sexta-feira, 31 de dezembro de 2010

TEDxCanberra - Ash Donaldson - Cognitive dissonance


TEDxTalks

Multiple-TED attendee and human factors expert, Ash Donaldson, wants us to better understand why we believe what we do. In this talk, Ash explains how our minds build belief and then breaks it down, showing us how and why humans are fooled into believing that things like Power Bands, anti-aging treatments and supplements actually work. Along the way, he tells us how as a trainee pilot he managed to nearly get himself killed by allowing his beliefs to rule logic and provable fact.

Cognitive Dissonance - Psychology Photo Story Project by Bill Hsiao



Cognitive Dissonance by Bill Hsiao
Citations
Hock, Roger R. Forty Studies that Changed Psychology: Explorations into the History of Psychological Research. sixth. Upper Saddle River, New Jersey: Pearson Prentice Hall, 1996.
David G. Myers. "Cognitive Dissonance: Relief from Tension" Psychology, Eight Edition. New York. Worth Publishers, 2007. 728 - 730
Atherton, James. "Cognitive Dissonance and Learning" 2005. learningandteaching.info/​learning

Psychology And Advertising


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Little Timmy learns about persuasion in adversiting.
Assignment for Applied Psychology.
Written and designed by Lori Benoy and Sole Lander.
Animation and Sound design by Mathew Desanctis
Created for educational purposed only.
No Timmy's were harmed in the making of this video

Barry Schwartz: Using our practical wisdom



In an intimate talk, Barry Schwartz dives into the question "How do we do the right thing?" With help from collaborator Kenneth Sharpe, he shares stories that illustrate the difference between following the rules and truly choosing wisely.

Barry Schwartz studies the link between economics and psychology, offering startling insights into modern life. Lately, working with Ken Sharpe, he's studying wisdom.

Marinaleda. El sueño de la tierra


Marinaleda. El sueño de la tierra   Enviado por marinaledatv.

El documental Marinaleda: El sueño de la tierra (España, 2007, color, 90 min) de Eva Abad y Pablo García Cabrera, nos habla de la extraordinaria historia de Marinaleda, un pueblo de Sevilla que por medio de la lucha pacífica ha hecho realidad el viejo sueño de la tierra para quien la trabaja. Una hazaña colectiva basada en la solidaridad, una revolución socioeconómica en una de las regiones más atrasadas de Europa. Marinaleda ya no solo se enfrenta con sus viejos enemigos: ahora también debe consolidar sus logros.
Vemos momentos memorables como la toma del Cortijo El Humoso por parte de los jornaleros de Marinaleda, y también la lucha que durante más de 30 años han llevado a cabo los jornaleros de Andalucía, organizados a través del Sindicato de Obreros del Campo (S.O.C). Sus logros y el momento presente.

Marinaleda. El sueño de la tierra


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El documental Marinaleda: El sueño de la tierra (España, 2007, color, 90 min) de Eva Abad y Pablo García Cabrera, nos habla de la extraordinaria historia de Marinaleda, un pueblo de Sevilla que por medio de la lucha pacífica ha hecho realidad el viejo sueño de la tierra para quien la trabaja. Una hazaña colectiva basada en la solidaridad, una revolución socioeconómica en una de las regiones más atrasadas de Europa. Marinaleda ya no solo se enfrenta con sus viejos enemigos: ahora también debe consolidar sus logros.
Vemos momentos memorables como la toma del Cortijo El Humoso por parte de los jornaleros de Marinaleda, y también la lucha que durante más de 30 años han llevado a cabo los jornaleros de Andalucía, organizados a través del Sindicato de Obreros del Campo (S.O.C). Sus logros y el momento presente.

