Sociology

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• Operation Blank Slate

  
  The Church of Rationality — Authority: 116
  In Bookmarks, there is a folder called "to blog", and in there is a subfolder called "Kommentar" (comment) and you can find links in there that are very old. Very much in the spirit of my recent post "Assorted Abstracts", Ill give you the links to stuff from around the web that at one point in the past I thought I had ...
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• Mayan Text Details Blood Sacrifices

  
  American Buddhist Net - Buddhist News & Forum — Authority: 161
  Experts are studying the first Mayan hieroglyphic script dealing with the life of a high priest, his blood sacrifices and acts of penance, Mexicos National Institute of Anthropology and History (INAH) said. The text consists of 260 glyphs carved into a series of seashell earrings and manta ray stingers found inside a ...
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• Unemployment a factor in deferred Okinawa marriages

  
  American Buddhist Net - Buddhist News & Forum — Authority: 161
  Okinawans are getting married later in life, or even remaining unmarried, at rates higher than those on the mainland. ...[B]ridal consultants say women also don’t want to marry an oldest son because tradition means the oldest son and his family must take good care of the Buddhist family altar and all of the ...
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• On "Family Feud," the question was "What do people wear for protection?" Of the top 100 responses, 31 said "condoms", while second to last was "guns." Middle America has spoken.

  
  BLOGGING via TYPEWRITER. — Authority: 720
  
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• The 00’s Decade

  
  .:: phampants ::. — Authority: 122
  Before 2000 , I was a shy & quiet kid with a bad temper.  I had few friends and was very sheltered.  Growing up as a first generation immigrant Asian family, I was restricted, limited and controlled on what I could do.  My life was dictated to me. In 2000, I decided to no longer follow the rules but instead, ...
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• International And Inter-racial Dating

  
  Win My Ex Back — Authority: 160
  This article is about my experiences of international and inter-racial dating. It is simply an account of what I have witnessed and experienced myself over the course of my life so far, although at 55 years old, I am nearer the end of it than the beginning. It is my guidance on dealing with an international or ...
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• Spotlight on: putting things that explode near your junk

  
  THE BEAT — Authority: 651
  With underpants bombs making headline everywhere, a look at similar comics themes of groinal aggression have hit a few blogs. Comics Alliance examines a Punisher action figure from Toy Biz who is so glad to see you he’s going to blow you to kingdom come with a giant ground to air missile launcher emerging from ...
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• Write "Love" on All Your Bottles

  
  Poems at The Poetry Showcase - Share your poems at the Poetry Showcase — Authority: 164
  There is a science Of studying the crystalization of water. Bottles of water labeled "Hope" And "Love" and "Joy" Produce ice crystals of Amazing complexity and symmetry. read more
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• Write "Love" on All Your Bottles

  
  Poems at The Poetry Showcase - Share your poems at the Poetry Showcase — Authority: 164
  There is a science Of studying the crystalization of water. Bottles of water labeled "Hope" And "Love" and "Joy" Produce ice crystals of Amazing complexity and symmetry. read more
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• Robert Shiller Just Made My Day

  
  A (Budding) Sociologist's Commonplace Book — Authority: 109
  Robert Shiller is a prominent economist, associated with the Case-Shiller index for real-estate prices that foresaw and measured the extent of the housing bubble. He also wrote a semi-popular behavioral economics account of the crisis with Akerlof, Animal Spirits . Unrelated to both of those efforts (more or less), ...
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• Write "Love" on All Your Bottles

  
  Poems at The Poetry Showcase - Share your poems at the Poetry Showcase — Authority: 164
  There is a science Of studying the crystalization of water. Bottles of water labeled "Hope" And "Love" and "Joy" Produce ice crystals of Amazing complexity and symmetry. read more
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• A Decade in a Handy Chart

  
  The Global Sociology Blog — Authority: 134
  Via the New York Times (click on the image for larger view): Graphs like these are fun (like all the “bingos” variety) but they have a “flattening” effect. Each item is presented as as important as the others. In this case, even though there is a “fad” row, the entire chart has a fad quality.
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• Yesterday, I was against oppression. Today, Im using it for my benefit.

  
  Ask MetaFilter — Authority: 633
  Examples from history of groups who were oppressed becoming oppressors? Im doing research on the writings of Paulo Freire and I am trying to create a...I dont know...rubric (?) for identifying when an oppressed group becomes the oppressor. This is not necessarily scientific, but will be a tool for facilitating ...
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• Ginkgo biloba does not appear to slow rate of cognitive decline

  
  Eureka! Science News - Popular science news — Authority: 552
  Older adults who used the herbal supplement Ginkgo biloba for several years did not have a slower rate of cognitive decline compared to adults who received placebo, according to a study in the December 23/30 issue of JAMA . read more
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• power and moral hypocrisy, winter snow and pier path wallpaper, the terror odds

  
  inkbluesky — Authority: 121
  Judge Not Lest Ye Be Judged? New Kellogg School Research Explores ‘Moral Hypocrisy’ in Powerful People In “Power Increases Hypocrisy: Moralizing in Reasoning, Immunity and Behavior,” researchers sought to determine whether power inspires hypocrisy, the tendency to hold high standards for others while ...
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• Gap exists between vision for EMRs to improve care coordination and clinicians experiences

  
  Eureka! Science News - Popular science news — Authority: 552
  A gap exists between policy makers expectations that current commercial electronic medical records (EMRs) can improve coordination of patient care and clinicians real-world experiences with EMRs, according to a study by the Center for Studying Health System Change (HSC) published online in The Journal of General ...
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• Judge not lest ye be judged?

  
  Eureka! Science News - Popular science news — Authority: 552
  2009 may well be remembered for its scandal-ridden headlines, from admissions of extramarital affairs by governors and senators, to corporate executives flying private jets while cutting employee benefits, and most recently, to a mysterious early morning car crash in Florida. The past year has been marked by a series ...
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• Top Twitter Trends of 2009

  
  Brian Solis - PR 2.0 — Authority: 595
  Now that Twitter employs a Chief Scientist , we will benefit from the ongoing interpretation and publishing of Twitter behavior and activity to better understand how Twitter is constantly evolving. In a discussion with Robert Scoble recently, I suggested that Twitter also consider hiring a digital anthropologist ...
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• When Good Policy Based on Legitimacy and Respect Loses Out to Bad Policy Based on Fear and Force

  
  The Global Sociology Blog — Authority: 134
  Via Laurent Mucchielli: Quand M. Hortefeux programme la fin des UTEC de Mme Alliot-Marie – Délinquance, justice et autres questions de société via kwout Behold the Sarkozy doctrine at work! It plays so much better with the compliant media to speak about taking out the vermin than engaging in long ...
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• An Unwanted Change

  
  Habitation Intention — Authority: 103
  The Future of Work article titled Compass: Back to Basics:  Change Banagement 101 brought up a good point: “people dont universally resist change; what they resist, and resent, is being changed , with no control over where, when, or how that change is imposed on them. People dont demand stability—what ...
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