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Gideon Burton

A brief history of intellectual property at weblog.mattdorn.com - 0 views

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  • Gideon Burton on 10 Jan 12
     
    A good brief summary of major historical points in the development of copyright and patents and intellectual property in general
Danny Patterson

John Locke Philosophy: English Philosopher, First of British Empiricists - 0 views

www.suite101.com/...john-locke-philosophy-a88257

John Locke

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  • Danny Patterson on 21 Sep 10
     
    Brief yet condensed summary of John Locke and his life
Gideon Burton

Carl Jung, Pioneer of Transpersonal Psychology | Institute of Transpersonal Psychology - 0 views

www.itp.edu/carl_jung.php

jung psychology

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  • Gideon Burton on 28 Oct 10
     
    A nice summary of major points in Jung's psychology.
Jake Corkin

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

www.muppetlabs.com/...al.html

relativity einstein modernism

shared by Jake Corkin on 27 Oct 10 - Cached
  • Jake Corkin on 27 Oct 10
     
    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.
Jake Corkin

Bohr's quantum theory - 0 views

en.wikipedia.org/...Old_quantum_theory

quantum theory science modernism

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  • Jake Corkin on 27 Oct 10
     
    Here is a summary of the old theory of quantum physics which is most commonly tied to Bohr. i dont really understand what it is saying. some others may understand it though.
Jake Corkin

Einstein's theory of relativity - 0 views

www.allaboutscience.org/theory-of-relativity.htm

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  • Jake Corkin on 27 Oct 10
     
    Here is a great summary of the theory of relativity and my favorite part is at the end where it leaves room and even suggests that such a theory implies the existence of a creator.
Brad Twining

Don Norman - The Design of Everyday Things - 0 views

www.situatedgaming.com/...norman.html

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  • Brad Twining on 02 Nov 10
     
    Summary, chapter by chapter of Don Norman's Book
Ariel Szuch

YouTube - Summary of Freud's Psychoanalytic Theory - 0 views

www.youtube.com/watch

youtube summary psychoanalytic theory

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  • Ariel Szuch on 02 Nov 10
     
    Perhaps a little simplistic, but still a good overview.
Rhett Ferrin

Friedrich Nietzsche - 0 views

kirjasto.sci.fi/nietzsch.htm

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  • At Basel Nietzsche had become a close friend of Richard Wagner (1813-1883),
  • Thus Spoke Zarathustra centered around the notions of the will to power, radical nihilism, and the eternal recurrence. Pain, suffering, and contradictions are no longer seen as objections to existence but as an expression of its actual tensions. In a note entitled 'Anti-Darwin' Nietzsche stated that "man as a species is not progressing."
  • Hopes for a higher state of being after death are explained as compensations for failures in this life.
  • ...1 more annotation...
  • Adolf Hitler kept a bust of him and in 1943
  • Rhett Ferrin on 28 Oct 10
     
    short summary about Nietzsche's life
David Potter

Summary of "Amuzing ourselves to Death" - 0 views

en.wikipedia.org/...Amusing_Ourselves_to_Death

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  • David Potter on 18 Nov 10
     
    This is a wikipedia summary of "Amuzing ourselves to Death"
anonymous

Darwin and Patagonia - 0 views

www.worldlandtrust.org/...darwin.htm

darwin patagonia digiciv

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  • anonymous on 27 Nov 10
     
    a brief summary of Darwin in Patagonia
anonymous

Industrial Revolution - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia - 0 views

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  • anonymous on 27 Nov 10
     
    a summary of the industrial revolution
Jake Corkin

Renee Descartes and His philosophy - 0 views

www.suite101.com/...scartes-cogito-ergo-sum-a49293

Renee Descartes biography summary brief introduction

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  • Jake Corkin on 20 Sep 10
     
    Just a basic informational guide to Decartes and his beliefs. similar to a wikipedia entry.
Erin Hamson

Modern History Sourcebook: Adam Smith: The Wealth of Nations, 1776 (Epitome) - 0 views

www.fordham.edu/...adamsmith-summary.html

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    • Erin Hamson
      Erin Hamson on 28 Sep 10
       