MARINALEDA



MARINALEDA 2/2

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Desde abajo - Entrevista a Esther Vivas


http://blip.tv/file/4235141
Desde abajo - entrevista a Esther Vivas. Miembro de Revolta Globa -
Izquierda Anticapitalista. Candidata a las elecciones al Parlament de Catalunya

El camino hacia la utopía


http://blip.tv/file/4379723
El camino hacia la utopía Entrevista a Juan Manuel Sánchez Gordillo Alcalde de Marinaleda (Sevilla)

quinta-feira, 30 de dezembro de 2010

Mondragon Cooperative Part One



Mondragon Cooperative Part Two

tsfDistributism

A visual documentary of the successful Mondragon Cooperative in the Basque region of Spain. For more information please go to:

http://www.mondragon.mcc.es
http://www.distributistreview.com/mag
http://www.distributist.org

Conflictos sociales y ecologismo popular en Perú - Joan Martínez Alier


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Escuche el audio completo y vea el powerpoint en:

http://bit.ly/2ejfp2

Tambogrande, Majaz, Río Corrientes, La Oroya, Bagua, son nombres que en los últimos años sin duda se han vinculado fuertemente a conflictos socioambientales que han surgido en nuestro país.

La creciente e intensa ola de conflictos que vive el Perú, ha puesto sobre la mesa el debate acerca de los efectos de la actividad minera y petrólera en nuestras comunidades campesinas y nativas.

Sin duda, uno de los teóricos más importantes que ha analizado dichos conflictos es el académico español Joan Martínez Alier, director de la revista Ecología Política, quien también es economista, historiador, ecologista y sociólogo.

Hace unos días, Martínez Alier visitó Lima y presentó la tercera edición de su libro El ecologismo de los pobres: conflictos ambientales y lenguajes de valoración, en las instalaciones del CEPES. En esta presentación organizada por el Colegio de Sociólogos del Perú, Martínez Alier analiza el surgimiento de conflictos a causa de la extracción de recursos y también habla sobre la teoría del ecologismo popular o ecologismo de los pobres.

Sin duda, la amplia participación del público en la exposición que Joan Martinez Alier realizó en Lima, demuestra que los conflictos socioambientales siguen siendo un tema de interés entre la intelectualidad peruana y el público en general.

Joan Martinez Alier es concluyente: el crecimiento económico está llevando al agotamiento de los recursos naturales, y a la contaminación, perjudicando principalmente a los pobres. Se está produciendo un conflicto entre la destrucción de la naturaleza para ganar dinero y la conservación de la naturaleza para poder sobrevivir.

Es por ello que los conflictos han llamado la atención sobre la urgente necesidad de cuestionar el modelo de desarrollo extractivista que los diferentes gobiernos de turno pretenden implantar en el país.
Más información en:

http://agroexportacionsinexplotacion....

http://www.cepes.org.pe
http://www.facebook.com/CEPESRURAL
http://twitter.com/CEPES_RURAL
http://www.youtube.com/cepesperu
http://cepesrural.lamula.pe/
http://www.larevistaagraria.info/
http://www.radiowebrural.com

Monsanto or Farmers





GMCANorway

Vandana Shiva speaking at "The Globalization Conference" in Oslo. November 2010

Sustainability: Economic, Social and Environmental


Sustainability: Economic, Social and Environmental - Joan Martinez-Alier (University of Barcelona) from DesignKine on Vimeo.

Joan Martinez-Alier has been since 1975 Professor in the Department of Economics and Economic History in the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona in Spain. Over the last quarter of a century he has become recognized as Europe's foremost student and spokesman of the new field of "ecological economics." In 1987 he joined with international colleagues from around the world and became a founding member of the International Society for Ecological Economics.

http://www.ces.uc.pt/eventos/politicaleconomy2010/pages/en/joan-martinez-allier.php

Al Sur de la Frontera / South of the Border a film by Oliver Stone


Al sur from alvarezmeo on Vimeo.

