tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-26697842384495247962012-01-18T21:35:31.620-05:00stories within storiesE. Ilana Diamanthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16731770569126157789noreply@blogger.comBlogger1051100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2669784238449524796.post-44096917764251264932012-01-18T20:43:00.005-05:002012-01-18T21:35:31.627-05:00

It's been so long since my last post that I almost forgot my password for this blog....sigh. Two bills before Congress, the Protect IP Act (PIPA) in the Senate and the Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA) in the House, would censor the Web and impose harmful regulations on business. These bills will change the Internet for worse forever. Wikipedia is shutting down for a day in protest of PIPA/SOPA.

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About a week ago the NYTimes ran an article-cum-book review on higher education and its latest plight, college's need to cut budgets and make ends meet in ways that they perhaps shouldn't (e.g., increasing tuition fees, cutting course offerings).What's new in this picture is that institutions like tenure itself is being attacked in its role in granting job permanence for, presumably, dubious

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In an insightful study, reviewed in Science magazine (which doesn't seem to allow online access to it) researchers found that individuals from different religious backgrounds have a different focus in images, with some focusing on the background and others on individuals that are present in an image. This difference parallels the one found across cultures, notably Westerners and Asians, with

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"Higher Education? How Colleges Are Wasting Our Money and Failing Our Kids — and What We Can Do About It" raises some timely issues about the current state of higher ed; one important of them being the awful administrative glut, recently noted in the NYTimes,that's plaguing not just colleges' offices but students' and faculty's lives at school too.A blog for discussing the book and the issues it

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I love this poem. By David Musgrave; appeared recently in the New YorkerON THE INEVITABLE DECLINE INTOMEDIOCRITY OF THE POPULAR MUSICIAN WHOATTAINS A COMFORTABLE MIDDLE AGEO Sting, where is thy death? - David MusgraveNaive reader's response: Why Sting?

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OR: How Darwin Got It Going OnBaba Brinkman, a "lit-hop" artist (yes, that's why I'm making a post of this) raps about evolution and human behavior."Ooh myI ain't nothing but a tour guide,Using science like an x-ray to see into your mind...Yeah welcome to the future,babyA time when science is even illuminatingThe roots of human behavior."(from Science magazine)And here is the NYTimes review.

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This short story will haunt you. It will first bore you, then shake you out of your complacent boredom with a power of feeling and a sudden realization that what you've been reading all along wasn't what you thought it was. If you read it, that is. While there's so many things that make Kristen Russell's The Dredgeman's Revelation unappealing to post-modern demands, such as psychological realism

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In a posthumous and eerie publication of Tony Judt's last NYRB article (eerie because it was printed a week after his death but reads as if it's written yesterday), the tradition of meritocracy is discussed as it was perceived and practiced by scholars of his generation at that particular and unique place and time of his college yrs (King's College at Cambridge U, in the 60s-70s). How much has

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Interesting Info Policy article:Knowledge discovery speed, dissemintation and rights latency, issues common to many knowledge base projects, are discussed in Science magazine in the context of the Genome commons ."Scientific information commons can be modulated by adjusting the twin dials of knowledge and rights latency"

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Gary Steyngart's short story in the New Yorker's 20 under 40 selection, Lenny Hearts Eunice is a mini version of Nabokov's Lolita, transplated to the 21st century. That seemingly unique mix of humor, pity, joy and sadness that Nabokov had achieved are all there, making this story a truly fun read. The difference being that Lolita was a book-length story whereas I can't see myself reading a

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Looking for "relevant" people to follow? MentionMap is somewhat like the equivalent of friend finder but with a social network tool upgrade. Suggested people to follow are those one has mentioned in their tweets, and tend to be nodes in the two-step neighborhood, as far as I can tell from my graph. They appear in shaded color, not a great choice, initially I thought those were the people I was

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Or: You, the D.J.Good review of the music formats. "The future of listening to music looks a lot like 1960. People will listen to music that comes out of a box", be that the radio, the CD player, the PC , and now the ipod. The "box" paradigm hasn't changed, yet, notes S.F.Jones, but moving music to the cloud stands to change that.

