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Original Technorati articles tagged “social change”

• in Politics
  Death of a Consumer
  The Only Way to Truly Hurt Wall Street
  by notesonafilm / on Oct 11, 2011
• in Guru
  Leadership Development: What We Can Learn from Bin Laden’s Death
  Leadership development is meant to bring emerging leaders into a realm of thoughtful discussion.
  by sylvialafairphd / on May 5, 2011
• in Politics
  Can You Sit Back While Innocent People Are Killed?
  Innocents Imprisoned and Sentenced to Death
  by mominmanagement / on Feb 5, 2011

Latest blogosphere posts tagged “social change”

 

• The secret life of data in the year 2020

  
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  Brian David Johnson, Intel futurist, shows how geotags, sensor outputs, and big data are changing the future. He argues that we need a better understanding of our relationship with the data we produce in order to build the future we want. “When you look to 2020 and beyond, you can’t escape big data. Big ...
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• Can lack of sleep make you fat?

  
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  Yet another clinical study has confirmed the growing body of evidence linking inadequate sleep to obesity. One of the more surprising factors linked to weight gain is lack of sleep. More and more research studies are finding that poor sleep patterns and insufficient sleep are closely linked to weight gain and ...
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• The too-smart city

  
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  We’re already building the metropolis of the future—green, wired, even helpful. Now critics are starting to ask whether we’ll really want to live there. Courtney Humphries reports for the Boston Globe. “As political leaders, engineers, and environmentalists join the smart-city bandwagon, a growing chorus ...
  5 days ago

• FDL Book Salon Welcomes Dina Hampton, Little Red: Three Passionate Lives Through the Sixties and Beyond

  
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  Welcome Dina Hampton and Host David Farber (Temple University) (author, The Age of Great Dreams: America in the 1960s ) Little Red: Three Passionate Lives Through the Sixties and Beyond In Little Red: Three Passionate Lives through the Sixties and Beyond , Dina Hampton does something unique in writing ...
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• Female conversion to Islam in Britain examined in unique research project

  
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  A ground-breaking report examining the experiences of nearly 50 British women of all ages, ethnicities, backgrounds and faiths (or no faith) – who have all converted to Islam – was launched in London yesterday by the University of Cambridge. The report ( http://bit.ly/12tv0YM ), produced by the University’s ...
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• Saturday Morning Musings - innocence, respect, the invisible person with a dash of money

  
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  This mornings post is a round-up, a muster, of things talked about on this blog and elsewhere. For the sake of simplicity, I am using headings to separate multiple topics. Respect, informality and the art of listening In The importance of the Aboriginal concept of respect ,  I expressed my concerns about ...
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• How sequesterable are you?

  
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  Leonard Jason, Madison Sunnquist, Suzanna So, and Sarah Callahan have created an infographic regarding the sequestration and its impacts. You can also download a pdf of the infographic . Leonard A. Jason, professor of clinical and community psychology at DePaul University and director of the Center for ...
  2 weeks ago

• Academic life

  
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  Casey Brienza’s recent post discussing sacrifice on the academic job market really resonated with me. I chose family over my career, and ended up in the middle of relatively nowhere, alone, at home with a young child, and adrift both personally and professionally. That was almost four years ago. However, a funny ...
  2 weeks ago

• Freedom Out Of Bounds

  
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  For all the discussion in the United States today about the proper function and role of our federal government, there are a few arguments that seem to always surface when discussing state power. These arguments are not exclusive to our mainstream political parties either. Our politicians always boast what is best for ...
  2 weeks ago

• The Theories Series Vol. 3: Survivor flip cup and the Social Change Model.

  
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  Have you ever played Survivor Flip Cup ? It is unbelievable. Its a flurry of outwit, outplay and outlast thats built on a beautiful foundation of beer and shouting. Which, coincidentally, are two of my favourite weekend things. I LOVE IT. So today, in order to describe the Social Change Model of Leadership ...
  2 weeks ago

• ‘Open Data’ brings potential and perils for governments

  
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  Governments and public officials are rushing to embrace the concept of Open Data, throwing open the vast panoply of publicly collected information for the digitally savvy to mine and exploit, writes Ben Rooney in the Wall Street Journey. However, the use of government data throws up many issues surrounding ...
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• Queer Voices – A Shared Push for Acceptance in the Church

  
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  by Jessica Wode. There are two primary areas in which I see the Christian church in America being shaken up and, slowly, evolving right now. The first is in the area of sexual orientation and same-sex relationships. Some Christians are just coming to understand or believe that sexual attraction is not a matter of ...
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• AFJ Scholarship: Ashcroft v. Iqbal and government officials’ legal accountability to victims of human rights abuses

  
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  By Peter Laumann AFJ Dorot Fellow Javaid Iqbal was one of hundreds of Muslim Americans rounded up – with no accusation or evidence of wrongdoing – as part of the Bush Administration’s response to the events of September 11, 2001. His case ultimately reached the Supreme Court, which by a 5-4 vote in ...
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• Changing the Bathwater, Keeping the Baby

  
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  It’s clear that there is quite a lot about this thing we call “school” that probably needs to change and that there are many schools around the world that are embracing and leading that change with some really innovative ideas about teaching and learning. However, from what I can tell, innovation and genuine ...
  2 weeks ago

• Something to get you through another hump day

  
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  Reading even just the headlines to these new stories in The Onion should put a smile on your face: Snooze Button Time Traveler Sets Coordinates for Five Minutes into the Future Nation’s Amateur Skateboarders Haven’t Landed Trick in 12 Years 17-Year Cicadas Horrified to Learn about 9/11 Man Creates Functional ...
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• We may need to end all war. Quickly.

  
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  Public opinion and governments wrestle with a difficult problem: whether or not to intervene in Syria . The standard arguments are well known – just war theory, humanitarian protection of civilian populations, the westphalian right of states to non-intervention, the risk of quagmires, deterrence against chemical ...
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• Upcoming nonviolence workshops nationwide

  
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  Nonviolent social change is needed now more than ever. Yet we know that nonviolent social change movements aren’t spontaneous. They require midwives and mentors, and preparation of strong spirits, strong skills and solidarity. Historians and the media often ignore the intense preparation and training that precede ...
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• Queer Voices – It Needs Unity

  
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    by Paul Fukui. As we continue to push for social change in order to bring about a society that is open to fully including those of us in the LGBTQ rainbow, I try to remind myself that the struggle for justice is a long one, there are many tasks to perform, and we can all contribute in our way. Cliff ...
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• Why sharing is good for business

  
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  It might go against everything you have ever heard, but sharing is one of the best ways to get ahead in the business world. It’s also a great way to create social change. In light of a recent report by the Australian Government on Impact Investing , it seems that Australian businesses are beginning to see that ...
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• GOP supporting Gay Marriage?

  
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  Many in the party are moving in that direction: Conservative effort underway in push for gay marriage There are some prominent names in there. Im not surprised. In so many ways, the battle to stop it is a lost cause, for many good reasons: The inevitability of Gay Marriage Whatever you think of it, its here, ...
  2 weeks ago

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