http://southoftheborderdoc.com/
There’s a revolution underway in South America, but most of the world doesn’t know it. Oliver Stone sets out on a road trip across five countries to explore the social and political movements as well as the mainstream media’s misperception of South America while interviewing seven of its elected presidents. In casual conversations with Presidents Hugo Chávez (Venezuela), Evo Morales (Bolivia), Lula da Silva (Brazil), Cristina Kirchner (Argentina), as well as her husband and ex-President Nėstor Kirchner, Fernando Lugo (Paraguay), Rafael Correa (Ecuador), and Raúl Castro (Cuba), Stone gains unprecedented access and sheds new light upon the exciting transformations in the region.

quarta-feira, 29 de dezembro de 2010

The Mondragon Experiment part 1


http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=7565584850785786404

The Mondragon Experiment part 2

http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-7725698018832368909

Worker Cooperatives in the Basque Country

Zaz, la toy session : je veux


lexpress

Avant de partir aux Francofolies de La Rochelle, la chanteuse Zaz s'est arrêtée avec ses musiciens sur la Butte Montmartre pour nous offrir une version Toy Session de son titre Je Veux.
Découvrez l'interview loto de Zaz sur LEXPRESS.fr: http://www.lexpress.fr/culture/musiqu...
D'autres Toy Sessions sur www.lexpress.fr/sessions

Allan Nairn: As U.S. Loses Its Global Economic Edge,

Its "One Clear Comparative Advantage is in Killing, and It’s Using It"


As 2010 draws to a close, what is the role of the United States in the world today? From the ongoing wars in Afghanistan and Iraq to the cuts to social programs here at home, where is there emerging hope for change around the world? We spend the hour with award-winning investigative journalist and activist Allan Nairn. "You vote for Democrat, you vote for Republican, you get the same thing on state murder, on preventable death. But we here have the right to rebel. We have to use it."
http://www.democracynow.org/

Paul Ariès - Néomanagement


Paul Ariès - Néomanagement 1/2


Paul Ariès - Néomanagement 2/2  Enviado por Pierre-Bourdieu.

Paul Ariès - Politologue

terça-feira, 28 de dezembro de 2010

ENRIC DURÁN -Podemos vivir sin capitalismo- CyE III may2010


ENRIC DURÁN -Podemos vivir sin capitalismo- CyE III may2010 from La Caja de Pandora on Vimeo.

Enric Durán Giralt
Enric Duran i Giralt, también conocido como Robin Bank o Robin de los Bancos en alusión directa a Robin Hood, es un activista por el decrecimiento de Vilanova i la Geltrú, Cataluña, miembro de los colectivos Temps de re-voltes (en castellano, Tiempo de re-vueltas) e Infoespai (Infoespacio). El 17 de septiembre de 2008 anunció que, como parte de una acción política, estafó cerca de medio millón de euros a diferentes entidades financieras con el objetivo de denunciar, en sus propias palabras, el depredador sistema capitalista y de financiar diferentes movimientos sociales anticapitalistas.

Entre los proyectos financiados, se encuentra la publicación del periódico gratuito Crisi, con 200.000 ejemplares distribuidos por voluntarios a lo largo de la geografía catalana. En esta publicación se informa de varias cuestiones silenciadas por los medios de difusión de masas, como el problema del cénit del petróleo, la creación del dinero basado en deuda, o la vinculación entre los grandes bancos y los principales partidos políticos y medios de comunicación. Posteriormente se publicó el periódico gratuito "Podemos! (vivir sin capitalismo)", con 350.000 ejemplares distribuidos por voluntarios, esta vez, por todo el territorio nacional. En esta segunda publicación se plantean alternativas concretas y reales a todo lo denunciado anteriormente (banca, alimentación, transporte, etc).

Podemos vivir sin Capitalismo
Podemos vivir sin capitalismo es una plataforma abierta formada por personas y colectivos que tienen como principales objetivos a conocer alternativas al capitalismo actual y poner en contacto a gente / grupos / colectivos con intereses y proyectos similares.

