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kgarland

World Simulation Ideas - 95 views

I think it would be great to add more natural disasters, along with trying to bring out the slave trade, I think we could make the slave trade more part of the game. Also I think it would be great ...

worldsim

started by Mike Wesch on 18 May 07 37 follow-ups, last by kgarland on 29 May 07
gcn6767

world sim - 18 views

1. At first we should have a large amount of hard power due to our military power (Ottoman Empire). Large amount of land is desert and play to our home field advantage. 2. We should have a averag...

world

started by gcn6767 on 24 May 07 no follow-up yet
bmoran

The nuclear fallacy | Greenpeace International - 0 views

www.greenpeace.org/...nuclear_fallacy

globalwarming nuclear power

shared by bmoran on 28 May 07 - Cached
  • Nuclear power remains dangerous, polluting, expensive and non-renewable. More nuclear power means more nuclear weapons proliferation, more nuclear-armed states, more potential "dirty bombs" and more targets for terrorists. It also means less resources invested in real solutions to growing energy demands.
  • If we would replace all fossil fuels with nuclear power, the world would run out of uranium in less than four years.
  • Currently, nuclear is a marginal energy source, supplying only two percent of the world energy demand, and there is no realistic scenario in which this could be significantly increased.
  • bmoran on 28 May 07
     
    Although nuclear power seems to be an option, this article claims that, with our current technology and resources, it is a non-renewable option that will promote, rather than solve, problems concerning global warming, nuclear arms proliferation, etc.
senoumou

Ideas from Games - 55 views

After today's games in class, what I suggest is that we can think about limiting the strenght of growing nations, and give a kind of long life to weak nations. By doing so, the competition might be...

gaming worldsim

started by Mike Wesch on 21 May 07 6 follow-ups, last by senoumou on 24 May 07
bmoran

Hydroelectric | Greenpeace International - 0 views

www.greenpeace.org/...hydroelectric

globalwarming hydroelectric power

shared by bmoran on 28 May 07 - Cached
  • Wave powerThe World Energy Council estimates that wave power could produce two terawatts of energy each year. This is twice the world's current electricity production, and is equivalent to the energy produced by 2,000 large oil, gas, coal and nuclear power stations. The total renewable energy within the world's oceans, if it could all be harnessed, would satisfy the present world demand for energy more than 5,000 times over.
Mike Wesch

Facing Power by Eric Wolf - 0 views

www.jstor.org/...0

power required

shared by Mike Wesch on 15 May 07 - Cached
    • Mike Wesch
      Mike Wesch on 15 May 07
       
      Wolf's definition of Structural Power begins here.
  • Mike Wesch on 17 May 07
     
    You only need to read the first two pages of this one.
  • Mike Wesch on 20 May 07
     
    This is also available on K-State Online if you are not on campus and cannot access the article through this link.
sleavitt

Geothermal power - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia - 0 views

en.wikipedia.org/...Geothermal_power

alternative_energy conservation_sustainability natural_resources

shared by sleavitt on 28 May 07 - Cached
  • sleavitt on 28 May 07
     
    I didn't realize that there are three types of geothermal power plants. I have heard that this is a very intensive process, and the site even states that this process is not renewable in the traditional sense of the word. Nonetheless, it seems that this could be a very viable power source for many parts of the world.
Lynn Dee

XO-1 (laptop) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia - 0 views

en.wikipedia.org/$100_laptop

technology

shared by Lynn Dee on 28 May 07 - Cached
  • OLPC is funded by a number of sponsor organizations, including AMD, Brightstar Corporation, eBay, Google, Marvell, News Corporation, SES Global, Nortel Networks, and Red Hat. Each company has donated two million dollars.[6]
    • Lynn Dee
      Lynn Dee on 28 May 07
       
      If more companies were generous like this, think of what we could accomplish without the restraint of money.
  • The laptops will be sold to governments, to be distributed through the ministries of education willing to adopt the policy of “one laptop per child”
  • ndia has rejected the initiative
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  • Human power is planned, allowing operation far from commercial sources of power.
  • All of the software on the laptop will be free and open source.[30]
sleavitt

HiPER Project - 0 views

www.hiperlaser.org

alternative_energy conservation_sustainability natural_resources

shared by sleavitt on 28 May 07 - Cached
  • sleavitt on 28 May 07
     
    I wonder if fusion as an energy source does not make the news as often as other alternative fuel because it is harder to grasp by the general public. Scientists seem to think that it is a safe, sustainable, powerful fuel source. However, I would like to research more into this process. I would also like to find out how similar this process is to that used in the nuclear power plants that are in use today.
sleavitt

