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Anthony Judge: Reimagining Tesla’s Creativity through Technomimicry – Psychosocial empowerment by imagining charged conditions otherwise

Reimagining Tesla’s Creativity through Technomimicry Psychosocial empowerment by imagining charged conditions otherwise Introduction Fulsome appreciation of the problem-filled life of an eccentric genius Creative insight into handling duality Progressive engagement of the gifted with reality Visual thinking as indicated by Tesla and by consideration thereof Psychosocial relevance of Tesla’s creative process Imagining a method for …

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1997 Reference: CIA’s Intelligence Sharing With Congress + RECAP

EXTRACT: From my point of view, the academic community in some ways is even more remiss [than the media]. During my brief fledgling career as a novice academic, I have come to the conclusion that most university-level courses on the American foreign policy process are absolutely mute on this subject [intelligence sharing with Congress, and …

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Mother Jones: Fact Checking Coming of Age? One Man Wrote Hundreds of Letters Warning Politicians Not to Lie.

This Man Wrote Hundreds of Letters Warning Politicians Not to Lie. It Worked. Political scientist Brendan Nyhan explains why fact-checking keeps candidates honest…sometimes. Nyhan hasn’t just been studying the fact-check movement; he was there at its origins. In the early 2000s, he coauthored a site called Spinsanity.com, a nonpartisan fact-checking outlet. It was the beginning …

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Jean Lievens: Gerry Mooney on Open Scotland — Hybrid Grassroots Activism Empowered by Social Media

Social media and grassroots activism have taken Scotland to the brink of independence Gerry Mooney The Conversation, 8 September 2014 EXTRACTS If you wanted an explanation for the momentum that has carried the Yes campaign to the brink of victory in the Scottish referendum, you have to look at what’s happening on the ground. The extent …

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SchwartzReport: Top 12 Ecologicially Sustainable Countries

Because we are controlled by carbon interests we rank 33rd on the Environmental Performance Index. Other countries not as encumbered have already begun to move to sustainability. In the coming decades they are going to prosper, we are going to suffer increasing decline until we change our social policies to reflect well as the first …

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John Maguire: Edgar Morin WISE 2013 Special Address YouTube (18:04) 7 Complex Lessons for Education

Focus on error and illusion, need to deal with uncertainty. A great deal of error arises from reductionism. See Also: 2013 WISE Prize Laureate: YouTube (4:34) Vicky Colbert of Colombia on The New School for the Silent Revolution 2011 Edgar Morin on YouTube (12:23): Edgar Morin: Seven Complex Lessons in Education Review: Homeland Earth Review: …

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