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Christian Hubert - Hypertext Encyclopedia of Scientific Terms/Ideas
encyclopedia of scientific terms and their critical or philosophical dimensions like developments in science (chao theory, complex systems studies, theoretical biology) and some related philosophical writings
Of Two Minds When Making a Decision: Scientific American
We may make snap judgments, or mull things carefully. Possibly two kinds of thought: intuitive, based on past experience; and rational, rule-based, to evaluate intuition or come into play when decisions are difficult.
How my mother's fanatical feminist views tore us apart, by the daughter of The Color Purple author | Mail Online
Rebecca Walker has written the Mommy Dearest of the feminist movement about her mother, Alice Walker.
Invictus: A blog on U.S. Politics and the Fight Against Torture
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.
Daily Kos: FBI & American Psych. Association Attack Patient Confidentiality
chilling report about 2002 conference FBI held with behavioral psychologists, prefiguring much of US interrogration practice to come
NewsNow: Torture
extensive set of web links on torture; international; kept up to date
PSYCHOLOGISTS FOR AN ETHICAL APA
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
Rorschach and Awe: Politics & Power: vanityfair.com
U.S. coercive interrogation methods were reverse-engineered by two C.I.A. psychologists who had spent their careers training U.S. soldiers to endure Communist-style torture techniques.
Detainee Interrogations, Psychologists, & Other Health Care Professionals
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.
American Scientist Online - Douglas R. Hofstadter
interview with author of I Am a Strange Loop, about what "I" means to us humans in age of cyborgs.
The Web Habits of Highly Effective People | Online Only | Granta
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.
Reading Online--A Tale of Differences: Comparing the Traditions, Perspectives, and Educational Goals of Critical Reading and Critical Literacy
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"
Dan Froomkin - White House Torture Advisers - washingtonpost.com
key news story: starting in spring 02, top admin. officials, including Cheney, Tenet, Ashcroft, Rice, met as a group and discussed all interrogation techniques in detail, including demos from CIA.
Ban on hybrid embryos and saviour siblings fails | Science | guardian.co.uk
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
YouTube - Being an Unperson
surprising and profound video essay from self-advocate for people with cognitive disabilities; make sure to see all videos in this series; contribution to autobiographical media
parameters of science
a survey of almost every aspect of science from the largest to smallest dimensions; brief explanations, definitions, many illustrations; very clearly written
"Gagging librarians is horrendous." The Internet V. FBI: Net Wins - John Battelle's Searchblog
"The U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation has withdrawn a secret demand that the Internet Archive, an online library, provide the agency with a user's personal information after the Web site challenged the records request in court. "
www.theory.org.uk Resources: Anthony Giddens
A brief introduction to Giddens' general approach, plus more detail on his ideas about self, gender and identity in modern societies; great mother site for culture and media theory
Andrea Polli: graduate course in audio production: sound environments
How does one define music, sound, noise, and silence; the social and political functions of these elements? Useful paths for both producers and listeners. Good online resources and links, stimulating ideas.
Soundscape - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
a good place to begin with key terms and good links; historically, audio has taken on new interest with new modes of production and dissemination, and lots of DIY possibilities; clean audio recording takes effort still
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