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• MOOC derangement syndrome.

  
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  “My biggest fear, frankly, is not a fear connected to Penn at all…It’s a fear that thinking right now about higher education, and especially public higher education, is driven by logics of efficiencies, concerns about the spiraling costs of education, et cetera. And that, too rapidly , these [MOOCs] will be ...
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• Fact vs Falsification & Flattery in New Delhi (Revised 12 May 2013)

  
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  From Facebook, 12 May 2013 The saddest thing about Manmohan Singh qua statesman was simply that he quietly loved and rewarded well the sycophancy around him, and believed the myths and propaganda and general fiction created by his flatterers about his own purported achievements as an economic policy-maker since ...
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• This Frustrated Student Deserves a High-Five (VIDEO)

  
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  A Texas student unleashed his frustrations and turned the tables by lecturing his teacher. Student Teacher Lindsay Massaro Charged With Molesting Middle School Student Teacher Marries Former Student to Avoid Jail for Statutory Rape ...
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• This Weeks New Books--Beggar Thy Neighbor and As American as Shoofly Pie

  
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  Beggar Thy Neighbor: A History of Usury and Debt Charles R. Geisst 400 pages | 6 1/8 x 9 1/4 Cloth 2013 | ISBN 978-0-8122-4462-5 | $39.95 | £26.00 From the Roman Empire to the most recent financial crisis, this...
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• “Once I took the spinal cord out, the course went quite gelatinous.”

  
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  You should really go read Jeremy Adelman dissect his own World History MOOC over at the Princeton Alumni Weekly . As an added bonus, you can read me say the exact same things I’ve been writing here for almost a year now.
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• A Little Hope for Struggling Bands & Musicians

  
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  Eric Alper posted this photo on Facebook earlier today, its the Beatles playing for a crowd of 18 people on December 9th, 1961 in Aldershot. There are some additional photos and a posted for the show at Retronaut. Less than a month later on January 1, 1962 the band auditioned for Decca records. Decca rejected the ...
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• 32 Photos That Will Make Your Stomach Drop

  
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  The Seven Most Incredible Telescopes In Existence 10 Real Life Fairytale Islands 6 Of The Weirdest Things Science Has Recently Revealed About The Past 27 Awesome Photos of Cultural Icons at Prom The 10 Most Exciting Rescues in History 32 Photos That Will Make Your Stomach Drop The 10 Strangest Places ...
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• This Weeks New Books--Trade, Land, Power: The Struggle for Eastern North America, Plus Three Paperback Releases

  
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  Trade, Land, Power: The Struggle for Eastern North America Daniel K. Richter 384 pages | 6 x 9 | 35 illus. Cloth 2013 | ISBN 978-0-8122-4500-4 | $45.00 | £29.50 Ebook | ISBN 978-0-8122-0830-6 | $45.00s | £29.50 In this...
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• A Short Course on the Origins of Writing

  
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  Hieroglyphics? Sanskrit? What are the origins of written language? Some answers to that last question are presented in the TED Ed lesson Who Invented Writing? The video is embedded below. Applications for Education This video could be part of a short lesson on the development of civilizations. The video might ...
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• Fact vs Falsification & Flattery in New Delhi (Revised 1 May 2013)

  
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  From Facebook 1 May 2013 from C.G. Somiah’s *The Honest Always Stands Alone* (Niyogi Books): “In the next meeting of the Planning Commission, the soft-spoken Dr Singh deliberated at length on the negative economic indicators prevalent in the country, which could not be ignored for providing relief in any ...
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• The MOOC monster will never be satisfied.

  
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  “Money always has the potential to become a moral imperative unto itself.  Allow it to expand and it can quickly become a morality so imperative that all others seem frivolous in comparison.” - David Graeber, Debt: The First 5,000 Years, p. 319. There’s been something of an explosion in ...
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• 15 Top Links From Around the Web: Urban Exploration, World History & More

  
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  (Image: zolakoma , cc- 3.0 , via Environmental Graffiti ) Another week is ending and we thought you’d appreciate some inspirational content to catch-up on over the weekend! This link round-up from our friends, partners and those we admire features urban exploration , submerged cities, art, world history and ...
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• Norman Pagett and Josephine Smit : Can We Downsize and Survive?

  
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  Sewers under construction, north bank of the Thames looking west. Image from End of More.The end of more:Can we downsize and survive?We continue to delude ourselves that downsizing will somehow allow us to carry on with our current lifestyle with perhaps only minor inconveniences.By Norman Pagett and Josephine Smit / ...
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• Explaining Why They are ‘The Chosen Few’

  
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  The Jewish people went from being agrarian and illiterate in 70 CE to literate and money-savy urbanites in 1492. How did they do it? Maristella Botticini & Zvi Eckstein argue in their book The Chosen Few that it was due to educational reform. Read this new essay by the authors on PBS Newshour as they explain ...
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• Where the Hell is Hell? A Look at the Underworld

  
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  The Ancient Greeks believed it. Christians believe it. So do Muslims , Zoroastrians , Buddhists , Shintos , Sikhs , Mayans , Mormons , Witches , and few other spiritual groups . Regardless of their spiritual differences and outlooks, they all believe that after life, there is a special place reserved for ...
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• PUP Author Geoffrey Robinson in Documentary about East Timor

  
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  This weekend the acclaimed documentary Alias Ruby Blade will premiere at the Tribeca film festival. The documentary unravels the history behind the new nation in East Timor after its struggle for independence. The documentary features PUP author Geoffrey Robinson who has written a book about East Timor. Robinson ...
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• You Know What Day It Is

  
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• Penn Press Authors on Chechen History and Politics

  
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  As the Boston Marathon bombing investigation continues, journalists and a concerned public are turning to historians, political scientists, security researchers, and other scholars for a deeper understanding of the suspects possible motives. Its no surprise that Penn Press authors like...
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• This Weeks New Books: Citizenship and the Origins of Womens History in the United States and More

  
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  Citizenship and the Origins of Womens History in the United States Teresa Anne Murphy 240 pages | 6 x 9 Cloth 2013 | ISBN 978-0-8122-4489-2 | $42.50 | £28.00 A volume in the Democracy, Citizenship, and Constitutionalism series Citizenship and...
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• The Era of the Dynamite Girl

  
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  The years after the end of WWI were turbulent ones in the United States.  A slump came with peace, as wartime demand for American agricultural and industrial output weakened, diminishing American opportunities.  The Russian Revolution of 1917, and the radical political ferment that contributed to it, had a profound ...
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