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NPR interviews the author of Turning Poverty into a Multibillion-Dollar Industry. I had no idea what a payday lender was prior to reading this, let alone that there's a whole industry around that. The worrisome part, as the author reports, is that big/too big to fail banks are part of this industry ("it's the main banks, from Goldman Sachs to Wells Fargo to Wachovia to Bank of America and

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Ross McKibbin in the London Review of Books, reflecting on Britain's new political situation points that the Lib Dem-Conservative coalition isn't "as mad" an idea as it seems. "Bit by bit over its history Labour has come to accept the political institutions of the imperial state: monarchy, aristocracy, primitive electoral systems, independent nuclear weapons, the intelligence services (once

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Now, that's an idea for a study: Utrecht University researchers find that things like temperature, smell, proximity (all of which are absent in CMC, except for proximity to some degree)affect judgments we make about others.Smell and proximity are obvious predictors, a no brainer I would think, or at least I used to think until I moved to the country of shameless garlic eating (yes, that's the US)

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One of my cats got hit/beaten at the back yard of a nursing home behind our house in Squirrel Hill. "The Commons at Squirrel Hill". I looked up their address so I could file a report with the police and came across a news article from 2008 saying that the nursing home had been restraining people to their beds for no reason (and was fined for that). I've been hearing cries at night at various

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I'm about to try / play with Google's SSL search. From what I've read, it got positive reactions, at least at Berkeley's policy blog: "a small step but in the right direction". "Google will know your search terms, but they will be obscured from other people who might want to snoop upon you (think jealous spouses, your ISP, and especially, your employer). The service also disables referrers."It

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Update on the exchange below: Haaretz has picked up this issue arguing for a return to Herzl's vision of liberal Zionism. Here's the gist: "Herzl believed that while the Jewish state should provide room for Jewish religion and Jewish clerics, these institutions should be completely isolated from the state and from politics. He also saw no place for theological notions that Jews had some

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Time to complete a PhD by discipline: what's striking is that less than half (41%) of social science PhD students take 7 yrs or less. The same report, compiled by Council of Graduate Schools and the ETS, proposes "a new cross-agency doctoral training initiative that would finance the educations of an additional 25,000 students annually at a cost of $10 billion over 5 years". Jeffrey Mervis, "

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This nytimes article,cross-posted here from in an ipod world is a case in point for the "functional fixedness" problem, or rather, misconception that a tool should be used in a certain way, more often than not, the way in which it was initially designed for. Well, (Interface)Design 101: never take any feature, functionality, element for granted; the design space is limitless (or at least,

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After 13 yrs of Labour rule, a Conservative coalition for Britain. Thanks a lot guys, and good luck. And feel free to drop us a note the next time you need $tudents from the Black Hole to support your mediocre colleges. I'm curious to see how they'll ever manage to get out of the worst recession since the 1930s. Whatever the latest troubles that Gordon Brown inherited, that was a PM I felt I

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This has been posted around a bit but it doesn't hurt to keep thinking about those issues."Why is the Internet blowing up all our methods courses?"First, is the Internet really blowing up soc sci methods and their courses? Or is it an uncritical adherence to Internet- and other online methods that's causing the problems here? And that's any sort of methods-related issue (technical, ethical,

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I'm putting together a list of noteworthy Info Policy books published in 2009. There's a few "most important" lists in various info-tech blogs; not sure how a book gets to be "important" so I'll leave it at "noteworthy" for now. Communication Power by Manuel CastellsRepublic 2.0 by Cass Sunstein. (not exactly an Info Policy book but has policy implications).Community, Space and Online Censorship

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I think it's time to move this blog (AGAIN), this blogger.com thing is getting more ridiculous by the week. First, it's not google searchable, second, it's templates are so 1990s design, and no, I'd rather not design my own template, have better things to do with my time (I'd rather read a novel, actually). And now it's not importing my twitter feeds, which I've had to reset multiple times in the

