Open Left put up this video today by Michio Kaku on the Kardashev Scale:
Currently, the Earth as a whole is ranked at roughly a 0.7 on the Kardashev scale. We are not even a Type I civilization yet.
I was very intrigued by Kaku’s discussion of the evolution of structures such as [...]
My PS 545 American Political Thought class is doing a major Digital Ethnography project in Second Life this semester. To get everyone on the same page, we went on a “digital field trip” in the lab the other week,
and had some fun deconstructing the meth lab simulation on UK Island. That’s me in the all-black [...]
Found over at Crooks and Liars:
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But seriously. Young America Foundation -I get it. Really I do. But please understand: there is a LIMITED amount of time and sources that can be covered in a given course. If you’re going to put people like Michelle Malkin and Ann Coulter (who I get as a [...]
Ran across this presentation on the front page of Slideshare today. I’ve been doing a lot of thinking about the application of Long Tail thinking to being an educator and a Political Scientist lately, and also what it means for political activism and campaigns. This is one reason why I’ve been reading Nassim Taleb’s The [...]
The Black Swan: The Impact of the Highly Improbable by Nassim Taleb.
This is one of those books that I have a feeling will have a massive impact on many disciplines, though it will take a while for it to get under the skin of enough young scholars and practitioners to do so. For my part, [...]