En la charla, Enric Duran explicará su lectura de la crisis actual, y porqué apostó por el movimiento por el decrecimiento y qué planteamientos hay detrás de proyectos, aún incipientes pero que quieren llegar a significar una alternativa integral al capitalismo. Hablará de Grupos de consumo ecológico, comedores populares, escuelas libres, autoconstrucción de viviendas, tiendas gratis, ferias de trueque, monedas sociales y cooperativas integrales. Son algunas de las iniciativas que llevan dentro la semilla de una nueva sociedad.
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Growth and Resource Use - Wachstum und Ressourcenverbrauch


http://www.ustream.tv/recorded/4274201

Growth and Resource Use Wachstum und Ressourcenverbrauch Nina Eisenmenger - University of Klagenfurt, IFF - Social Ecology Vienna, Austria Leida Rijnhout - The Northern Alliance for Sustainability (ANPED), Belgium Bruce Robinson - Australian Association for the Study of Peak Oil, Australia Chair: Martina Schuster - Federal Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry, Environment & Water Management, Austria Rapporteur: Stefan Giljum - Sustainable Europe Research Institute (SERI), Austria

Entretien avec Paul Ariès


Entretien avec Paul Ariès  Enviado por La-Tele-de-Gauche77.

Nous avons rencontré Paul Ariès lors des "ateliers de la planification écologique", il nous accordé un petit entretien sur la décroissance, la place de la valeur travail et la gratuité

Michael Gazzaniga: Brains, Beliefs, and Beyond

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Michael Gazzaniga SAGE Center for the Study of the Mind, UC Santa Barbara
Michael Gazzaniga lays the framework for the conference “Biological Foundations of Morality? Neuroscience, Evolution, and Morality” by exploring the 24/7 brain. He describes the brain as a parallel distributive system, constantly and unconsciously processing information. Meanwhile, a region in the left hemisphere of the brain collects the information from all systems and interprets some of what’s going on. The running narrative gives us the illusion of unity and control.

Sharing his decades-long research with split-brain patients, Gazzaniga pinpoints the hemispheres of the brain responsible for processing certain types of information including language, imagery and empathy. He shows how the interpreter works even when the hemispheres of the brain aren’t connected. Gazzaniga also introduces the theory of mind and the concept of mirror neurons and how they characterize our social interactions and our ability to model others and empathize.

This lecture is part of the conference "Biological Foundations of Morality? Neuroscience, Evolution & Morality", held at College of the Holy Cross in March of 2010.

"Free will, Consciousness, and Human Social Life" SPSP 2009



Roy Baumeister of Florida State University speaks about the usefulness and complexity of consciousness and human culture.
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=8683264038263484145

domingo, 26 de dezembro de 2010

"The Molecular Biology of Memory Storage and the Biological Basis of Individuality"


Eric R. Kandel - "The Molecular Biology of Memory Storage and the Biological Basis of Individuality"
from Center on the Developing Child on Vimeo.

Eric R. Kandel, M.D., who shared the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 2000, presented "The Molecular Biology of Memory Storage and the Biological Basis of Individuality" on February 8, 2010, as part of the Distinguished Scholars Lecture Series sponsored by the Center with the Faculty of Arts and Sciences and Harvard Medical School.

Read more about the Distinguished Scholars Lecture Series >>

Office Hours: Childhood Emotional Development


uwmadison

Ken Goldstein talks with Seth Pollak about how human brains can be shaped by childhood environment.