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It seems b-schools are waking up to the realities of the world around them. "Critical thinking" is crucial to business education?! Business success depends on "problem framing", not problem solving?!Real-world problems rarely have an "either/or" solution?!Oh my! You don't say! And by the way, if anybody figures where in this article "multicultural theory" is actually discussed, drop me a note,

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I've been looking for website design ideas for a long time, and this one by Ben Collier is the best I've seen. Ben is a PhD candidate in IS/HCI at CMU and one of my collaborators.http://bencollier.org/

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by William Deresiewiczthis article has been circulating on the web for a while but I feel I have to make a note of it. The specifics might differ depending on which side of the education divide one is on, but the main observations have been echoed in my personal experiences over the last 8 yrs in the US.quotes:"the first disadvantage of an elite education... is that it makes you incapable of

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...or a digital book monopoly to last forever? or, at least, as long as google's server farms are around.This isn't just a techno-utopian vision; the claims that libraries are vanishing and that out-of-print books are disappearing into literary black holes are just dramatic exaggerations. Besides, Google's settlement isn't just for out-of-print books as the op-ed keeps emphasizing, it's about all

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Sad news from Ann Arbor - I thought that that wasn't going to happen after all.Shaman Drum closed...that place was more of a landmark, for the talks it hosted and the people hanging in and around it, than just a bookstore. The neighborhood is changing...

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We've known that for a long time but need to hear it again"The problem in the sustainability campaign is that a basic truth has been lost, or at least concealed. Rather than trying to change behavior to actually reduce carbon emissions, politicians and entrepreneurs have sold greening to the public as a kind of accessorizing. Keep doing what you’re doing, goes the message. Just add a solar panel,

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I'm not a fan of Jonathan Lethem (I find 'The Fortress of Solitude' unreadable and not far removed from the stereotypes that it seeks to transcend) but this short story is really good,perhaps because of my low expectations.http://www.newyorker.com/fiction/features/2009/05/25/090525fi_fiction_lethem

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The New Yorker has a lengthy article on David Foster Wallace, noting among other things that "Wallace worried that he had been driven by a “basically vapid urge to be avant-garde . . . and linguistically calisthenic.”Much contemporary writing and literary criticism seems to be under the "vapid" spell of the avant-garde (read: post-modernism and post-post modernism and whatever other post-isms

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article on applying Google Earth -like techniques/concepts to visualize large scale evolutionary biology data

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"Marco Polo imagined answering (or Kublai Khan imagined his answer) that the more one was lost in unfamiliar quarters of distant cities, the more one understood the other cities he had crossed to arrive there; and he retraced the stages of his journey, and he came to know the port from which he had set sail, and the familiar places of his youth, and the surroundings of home, and a little square

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My first 2009 discovery of an amazing new author. New story in the Paris Review above.His writing reminds me of Sam Shepard's stories and a little bit of Beryl Bainbridge's (even though the political analogy was either missing or vague in theirs)Sure enough, I later find out that he studied, and teaches, drama.Must read the "follower" and the "impostor".http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/

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"performing two Google searches uses up as much energy as boiling the kettle for a cup of tea"(TLS article)"When you type in a Google search for, say, “energy saving tips”, your request doesn’t go to just one server. It goes to several competing against each other.It may even be sent to servers thousands of miles apart. Google’s infrastructure sends you data from whichever produces the answer

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An interesting proposition. (NYTimes article, P.Krugman)"[the economic stimulus] needs to be able to produce not only more shovel-ready jobs and shovel-ready workers, but more Google-ready jobs and Windows-ready and knowledge-ready workers....If we spend $1 trillion on a stimulus and just get better highways and bridges — and not a new Google, Apple, Intel or Microsoft — your kids will thank you

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...and a double live new record:http://app.topspin.net/artist/217709/home?account_id=217709

