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...