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16 Apr 09

In Full Interview, John Holdren Eschews New Nukes, Hints at Space Flight Delays : ScienceInsider

  • ScienceInsider: Staying with education, do you think that the Texas state school board's recent decision to add a skeptical view of the study of evolution and the fossil record weaken the state's science standards and weaken national efforts to improve science education?
    Holdren: Well, I have not reviewed that decision carefully. But my impression from reading about it is that it was not a step forward but rather a step backward. Of course, all science needs to be skeptical. It's hard to be against skepticism. But when you get into the domain of promoting particular views about the basis for skepticism of evolution, and those views are not really valid, then I think we have a problem. I think we need to be giving our kids a modern education in biology, and the underpinning of modern biology is evolution. And countervailing views that are not really science, if they are taught at all, should be taught in some other part of the curriculum.
14 Jul 08

Putting people first » Mito Akiyoshi: the digital divide does not vanish with the mobile

  • There is a growing consensus among researchers in Japan as well as abroad that the digital divide is not just about having Internet access or not. It is also about the type of use of Information and Communication Technologies (ICT’s) and the goals of that use.
  • existing patterns of inequality strongly influence the type of technology and technology use certain kinds of people exhibit
14 Jun 08

Conversations Below Sea Level: Anne Beaulieu and Sally Wyatt

  • “The future of science and technology is actively created in the present through contested claims and counterclaims over its potential. Language is an important tool, alongside social practices and material objects, in attempts to construct the future. Metaphors not only help us to think about the future; they are a resource deployed by a variety of actors to shape the future.”
  • I think what I like about the term ‘virtual knowledge’ is that it does capture the notion of ‘knowledge between people,’ the shared nature of knowledge, the different ways of doing that, getting into the –as you say– practices and situatedness of knowledge, which I think is an important dimension of our work.
06 Jun 08

A Brief Interview with Michael Wesch (The Creator of That Wonderful Video...) - John Battelle's Searchblog

  • For me, cultural anthropology is a continuous exercise in expanding my mind and my empathy, building primarily from one simple principle: everything is connected.
  • everything is connected throughout all time, and so as anthropologists we take a very broad view of human history, looking thousands or even millions of years into the past and into the future as well.
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06 Apr 08

This Blog Sits at the: the Law & Order of Ethnography

  • anthropology is not really interested in the veracity of any
    historical particular but in the architecture of meaning in the context
    of which all particulars must take place.

This Blog Sits at the: A note on ethnography

  • This is after all precisely what is missing from the bargain basement
    ethnographers, the one's who practice brutish empiricism.  These
    ethnographers merely report what the
    respondent says, because they have no concepts with which to see the cultural significance of what the respondent says.  They are mirrors, nothing more. 
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