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Amazing story from a new writer (Rivka Galchen):http://www.newyorker.com/fiction/features/2008/03/24/080324fi_fiction_galchenWilliam Trevor is better at writing short stories than novels, it seems:http://www.newyorker.com/fiction/features/2008/12/15/081215fi_fiction_trevor?currentPage=allAnd here is another new story by Amos Oz:http://www.newyorker.com/fiction/features/2008/12/08/

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"From A to Blue"News: Synesthesia, or the "blending of the senses" is more common than [those who don't read poetry] may thinkhttp://www.scientificblogging.com/welcome_my_moon_base/blue_blending_senses_may_be_more_common_you_think

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Two Paths for the Novel, according to Zadie Smithhttp://www.nybooks.com/articles/22083NY Review of Books article

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nexbook article on Amos Gitaihttp://www.nextbook.org/cultural/feature.html?id=1295New movies and writing:http://www.amosgitai.com/html/home.asp

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www.nytimes.com/2008/09/21/weekinreview/21scott.html?ref=books

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How Stereotyping Yourself Contributes to Your Success (or Failure)Social Identity discussion By S. Alexander Haslam, Jessica Salvatore, Thomas Kessler, Stephen D. ReicherPeople's performance on intellectual and athletic tasks is shaped by awareness of stereotypes about the groups to which they belong. New research explains why— and how we can break free from the expectations of othershttp://

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"The New Media Ecosystem" ...another buzzword?http://www.informationweek.com/news/management/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=202401919

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TimeMachine - from the best school I've ever been toImages from University of Michigan's TimeMachine.http://michigantoday.umich.edu/2008/10/heritage/index.htmlI've been to various educational institutions and arrangements in 3 countries.Nowhere have I seen a serious respect for education as a practice and as an institution that can compare to Michigan.

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"How Apple got everything right by doing everything wrong" wired.comhttp://www.wired.com/techbiz/it/magazine/16-04/bz_apple/

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Talk by Zadie Smithhttp://www.believermag.com/issues/200806/?read=article_smith

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Why a leaky black hole is more like a mirror ball from hellInformation May Leak from Black Holes at Dial-Up SpeedsBy JR MinkelSciAm articlehttp://www.sciam.com/article.cfm?id=information-may-leak-from&SID=mail&sc=emailfriend

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Fictive Motion(quote below from Cognitive semantics project)"An impression of Talmy's original cast of mind and method is available from even a brief glance at his account of "fictive motion," that is, of "the extensive representation of nonveridical phenomena - especially forms of motion - both as they are expressed linguistically and as they are perceived visually." Talmy seeks to account for

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Cognitive Semantics, Culture & Cognitionhttp://cogweb.ucla.edu/index.html

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"How Creatives Work" (from L.Cherny's blog)"a bunch of short pieces on creatives at work, and their methods/kinks/tips/oddities"http://rodcorp.typepad.com/rodcorp/2004/12/how_we_work.html

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Attractor Conceptshttp://www.attractorconcepts.com/

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"If markets are conversations then Twitter is money"http://redmonk.com/jgovernor/2007/05/03/if-markets-are-conversations-then-twitter-is-money/Community about Communitieshttp://www.socialmediaclub.org./http://www.awarenessnetworks.com/community.aspCOmmunities vs CRM:"Corporations have spent millions on CRM systems, but do those build relationships, of simply document them?"from http://

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..."imagine a group of workers cutting their way through the jungle with machetes. These producers are cutting through the undergrowth. The managers are behind them, sharpening the machetes, writing procedures, bringing in improved technology, setting up work schedules and compensation programs. The leader is the one who climbs to the top of the tallest tree, surveys the entire situation and

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May 12, 2007 The Critical Years Middle School Manages Distractions of Adolescence By WINNIE HUBRIARCLIFF MANOR, N.Y. — At Briarcliff Middle School, almost any minute of any day can become a lesson in weathering the turmoil of adolescence