Envision Solar - 0 views

www.envisionsolar.com

alternative_energy conservation_sustainability green_building natural_resources solar_power

shared by sleavitt on 28 May 07 - Cached
  • sleavitt on 28 May 07
     
    I think passive solar power is one of the most powerful, and yet most simple and subtle, energy sources we have available. It's neat to see a multi-disciplinary firm working toward a focused, yet multi-faceted, goal. As a landscape architecture major, this is a field that I could see myself pursuing.
Seiji Ikeda

YouTube - Sugar - the Desktop of the 100 dollar laptop - 0 views

youtube.com/watch

desktop olpc software video

shared by Seiji Ikeda on 28 May 07 - Cached
  • This is the the desktop of the Linux powered
  • Seiji Ikeda on 28 May 07
     
    This is the the desktop of the Linux powered OLPC.
Mike Wesch

JSTOR: American Anthropologist: New Series, Vol. 92, No. 3, p. 587 - 0 views

www.jstor.org/...1

shared by Mike Wesch on 15 May 07 - Cached
    • Mike Wesch
      Mike Wesch on 15 May 07
       
      Compare this question to Diamond's question. Here the question is, "why are some able to constrain the options of others" whereas Diamond's question was more like, "why are some so rich and others so poor." Just by rephrasing the question, Wolf is calling into question 2 things Diamond never considers: Power and Relationships with others.
jcoop11

Indigenous Australians - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia - 0 views

en.wikipedia.org/...Indigenous_Australians

pacific

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  • not been shown to be related to any languages outside Australia. In the late 18th century, there were anywhere between 350 and 750 distinct groupings and a similar number of languages and dialects
  • At the time of first European contact, it is estimated that a minimum of 315,000 and as many as 1 million people lived in Australia. Recent archaeological evidence suggests that the land could have sustained a population of 750,000[11].
  • the regions of heaviest Indigenous population were the same temperate coastal regions that are currently the most heavily populated
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  • While Torres Strait Island populations were agriculturalists who supplemented their diet through the acquisition of wild foods the remainder of Indigenous Australians were hunter-gatherers. Indigenous Australians along the coast and rivers were also expert fishermen. Some Aborigines and Torres Strait Islanders relied on the dingo as a companion animal, using it to assist with hunting and for warmth on cold nights.
  • Torres Strait Islanders
  • Indigenous Australians did practise agriculture.
  • sugar cane, taro and sweet potato as well as husbanding pigs
  • In contrast Australian Aborigines did not cultivate any crops and lacked any domestic food animals
  • mainland Australia no animal other than the dingo
  • Indigenous diet included a wide variety of foods, such kangaroo, emu, wombats, goanna, snakes, birds, many insects such as honey ants and witchetty grubs. Many varieties of plant foods such as taro, nuts, fruits and berries were also eaten.
  • A primary tool used in hunting was the spear, launched by a woomera or spear-thrower in some locales. Boomerangs were also used by some mainland Indigenous peoples. The non-returnable boomerang (known more correctly as a Throwing Stick), more powerful than the returning kind, could be used to injure or even kill a kangaroo.
  • Permanent villages were the norm for most Torres Strait Island communities. In some areas mainland Indigenous Australians also lived in semi-permanent villages, most usually in less arid areas where fishing could provide for a more settled existence. Most Indigenous communities were semi-nomadic, moving in a regular cycle over a defined territory,
  • Many Indigenous communities also have a very complex kinship structure and in some places strict rules about marriage. In traditional societies, men are required to marry women of a specific moiety
  • To enable men and women to find suitable partners, many groups would come together for annual gatherings (commonly known as corroborees) at which goods were traded, news exchanged, and marriages arranged amid appropriate ceremonies. This practice both reinforced clan relationships and prevented inbreeding in a society based on small semi-nomadic groups.
  • The Indigenous Australians lived through great climatic changes and adapted successfully to their changing physical environment
jcoop11

Wallerstein on World Systems - 0 views

www.fordham.edu/...wallerstein.html

required wallerstein worldsystems

shared by jcoop11 on 17 May 07 - Cached
  • makes possible analytically sound comparisons between different parts of the world.
    • Mike Wesch
      Mike Wesch on 20 May 07
       
      This is why Wallerstein's theory gained acceptance in the anthropological community. We are interested in making sound cross-cultural comparisons.
    • jcoop11
      jcoop11 on 20 May 07
       
      I may be reading to much into the wording, but do we really want to "compare" cultures. When we talk about comparing cultures, it seems as if we are holding them to a certain standard.
    • Mike Wesch
      Mike Wesch on 21 May 07
       
      We are not comparing them to a standard - just trying to see the range of human possibilities - and how humans are interrelated.
  • feudalism
    • Mike Wesch
      Mike Wesch on 20 May 07
       
