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“The epistemological critique of religion — it is an inferior way of knowing — is...”
– Stanley Fish
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“If you’re waiting in line at the grocery store, and the line next to you moves...”
– Michael Karnjanaprakorn
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1) Never chase the money. →
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New Yorker: When underdogs break the rules. →
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Why I Love Dumpster Diving, Garbage Picking, and... →
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NYTimes Bits Blog:... →
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“I think an economy should be based on thrift, on taking care of things, not on...”
– Wendell Berry (via azspot) (via dalasverdugo)
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“With the passage of years, old wars become more adventurous and less dangerous.”
– George Vaillant
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The Future of Subjectivity A recent talk by IEET intern Ed Miller. Ed’s description: “This is a systems perspective on the future of our civilization. I hope that by understanding how resilience allows systems to survive, and how those systems influence our subjectivity, we can build a better future.
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AI and the Future of Human Morality: by Steve Omohundro, Ph.D., president of Self-Aware Systems (http://selfawaresystems.com)
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Cool video and work from INVDR.
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Privacy as a Modern Invention? →
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WAKE Author Robert Sawyer Interviewed →
Robert J. Sawyer appeared on the Dr. Howard Gluss Radio Show on May 12, 2009, talking about consciousness, computers, his new novel Wake, and his older novel Flash Forward.
May 28th
The Coming Superbrain →
“The notion that a self-aware computing system would emerge spontaneously from the interconnections of billions of computers and computer networks goes back in science fiction at least as far as Arthur C. Clarke’s “Dial F for Frankenstein.” A prescient short story that appeared in 1961, it foretold an ever-more-interconnected telephone network that spontaneously acts like a...
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A Practical Guide to Social Media →
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A Practical Guide to Social Media →
Social media is no longer a novelty. With the number of users of various social networks rising to pretty astonishing levels (Facebook, for example, has 200 million active users globally), it’s clear that we’ve reached a point where social media has been well integrated into contemporary human culture. Now, the trick for all of us is how to practically integrate social media into how...
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DotEarth Blog: Some Interesting Thoughts on... →
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The Quantified Self: The most fascinating thing in... →
What do we see in the mirror of our data?
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Futurismic: The dystopians are out of step: humans... →
At least, that’s according to a new study from the University of Kansas and Gallup presented over the weekend at the annual convention of the Association for Psychological Science in San Francisco…
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NYTimes Ideas Blog: Bursting the ‘Green Bubble’ →
Like others before it, the latest “green bubble” was inflated during a highly polarized moment in American politics, two writers say, and now it has burst in the economic downturn.
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“What are people doing taking titles like “Social Media Manager?” To me, this is...”
– Chris Brogan
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Technology Review: Converting Garbage into Fuel →
Waste Management, a large waste company, gives technology for gasifying trash a boost.
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