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Kids' place in m-w.com http://wordcentral.com/ Build your Own Dictionary-see the "Rules" http://wordcentral.com/

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Memo to Stupefying "Educators": more evidence on the link between curiosity and well-being.I'm posting the article in full. That's the least one can do (besides leaving) in response to being subjected to ridiculousness masked as education:Todd Kashdan's researchcited in NYTimes article "Happinness 101" below:January 7, 2007Happiness 101 By D.T. MAXOne Tuesday last fall I sat in on a

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http://www.rollingstone.com/news/story/12854931/online_exclusive_lou_reed_plays_berlin_in_brooklynOn December 14th, thirty-three years after the album's release, Reed opened a sold-out four-night stand at St. Ann's Warehouse in Brooklyn, New York, performing the whole of Berlin live for the first time

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Suppressed Musichttp://www.jmi.org.uk/suppressedmusic/index.htmlhttp://www.jmi.org.uk/suppressedmusic/ifsm.html

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As I step out into the Pit Winter:Every breath I take is like a cold current entering my nose, reaching my throat and settling there, chilling, not quite freezing, my respiratory system.I need to swim in the ocean, be immersed in the sea, get out of this retarded place or I'll never heal.

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George Lakoff's tendentious theory of everything.Only at TNR Online Post date 11.03.06Pinker's review of Lakoff's book "Freedom" :http://www.powells.com/review/2006_10_19Scroll down for link to Lakoff's response:http://www.powells.com/biblio?show=HARDCOVER:NEW:0374158282:23.00&page=authorsnote#page

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TNR Open Universityhttp://www.tnr.com/blog/openuniversity?pid=35009article URL:http://www.prospect.org/web/page.ww?section=root&name=ViewWeb&articleId=12124We Answer to the Name of LiberalsFrom the November print issue: A response to Tony Judt, and a manifesto for liberals in the waning Bush era.By Bruce Ackerman and Todd GitlinWeb Exclusive: 10.18.06As right-wing politicians and pundits call us

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Narrative Inquiryhttp://www.clarku.edu/faculty/mbamberg/narrativeINQ/

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"The energy of the poems comes from the kinds of non-understanding they generate"London review of bookshttp://www.lrb.co.uk/v28/n19/burr01_.html

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It would be interesting to see how that unfolds on a macro-behavioral level, such as cross-cultural code switching."Scientists long assumed multilingual people used distinct areas of the brain—one for each language—but mounting evidence indicates that polyglots use only one area for all the languages they speak. The brain must therefore transition between multiple "modes" in order for the speaker

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According to a CMU study by Lynne Reder, "our ability to associate something to a context depends on it being a 'chunk' or unit".Chunking" occurs when otherwise unrelated items are perceived as a unit"."For example, the three-letter combination FBI—but not, say, SVQ or TMY,is chunked because it's associated with an entity, and we hear the grouping so often. Items that are chunked take up less of

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highlights from an article I stumbled upon. I'm not sure I agree with their 1-1 pairing, probably because I don't see why we need to assume that a 1-1 correspondence should exist between the different ethics (or morality orientations) and conceptions of persons/others. Rozin et al (1999) The CAD Triad Hypothesis.JPSPPhilosophers have long been divided as to whether human morality is built on our

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The Untrustworthy SpeakerDon't listen to me; my heart's been broken.I don't see anything objectively.I know myself; I've learned to hear like a psychiatrist.When I speak passionately,That's when I'm least to be trusted.It's very sad, really: all my life I've been praisedFor my intelligence, my powers of language, of insight-In the end they're wasted-I never see myself.Standing on the front steps.