      The process of specialization was later perfected by Henry Ford, in making cheap, durable cars.
  • This great increase of the quantity of work which, in consequence of the division of labor, the same number of people are capable of performing, is owing to three different circumstances; first, to the increase of dexterity in every particular workman; secondly, to the saving of the time which is commonly lost in passing from one species of work to another; and lastly, to the invention of a great number of machines which facilitate and abridge labor, and enable one man to do the work of many....
  • Man has almost constant occasion for the help of his brethren, and it is in vain for him to expect it from their benevolence only. He will be more likely to prevail if he can interest their self-love in his favor, and show them that it is for their own advantage to do for him what he requires of them. Whoever offers to another a bargain of any kind, proposes to do this. Give me that which I want, and you shall have this which you want, is the meaning of every such offer; and it is in this manner that we obtain from one another the far greater art of those good offices which we stand in need of. It is not from the benevolence of the butcher, the brewer, or the baker that we expect our dinner, but from their regard to their own interest.
    • Erin Hamson
      Erin Hamson on 28 Sep 10
       
      This is the basis of the Market Economy or Capitalism, exchange based in self-interest that benefits all.
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  • In order to avoid the inconvenience of such situations, every prudent man in every period of society, after the first establishment of the division of labor, must naturally have endeavored to manage his affairs in such a manner as to have at all times by him, besides the peculiar produce of his own industry, a certain quantity of some one commodity or other, such as he imagined few people would be likely to refuse in exchange for their produce....It is in this manner that money has become in all civilized nations the universal instrument of commerce, by the intervention of which goods of all kinds are bought and sold, or exchanged for one another....
    • Erin Hamson
      Erin Hamson on 28 Sep 10
       
      The role/development of money. The problem with money is that it has to be regulated and who regulates it? If we let the governement regulate it, it might become manipulated...
  • The value of any commodity,
  • is equal to the quantity of labor which it enables him to purchase or command
  • Labor, therefore, is the real measure of the exchangeable value of all commodities....
  • The real price of everything
  • is the toil and trouble of acquiring it.
    • Erin Hamson
      Erin Hamson on 28 Sep 10
       
      Note the difference between the value and the price. The price changes most significantly in relation to how much the consumer wants the product, as opposed to how much time it took the maker to make it.
  • which resolves itself into labor
  • resolves itself into rent
  • resolves itself into profit
  • ordinary or average rate both of wages and profit
  • partly by the general circumstances of the society,
    • Erin Hamson
      Erin Hamson on 28 Sep 10
       
      A man cannot charge above that which can be paid him or he will lose business.
  • partly by the particular nature of each employment
    • Erin Hamson
      Erin Hamson on 28 Sep 10
       
      Some labor is simply worth more
  • ordinary or average rate of rent
  • partly by the general circumstances of the society or neighborhood in which the land is situated,
  • partly by the natural or improved fertility of the land
  • When the price of any commodity is neither more nor less than what is sufficient to pay the rent of the land, the wages of the labor, and the profits of the stock employed in raising, preparing, and bringing it to market, according to their natural rates, the commodity is then sold for what may be called its natural price.
  • The actual price at which any commodity is commonly sold is called its market price
  • he market price of every particular commodity is regulated by the proportion between the quantity which is actually brought to market, and the demand of those who are willing to pay the natural price of the commodity, or the whole value of the rent, labor, and profit, which must be paid in order to bring it thither.
  • A competition will immediately begin among them, and the market price will rise more or less above the natural price, according as either the greatness of the deficiency, or the wealth and wanton luxury of the competitors, happen to animate more or less the eagerness of the competition.
    • Erin Hamson
      Erin Hamson on 28 Sep 10
       
      The results of scarcity *footballs*
  • quantity brought to market exceeds the effectual demand
    • Erin Hamson
      Erin Hamson on 28 Sep 10
       
      Surplus
    • Erin Hamson
      Erin Hamson on 28 Sep 10
       
      ,effect of
  • A monopoly granted either to an individual or to a trading company has the same effect as a secret in trade or manufactures.
    • Erin Hamson
      Erin Hamson on 28 Sep 10
       
      See above
  • When by an increase in the effectual demand, the market price of some particular commodity happens to rise a good deal above the natural price, those who employ their stocks in supplying that market are generally careful to conceal this change
    • Erin Hamson
      Erin Hamson on 28 Sep 10
       
