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Daniel Lamken

Baltimore Riots: The story behind TIME's iconic cover | Flickr Blog - 1 views

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perception history arts indigenous knowledge systems

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  • Daniel Lamken on 23 Aug 15
     
    Useful in review of English 10's study of 'voice' and our upcoming poetry unit, which encourages "the unheard to be heard" (as expressed at the end of this piece). Devin Allen grew up in west Baltimore surrounded by crime, drugs, and murder. Photography offered him not only a means of rediscovering his community's beauty, but also literally saved his life. Still, he never dreamed that one of his photos would land him on the cover of Time magazine.
Lawrence Hrubes

How Measurement Fails Doctors and Teachers - The New York Times - 1 views

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human sciences SocialScience education medicine measurement quantification tests

shared by Lawrence Hrubes on 18 Jan 16 - No Cached
  • TWO of our most vital industries, health care and education, have become increasingly subjected to metrics and measurements. Of course, we need to hold professionals accountable. But the focus on numbers has gone too far. We’re hitting the targets, but missing the point.
  • We also need more research on quality measurement and comparing different patient populations. The only way to understand whether a high mortality rate, or dropout rate, represents poor performance is to adequately appreciate all of the factors that contribute to these outcomes — physical and mental, social and environmental — and adjust for them.
  • He developed what is known as Donabedian’s triad, which states that quality can be measured by looking at outcomes (how the subjects fared), processes (what was done) and structures (how the work was organized).
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  • “The secret of quality is love,” he said.
Lawrence Hrubes

BBC World Service - The Science Hour, The Medical Scandal Engulfing Top Swedish University - 0 views

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shared by Lawrence Hrubes on 21 Feb 16 - No Cached
  • Predicting the Next Financial CrisisWhy do financial crises occur – and when will the next one come? In the past, economic theory has failed to answer these questions. In this week’s Science Journal Perspectives, economists, physicists, epidemiologists, climate scientists and ecologists call to establish a new early warning system to avoid future global financial crises. They argue that the methods used by scientists to predict weather, traffic or disease epidemics should be used to simulate the financial systems, which could help to avoid the failures we have seen in the past. Professor Doyne tells Jack how the analysis of complex networks could and should be applied to the economy.
Lawrence Hrubes

The Future Is Ours to Lose - 1 views

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TOK history gender feminism

shared by Lawrence Hrubes on 02 Dec 14 - No Cached
  • tanding at the turn of the millennium, how odd it seems that women, the majority of the human species, have not, over the course of so many centuries, intervened successfully once and for all on their own behalf. That is, until you consider that women have been trained to see themselves as having no relationship to history, and no claim upon it. Feminism can be defined as women's ability to think about their subjugated role in history, and then to do something about it. The 21st century will see the End of Inequality -- but only if women absorb the habit of historical self-awareness, becoming a mass of people who, rather than do it all, decide at last to change it all. The future is ours to lose.
Lawrence Hrubes

Up All Night - The New Yorker - 0 views

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shared by Lawrence Hrubes on 29 Feb 16 - No Cached
  • In the nineteen-eighties, Allan Rechtschaffen and Bernard Bergmann, both, like Kleitman, sleep researchers at the University of Chicago, performed what is now considered to be one of the classic experiments in the field. It showed that rats, when totally deprived of sleep, would, after two or three weeks, drop dead. But Rechtschaffen and Bergmann could never figure out the precise cause of the rats’ deaths, and so, they wrote in a follow-up paper in 2002, even “that dramatic symptom did not tell us much about why sleep was necessary.” Rechtschaffen has observed that “if sleep doesn’t serve an absolutely vital function, it is the greatest mistake evolution ever made.”
Lawrence Hrubes

The Rise of Hate Search - The New York Times - 1 views

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shared by Lawrence Hrubes on 13 Dec 15 - No Cached
  • People often have vicious thoughts. Sometimes they share them on Google. Do these thoughts matter?Yes. Using weekly data from 2004 to 2013, we found a direct correlation between anti-Muslim searches and anti-Muslim hate crimes.
Cisco Walker

