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U.S. Senator Bernie Sanders
From Senator Bernie Sanders, who asked readers to write about what was going on in their lives economically. He received over 600 responses and it seems the middle class is not doing well.
more fromwww.sanders.senate.gov
Timothy Fadek « The New Breed of Documentary Photographers
links to the work of many excellent documentary photographers with notes on the context of their photos
more fromvervephoto.wordpress.com
The Road To Guantanamo--directed by Michael Winterbottom
innovative docudrama following what happened to three British youth returning to their parents' country of Pakistan, traveling to Afgahnistan, mistakenly arrested, and kept a long time in Guantanamo. An eloquent denunciation of injustice.
more fromwww.channel4.com
Guerrilla gardener movement takes root in L.A. area - Los Angeles Times
a burgeoning movement of green enthusiasts who plant without approval on land that's not theirs
more fromwww.latimes.com
The Guantánamo Testimonials Project — UC Davis Center for the Study of Human Rights in the Americas (CSHRA)
"The goals of this project are to gather testimonies of prisoner abuse in Guantánamo, to organize them in meaningful ways, to make them widely available online, and to preserve them there in perpetuity."
more fromhumanrights.ucdavis.edu
Errol Morris - Zoom - New York Times Blog
major documentary filmmaker has blog for Times; always gathers extensive comments, which make the entries a compendium of ideas about documentary, info, film technique, journalism, culture, etc.
more frommorris.blogs.nytimes.com
Presentation Zen: The "Lessig Method" of presentation
overview of and links to various ways of using Powerpoint
more frompresentationzen.blogs.com
The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly of Powerpoint
the author's own ideas plus links to other major Powerpoint strategies; he says, and I agree, do not have things you will end up reading to audience; think about how to engage audience
more fromwww.cazh1.com
Nanotechnology, transhumanism and the bionic man
athletic enhancements, diagnostic refinements, bionic disease cures or stabilization--these may cause a class divide in the near future; well written essay; need for "ability studies," not just "disability studies."
more fromwww.nanowerk.com
10 Japanese Customs You Must Know Before a Trip to Japan
it's always a good idea to study up on behavioral cues that will help you fit in, and it's a mark of respect to do this kind of background research before traveling to a new place
more frommatadorstudy.com
Six 'uniquely' human traits now found in animals - being-human - 22 May 2008 - New Scientist
Culture, mind reading, tool use, morality, emotions, personality
more fromwww.newscientist.com
Invictus: A blog on U.S. Politics and the Fight Against Torture
Valtin, psychologist and key writer in anti-torture activism in US, has own blog here and also on DailyKos, where he details fights inside American Psychological Association against its current stance.
more fromwww.valtinsblog.blogspot.com
Daily Kos: FBI & American Psych. Association Attack Patient Confidentiality
chilling report about 2002 conference FBI held with behavioral psychologists, prefiguring much of US interrogration practice to come
more fromwww.dailykos.com
NewsNow: Torture
extensive set of web links on torture; international; kept up to date
more fromwww.newsnow.co.uk
PSYCHOLOGISTS FOR AN ETHICAL APA
protest site for those appalled by APA policy statement that did not condemn psychologists' working to construct interrogation techniques at Guantanamo or for CIA; a large political movement in US, related also to medical participation in Holocaust
more fromwww.ethicalapa.com
Detainee Interrogations, Psychologists, & Other Health Care Professionals
Kenneth S. Pope resigned APA over policy on psychologists participating in the planning or implementation of detainee interrogation. Here is his important, long bibliography on topic.
more fromkspope.com
American Scientist Online - Douglas R. Hofstadter
interview with author of I Am a Strange Loop, about what "I" means to us humans in age of cyborgs.
more fromwww.americanscientist.org
The Web Habits of Highly Effective People | Online Only | Granta
Ask everyone you know what their web habits are: it reveals a lot you won't have known before, about them and about Internet use. Here some authors and folks in publishing talk about what they do, with links.
more fromwww.granta.com
Reading Online--A Tale of Differences: Comparing the Traditions, Perspectives, and Educational Goals of Critical Reading and Critical Literacy
compares two approaches to reading critically on the Internet, and how to teach that skill; "education is always a contextually situated, socially constructed, ideological practice"
more fromwww.readingonline.org
Ban on hybrid embryos and saviour siblings fails | Science | guardian.co.uk
liberal reproductive and embryo legislation; I am not sure about saviour siblings, having a baby for sake of surgically saving another child; embryo ok, but more than that? a heavy existential burden for all
more fromwww.guardian.co.uk
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