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Author Archives: Keith Brown
How Vaccine Fears Fueled The Resurgence Of Preventable Diseases
For most of us, measles and whooping cough are diseases of the past. You get a few shots as a kid and then hardly think about them again. But that’s not the case in all parts of the world — … Continue reading
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Tagged CDC, disease, epidemic, National Institutes of Health, vaccine fears
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Capitalism vs. Democracy – NYTimes.com
Thomas Piketty’s new book, “Capital in the Twenty-First Century,” described by one French newspaper as a “a political and theoretical bulldozer,” defies left and right orthodoxy by arguing that worsening inequality is an inevitable outcome of free market capitalism.Piketty, a … Continue reading
Transdisciplinarity: The Politics and Practices of Knowledge Production | The Disorder Of Things
These boundaries that we establish between little pockets of knowledge in the academy are a fiction. Transdisciplinarity, to my mind, is about challenging the fiction of disciplines, about recognizing that knowledge isn’t something that can be carved up into neatly … Continue reading
Coursera Blog • An Experimental “Meta-MOOC” Shaping the Future of Higher Education
When Professor Cathy Davidson of Duke University agreed to teach a Coursera course on the “History and Future of (Mostly) Higher Education,” which will launch on January 27, 2014, she was determined to see how the course itself could help … Continue reading
Posted in Future of the University, Public Pedagogy
Tagged Cathy Davidson, HASTAC, MOOCs
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Grand Canyon is not so ancient : Nature News & Comment
A longstanding geological fight over the age of one of the most iconic landscapes in the United States — Arizona\’s Grand Canyon — may finally be over. The massive chasm does not date back 70 million years, as earlier work … Continue reading
Drinking from the Cool Cosmic Stream : Scientific American
A glimpse of the ancient universe hints at how galaxies grew so rapidly via Access : Drinking from the Cool Cosmic Stream : Scientific American.
What caused a 10-year winter starting in 536?
A winter that lasts years isn\’t just a problem in Game of Thrones. Roughly 1500 years ago, our world was turned upsidown by a winter that witnesses say \”never ended.\” Now there is scientific evidence that there really was a … Continue reading
Posted in Basic News, Climate Change, Uncategorized
Tagged climate change, climate science, Dark Ages, history
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How toilet paper explains the world
At different stages in our lives, we require more and less of certain hygienic products: First diapers, then mostly toilet paper and menstrual maintenance items, and as bowels become more difficult to control, a different kind of diaper. It stands … Continue reading
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Google, Google everywhere | The Economist
At Google they call it the toothbrush test. Shortly after returning to being the firm’s chief executive in 2011, Larry Page said he wanted it to develop more services that everyone would use at least twice a day, like a … Continue reading
Micro-turbines could revolutionize small-scale energy production
A chief complaint about wind energy is that nobody wants to look at the turbines. A lab out of University of Texas – Arlington is revolutionizing the concept by creating windmills so tiny, ten can fit on a single grain … Continue reading
Tiny technology creates a buzz | News @ CSIRO
What if I told you that insects in the environment may be able to tell us about the world they live in? Imagine it; they could reveal changes in climate, the presence of dangerous gases or even the arrival of … Continue reading
Posted in Basic News, Science and technology ramifications
Tagged bees, insects, research
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Take Four Minutes To Reflect On Your Place In The Cosmos : 13.7: Cosmos And Culture : NPR
…regardless of our resolutions and regardless of our ability to achieve those resolutions, our lives on this lonely cosmic outpost, this \”Pale Blue Dot,\” continue on. Until, of course, they don\’t. And that, in itself, is something to consider as … Continue reading
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Tagged 2014, Carl Sagan, cosmos, New Year, Pale Blue Dot
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Archaeologists unearth oldest musical instruments ever found – The Boston Globe
We all knew that Stone Age humans were hunters and gatherers. But sculptors and flutists? Archeologists announced today that they had unearthed the oldest musical instruments ever found — flutes that inhabitants of southwestern Germany laboriously carved from bone and … Continue reading
What Happened On Easter Island — A New (Even Scarier) Scenario : Krulwich Wonders… : NPR
What we have here are two scenarios ostensibly about Easter Island’s past, but really about what might be our planet’s future. The first scenario — an ecological collapse — nobody wants that. But let’s think about this new alternative — … Continue reading
After Setbacks, Online Courses Are Rethought – NYTimes.com
After Setbacks, Online Courses Are Rethought – NYTimes.com.
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College papers: Students hate writing them. Professors hate grading them. Let’s stop assigning them.
Is this a good idea? We should be thinking about what it is students should take away from a required course in the humanities and in the sciences. We might call it trivia training, but maybe the best thing for … Continue reading
Simulations back up theory that Universe is a hologram : Nature News & Comment
In 1997, theoretical physicist Juan Maldacena proposed1 that an audacious model of the Universe in which gravity arises from infinitesimally thin, vibrating strings could be reinterpreted in terms of well-established physics. The mathematically intricate world of strings, which exist in … Continue reading
Budget deal expected to alleviate automatic cuts to scientific research | Inside Higher Ed
The federal budget deal announced by Congressional negotiators Tuesday evening would largely alleviate cuts to research funding and campus-based student aid programs… The proposal does not lay out specific amounts of money for federal agencies but it would increase, from … Continue reading
▶ Is Futurama the Best Argument Against Transhumanism? | Idea Channel | PBS Digital Studios – YouTube
▶ Is Futurama the Best Argument Against Transhumanism? | Idea Channel | PBS Digital Studios – YouTube.
Entertainment Conquers Reality
Even before the first tabloids began hawking true-crimes stories and trashy melodramas to 19th-century readers, mass entertainment had cast a spell over American life. How that spell has been magnified to such an extent that entertainment is now \”the most … Continue reading
Posted in Globalization, Interdisciplinarity
Tagged entertainment, films, LIfe: The Movie, Neal Gabler, popular culture
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Would teaching economics backwards help students be ready for the world?
Who really knows… but it might be worth the experiment! …here’s one temporary fix for introductory economics: teach it backwards. Reversing the order in which introductory economic classes are taught today might be the easiest way to respond to the … Continue reading
History of Philosophy | The Ancient Cynics
In this episode we unleash the most outrageous ancient philosophers, Diogenes and the Cynics, and their quest to “deface the currency” by exposing the hypocrisy of Greek society. via 53 – Beware of the Philosopher: the Cynics | History of … Continue reading
Posted in Interdisciplinarity
Tagged Antisthenes, Cynics, Diogenes, freedom from disturbance, freedom of speech, Plato, post-Socratic, Socrates
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