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Jim Pickett

Should the Census Offer 'Negro' as an Identity Option? - TIME - 3 views

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census race ethnicity

shared by Jim Pickett on 29 Jan 10 - Cached
  • the flash point represents a much larger theme: the often contentious way the Census both reflects and forges our evolving understanding of race.
  • 2000 Census, more than 56,000 people wrote in Negro to describe their identity — even though it was already on the form
  • Consider that in a 2006 study of 138 censuses from around the world, New York University sociologist Ann Morning found that only 15% of those asking about ancestry or national origin used the term race. Almost all of those that did were former slave economies.
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  • only the U.S. asked about Hispanic ethnicity in a stand-alone question.
  • could unintentionally reinforce the view that while ethnicity is a product of culture and society, race represents something else
    • Jim Pickett
      Jim Pickett on 29 Jan 10
       
      This represents a significant risk of "racialization"
  • The first Census, in 1790, explicitly asked about only one race: white.
  • The antidiscrimination laws written in the 1960s and the affirmative-action policies that followed relied on Census data to determine if minorities were underrepresented in any number of realms, from home sales to small-business loans.
  • One of the possible changes the Census is testing during the 2010 count is allowing respondents to check more than one box not just for race but for Hispanic origin as well.
  • Another change under review is letting people who check "white" or "black" to write in more specific information afterward.
  • For the time being, write-in responses still often need to be shoehorned into broader categories for the purpose of following certain laws based on official statistics.
  • Census categories reflect perceptions. But they also forge them.
    • Jim Pickett
      Jim Pickett on 29 Jan 10
       
      And THAT is the argument for racialization
Jim Pickett

Swine Flu News - The New York Times - 0 views

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Swine flu h1n1 medical influenza NYT

shared by Jim Pickett on 09 Sep 09 - Cached
  • Swine Flu Navigator A list of resources from around the Web about Swine Flu as selected by researchers and editors of The New York Times. Swine Influenza Breaking News Center for Infectious Disease Research & Policy News Focus: Influenza A(H1N1) United Nations News Service Key Facts about Swine Influenza Centers for Disease Control and Prevention FAQs about Swine Flu PandemicFlu.gov (U.S. Dept of Health & Human Services) U.S. Cases of Swine Flu Infection Centers for Disease Control and Prevention H1N1 (Swine) Flu Virus Vaccine Production U.S. Food and Drug Administration Understanding Flu: Cause, Transmission, Symptoms and Treatment National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases Flu Guidance for Specific Groups and Industries Centers for Disease Control H1N1 Influenza Center The New England Journal of Medicine Timeline of Human Flu Pandemics National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases
    • Jim Pickett
      Jim Pickett on 09 Sep 09
       
      Great set of influenza resources here in one place. Keep coming back to this page.
Jim Pickett

Wolfram|Alpha and Mathematica: Geographic data - 0 views

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wolfram data model modeling

shared by Jim Pickett on 08 Jan 10 - Cached
  • Jim Pickett on 08 Jan 10
     
    Scan in on this video to about time mark 3:50 (or just watch the whole thing). Great source for interactive data modeling.
Jim Pickett

Hypercities Beta 2 - 1 views

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hypercities urban planning urban

shared by Jim Pickett on 13 Dec 10 - Cached
  • Jim Pickett on 13 Dec 10
     
    Mapping urban places over time... cool concept
Jillian Williams

The More the Merrier (NY Times Article) - 0 views

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population climate

shared by Jillian Williams on 24 Sep 09 - Cached
  • technical progress — discoveries — are trial and error, and incentives.
  • but both are stimulated by population.
  • The more people on earth, the greater the chance that one of them has an idea of how to improve alternative energies, or to mitigate the climate effects of carbon emissions. It takes only one person to have an idea that can benefit many.
    • Jillian Williams
      Jillian Williams on 24 Sep 09
       
      More People = More Ideas = Faster Results
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  • Plus, the more people on earth, the larger are the markets for new innovations.
  • incentives matter for innovative activity
  • ncentives to devote effort toward finding new discoveries and bringing them to the marketplace depend on the size of that marketplace.
  • Jillian Williams on 24 Sep 09
     
    Article about why increase in population good or climate control, etc.
Jim Pickett

Foreign Policy: Kaplan's "The Revenge of Geography" - 0 views

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environmental determinism geographic theory determinism geopolitics geography

shared by Jim Pickett on 30 Sep 09 - Cached
  • but geography largely determines them, now more than ever
  • it’s time to dust off the Victorian thinkers who knew the physical world best.
    • Jim Pickett
      Jim Pickett on 30 Sep 09
       
      Oh what interesting thoughts... Compelling written to evoke the "hidden, forgotten truths" of the past. But is it true?
  • And of all the unsavory truths in which realism is rooted, the bluntest, most uncomfortable, and most deterministic of all is geography.
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  • By bringing demography and nature itself into history, Braudel helped restore geography to its proper place. In his narrative, permanent environmental forces lead to enduring historical trends that preordain political events and regional wars. To Braudel, for example, the poor, precarious soils along the Mediterranean, combined with an uncertain, drought-afflicted climate, spurred ancient Greek and Roman conquest. In other words, we delude ourselves by thinking that we control ou
julia bleznak

Venezuela News - Breaking World Venezuela News - The New York Times - 0 views

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Population Migration

shared by julia bleznak on 03 Dec 09 - Cached
  • julia bleznak on 03 Dec 09
     
    Venezuela leader, driving the wealthy and intelligent out of the country
Jim Pickett

NY Times Magazine - THE FOOD ISSUE - 0 views

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food farming diet NYT

shared by Jim Pickett on 14 Oct 09 - Cached
  • Jim Pickett on 14 Oct 09
     
    NYT Magazine's Food issue... a good read.
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