Category: education
Top university courses from around the world are available online for free through the social venture, Coursera.
Topics from the Humanities, Medicine, Biology, Social Sciences, Mathematics, Business, Computer Science, and many others.
I’d like to check out U. Penn’s “Networked Life” being offered this fall.
The US is home to 5% of the global population, yet it also has 25% of the world’s prisoners.
Half of the nearly 3 million American prisoners are locked away for non-violent drug offenses (a great majority for pot).
1 out of 30 American men between 20 & 34 are in prison.
It’s 1 out of 9 for African American men in the same age group.
The private prison industry is massive and very powerful politically, and their business is BOOMING.
Trailer for a documentary in development about the merging of consciousness research, physics and healing over the past 50 years at Esalen. More information and video can be seen at the documentary’s Kickstarter site.
Videos of presentations from the 2011 Open Science Summit can be viewed at Fora TV.
Wonderfully juicy topics include open source drug discovery, big data bioinformatics, ‘clinical trials 2.0′, open science education, open access science journalism, personal genomics, radical longevity, transparency in science, incentive and intellectual property: FORA.TV
One of the most elucidating introductions to the “intellectual traditions” of libertarianism I’ve ever heard. Very thought-provoking and concise. Highly recommended if you’re interested in politics or non-politics.
Interesting how the individual and the collective form a spectrum. And that is where all form and pattern originates. Between the particles and the waves. ~
Dear friends,
I urge you to sign this petition. Once more, this is an attack against the cultural and spiritual heritage of non-western people, a continuation of conquest and colonization of the word by people with a very limited worldview.
Best regards,
Luis Eduardo
The United Nations International Narcotics Control Board (INCB) has published on their website their annual report about the world situation on drugs in 2010. In this report, the INCB has included the preoccupying recommendation towards governments to outlaw traditional plants such as Ayahuasca (a decoction made with botanicals like Banisteriopsis Caapi and Psychotria Viridis) andTabernanthe Iboga among others, neglecting their important role as traditional medicine, as a sacrament and as therapeutic tool. These are the primary uses of these plants found in societies all over the world.
The International Center for Ethnobotanical Education, Research & Service (ICEERS) is organizing a letter-writing campaign to counter this demonic injustice. Please read more about this issue and add your signature here, and take a moment to browse the beautiful website of ICEERS.org.
This is very well done 1/2 hour video created by Anonymous about the current global situation, how we got here and how to move forward. I highly recommend watching the entire 1/2 hour with some friends and then enjoying the stimulating discussions it will most likely elicit.
Not what you expect. Over 2000 schools in Canada have adopted her approach leading to permanent reductions in bullying rates:
(3 minute video)
