January 2012
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Robert Trivers: Why Do We Deceive Ourselves? (The...
via fora.tv Robert L. Trivers is an American evolutionary biologist and sociobiologist and Professor of Anthropology and Biological Sciences at Rutgers University. Trivers is most noted for proposing the theories of reciprocal altruism, parental investment, facultative sex ratiodetermination, and parent-offspring conflict. Other areas in which he has made influential contributions include an...
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Howard Rheingold's talk on a new culture of...
via vimeo.com Howard recounts some of his early work as an ‘Electronic Ethnologist’, dispels the myth of the digital native, and describes his latest experiments combining technology and pedagogy in participatory media. Drawing from master theorist of critical pedagogy, Paulo Friere, Howard speaks about scaling the banking model of education towards a new “Peeragogy”. ...
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Humanity 4.0
via humanity4point0.ning.com WELCOME TO THE CONVERSATION HUMANITY NEEDS TO HAVE. This is a conversation about what we can learn from the basic pattern of all living systems. It seems that this pattern offers important clues about the future of humanity. Start with the slideshow to the right to get the context for the conversation. And then jump into whichever topic you’re most...
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Michel Foucault - The Culture of the Self (First...
via youtube.com This is the first in a series of three lectures in which French philosopher Michel Foucault examines Western culture’s conceptual development of individual subjectivity. He gave these lectures, in English, at UC Berkeley, beginning on April 12, 1983, roughly a year before he died. There are some negligable distortions in the tape. ...
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New Dream Mini-Views: Visualizing a Plenitude...
via vimeo.com This fun animation provides a vision of what a post-consumer society could look like, with people working fewer hours and pursuing re-skilling, homesteading, and small-scale enterprises that can help reduce the overall size and impact of the consumer economy. Narrated by economist and best-selling author Juliet Schor
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The Soulful Company | Changing the DNA of...
via youtube.com Gideon Rosenblatt explores how companies can be good for the soul — for customers, employees, and for keeping the bottom line aligned with the greater good.
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Elevate
via elevate.us Elevate is an ever-expanding band of innovators and evolutionaries crafting creative solutions that unleash human potential. Our initiatives include PlayItFWD, a revolutionary viral distribution platform for film and media; Elevate Films, a full-service production company focused on transformational film; Elevate Film Festival, the world’s first international socially...
The WaySeer Manifesto
via youtube.com ATTENTION: All you rule-breakers, you misfits & troublemakers, all you free-spirits & pioneers… Everything the establishment has told you is wrong with you - is actually what’s right with you… Go here: http://WayseerManifesto.com Get it on iTunes: http://bit.ly/eM2jy4 Friend us at http://facebook.com/Wayseers
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RSA Animate - The Divided Brain - New insights on...
via youtube.com In this new RSAnimate, renowned psychiatrist and writer Iain McGilchrist explains how our ‘divided brain’ has profoundly altered human behaviour, culture and society. Taken from a lecture given by Iain McGilchrist as part of the RSA’s free public events programme. To view the full lecture, go to http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SbUHxC4wiWk
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Jeremy Rifkin, 'The Third Industrial Revolution'...
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Oh, the Places You'll Go at Burning Man!
via youtube.com Oh, the Places You’ll Go! by Dr. Seuss Congratulations! Today is your day. You’re off to Great Places! You’re off and away! You have brains in your head. You have feet in your shoes. You can steer yourself any direction you choose. You’re on your own. And you know what you know. And YOU are the guy who’ll decide where to go. You’ll look...
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Chris Hedges "Brace Yourself! The American Empire...
Upgrade to Flash Player 10 for improved playback performance. Upgrade Now or More Info. close via youtube.com Quote from 5:49-6:27 “…Obama functioned as a brand in the same way that people of colour or HIV-positive models were used by Benetton and Calvin Klein — to associate their products with a risque lifestyle and progressive politics. But,...
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Mimi Ito: The Positive Potential of Peer Pressure...
“We can debate outcomes of engagement all we want, but the thing that’s really important, I think, to have on the public agenda is really the question of ‘Who is getting access to the kinds of experiences that are productive and engaging, and who is not?’ And what are the factors contributing to that?” via youtube.com Mimi Ito is a Professor in Residence at...
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What the Mayan Elders are Saying About 2012 by...
Carlos Barrios: “Anthropologists visit the temple sites and read the inscriptions and make up stories about the Maya, but they do not read the signs correctly. It’s just their imagination. Other people write about prophecy in the name of the Maya. They say that the world will end in December 2012. The Mayan elders are angry with this. The world will not end. It will be...