What if the Universe is a Computer Simulation? - Computerphile - YouTube - 1 views

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  • Cisco Walker on 20 Mar 14
     
    Thoughts and reflections on possible realities like The Matrix (among others) using the model of Conway's Game of Life... simple rules breeding complex outcomes.
Lawrence Hrubes

BBC News - Are most victims of terrorism Muslim? - 1 views

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TOK statistics terrorism death casualties

shared by Lawrence Hrubes on 20 Jan 15 - No Cached
  • After the Charlie Hebdo attack, a Paris imam went to the scene and condemned the murders. "These victims are martyrs, and I shall pray for them with all my heart," said Hassen Chalghoumi (above). He was also quoted as saying that 95% of victims of terrorism are Muslim. How accurate is this statistic?
  • When people in the West think of terrorist attacks, they may think of Charlie Hebdo, or the 7/7 London tube and bus bombs, the Madrid train bombs and of course 9/11 - and although some Muslims did die in these attacks, most of the victims wouldn't have been Muslim. The overall number of deadly terrorist attacks in France, the UK, Spain and the US, however, is very low by international standards. Between 2004-2013, the UK suffered 400 terrorist attacks, mostly in Northern Ireland, and almost all of them were non-lethal. The US suffered 131 attacks, fewer than 20 of which were lethal. France suffered 47 attacks. But in Iraq, there were 12,000 attacks and 8,000 of them were lethal.
markfrankel18

He's a Creep, but Wow, What an Artist! - The New York Times - 2 views

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TOK arts ethics

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  • markfrankel18 on 26 Nov 17
     
    "It's an age-old question, and it re-emerges with the revelations about sexual predations that men with power inflicted on women and, in some instances, other men: Can we appreciate art even if it was created by someone who behaved deplorably?"
Artem Terentiev

Google says it acknowledges some people want 'right to be forgotten' - 2 views

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TOK ethics

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  • Artem Terentiev on 04 Mar 15
     
    When put into a situation when many people want to have information to have information, that might be false or outdated, removed from the google search engine, google has decided to out of over 220,000 requests to decline this to about 60% of the people. Was that the right thing to do?
markfrankel18

When Whites Just Don't Get It, Part 6 - The New York Times - 1 views

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TOK bias race perception psychology

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  • Why do we discriminate? The big factor isn’t overt racism. Rather, it seems to be unconscious bias among whites who believe in equality but act in ways that perpetuate inequality.
  • That’s why it’s so important for whites to engage in these uncomfortable discussions of race, because we are (unintentionally) so much a part of the problem. It’s not that we’re evil, but that we’re human. The challenge is to recognize that unconscious bias afflicts us all — but that we just may be able to overcome it if we face it.
markfrankel18

What Is Economics Good For? - NYTimes.com - 2 views

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ToK economics Human Sciences Science

shared by markfrankel18 on 26 Aug 13 - No Cached
  • It’s easy to understand why economics might be mistaken for science. It uses quantitative expression in mathematics and the succinct statement of its theories in axioms and derived “theorems,” so economics looks a lot like the models of science we are familiar with from physics.
  • But economics has never been able to show the record of improvement in predictive successes that physical science has shown through its use of harmless idealizations. In fact, when it comes to economic theory’s track record, there isn’t much predictive success to speak of at all.
Lawrence Hrubes

Is Your Child Lying to You? That's Good - The New York Times - 2 views

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ethics lying children intelligence morality psychology human sciences SocialScience

shared by Lawrence Hrubes on 06 Jan 18 - No Cached
  • Kids discover lying as early as age 2, studies have found. In one experiment, children were asked not to peek at a toy hidden behind them while the researcher withdrew from the room under false pretenses. Minutes later, the researcher returned and asked the child if he or she peeked.
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