Brain Mind and Behavior: Emotions and Health


UCtelevision
 
Take a look into our current understanding of the function of the human brain and some of the important diseases that cause nervous system dysfunction. On this edition, Jason Satterfiled, director of behavioral medicine at UCSF, explores the emotions and health and the promise of mind-body medicine.

sábado, 25 de dezembro de 2010

Bonnie Bassler (Princeton Univ) Part 1: Bacterial Communication via Quorum Sensing



Bonnie Bassler (Princeton) Part 2: Vibrio Cholerae Quorum Sensing and Novel Antibiotics

ibioseminars

Bacteria, primitive single-celled organisms, communicate with chemical languages that allow them to synchronize their behavior and thereby act as enormous multi-cellular organisms. This process is called quorum sensing and it enables bacteria to successfully infect and cause disease in plants, animals, and humans. Investigations of the molecular mechanisms underlying quorum sensing are leading to the development of novel strategies to interfere with quorum sensing. These strategies form the basis of new therapies to be used as antibiotics. See more at http://www.ibioseminars.org

Memories are Made of This


ResearchChannel

Eric R. Kandel, Howard Hughes Medical Institute Investigator, examines whether the brain's two major memory systems, implicit and explicit, have any common features. Implicit and explicit memory both have a short-term component lasting minutes, such as remembering the telephone number you just looked up, and a long-term component that lasts days, weeks, or a lifetime, such as remembering your mother's birthday. Short-term memory is mediated by modifications of existing proteins, leading to temporary changes in the strength of communication between nerve cells. In contrast, long-term memory involves alterations of gene expression, synthesis of new proteins and growth of new synaptic connections.

Cooperation and Collective Behavior: From Bacteria to the Global Commons


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Simon A. Levin, George M. Moffett Professor of Biology and director of the Center for BioComplexity at Princeton University, delivers the first of his two 2008 Pardee Distinguished Lectures, on the role group behaviors play in nature - and how such cooperation can benefit human societies on a global scale.

Hosted by Frederick S. Pardee Center for the Study of the Longer Range Future on October 27, 2008.

Ecosystems and Socioeconomic Systems as Complex Adaptive Systems


bu

Simon A. Levin, George M. Moffett Professor of Biology and director of the Center for BioComplexity at Princeton University, delivers the second of his two 2008 Pardee Distinguished Lectures on how we can apply the natural world's lessons in sustainability to our own increasingly unstable world.

Hosted by Frederick S. Pardee Center for the Study of the Longer-Range Future on October 29, 2008.

Projeto incentiva agricultura familiar


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Uma iniciativa que melhora a qualidade da receita e ainda ajuda a agricultura familiar.
Em Viana, no Espírito Santo, um projeto incentiva à produção no campo.

sexta-feira, 24 de dezembro de 2010

James Lovelock - The Vanishing Face of Gaia


theRSAorg

James Lovelock, the groundbreaking originator of Gaia theory, in conversation with science editor Tim Radford warns that we are about to reach a tipping point, beyond which our planet will not recover sufficiently to sustain human life comfortably.

Daniel Pink on the surprising science of motivation



“As long as the task involved only mechanical skill, bonuses worked as they would be expected: the higher the pay, the better the performance.”

"But once the task called for “even rudimentary cognitive skill,” a larger reward “led to poorer performance.”

“In eight of the nine tasks we examined across the three experiments, higher incentives led to worse performance.”

Large Stakes and Big Mistakes
Working Paper 05-11
by Dan Ariely, Uri Gneezy, George Loewenstein, and Nina Mazar

The Nature of Arguments


oxford
 
Critical Reasoning for Beginners - http://www.youtube.com/view_play_list?p=A795AB5BDDD2B0B3

Are you confident you can reason clearly? Are you able to convince others of your point of view? Are you able to give plausible reasons for believing what you believe? Do you sometimes read arguments in the newspapers, hear them on the television, or in the pub and wish you knew how to confidently evaluate them? In this six-part course, you will learn all about arguments, how to identify them, how to evaluate them, and how not to mistake bad arguments for good. Such skills are invaluable if you are concerned about the truth of your beliefs, and the cogency of your arguments.

Critical Reasoning for Beginners

In this six-week course delivered by Marianne Talbot, you will learn all about arguments, how to identify and evaluate them, and how not to mistake bad arguments for good. (http://www.philosophy.ox.ac.uk/podcasts/critical_reasoning_for_beginners)

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Havana Homegrown: Inside Cuba's Urban Agriculture Revolution


Havana Homegrown: Inside Cuba's Urban Agriculture Revolution from Kitchen Gardeners on Vimeo.

