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Chief Mag & Haruo Suekichi, issue #4
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Apr 15, 11:53pm
30 reviews
arts
http://www.chiefmag.com/issues/4/profiles/Haruo-Suekichi/
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Michael Rubin on Turkey on National Review Online
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Apr 14, 5:47am
1 review
politics
http://article.nationalreview.com/?q=NWZlOGJmZDQ2NGYwMmIwZWYxYTYxZTAwZTIxYzI3...
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From the page: "Few U.S. policymakers have heard of Fethullah Gülen, perhaps Turkeyâ€s most prominent theologian and political thinker. Self-exiled for more than a decade, Gülen lives a reclusive life outside Philadelphia, Pa. Within months, however, he may be as much a household a name in the United States as is Ayatollah Khomeini, a man who was as obscure to most Americans up until his triumphant return to Iran almost thirty years ago."
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http://blog.wired.com/wiredscience/2008/03/top-0-reasons-i.html
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Mar 25, 1:53am
4 reviews
university
http://blog.wired.com/wiredscience/2008/03/top-0-reasons-i.html
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From the page: "5. Awful Textbooks
Thick, dry, black and white manuscripts are rarely a source of inspiration and sometimes can cause loads of confusion. Often, the text is poorly written and interrupted by lengthy equations with symbols that are different from those used by the professor during lectures.
4. Professors are Rarely Encouraging
During each class, a professor that would rather be tending to his research will waltz up to a blackboard or overhead projector and scribble out equations for an hour without uttering a single sentence to create some excitement.
3. Dearth of Quality Counseling
College students may not have a sense for how to build their resume and they might be clueless about the variety of career opportunities that await them. Unfortunately, some academic advisers do little more than post fliers about internships and hand out a checklist of classes to take. They should make some projections about the future job market, learn about the interests of each young scholar, and offer them tailored advice for how to best prepare themselves.
2. Other Disciplines Have Inflated Grades
Brilliant engineering students may earn surprisingly low grades while slackers in other departments score straight As for writing book reports and throwing together papers about their favorite zombie films.
Some professors view undergraduate education as a type of natural selection, but their analogy is flawed. Many of the brightest students may struggle while mediocre scholars can earn top scores because they have a larger group of supportive friends to or more time to dedicate to studying.
1. Every Assignment Feels the Same
Nearly every homework assignment and test question is a math problem. Only a few courses require creativity or offer hands-on experience. "
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xkcd - A webcomic of romance, sarcasm, math, and language - By Randall Munroe
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Mar 24, 12:27am
63 reviews
humor
http://www.xkcd.com/400/
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An important tip :)
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Tarocchi e Cartomanzie - Carte da Gioco - ALIDA Store
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Mar 21, 12:09am
2 reviews
card-games, tarot
http://www.alidastore.com/
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A comprehensive tarot shop
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The Associated Press: Obituaries in the News
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Mar 19, 2:43am
1 review
news
http://ap.google.com/article/ALeqM5jj4yj37U9DWYfLMh8iNpt2MokknAD8VG80T00
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From the page: "Arthur C. Clarke
COLOMBO, Sri Lanka (AP) â€" Arthur C. Clarke, a visionary science fiction writer who co-wrote "2001: A Space Odyssey" and won worldwide acclaim with more than 100 books on space, science and the future, died Wednesday, an aide said. He was 90.
Clarke, who had battled debilitating post-polio syndrome since the 1960s, died in his adopted home of Sri Lanka after breathing problems, aide Rohan De Silva said.
Co-author with Stanley Kubrick of Kubrick's film "2001: A Space Odyssey," Clarke was regarded as far more than a science fiction writer.
He was credited with the concept of communications satellites in 1945, decades before they became a reality. Geosynchronous orbits, which keep satellites in a fixed position relative to the ground, are called Clarke orbits.
Born in Minehead, England, he was the son of a farmer. He worked as a clerk in Her Majesty's Exchequer and Audit Department in London, where he joined the British Interplanetary Society and wrote his first short stories and scientific articles on space travel.
After World War II, Clarke received a bachelor of science degree in physics and mathematics from King's College in London. In the wartime Royal Air Force, he was in charge of a new radar blind-landing system. In a 1945 RAF memo, he wrote about the possibility of using satellites to revolutionize communications â€" an idea whose time had decidedly not come."
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mn6HGMfxIVQ?id=804332161&owner_id=696663223
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Mar 13, 5:04am
1 review
music, video
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mn6HGMfxIVQ?id=804332161&owner_id=696663223
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A normal guy with an extraordinary voice
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Magic Realist Press and baba studio Store: Strength - Gothic
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Mar 6, 1:01am
0 review
arts
http://baba-store.com/mm5/merchant.mvc?Screen=PROD&Store_Code=MRPASS&Product_...
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TED 2008: Humans Are Just Machines for Propagating Memes, Susan Blackmore Says
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Feb 28, 11:49pm
1 review
science, meme
http://www.wired.com/science/discoveries/news/2008/02/ted_blackmore?currentPa...
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From the page: "Wired: Why is the area of meme study controversial?
Blackmore: I can think of three reasons. One, people misunderstand it. They think memes are the same as ideas.
Two, they are frightened of it. Memetics appears to have a lot of implications that we humans are machines, which people have never liked. Of course we're machines, we're biological machines. But people don't like that. Free will and consciousness is an illusion, and the self is a complex of memes. People don't like that. My view is that if these things are true it doesn't matter if we like them or not.
The third possible reason is maybe it's a load of garbage. But we'll find that out if we do the science and make testable predictions and compare memetics with other theories about culture; we'll find out whether it's true."
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TED 2008: How Good People Turn Evil, From Stanford to Abu Ghraib
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Feb 28, 12:17am
1 review
psychology, heroism
http://www.wired.com/science/discoveries/news/2008/02/ted_zimbardo?currentPage=2
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From the page: "If you can agree on a certain number of things that are morally wrong, then one way to counteract them is by training kids. There are some programs, starting in the fifth grade, which get kids to think about the heroic mentality, the heroic imagination.
To be a hero you have to take action on behalf of someone else or some principle and you have to be deviant in your society, because the group is always saying don't do it; don't step out of line. If you're an accountant at Arthur Andersen, everyone who is doing the defrauding is telling you, "Hey, be one of the team."
Heroes have to always, at the heroic decisive moment, break from the crowd and do something different. But a heroic act involves a risk. If you're a whistle-blower you're going to get fired, you're not going to get promoted, you're going to get ostracized. And you have to say it doesn't matter.
Most heroes are more effective when they're social heroes rather than isolated heroes. A single person or even two can get dismissed by the system. But once you have three people, then it's the start of an opposition.
So what I'm trying to promote is not only the importance of each individual thinking "I'm a hero" and waiting for the right situation to come along in which I will act on behalf of some people or some principle, but also, "I'm going to learn the skills to influence other people to join me in that heroic action.""
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