Author: abendelow
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School 2.0, OK–but now Christianity 2.0?
Back in 1803 the third President of the United States, Thomas Jefferson, wanted to do something other than merely receive divine intelligence (in the form of the canonical bible, for his time the King James version of the scriptures). He wished to interrogate and comment on the “word of God” to mankind, a rather modern…
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A quintessence of American urban culture: Chicago Blues Fest 2009
There’s so much in the Chicago blues that I love! Let me count some of the ways: 1) the way blues celebrate the down side of life, which balances things aright; 2) the way blues are so dirt-simple to play, sing, and create; 3) the way blues give sacrifice a song; 4) the way blues…
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Sure. We've saddled them with debts, environmental degradation, and other seemingly insoluble problems,
…but we’ve also given our children–the next generation of humans–some powerful means to learn, what has been called education 2.0. Good thing, since it may be the only way human civilization can get smart enough to solve the gi-normous problems we old folks are bequeathing them! I’m talking again (having posted about ithere and here)…
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A 2.0 editorial comic?
Check out the “Surviving the world” blog, a static visual humor, like the old-fashioned kind, but new. A funny M.I.T. graduate named Dante Shepherd and his dog are responsible for it. I see it as more morph-y 2.0 creation–perhaps an exciting new aesthetic beginning. I used to get this sort of humor in editorial cartoons,…
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While puzzling over motivation, I stumbled on the great Swiss blog
LLLIC, by Martin Raske, the IT guy who writes it. He quotes one of my favorite Frenchmen, Antoine de Saint-Exupery: “If you want to build a ship, don’t drum up people to collect wood and don’t assign them tasks and work, but rather teach them to long for the endless immensity of the sea.” In…
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Whose data are they, anyway?
Barack’s Whitehouse is going 2.0. And to some extent, he’s bringing some of the rest of government with it. Now that American data is available to the American people at (what else?) data.gov, We The People’s grip on the handle of government power gets tighter. What will we Americans do with such knowledge? Perhaps come…
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"Leveraging" myself in time of great change
It’s a blessing that I have the freedom to step back and choose which way I want to go at a time of amazing social change. What if I were locked into a job or an industry and couldn’t adapt to the technological change going on? I would be much less happy, I think. I…
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Sports may yet save human civilization
It has been said that “sports take a human necessity and make a game of it.” * So soccer takes the necessity of human movement, role-distribution, teamwork, and goal-achievement and puts it on a field with rules so well that it is the world’s most popular sport. * So baseball takes the skill of stalking…
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