Cuba is not only an island nation in terms of its geography, but also its economy and politics as a result of the US embargo and the fall of the Soviet Union, Cuba's largest source of trade and aid until the Berlin Wall fell in 1991. Cut off from the world's pipeline of food, oil, chemical pesticides and fertilizers, Cuba embarked upon an ambitious program to grow as much of its own organic food as possible in the 1990s during what was known as the "special period."

This short video produced by the nonprofit group Kitchen Gardeners International (KGI) peeks into Havana's urban farms and gardens to see what lessons they have to offer other cities working to move toward sustainable food security.

For more information on other homegrown solutions around the world, please see KGI's website here: kitchengardeners.org

quinta-feira, 23 de dezembro de 2010

PHI120 Critical Reasoning


CSUDHTV

PHI120 Critical Reasoning Session One 09/13/10 Doug Borcoman

http://www.youtube.com/user/CSUDHTV#grid/user/A244FED8BBB6009C

PHI120 Fall 2010 Session 13

Risk: The Neural Basis of Decision Making


CambridgeUniversity

Lecture presented by Professor John O'Doherty for the Darwin College Lecture Series 2010.

A deeper understanding of how the brain makes decisions will not only inspire new theories of decision making, it will also contribute to the development of genuine artificial intelligence, and it will enable us to understand why some humans are better than others at making decisions, why humans with certain psychiatric and neurological disorders are less capable of doing so, and why under some circumstances humans systematically fail to make rational decisions. Most decisions made in everyday life are taken for the purposes of increasing our well-being, whether it is deciding what item to choose off a restaurant menu, or deliberating over what career path to follow. Prominent amongst these is the value or utility of each decision option, which indicates how advantageous a particular option is likely to be for our future well-being. Another relevant signal present in the brain is the riskiness attached to a particular decision option, which can influence the decision making mechanism according to ones own individual preferences (whether one is risk-seeking or risk-averse).

Zombie Economics: How Dead Ideas Still Walk among Us

Speaker: Professor John Quiggin
Chair: Professor Andrea Prat

Available as: mp3 (35 MB; approx 75 minutes)

This event was recorded on 25 November 2010 in Sheikh Zayed Theatre, New Academic Building
The recent financial crisis laid bare many of the assumptions behind market liberalism--the theory that market-based solutions are always best, regardless of the problem. For decades, their advocates dominated mainstream economics, and their influence created a system where an unthinking faith in markets led many to view speculative investments as fundamentally safe. The crisis seemed to have killed off these ideas, but they still live on in the minds of many-- even some of those charged with cleaning up the mess. John Quiggin explains how these dead ideas still walk among us--and why we must find a way to kill them once and for all if we are to avoid an even bigger financial crisis in the future. John Quiggin is professor of economics at the University of Queensland in Australia.

Brain Power


MediaWiseVideos

From neurons to brain wiring, Dr. David Walsh gives an easy-to-understand tour of children's and teens' brain development and the impact of experience on the "wiring' of their brains. Children are shaped by the stories they see and hear from parents, relatives, and teachers which pass on values, attitudes, and affect emotional and physical well-being. More than ever, media has become a powerful storyteller in children's lives and raising healthy kids in the media age involves making wise media choices.

Critical Thinking on LIVING SMART with Patricia Gras


HoustonPBS

Garth Jowett PhD. is a professor at the University of Houstons school of Communications. His areas of research and teaching include:
the history of communications and popular culture, propaganda studies, and the role of media in modern society. In Living Smart he discusses how to develop critical thinking skills, In an age of so much information, How do we learn to analyze messages and detect propaganda, censorship and bias in programming? How do we have a frank conversation about the truth. Professor Jowett shows us how to develop critical thinking skills.

