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Mark Crispin Miller - News From Underground (read all posts)
News From Underground is a daily e-news service run by Mark Crispin Miller
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WiFi is flooding the US with toxic radiation
Looming Health Crisis: Wireless Technology and the Toxification of America Friday, May 17, 2013 20:34 As a multitude of hazardous wireless technologies are deployed in homes, schools and workplaces, government officials and industry representatives continue to insist on their safety despite growing evidence to the contrary. A major health crisis looms that is only hastened [...]
Published: Saturday, May 18th 2013 09:24 AM -
“Big Brother Is You, Watching”—now more than ever
Big Brother Is You, Watching Paul Waldman May 17, 2013 Google Glass is coming, and it’s raising some new privacy concerns. I stole the title of this post from an essay Mark Crispin Miller wrote 25 years ago about the effects of television, in which he argued that instead of a totalitarian government forcing us [...]
Published: Saturday, May 18th 2013 05:38 AM
Marion Nestle - Food Politics (read all posts)
Marion Nestle blogs about her work in field of nutrition, dietetics, and food policy.
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How to recognize industry groups in disguise
Michele Simon and the Center for Food Safety have just come out with a new report: Best Public Relations Money Can Buy: A Guide to Food Industry Front Groups. This report explains how how Big Food and Big Ag promote their agendas through organizations with consumer-friendly names such as the U.S. Farmers and Ranchers Alliance, the Center for [...]
Published: Friday, May 17th 2013 02:30 PM -
The farm bill’s nutrition efforts: practically irrelevant to SNAP
SNAP, the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, is funded by Title IV in the farm bill, currently under consideration in Congress. It accounts for about 80% of the total farm bill funding, and costs taxpayers about $80 billion a year. SNAP is an entitlement, which means that everyone who qualifies gets benefits—unless Congress changes that. So [...]
Published: Thursday, May 16th 2013 10:46 AM
Danah Boyd - Apophenia (read all posts)
Social media, social software, education, media social networks and other relevant topics.
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How would you define work in a networked world?
(This post was originally written for LinkedIn. Go to the LinkedIn version to engage in the conversation.) I’ve been scratching my head trying to think about how to understand the different facets of labor that are shaping contemporary life. I don’t have good answers; I only have some provocations and a few questions, but I [...]
Published: Sunday, May 5th 2013 03:43 PM -
why I’m quitting Mendeley (and why my employer has nothing to do with it)
Earlier this week, Mendeley was bought by Elsevier. I posted the announcement on Twitter to state that I would be quitting Mendeley. This tweet sparked a conversation between me and the head of academic outreach at Mendeley (William Gunn) that could only go so far in 140 character chunks. I was trying to highlight that, [...]
Published: Thursday, April 11th 2013 12:45 PM
Perry N. Halkitis - The Huffington Post (read all posts)
Perry Halkitis examines the intersection between the HIV, drug abuse, and mental health.
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In the Days Before 'Test and Treat'
In my upcoming book, The AIDS Generation, I share the life stories of 15 remarkable gay men who bravely navigated the pioneering days of the AIDS epidemic, a time when many of us had very limited understandings of the disease and few viable options for fighting the virus.
Published: Monday, April 29th 2013 08:46 PM -
HIV and the Power of Escape
For the men of the AIDS Generation when death was an inevitability, sex and substances provided an escape, not only from the realities of AIDS, but also from the stigma and discrimination experienced by so many of us growing up as gay men.
Published: Wednesday, May 8th 2013 05:12 AM
David Kirkland - A Will to Love (read all posts)
Aesthetic musings on politics, education, and moral justice.
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A Meditation on Rainbow Communities, Mosaics, and Flower Pots
* * * Living in NYC spoiled me. I became use to the melodies of many voices singing in the Big City streets, the portrait of rainbow faces blended into a beautiful kaleidoscopic blur, and the witness of sundry hands clinched despite their difference. The range of diversities and inclusivities that NYC offered seemed not [...]
Published: Thursday, April 18th 2013 06:04 PM
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Katrina
* * * You lay me down in quiet waters . . . Drown me with your tears, Flood levees, lift eyelids, Cover me in your cries . . . In shallow sea ports of sleepless and restless nights, Where waning moons moan in the depth of deep agonies, Where weeping winds breathe defiantly [...]
Published: Thursday, April 4th 2013 07:44 PM
Carolyn Dimitri - sustainable food economics (read all posts)
An economist's thoughts about bringing sustainability into the food system
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economic benefits and measurement error
I am attending the annual project directors’ meeting for the Small and Medium Sized Farms research grants, awarded by the National Institute of Food and Agriculture. The meeting consists of a mixture of ‘big picture’ talks by the NIFA program … Continue reading
Published: Friday, February 22nd 2013 07:21 AM -
food miles
The general interpretation of “food miles” is intuitively appealing – the shorter the distance your food travels, the better. Like everything else in life, this is not guaranteed to be true. In some ways, low food miles are better: food … Continue reading
Published: Wednesday, February 20th 2013 11:55 AM
Gary Anderson - The Huffington Post (read all posts)
Gary Anderson blogs for the Huffington Post about Educational Policy.
