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Fear of Twitter: technophobia part 2 " Neuroanthropology
Recent fears about the negative cognitive consequences of the social networking site Twitter, which I mentioned in an earlier post, Is Facebook rotting our children’s brains?, led me to recall Steve and Pete’s battle for high FQR. In both cases, concerned
Wnek: Zen and the Art of Twittering - Agency News - Advertising Age
It all comes down to how you were educated. Those defeated by the Grand Canyon test are defeated because most education has always actually been about narrowing the mind. Those with less-conventional upbringings -- and to suggest this means only NetGeners
The End of Materialism: How Evidence of the Paranormal Is Bringing Science and Spirit Together (IONS/ New Harbinger) (Ions / Nhp): Charles T. Tart: Books
For fifty years, world-renowned transpersonal psychologist Charles Tart conducted scientific experiments at prestigious institutions such as Stanford University and the University of California, Davis, to explore the nature of paranormal phenomena. In The
P2P Foundation » Blog Archive » Are social networks really dumbing us down?
Despite recent claims to the contrary, Danah Boyd thinks this is not the case.
YouTube - Information R/evolution
This video explores the changes in the way we find, store, create, critique, and share information
Featured Article - The human brain is on the edge of chaos
Self-organized criticality (where systems spontaneously organize themselves to operate at a critical point between order and randomness), can emerge from complex interactions in many different physical systems, including avalanches, forest fires, earthqua
Resisting the Kindle - The Atlantic (March 2, 2009)
Sven Birkerts is not happy about what the Kindle will do to books and reading: "Why, then, am I so uneasy about the page-to-screen transfer—a skeptic if not a downright resister? Perhaps it is because I see in the turning of literal pages—pages bound in l
riff by the anti-meme meanie
Some claim the concept of memes seems self-evident. Certainly these folks do not mean "Memes are evident to themselves." The biggest problem with Dawkins’ needless invention is that it explicitly privileges what Howard Rheingold calls "“The Competition Na
Wikipedia:Wikipedia Signpost/2009-02-23/Philosophers analyze Wikipedia - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The philosophy journal Episteme has published a new issue that focuses on Wikipedia from the perspective of social epistemology. It contains four articles that examine various aspects of Wikipedia as a source of knowledge, including one by Wikipedia co-fo
Brewster Kahle, archivist and idealist | The internet's librarian | The Economist
Brewster Kahle wants to create a free, online collection of human knowledge. It sounds impossibly idealistic—but he is making progress
Digital Natives » The Internet is Frying Our Brains?: Keep Calm and Carry On with Research Please
These articles were based on an interview with Oxford neuroscientist Lady Susan Greenfield with the Daily Mail, in which she put forth some hypotheses about online social interactions and fractured attention spans. Similar concerns about youth and their r
The Sun Magazine | Computing The Cost
Nicholas Carr — author of last July’s Atlantic cover story, “Is Google Making Us Stupid?” — believes the distracted nature of Web surfing is reducing our capacity for deep contemplation and reflection.
Epistemological Pluralism: Reorganizing Interdisciplinary Research
Despite progress in interdisciplinary research, difficulties remain. In this paper, we argue that scholars, educators, and practitioners need to critically rethink the ways in which interdisciplinary research and training are conducted. We present epistem
Bowers, C. A (2008) University Reform in an Era of Global Warming. Ecojustice Press.
In order to address global warming and other environmental issues in higher education, there must be a change in the role of the university. Many of the cultural assumptions and patterns of thinking reinforced in universities have their roots in ideas gen
oward a Post-Industrial Consciousness: Understanding the Linguistic Basis of Ecologically Sustainable Educational Reforms.
The focus in the following chapters is on the different ways that language, which is now represented in most classrooms from the early grades through graduate school as a conduit in a sender/receiver process of communication, carries forward many of envir
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