The Mean World Syndrome - Media As Storytellers (Extra Feature)



The Mean World Syndrome - Media Violence & the Cultivation of Fear

A new film based on the late George Gerbner's groundbreaking analysis of media influence and media violence.

Featuring George Gerbner and Michael Morgan

For years, debates have raged among scholars, politicians, and concerned parents about the effects of media violence on viewers. Too often these debates have descended into simplistic battles between those who claim that media messages directly cause violence and those who argue that activists exaggerate the impact of media exposure altogether. The Mean World Syndrome, based on the groundbreaking work of media scholar George Gerbner, urges us to think about media effects in more nuanced ways. Ranging from Hollywood movies and prime-time dramas to reality programming and the local news, the film examines how media violence forms a pervasive cultural environment that cultivates in heavy viewers, especially, a heightened state of insecurity, exaggerated perceptions of risk and danger, and a fear-driven propensity for hard-line political solutions to social problems. A provocative and accessible introduction to cultivation analysis, media effects research, and the subject of media influence and media violence more generally.

Also includes three additional short features -- ideal for classroom use -- that take a closer look at Gerbner's analysis and the Mean World Syndrome.

1. Media as Storytellers: "Nothing to Tell but a lot to Sell" -- Explores the significance of commercial media eclipsing religion and art as the great storyteller of our time. (7:32)

2. A Mean World Case Study: Child Abductions -- Provides an in-depth look at how media coverage of child abductions has fed parental anxieties out of proportion with statistical reality. (4:17)

3. Further Effects of the Mean World Syndrome: Desensitization & Acceleration -- Examines how heavy exposure to media violence normalizes violence, numbing some people to real-world violence even as it whets the appetite in others for ever-higher doses. (8:48)

Noam Chomsky about Proaganda (1h Interview)


NoBrandProduction

Playlist: http://www.youtube.com/view_play_list... Noam Chomsky Interview on KGNU-Community Radio about Propaganda.

Henry Miller Asleep and Awake (1975)


Ioannakis

Tom Schiller's 1975 short documentary (35mins) follows Miller from the microcosmos of his very own shit-hole to a mock-up 1890s New York of his childhood -- or "that old shit-hole, New York'" (in fact the set for Hello Dolly, with Barbra Streisand & Walter Matthau, 1969). Schiller describes his documentary this way: 'A guided tour of the pictures and artefacts of his bathroom' ... though it feels to be very much more than that.

Militainment, Inc. Militarism & Pop Culture


http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-2373519247173568764

Militainment, Inc. offers a fascinating, disturbing, and timely glimpse into the militarization of American popular culture, examining how U.S. news coverage has come to resemble Hollywood film, video games, and "reality television" in its glamorization of war. Mobilizing an astonishing range of media examples - from news anchors' idolatry of military machinery to the impact of government propaganda on war reporting - the film asks: How has war taken its place in the culture as an entertainment spectacle? And how does presenting war as entertainment affect the ability of citizens to evaluate the necessity and real human costs of military action? The film is broken down into nine sections, each between 10 and 20 minutes in length, allowing for in-depth classroom analysis of individual elements of this wide-ranging phenomenon.

Robert Fuller: Politics of Dignity


UCtelevision

In his books, Robert Fuller exposed rankism - the abuse of the power inherent in rank to exploit or humiliate someone of lower rank. UCSB Professor Thomas Scheff and his students explore these themes of dignity and humilation with the author.

David Harvey - lecture in Zagreb


SkriptaTV

Video of Professor Harvey speaking about The Enigma of Capital at the Croatian Architects’ Association in Zagreb, October 1, 2010

Part 2 | Part 3 | Part 4 | Part 5  (http://www.youtube.com/view_play_list?p=23D9254D89339BDB)

Filmed and edited by Martin Beroš for SkriptaTV and Slobodni Filozofski (English site).