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OSS can serve as a metaphor and model of community-organizing. Below is an article on community organizing during Katrina and the S.E.Asia Tsunami.Open source disaster recovery: Case studies of networked collaborationby Calvert Jones and Sarai Mitnick. First Monday Magazine, May 2006.http://www.firstmonday.org/issues/issue11_5/jones/index.htmlSee also:Analysis of open source principles in diverse

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NYTimes has a series of articles on the 'new gender divide'. -American men without college degrees find themselves still single as they approach middle age-Department of Education statistics show that men, whatever their race or socioeconomic group, are less likely than women to get bachelor's degrees.The workplace is changing and it's not a pretty picture:-Boys Just Want to Have Fun (TIME essay

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A. Kohut, known for his writings on self-psychology, also wrote about music (and its rel to psychoanalysis). That's fascinating, both the relationship between music (understanding it and making it) and psychoanalysis, and Kohut's ideas on that relationship. here's a brief summary with refs.source: http://www.psychologyoftheself.com/papers/lachmann.htm

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Jonathan Lethem has written an interesting essay on James Brown in the Rolling Stone mag.Not sure if thats the best article on James Brown but it is the best piece of writing I've read by Lethem, whose novels I found simply boring and unreadable, ie extended essay-like ramblings.http://www.rollingstone.com/news/story/10533775/being_james_brownhttp://www.rollingstone.com/news/story/10533775/

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"Cultural Software"http://www.yale.edu/lawweb/jbalkin/cs.htm (IT metaphors: the necessary hang-up)

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Children develop cynicism at an early agehttp://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2005-05/yu-cdc052505.php

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Up FrontNytimes SUNDAY BOOK REVIEW May 8, 2005By THE EDITORSLast month an era in American literary history came to an end when two important figures died just one day apart. The death, on April 5, of Saul Bellow, a giant of the modern novel, received a great deal of coverage; this newspaper printed, in addition to a long front-page obituary, appreciations by Michiko Kakutani, Ian McEwan,

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"The father of modernism"source: slate.comFrom: Jim LewisTo: Jeffrey EugenidesSubject: Where Did Great Art Go?Thursday, June 17, 2004, at 8:34 AM PT'Lo again, Jeff:So: We're going to celebrate the anniversary of a bookwidely believed to be the greatest of the lastcentury—and indeed chosen as such by the ModernLibrary's panel of experts—by taking it down a notchor two. My God! What arrogance!I

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http://groups.csail.mit.edu/mac/projects/amorphous/#research

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Rheingold, "The Well"http://www.rheingold.com/

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http://www.spinninglobe.net/lesschool.htmhttp://www.spinninglobe.net/condunces.htm

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Demystifying the Digital DivideScientific American (08/03) Vol. 289, No. 2, P. 42;Warschauer, MarkA widely-shared view of a "digital divide"--a gaping socioeconomic chasm between those who have access to computers and the Internet and those who do not--fosters technological determinism, which assumes technology's very presence will lead to social change. Mark Warschauer of the University of

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posted by Tim ShawOn this same theme, I suggest to you Philip K Dick's excellent final novel, The Transmigration of Timothy Archer. Or, my own homage to Buddhism: Suffering is the seed of salvation.For the jungians, those archetypes that are not made conscious must be lived out. Of course, 'to become conscious' of an archetype is a complex phenomenon. Suffering is very often, perhaps always,

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Robert Duvall article (NYTimes)"Has Robert Duvall gone out of his professional mind? The worry seems legitimate, especially for an admirer, after Assassination Tango. Ever since I first saw him, in an Off-Broadway production of Miller's A View From the Bridge in 1965, Duvall has seemed to me one of the few American actors in both theater and film who needed only to decide to be great in order to

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post by James HallSubject: I feel, therefore I am (James Hall)Neuroscience is finding evidence that the Cartesian mind/body dualism, which is so central to rationalism, is incorrect:*"In the middle of the 17th century, Spinoza took on Descartes and lost."According to Descartes' famous dualist theory, human beings were composed of physical bodies and immaterial minds. Spinoza disagreed. In 'The

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new STS essays:Chasing Technoscience: Matrix for Materiality. Don Ihde, Evan Selinger (eds)Indiana University Press.The volume contains new pieces by Donna Haraway, Don Ihde, Bruno Latour and Andy Pickering as well as interpretive essays on the work of these scholarshttp://www.indiana.edu/~iupress/books/0-253-34253-8.shtml