      A monopoly
  • The exclusive privileges of corporations, statutes of apprenticeship, and all those laws which restrain, in particular employments, the competition to a smaller number than might otherwise go into them, have the same tendency, though in a less degree. They are a sort of enlarged monopolies,
    • Erin Hamson
      Erin Hamson on 28 Sep 10
       
      See above
  • THE produce of labor constitutes the natural recompense or wages of labor.
    • Erin Hamson
      Erin Hamson on 28 Sep 10
       
      You get what you make
  • Such combinations, however, are frequently resisted by a contrary defensive combination of the workmen; who sometimes too, without any provocation of this kind, combine of their own accord to raise the price of their labor.....
  • Masters, too, sometimes enter into particular combinations to sink the wages of labor even below this rate
    • Erin Hamson
      Erin Hamson on 28 Sep 10
       
      Two combinations to react to one another. Like the checks and balances found in gov.
  • The demand for those who live by wages, therefore, necessarily increases with the increase of the revenue and stock of every country, and cannot possibly increase without it. The increase of revenue and stock is the increase of national wealth....
  • It is but equity, besides, that they who feed, clothe, and lodge the whole body of the people, should have such a share of the produce of their own labor as to be themselves tolerably well fed, clothed, and lodged
    • Erin Hamson
      Erin Hamson on 28 Sep 10
       
      equality in the pursuit of happiness
  • First, by restraining the competition in some employments to a smaller number than would otherwise be disposed to enter into them; Second, by increasing it in others beyond what it naturally would be; and, Third, by obstructing the free circulation of labor and stock, both from employment to employment and from place to place.
    • Erin Hamson
      Erin Hamson on 28 Sep 10
       
      Problems of Mercantilism
  • First,
  • by restraining the competition in some employments to a smaller number than might otherwise be disposed to enter into them
  • and to hinder him from employing this strength and dexterity in what manner he thinks proper without injury to his neighbor is a plain violation of this most sacred property.
  • An exclusive corporation necessarily weakens the force of this discipline.
    • Erin Hamson
      Erin Hamson on 28 Sep 10
       
      the gov is not needed for regulation
  • Second,
  • by increasing the competition in some employments beyond what it naturally would be
    • Erin Hamson
      Erin Hamson on 28 Sep 10
       
      pursuit of happiness
  • by obstructing the free circulation of labor and stock both from employment to employment, and from place to place,
  • Third,
  • Andrew DeWitt on 28 Sep 10
     
    Thanks for the annotations and the comments.
David Potter

Felix Frankfurter's Revenge? A Democracy Built by Judges - 0 views

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government Digiciv

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  • David Potter on 29 Sep 10
     
    This taped lecture. Summary: Beginning with its landmark decision in Baker v. Carr (1962), the Supreme Court has been actively involved in shaping American democracy for almost 50 years. In his dissent, Justice Felix Frankfurter warned we would rue the day we allowed judges, acting as amateur political scientists, to have the final word on the functioning of American democracy. Enough time has passed to test Justice Frankfurter's hypothesis. Do cases like Bush v. Gore (2000), where five Justices prevented the counting of Florida's votes in the 2000 presidential election, and Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission (2010), where five justices turned American democracy over to corporate lobbyists, mean that Frankfurter was right?
David Potter

Michael Feldstein - Open Source, Economics, and Higher Education - 0 views

cnx.org/latest

open Digiciv

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  • David Potter on 29 Sep 10
     
    Summary : Michael Feldstein's contribution to the OSS and OER in Education Series. In this post, he writes about how open source projects work from an economic perspective. Drawing on the work of Nobel Prize-winning economist Ronald Coase and Harvard economics professor Yochai Benkler, he will provide some perspective on how open source projects manage to defy conventional wisdom about economics and self-interested behavior, and gives some questions that universities can ask when considering whether a particular open source software project is likely to be successful.
anonymous

Id, ego, and super-ego - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia - 0 views

en.wikipedia.org/...Id,_ego,_and_super-ego

id ego superego dream psychoanalysis Freud Sigmund digiciv

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  • Jake Corkin on 01 Nov 10
     
    an additional summary of id ego and superego
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