristics don't always prevent humans from reproducing. I found this article and highlighted some interesting points.
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