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China bans time travel for television – Business 360 - CNN.com Blogs
“The government says … TV dramas shouldn’t have characters that travel back in time and rewrite history. They say this goes against Chinese heritage,” reports CNN’s Eunice Yoon. “They also... Read more
http://business.blogs.cnn.com/2011/04/14/china-bans-time-travel-for-television/?hpt=C2
Tags: china, movies, ban, twitter, movies,bans,timetravel, society, via, archivescience_sociology, archivesoutheastasia, scifi Saved by: admin at 15 Apr 2011

震災後のデマ80件を分類整理して見えてきたパニック時の社会心理[絵文録ことのは]2011/04/08
これらのデマの多くが拡散された背景には、上記のとおり「信じたい情報を信じる」という心理に加え、「重要な情報はみんなに教えてあげなけれ... Read more
http://www.kotono8.com/2011/04/08dema.html
Tags: earthquake, twitter, report, 東日本大震災, disaster, information, literacy, media, society, デマ Saved by: admin at 10 Apr 2011

栄村大震災 - アンサイクロペディア
今回の震災は、幸いにもというかなんというかかんというか、中越地震&中越沖地震の際に繰り返された、人間があんまり住んでいない地域での大災... Read more
http://ja.uncyclopedia.info/wiki/%E6%A0%84%E6%9D%91%E5%A4%A7%E9%9C%87%E7%81%BD
Tags: earthquake, disaster, 災害, wiki, *東北地方太平洋沖地震, 311, i, japanese, social, society Saved by: admin at 27 Mar 2011

It's the Inequality, Stupid | Mother Jones
Politics: It's the Income Inequality, Stupid http://bit.ly/hcsg3m - I've talked about the issues in these 8 charts before. #economy – Hisham Rana, MD (hrana) http://twitter.com/hrana/status/40191617... Read more
http://motherjones.com/politics/2011/02/income-inequality-in-america-chart-graph
Tags: economics, politics, government, wealth, income, inequality, infographics, society, distribution, republicans Saved by: admin at 23 Feb 2011

Yes, The Khan Academy IS the Future of Education (video) | Singularity Hub
Khan Academy is the future of education. Once again, someone in Silicon Valley changes the world. http://bit.ly/ht7LrB – hussein kanji (hkanji) http://twitter.com/hkanji/status/36890706186338305
http://singularityhub.com/2011/02/13/yes-the-khan-academy-is-the-future-of-education-video/
Tags: education, via:packrati.us, khan, video, internet, learning, society, elearning, 21centuryed, academy Saved by: admin at 14 Feb 2011

BBC - Newsnight: Paul Mason: Twenty reasons why it's kicking off everywhere
A list - egypt, tunisia... - youth bulge, graduates with no future, networked communication - lack of faith in institutions and authorities... "They are not prone to traditional and endemic ideologie... Read more
http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/newsnight/paulmason/2011/02/twenty_reasons_why_its_kicking.html
Tags: via:packrati.us, socialmedia, culture, history, politics, society, egypt, bbc, revolution, economics Saved by: admin at 06 Feb 2011

Why Chinese Mothers Are Superior - WSJ.com
What Chinese parents understand is that nothing is fun until you're good at it. To get good at anything you have to work, and children on their own never want to work, which is why it is crucial to ov... Read more
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748704111504576059713528698754.html
Tags: parenting, education, culture, china, chinese, children, society, awesome, intelligence, kids Saved by: admin at 09 Jan 2011

Julian Assange and the Computer Conspiracy; “To destroy this invisible government” « zunguzungu
To radically shift regime behavior we must think clearly and boldly for if we have learned anything, it is that regimes do not want to be changed. We must think beyond those who have gone before us, a... Read more
http://zunguzungu.wordpress.com/2010/11/29/julian-assange-and-the-computer-conspiracy-%E2%80%9Cto-destroy-this-invisible-government%E2%80%9D/#
Tags: wikileaks, politics, conspiracy, ethics, government, society, news, information, journalism, collaboration Saved by: admin at 01 Dec 2010

Why the 8 Hour Workday Doesn’t Make Sense
The 8 hour workday is one of those things that seems be something in place largely because it’s just the way we have done things for so long. I know there are exceptions to the idea that the 8 hour ... Read more
http://theskooloflife.com/wordpress/8-hour-work-day/
Tags: work, career, productivity, business, article, inspiration, society, via:packrati.us, @read, habits Saved by: admin at 20 Nov 2010

Judge Vaughn Walker Hands Victory to Proposition 8 Opponents -- Daily Intel
This afternoon U.S. District Judge Vaughn Walker ruled in the case brought before him by lawyers Ted Olson and David Boies, which argued that the Proposition 8 ballot initiative denying marriage right... Read more
http://nymag.com/daily/intel/2010/08/judge_vaughn_walker_hands_vict.html
Tags: via:packrati.us, prop8, marriage, california, lgbt, rights, gay.marriage, ping.fm, sex, society Saved by: admin at 05 Aug 2010