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How Should Educators Respond to the Gun Lobby?
Talk of elementary schools as "soft targets" and making them "harder targets" or having more "boots on the ground" is everywhere in the media. Saner voices are promoting a restorative justice approach to school safety that aims at the school culture and seeks through mediation to build relationships.
Published: Friday, February 22nd 2013 05:12 AM -
Barbara Madeloni -- Presente!
It's not that teachers don't want to be evaluated or held accountable, but they want evaluations that have some professional integrity and are congruent with the work they do.
Published: Tuesday, December 18th 2012 05:12 AM
David Darts - Art and Art Professions (read all posts)
David Darts researches convergence between contemporary art and media, technology, education and democracy.
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PirateBox DIY
PirateBox can be configured to run on many devices, including wireless routers, single-board computers, laptops, and mobile phones. Key hardware platforms include the TP-Link MR3020 and the Raspberry Pi both of which start at US$35. OpenWrt PirateBox will potentially run on most OpenWrt compatible routers with USB storage. Check out this tutorial and be sure [...]
Published: Thursday, January 10th 2013 10:44 PM -
PirateBox
PirateBox is a self-contained mobile communication and file sharing device. Simply turn it on to transform any space into a free and open communications and file sharing network. Share (and chat!) Freely Inspired by pirate radio and the free culture movements, PirateBox utilizes Free, Libre and Open Source software (FLOSS) to create mobile wireless communications [...]
Published: Wednesday, January 9th 2013 11:23 PM
Pedro Noguera - Urban Sociologist (read all posts)
Pedro Noguera researches the ways schools are influenced by social and economic conditions in the urban environment
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Dubiously Closing the Achievement Gap
The Virginia Department of Education has essentially institutionalized low expectations.
Published: Sunday, November 11th 2012 05:12 AM -
Bolder, Broader Strategy to Ending Poverty's Influence on Education
American policy makers and reformers must be willing to accept the obvious: School reform efforts can't ignore the effects of poverty on children's lives or on the performance of schools.
Published: Monday, July 23rd 2012 07:16 PM
Joe Salvatore - Musings on creativity, art, and culture (read all posts)
Posts on topics ranging from the creative process NYC performances to current events.
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Hurricane Sandy, October 29, 2012
So this is my video from Hurricane Sandy. I went exploring this morning along the route where I run in the morning, along the East River. This was at the morning’s high tide mark, so things were not great. The storm itself was still quite a ways off. I’m writing this around 6:45pm that evening, [...]
Published: Monday, October 29th 2012 06:44 PM -
Thanks, Jennifer Livingston, for paying attention
Take a look at this news reporter’s response to a man who emailed her saying that her obesity sets a bad example for young girls. She makes some very eloquent statements about how bullying is a learned behavior. Thanks, Jennifer Livingston for a gutsy, controlled call to arms in this battle against social combat. Thanks [...]
Published: Wednesday, October 3rd 2012 08:16 AM
Niobe Way - The Huffington Post (read all posts)
Niobe Way researches how schools, families, and peers as well as larger political and economic contexts influence developmental trajectories
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Penn State and the Crisis of Masculinity
It's time we understand that being human and being a man should be one and the same; that the reason why we have survived for so long as a species is because we, men and women, care about others and respond when others are in danger and need our help.
Published: Saturday, January 14th 2012 05:12 AM -
Standing by Our Boys
One reason for the popularity of Rob Reiner's coming-of-age classic "Stand by Me," as suggested by studies of boys, is that the film's depiction of friendships during adolescence is hauntingly familiar.
Published: Sunday, November 20th 2011 05:12 AM
Nick Mirzoeff - For the Right to Look. New approaches to visuality (read all posts)
Can convergent digital technologies offer qualitative as well as quantitative means for such a convergence?
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Occupy Climate Change!
Occupy climate change! Why? Because the transformations that Occupy seeks in social and economic life are the same as those needed to sustain conditions suitable for human and non-human life on our planet. So the phrase “occupy climate change” is correctly understood to mean “the political economy of sustaining the biosphere and the cultural imaginary.” [...]
Published: Wednesday, December 21st 2011 12:33 PM -
The Force of Law #OWS
For the past few days, Occupy locations have reverberated to the sound of the force of law. I mean this literally. I was awakened at 3.30am on November 15 by the sound of what I think were helicopters above lower Manhattan. The combination of police barricades and the closure of the subways meant that no [...]
Published: Wednesday, November 16th 2011 04:41 PM