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01 Sep 09

Educational Simulations Products: Real Lives 2010

Descripton: "Real Lives 2010 is a truly unique, content rich and empathy-building real world, real life simulation that challenges your life skills (not your hand-eye coordination) as you make difficult, high-stakes choices that lead to your success, or failure. You might be born anyone, anywhere on Earth. You might die as an infant, you might make it to old age. You might be able to marry the person of your dreams, and have a rewarding job, or you could be stuck in poverty. Be born, live an exciting life, and die. Then do it again. And again. Learn about the world as you live your Real Lives around the world, one life-altering decision at a time. Experience life as a: Peasant farmer in Bangladesh -- Factory worker in Brazil -- Policeman in Nigeria -- Lawyer in the United States -- [or] Computer operator in Poland."

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17 Aug 09

BBC NEWS | Science & Environment | Facial expressions 'not global'

I think the title is a little misleading. Apparently, while basic facial expressions ARE global, there are culturally specific ways of interpreting them. (This is a subtle, but real distinction.) In Asia, people tend to concentrate primarily on the eyes when interpreting facial expressions, while in the west, people scan the entire face.

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07 May 09

Etgar Lefkovits, "Christian supporters of Israel gather in Washington," Jerusalem Post (May 3, 2009)

From the article: "The event, which will include a large contingent of evangelical leaders, including the president of CBN Michael Little as well as the US director of the Jerusalem-based International Christian Embassy, Susan Michael, will include a keynote address by Ambassador to the UN Gabriela Shalev. 'The Christian communities and their representatives are the real allies that we can rely on in the US and around the world,' Elon said Sunday. 'I hope that the new leadership in Israel will understand this reality better than the last administration and recognize how to translate this support into action.' The former tourism minister and previous caucus chairman, who is taking a break from politics, was a leading force in furthering Israel's ties with the evangelical Christian world."

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29 Mar 09

¡SUPER NAFTA LAND! - a set on Flickr

An amazing set of images from a Rice U. thesis project, representing an imaginary "artificial landscape" on the US-Mexico border called "¡Super NAFTA Land!" Discovered via BLDGBLOG.

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09 Nov 08

Raghida Dergham, "Will Obama Be Reagan Or Gorbachev?," Al-Arabiya (Nov. 8, 2008)

Commentary originally published in al-Hayat (London). Some interesting speculation on the makeup of Obama's cabinet.

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07 Oct 08

Lyndsay Moss, "Pope: Millions are losing their religion and declaring God is dead," The Scotsman (Oct. 6, 2008)

Interesting how Benedict unproblematically draws this connection between religious belief and national identity.

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  • MODERN culture is so devoid of faith that some people are declaring God "dead" and entire nations are losing their identity, Pope Benedict XVI warned yesterday.

    The 81-year-old pontiff said that God was being pushed out of people's lives under the "harmful and destructive influence" of today's society
    • Interesting way to draw connections between theology and national identity. - on 2008-10-07
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31 Aug 08

Peter K Austin's top 10 endangered languages | Books | guardian.co.uk

This is linguist and historian Peter Austin's personal top-ten list of endangered languages around the world -- kind of an idiosyncratic little column, but interesting.

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28 Aug 08

Apocalyptic prophesies and the war in South Ossetia: Glenn Beck interviews Joel Rosenberg

Transcript of a recent interview between conservative talk-show host Glenn Beck and "The Last Jihad" author Joel Rosenberg about the current Russian-Georgian conflict and the prophecies of Ezekiel 38 and 39.

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18 Aug 08

Ainslee Embree, "How religion gets mixed with violence," The Immanent Frame (Dec. 30, 2007) (on Benazir Bhutto's assassination)

  • Violence has been accepted, then, by jihadis, warriors defending Islam, as a necessary step in creating a purer Islamic society. They are motivated at least in part by Muslim teachings on tolerance, charity and service. Many Pakistanis, however, see violence legitimized by religion as signaling the demise of civil society, and it is hard to believe that violence, rooted in the fabric of society, can be uprooted without great turmoil and bloodshed.
    • "... the demise of civil society ..." - on 2008-08-18
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