      Three primary elements characterized feudalism: lords, vassals and fiefs; the structure of feudalism can be seen in how these three elements fit together. A lord was a noble who owned land, a vassal was a person who was granted possession of the land by the lord, and the land was known as a fief. In exchange for the fief, the vassal would provide military service to the lord. The obligations and relations between lord, vassal and fief form the basis of feudalism. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Feudal_system
  • switch from feudal obligations to money rents
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  • These impoverished peasants often moved to the cities, providing cheap labor essential for the growth in urban manufacturing
  • Eastern Europe (especially Poland) and Latin America, exhibited characteristics of peripheral regions.
  • In Latin America, the Spanish and Portuguese conquests destroyed indigenous authority structures and replaced them with weak bureaucracies under the control of these European states.
    • Mike Wesch
      Mike Wesch on 20 May 07
       
      This is the most common pattern found in the world simulation, though other forms emerge as well.
  • served as buffers between the core and the peripheries
  • According to Wallerstein, the semi-peripheries were exploited by the core but, as in the case of the American empires of Spain and Portugal, often were exploiters of peripheries themselves. Spain, for example, imported silver and gold from its American colonies, obtained largely through coercive labor practices, but most of this specie went to paying for manufactured goods from core countries such as England and France rather than encouraging the formation of a domestic manufacturing sector.
    • Mike Wesch
      Mike Wesch on 20 May 07
       
      nice summary here of the relationship of core, semi-periphery, and periphery
  • Similarly, Protestants, who were often the merchants in Catholic countries, found they were targets of the Catholic Church. The Catholic Church, a trans-national institution, found the development of capitalism and the strengthening of the state threatening.
  • During this period, workers in Europe experienced a dramatic fall in wages.
    • Mike Wesch
      Mike Wesch on 20 May 07
       
      This is interesting. We often think of this transition as benefitting the people of the Core - but it did not necessarily benefit everybody.
  • This powerful merchant class provided the capital necessary for the industrialization of European core states.
    • elligant35
      elligant35 on 20 May 07
       
      Is the merchant class the first indication of a middle class? If so, then why the fall in wages becasue it seems to me that all they created was a middle man to continously take the wages from the working class that supported the goods that were traded?
  • European states participated in active exploration for the exploitation of new markets.
  • With the independence of the Latin American countries, these areas as well as previously isolated zones in the interior of the American continent entered as peripheral zones in the world economy. Asia and Africa entered the system in the nineteenth century as peripheral zones.
    • Mike Wesch
      Mike Wesch on 20 May 07
       
      Expansion of the periphery - this typically represents Round 2 of the World Simulation.
  • the core enriched itself at the expense of the peripheral economies. This, of course, did not mean either that everybody in the periphery became poorer or that all citizens of the core regions became wealthier as a result.
  • Wallerstein asserts that an analysis of the history of the capitalist world system shows that it has brought about a skewed development in which economic and social disparities between sections of the world economy have increased rather than provided prosperity for all.
  • This was the first time that an economic system encompassed much of the world with links that superseded national or other political boundaries
  • Mike Wesch on 17 May 07
     
    Read all of this page & make notes so we can share ideas!
sleavitt

CorpWatch : General Electric - 0 views

www.corpwatch.org/article.php

corporations natural_resources pollution

shared by sleavitt on 28 May 07 - Cached
  • sleavitt on 28 May 07
     
    It is very interesting to see how GE has benefitted from the US's war on terror. 90 percent of GE's nuclear power plants could discharge radiation into the atmosphere. It is responsible for polluting 78 Superfund sites, and is pushing the government to overturn Superfund legislation. Fraud and poor safety for workers are also issues. Why don't we see this on the ecomagination commercials?
Lynn Dee

Power of Wind - 0 views

www.powerofwind.com

technology

shared by Lynn Dee on 28 May 07 - Cached
  • Wind is safe and 100 percent clean. It’s also a cost-effective, inexhaustible and readily available source of energy.
    • Lynn Dee
      Lynn Dee on 28 May 07
       
      We need to invest more into wind, it seems to be the best solution to lots of problems.
mesims

YouTube Childlabor - 0 views

www.youtube.com/watch

shared by mesims on 28 May 07 - Cached
  • mesims on 28 May 07
     
    A very powerful video about child labor.
tomorronow

Venezuela: TV Shutdown Harms Free Expression (Human Rights Watch, 22-5-2007) - 0 views

www.hrw.org/...venezu15986.htm

abuse chavez control hugo oppression power socialist tv venezuela

shared by tomorronow on 29 May 07 - Cached
  • tomorronow on 29 May 07
     
    Credible, bold look at Chavez's increasingly totalitarian regime, now putting a stranglehold on the media outlets.  This bloc could be dangerous in the future in its dealings with North America.
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