December 2011
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Water Memory - Oasis
via youtube.com http://oasishd.ca - Water — just a liquid or much more? Many researchers are convinced that water is capable of “memory” by storing information and retrieving it. The possible applications are innumerable: limitless retention and storage capacity and the key to discovering the origins of life on our planet. Research into water is just beginning. Join Oasis...
November 2011
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Is Design Thinking Dead? Hell No | Co. Design
Is Design Thinking Dead? Hell No Bruce Nussbaum may have delivered his eulogy, but design thinking—in its best forms—still has a lot to offer. Recently, Bruce Nussbaum rang the bell on design thinking and told us he is moving on. I was surprised at this. Nussbaum is one reason why design thinking exists in the first place. Following his lead, people...
John Kenney: “We Are the One Per Cent” | The New...
We Are the One Per Cent by John Kenney NOVEMBER 28, 2011 Average wealth of the top 1 percent was almost $14 million in 2009, according to a 2011 report from the Economic Policy Institute. —Washingtonpost.com. “Shit is fucked up and bullshit.” —Sign seen at the Occupy Wall Street protest in lower Manhattan. We, too, have mobilized. We come from near and far, by any means...
Earth | Time Lapse View from Space, Fly Over |...
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Story of Broke The Story of Stuff Project
The Story of Broke The United States isn’t broke; we’re the richest country on the planet and a country in which the richest among us are doing exceptionally well. But the truth is, our economy is broken, producing more pollution, greenhouse gasses and garbage than any other country. In these and so many other ways, it just isn’t working. But rather than invest in something better, we...
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OCCUPY FREE ENERGY - Luminaries ft. Aishah
via youtube.com The lifting of a veil; that’s the true apocalypse
October 2011
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Paul Hawken, Blessed Unrest and WiserEarth -...
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Paul Hawken, Blessed Unrest and WiserEarth
via youtube.com Paul Hawken’s speech at the Bioneers conference on the worlds largest movement, the hundreds of thousands of grassroots organizations that address social and environmental justice. Join the global WiserEarth community at http://www.WiserEarth.org
Moral Dilemma
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The original Mad Men - What can OWS learn from a...
The original Mad Men What can OWS learn from a defunct French avant-garde group? BY GARY KAMIYA Strange bedfellows don’t get any stranger than this. To the joy of a few dozen graduate students and culture jammers, and the utter bemusement of just about everybody else, the most significant American protest movement in years has been spending time under the sheets with an obscure French...
Theatre of the Absurd
September 2011
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Greenpeace 40 Years - A Conversation in Pictures...
via youtube.com Honoured to share my birth place, month and year with Greenpeace - Happy 40th Birthday!!
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Love and Networks « Interaction Institute for...
Love and Networks Three years ago I had the privilege of helping to design and facilitate a convening of people in Maine interested in the power of networks for social change. The day featured many interesting presenters, including Michael Edwards who gave a provocative concluding talk entitled “Love and Networking.” His words have been coming back to mind of late, as I do work in...
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The Technium: What You Don't Have to Do
Another good book to recommend: End Malaria. This book is not about malaria. It is an anthology of advice about working smarter. The book’s official name is End Malaria: Bold Innovation, Limitless Generosity, and the Opportunity to Save a Life. $20 from every sale (including the Kindle version) will go to Malaria No More, whose mission is to end malaria in Africa by 2015. In...
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The Anthropocene: A man-made world | The Economist
The Anthropocene A man-made world Science is recognising humans as a geological force to be reckoned with May 26th 2011 | from the print edition Enlarge THE here and now are defined by astronomy and geology. Astronomy takes care of the here: a planet orbiting a yellow star embedded in one of the spiral arms of the Milky Way, a galaxy that is itself part...
August 2011
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The Quickening - YouTube
via youtube.com The Mayan calendar seen as a timeline of the evolution of consciousness.
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13 (Truly Excellent) Books on the Future of Money...
13 Books on the Future of Money & New Economy 10 Aug I tapped the twittersphere the other day for the best books on the ‘future of money’ and the new/emerging economy & infrastructures. Here’s what you came up with. Attribution below each book. Other suggestions welcome! I’m getting ready for a deep dive into this content area this fall, and appreciate all the...
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The Call of Our Times | Currency Solutions for a...