David Harvey: the geography of financial crisis


David Harvey: the geography of financial crisis   Enviado por Metropolitiques

Questions 3 and 4 of the metropolitiques interview with David Harvey: the city and the financial crisis.
Question 3: Could you summarize the effect of the financial crisis on cities and their population, beyond the evictions linked to subprime mortgages?
Question 4: You defend the idea that each new crisis is worse than the previous one. However, financial organizations seem to show an extraordinary resilience to these crises. Are we headed for an even bigger crash?

quarta-feira, 22 de dezembro de 2010

Rebecca Solnit: Landscapes for Politics



Rebecca Solnit has made a vocation out of journeying into difficult territory and reporting back - as an environmentalist, public intellectual, and anti-globalization activist. "Storming the Gates of Paradise," an anthology of her essays from the past ten years, comprise a unique guidebook to the American landscape after the millennium - not just the deserts, skies, gardens, and wilderness areas that have long made up Solnits subject matter, but the social landscape of democracy and repression, of borders, ruins, and protests
- Booksmith (http://www.booksmith.com/)

Rebecca Solnit and Peter Coyote in Conversation: LIVE Shorts


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Why is it that in the aftermath of a disaster—whether natural or manmade—so many people suddenly become altruistic, resilient, resourceful, and brave, stirred and motivated by a newfound sense of community and purpose? In conversation with Peter Coyote, Rebecca Solnit shows how disaster throws people into a temporary utopia of changed states of mind, and how the social connectedness that subsequently arises can help lead us to a new vision of what society could becomeone that is more collaborative, cooperative, and local.

World's Largest Environmental Lawsuit in Ecuador


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30,000 natives fight for compensation against Texaco (now Chevron), accused of 3 decades of toxic dumping in Amazon

Inherited Responses? Epigenetics, Courage & Resilience.


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David Shenk is the author of six books, including Data Smog (indispensable—The New York Times), The Immortal Game (superb— The Wall Street Journal), and the bestselling The Forgetting (a remarkable addition to the literature of the science of the mind.—The Los Angeles Times ). He has contributed to National Geographic, Slate, The New York Times, Gourmet, Harpers, The New Yorker, The American Scholar, and National Public Radio. Shenks work inspired the Emmy-award winning PBS documentary The Forgetting and was featured in the Oscar-nominated feature Away From Her. His latest book, The Genius In All Of Us, was published in March 2010.

terça-feira, 21 de dezembro de 2010

The Nature and Nurture of Human Intelligence


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Joshua Aronson, an associate professor of applied psychology at New York University, talks about the impact of stereotypes on how we perform on a day-to-day basis and on tests, and on how we learn.

Hosted by BU Women in Science and Engineering on March 3, 2008.

The Genius in All of Us: David Shenk


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David Shenk, Author, The Forgetting, Data Smog and The Immortal Game

Shenk presents a compelling case against the notion of genetic giftedness. Forget everything you think you know about genes, talent and intelligence. In recent years, some scientific evidence has emerged suggesting a completely new paradigm: not talent scarcity, but latent talent abundance. Integrating cutting-edge research from a wide swath of disciplines - cognitive science, genetics, biology, child development - Shenk reveals a highly optimistic new view of human potential.

Human Brain Development: Nature and Nurture (Davidson Films, Inc.)


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The fascinating interplay of genetic predispositions and experience in the development of the brain after birth is demonstrated in this film produced at the Brain Development Laboratory at the University of Oregon. Three profiles of plasticity are depicted with compelling film sequences of behavioral, MRI and EEG research into the development of visual perception and language acquisition from infancy through old age. A congenitally deaf young woman, hearing university students and lively preschool children participate in controlled studies that illustrate both how neuroscience research is conducted and also how all brains change over time and circumstance. Practical advice for the utilization of sensitive periods and optimal specialization of brain areas make the learning of these concepts meaningful to students.

For more information, visit www.davidsonfilms.com