May 2012
99 posts
Wasting Time Is New Divide in Digital Era
Drew Kelly for The New York Times
Alejandro Zamora, an eighth grader, calls himself “a Facebook freak.” His mother would prefer that he use the computer for homework.
By MATT RICHTEL
Published: May 29, 2012
In the 1990s, the term “digital divide” emerged to describe technology’s haves and have-nots. It inspired many efforts to get the latest computing tools into the hands of all Americans,...
A Critique of Technocentrism in Thinking About the...
By Seymour Papert
A version of this piece was published as “M.I.T. Media Lab Epistemology and Learning Memo No. 2” (September 1990). Its content was based on a talk presented at Children in an Information Age: Opportunities for Creativity, Innovation, and New Activities (Sofia, Bulgaria, May 1987).
Introduction
Everyone in this room would agree that we are moving into something...
Women in journalism: Reading list 5/28/2012 →
futurejournalismproject:
onaissues:
The Gender Report has a roundup of online articles related to the portrayal of women in the media.
FJP: About the Gender Report:
The goal of this project is to monitor gender in Internet news. Much research has been done on gender representations in traditional media platforms, but little has been found yet regarding how that translates to the web. In...
Will Globalization Destroy Black America?
THE BIG DIVIDE
Will Globalization Destroy Black America?
By Phillip Jackson
Wednesday, June 30, 2010
The lack of response to globalization by Black America is frightening and troubling. While much of the world has adapted to the new-world economy and new-world standards of existence, most of Black America is still operating much the same way it did in the 1950s and 1960s. But now,...
New Earth 2: Alan Scott the New Gay Character? →
glassgears:
newearth2:
Let’s start from the beginning. Way back in July 2011, Dan Dido spoke to Advocate about the New 52 launch. A question was asked about a gay teen in the DCU.
DC has several popular teenage heroes such as Robin, Wonder Girl, Superboy and the other Teen Titans. With gay teens becoming…
Seems I got mentioned in someone else’s blog. That’s a first.
“Mitt was not particularly popular. He was very, very ordinary. He was an average...”
– Sidney Barthwell, who just might be the only person on the planet who went to school with both Mitt Romney and Barack Obama. (via thedailyfeed)
Watchilovecharts:
How We Measure the Universe, Animated
Would You Like a Side of Testicle with That →
futurejournalismproject:
We started the day with a freaky fish, we end with a freaky meal.
Via CalorieLab (click through not recommended for the squeamish):
On Sunday, April 13, Tokyo illustrator Mao Sugiyama (who goes by the nickname “HC”), publicly seasoned and braised his own genitals on a portable gas cartridge burner, and then served them to five eager diners who each paid about $250 for...
It's Not Paranoia if Your Phone is Really Watching...
By Constantine von Hoffman
Created May 24 2012 - 1:30pm
James Jesus Angleton [1], former chief of the CIA’s counterintelligence staff, and science-fiction writer Philip K. Dick might at first seem like an unlikely pair. And they are[1]. As far as I know all they had in common was a paranoid-but-not-always-unreasonably-so vision of the world. However, news of malware that hijacks...
Steve Crecelius Goes To Hospital For Kidney Stone,... →
Robert Reich: Memorial Day Thoughts on National... →
robertreich:
We can best honor those who have given their lives for this nation in combat by making sure our military might is proportional to what America needs.
The United States spends more on our military than do China, Russia, Britain, France, Japan, and Germany put together. With the withdrawal of…
Olympics, 388 B.C.: Mud, Sex, Hymns…Sports Too
Political rivalries flared and money flowed—but it was more like a rock festival than what we’ll see in London
By NEIL FAULKNER
Getty Images
The ancient games featured blood, pain — and insects aplenty.
What was it like going to the Olympics 2,400 years ago? Instead of London 2012, how about Olympia 388 B.C.?
If you came from abroad, you would have hired space...
Could We Trust an Army of Killer Robots? - WSJ.com →
futuristthinker:
No, if you ask me, but the writer of the post thinks so. Go figure.
Breadcrumbs stories by @newblackman @newyorker... →
Carbon Super-Springs
FOCUS ON MICROSYSTEMS AND NANOTECHNOLOGY
Carbon nanotubes have the potential to store a thousand times more mechanical energy, pound for pound, than steel springs. Lab results point to a day when nanotube-powered bikes and lawn equipment could become practical. By Carol Livermore
Wind a mechanical watch. Set a mouse trap. Pull back on a bowstring. In each instance, you are using a spring to...
A Victory for All of Us
Posted on May 18, 2012
By Chris Hedges
In January, attorneys Carl Mayer and Bruce Afran asked me to be the lead plaintiff in a lawsuit against President Barack Obama and Defense Secretary Leon Panetta that challenged the harsh provisions of the National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA). We filed the lawsuit, worked for hours on the affidavits, carried out the tedious depositions, prepared the...
AS WE MAY THINK by VANNEVAR BUSH →
theatlantic:
ninaperlman:
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“Our ineptitude in getting at the record is largely caused by the artificiality of systems of indexing. When data of any sort are placed in storage, they are filed alphabetically or numerically, and information is found (when it is) by tracing it down from subclass to subclass. It can be in only one place, unless duplicates are used; one has to have rules as...
The speech that was to HOT for TED
Prepare to meet Nick Hanauer. He’s a venture capitalist from Seattle who was the first non-family investor in Amazon.com. Today he’s a very rich man. And, somewhat jarringly, he’s screaming to anyone who will listen that he, and other wealthy innovators like him, doesn’t create jobs. The middle class does - and its decline threatens everyone in America, from the innovators...
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Guest Editorial: It's Time To e-Volve: Taking...
Christie Wilcox⇓
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University of Hawaii at Manoa
nerdychristie@gmail.com
Now, more than ever, science is fundamentally intertwined with national and international political issues, yet less than one-third of Americans can pass a science literacy test with questions like “Does the Earth revolve around the sun?” and “Did human beings live alongside dinosaurs?” When only a small...
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Guest Editorial: It's Time To e-Volve: Taking...
Christie Wilcox⇓
+Author Affiliations
University of Hawaii at Manoa
nerdychristie@gmail.com
Now, more than ever, science is fundamentally intertwined with national and international political issues, yet less than one-third of Americans can pass a science literacy test with questions like “Does the Earth revolve around the sun?” and “Did human beings live alongside dinosaurs?” When only a small...
Meet the inventor of an electricity-free fridge,...
Sam Meegan, University of Leeds Business School |
Thursday, 19th April 2012
An interview with Emily Cummins, the award winning inventor of the ‘sustainable’ fridge and the youngest person ever to win a Sustainable Design Award, and how her a fridge powered by dirty water works.
Emily with her electricity-free fridge
Emily Cummins is one the UK’s brightest...
