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Earth 3.0

Scientific American published a special issue on the topic “Earth 3.0.” Here are a few links from the online version. Earth 3.0 Resources in Film and Online: Scientific American From Scientific American Earth 3.0: Games, activities, books and films designed to inspire a greener lifestyle (tags: scientificAmerican green) Clean Up Clean Up the World is […]

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2009 04 28 ernie Interesting Web Sites Comments (0)

Political Cartoons – Torture Debate

A colelction of cartoons in today’s online version of the Washington Post. They reflect some current attitudes related to the issue of torture conducted by the U.S.

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2009 04 27 ernie Politics Comments (0)

Snow days – March 2009

March came in like a lion and gave us some great snow. Here are some pictures. First a couple of Lynn in Glenn Lynnie     The creek Some other scenes

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2009 03 03 ernie view du jour Comments (0)

We expected better, but we should know better

The same old Republican obstructivism portrayed in these policatl cartoons.   The first by Tony Auth This one by Pat Oliphant by 

2009 02 06 ernie Politics Comments (0)

After the Inauguaration – Political Cartoons

Three days after the inauguaration of Obama some interesting pooitical cartoons are starting to emerge. by Singe Wilson by Stuart Carlson by Tony Auth

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2009 01 23 ernie Politics Comments (0)

Paying Attention

When I teach I make a big deal about the notion of ‘paying attention.’ Not only to what is going on in class, but paying attention throughout our daily lives to the connections we come upon that help us better understand what we are wanting to learn. It’s difficult to do and takes some training. […]

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2009 01 10 ernie Teaching Comments (0)

Creative Commons links for 2009-01-08

Prosecuting Online File Sharing Turns a Generation Criminal – US News and World Report We’re about a decade into our own hopeless war of prohibition, this one against “peer-to-peer piracy.” The copyright industry has used every legal means within its reach (and some that may not be so legal) to stop Internet “pirates” from “sharing” […]

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2009 01 08 ernie About the Internet and the Web
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Refine Your Life

I was using this kind of nice ratchet hand screwdriver that Lynn received for listening to someone give her a sales pitch abut retirement plans. It worked well. I used it to open our CD player that had stopped working, and miraculously I got it to work again. The tag line on the box is […]

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2009 01 04 ernie Comments (0)

TED Talks : Why we don’t understand as much as we think we do – Jonathan Drori (2007)

Today I listened to the TED Talk: Why we don’t understand as much as we think we do – Jonathan Drori (2007).  He starts by asking some simple questions that he claims most people get wrong. We get these wrong, he claims, because of the education and experiences we have had. They bias our understanding. […]

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2008 12 16 ernie Interesting Web Sites
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Tenure in the Digital Age, Zotero, & A Place to Bury Strangers links for 2008-12-11

Wired Campus: Bringing Tenure Into the Digital Age – Chronicle.com New tools for analyzing information are arriving every day, but that doesn’t mean scholars who use them well are being rewarded, says Christine L. Borgman, a professor of information studies at the University of California at Los Angeles. She contends that the new “scholarly information infrastructure” […]

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2008 12 11 ernie A Place to Bury Strangers
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