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From Senator Bernie Sanders, who asked readers to write about what was going on in their lives economically. He received over 600 responses and it seems the middle class is not doing well.

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links to the work of many excellent documentary photographers with notes on the context of their photos

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innovative docudrama following what happened to three British youth returning to their parents' country of Pakistan, traveling to Afgahnistan, mistakenly arrested, and kept a long time in Guantanamo. An eloquent denunciation of injustice.

www.channel4.com/...guantanamo - Preview

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a burgeoning movement of green enthusiasts who plant without approval on land that's not theirs

www.latimes.com/...la29-2008may29,0,2094982.story - Preview

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"The goals of this project are to gather testimonies of prisoner abuse in Guantánamo, to organize them in meaningful ways, to make them widely available online, and to preserve them there in perpetuity."

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major documentary filmmaker has blog for Times; always gathers extensive comments, which make the entries a compendium of ideas about documentary, info, film technique, journalism, culture, etc.

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overview of and links to various ways of using Powerpoint

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the author's own ideas plus links to other major Powerpoint strategies; he says, and I agree, do not have things you will end up reading to audience; think about how to engage audience

www.cazh1.com/...d-and-ugly-of-powerpoint.shtml - Preview

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athletic enhancements, diagnostic refinements, bionic disease cures or stabilization--these may cause a class divide in the near future; well written essay; need for "ability studies," not just "disability studies."

www.nanowerk.com/...spotid=5848.php - Preview

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it's always a good idea to study up on behavioral cues that will help you fit in, and it's a mark of respect to do this kind of background research before traveling to a new place

matadorstudy.com/st-know-before-a-trip-to-japan - Preview

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Culture, mind reading, tool use, morality, emotions, personality

www.newscientist.com/...its-now-found-in-animals-.html - Preview

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Valtin, psychologist and key writer in anti-torture activism in US, has own blog here and also on DailyKos, where he details fights inside American Psychological Association against its current stance.

www.valtinsblog.blogspot.com - Preview

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chilling report about 2002 conference FBI held with behavioral psychologists, prefiguring much of US interrogration practice to come

www.dailykos.com/...7870 - Preview

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extensive set of web links on torture; international; kept up to date

www.newsnow.co.uk/...Torture - Preview

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protest site for those appalled by APA policy statement that did not condemn psychologists' working to construct interrogation techniques at Guantanamo or for CIA; a large political movement in US, related also to medical participation in Holocaust

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Kenneth S. Pope resigned APA over policy on psychologists participating in the planning or implementation of detainee interrogation. Here is his important, long bibliography on topic.

kspope.com/...index.php - Preview

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interview with author of I Am a Strange Loop, about what "I" means to us humans in age of cyborgs.

www.americanscientist.org/...54803 - Preview

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Ask everyone you know what their web habits are: it reveals a lot you won't have known before, about them and about Internet use. Here some authors and folks in publishing talk about what they do, with links.

www.granta.com/...Web-Habits - Preview

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compares two approaches to reading critically on the Internet, and how to teach that skill; "education is always a contextually situated, socially constructed, ideological practice"

www.readingonline.org/...art_index.asp - Preview

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liberal reproductive and embryo legislation; I am not sure about saviour siblings, having a baby for sake of surgically saving another child; embryo ok, but more than that? a heavy existential burden for all

www.guardian.co.uk/...health.health - Preview

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