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Pricing as strategic capabilityhttp://smr.mit.edu/past/2002/smr4336.html sloan mgmt review

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Antitrust -Policy note1. book on monopsony in antitrust by Roger Blair and Jeffrey Harrison, called "Monopsony: Antitrust Law and Economics". It is primarily theoretical apart from anecdotal cases but does have an extensive bibliography.The ISBN is 0-691-04309-4."RAMBUS has acquired a number of Patents covering essentially the entire computer memory segment. RDRAM with belongs the them, which

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"What Really Matters In Auction Design"http://www.nuff.ox.ac.uk/economics/papers/2000/w26/Design.pdf

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Prices and the Winner's Curse http://www.nuff.ox.ac.uk/economics/papers/1998/w2/prices/april98ver.pdfAbstract: We usually assume that increases in supply, allocation by rationing, and exclusion of potential buyers reduce prices. But all these activities raise the expected price in an important set of cases when common-value assets are sold. Furthermore, when we make the assumptions needed to rule

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Observation selection effects and anthropic reasoninghttp://plus.maths.org/issue17/features/traffic/index.htmlwebsite www.anthropic-principle.com"If you are driving on the motorway and think of your present observation as a random sample from all the observations made by all the drivers, then chances are that your observation will be made from the viewpoint that most drivers have, which is the

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What happens to a dream deferred?Does it dry uplike a raisin in the sun?Or fester like a sore--And then run?Does it stink like rotten meat?or crust and sugar over--Like syrupy sweet?maybe it just sagslike a heavy load.Or does it explode?

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Another review on J.Franzen'How to Be Alone': Jonathan Franzen's Vaulting AmbivalenceNovember 10, 2002By A. O. SCOTThttp://www.nytimes.com/2002/11/10/books/review/10SCOTTT.html?ex=1039968567&ei=1&en=c117c5b667574a25At the close of his essay ''Sifting the Ashes,'' abittersweet love song to cigarettes sure to stir a tremorof uneasy recognition in the breast of any current orformer smoker -- not, as

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Advertisements for Himselfby James WolcottPost date: 11.27.02 Issue date: 12.02.02How to Be Aloneby Jonathan Franzen(Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 278 pp., $24)Noel Coward had a talent to amuse. Jonathan Franzen has the knack to annoy. Is it a conscious gift? Is he aware of how grating his pleaful moans and hopeful sighs have become? (It's like a snore turned inside out.) Or is he intentionally

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Zadie Smith on Writers, Writing, and ...Hair"On the Road: American Writers and Their Hair"http://www.eyeshot.net/zadiesmith.htmlone of my favorite quotes:"Any original thought the writer ever had – every pretty black mark she ever made on a piece of white paper – is replaced by the endlessly reoccurring phenomena of the writer’s own name rising up at them in embossed font on the front of a book

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INVERSE GAMBLER FALACYgambler erroneously thinks that an apparentlyhighly improbable outcome he currently observes is made more probable if there have been many trials preceding it.a gambler enter the roon as a roll is about ot be made. "The kibitzer asks"Is this the 1st roll of the dice or have we made others earlier tonight?"the gambler says"can I wait until I see how this roll comes out

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What (if anything) do quantum physics and depth psychology ahve in common?http://www.integralscience.org/psyche-physis.html#Heading3

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De Sola Pool. "Technologies of Freedom"http://web.mit.edu/m-i-t/profiles/profile_ithiel.html

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521.001HISTORY OF LITERARY THEORYDoing Things With TheoryD. ThomasTTh 8:30-104199 AH (3 Credits)This course proposes that we should try to have an account of what we hope to “do” with theory even as we begin to learn theory. We will examine an array of theory styles with a guiding question in mind: what ideas about personal and social action are announced or implied there? This program bears on

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