The Call of Our Times Submitted by blietaer on September 3, 2010 – 1:38 am Humanity is at a critical juncture. As Paul Hawken succinctly put it in his memorable address to Portland University’s graduate class in May of 2009, “civilization needs a new operating system,” and fast. Why? Because many of the socio-economic rules under which we operate were...
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Courage is a heart word | Ordinary Courage |...
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July 2011
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Microsoft’s Android Shakedown - Disruptive...
Microsoft’s Android Shakedown In the 1980s, attorney Gary Reback was working at Sun Microsystems, then a young technology startup. A pack of IBM employees in blue suits showed up at Sun headquarters seeking royalties for 7 patents that IBM claimed Sun had infringed. The Sun employees, having examined the patents, patiently explained that six of the seven patents were likely...
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How Online Companies Get You to Share More and...
Zynga, Facebook, Apple, and many other online companies and services are refining techniques developed by game developers to keep you in their game. Photo: Christopher Griffith; brain created by Megan Caponetto/Apostrophe You’re not stupid, but you can be fooled. For millennia, the best salespeople have known how to exploit the vulnerabilities of the human mind. In the burgeoning...
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All Watched Over by Machines of Loving Grace |...
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xkcd: Google+
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Users for Sale: Has Digital Illiteracy Turned Us...
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June 2011
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TED Talks: Jacqueline Novogratz | Inspiring a life...
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'We need an army of individual curators' ~Robin...
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Robert Scoble On Online Curation | Interviewed by...
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HST debate gets its own Facebook app :: The Hook |...
HST debate gets its own Facebook app By Ben Christopher June 20, 2011 04:56 pm A new Facebook app has been designed to help the uninformed and undecided voters of British Columbia make sense of the upcoming HST vote. Created by Vancouver-based PartyX, The HST Facebook application presents potential voters with a series of dueling arguments over the referendum before...
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RSA Animate – The Internet in Society: Empowering...
RSA Animate – The Internet in Society: Empowering and Censoring Citizen? By The RSA on Thursday, March 17th, 2011 http://comment.rsablogs.org.uk/?p=1287“>View Comments Leave a comment In this new RSAnimate adapted from a talk at the RSA, author and journalist Evgeny Morozov presents an alternative take on ‘cyber-utopianism’ – the seductive idea that the internet plays a...
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Essential 21st Century Literacies - Commands for a...
Portland brings out the best in me. Here’s a talk that explains why the Contact Summit has to happen: it’s time to find the others who have the vision of what the net can be, and do. This entry was posted on Monday, June 13th, 2011 at 10:45 pm and is filed under Blog. You can follow any comments to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can leave a...
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RSA Animate – Multiple choices, social anxieties,...
RSA Animate – Choice By The RSA on Thursday, June 16th, 2011 Fusing sociology, psychoanalysis and philosophy, Professor Renata Salecl shows that individual choice is rarely based on a simple rational decision with a predictable outcome. type=”application/x-shockwave-flash” height=”314” width=”500”> via...
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OECD Better Life Initiative
There is more to life than the cold numbers of GDP and economic statistics – This Index allows you to compare well-being across countries, based on 11 topics the OECD has identified as essential, in the areas of material living conditions and quality of life. via oecdbetterlifeindex.org
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Creating Cultural Change Through Creativity,...
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Vancouver hockey riot is a symptom of a larger...
Vancouver hockey riot is a symptom of a larger problem Stephen Thomson | What compels people to tip over cars and light them on fire? Maybe it’s because our society is desperately ill. By Adrian Mack and Miranda Nelson, June 16, 2011 We’ve heard a lot of reasons (excuses?) batted around as to why last night’s post-Cup riot happened. A very outraged man on the radio...
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Social Change Institute 2011: Impact & Inspiration...
Social Change Institute 2011: Impact & Inspiration By: Mike Rowlands. Date: June 17th, 2011 Excruciating joy. That’s as close as I can get to articulating the atmosphere at the 2011 Social Change Institute. Hosted at Hollyhock, June 8 – 12, SCI brought together a group of 55 remarkably diverse individuals, each of whom is working on one or more of the most...
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Douglas Rushkoff: The User’s Dilemma | Roy...
For over two decades, Douglas Rushkoff has been dragging us all out near the horizon, trying to show us glimpses of our own future. Though he’s written books on everything from counterculture and video games to advertising and Judaism, he’s always maintained a media theorist’s bent: one part Marshall McLuhan, one part Neil Postman, and one part a mix of many significant others. Program or...