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We care about the melting ice - the polar bears - the one in four mammals becoming extinct every day - because they are part of an ecosystem that allows us to survive. We care about the bees because they pollinate our crops and feed the world. We care about the atmosphere because we need oxygen to breath. We need temperatures to stay below a certain level because our own agriculture, work and economy will suffer - and as a consequence, WE will suffer.

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Google Effects on Memory

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johannadb:

Interesting stuff! Just discovered this website International Cognition and Culture Institute!

A new article entitled “Google Effects on Memory: Cognitive Consequences of Having Information at Our Fingertips” by Sparrow, Liu & Wegner should be of interest to scholars interested in the effect of culture on cognition. It documents the effect of having access to online ressources of information on the way in which people look for answers (Exp. 1), remember things (Exp. 2), remember where to find information (Exp. 3) and whether they are more likely to memorize where to find some information rather than the information itself (Exp. 4).

Abstract: “The advent of the Internet, with sophisticated algorithmic search engines, has made accessing information as easy as lifting a finger. No longer do we have to make costly efforts to find the things we want. We can “Google” the old classmate, find articles online, or look up the actor who was on the tip of our tongue. The results of four studies suggest that when faced with difficult questions, people are primed to think about computers and that when people expect to have future access to information, they have lower rates of recall of the information itself and enhanced recall instead for where to access it. The Internet has become a primary form of external or transactive memory, where information is stored collectively outside ourselves.”

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headphonesnotrequired:

Libyan Woman Struggles to Tell Media of Her Rape

She pleaded for friends she said were still in custody. “They are still there, they are still there,” she said. “As soon as I leave here they are going to take me to jail.”

For the members of the foreign press here as guests of the government of Col. Muammar el-Qaddafi — and largely confined to the Rixos Hotel except for official outings — her intrusion was a reminder of the brutality of the Libyan government and the presence of its security forces even among the surrounding hotel staff. People in hotel uniform who just hours before had been serving coffee and clearing plates grabbed table knives and rushed to physically constrain both the woman and the journalists.

latimes

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latimes:

98 films from the “Women’s Voices From the Muslim World” festival at the Los Angeles Film School will be viewable on the Web at womensvoicesnow.org.

Photo: Alka Sadat directing “Half Value Life.” Credit: Women’s Voices From the Muslim World

DAY OF ANGER, MONTREAL, January 25 2011.

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A&W Cruisin' the Dub for Multiple Sclerosis event. Chateauguay, QC, 2010.

World Energy Council protest in Montreal September 2010

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philgraves:

BP’s oil spill: out of sight, out of mind.

Go grab it! :)

“The documentary examines our dependence on oil, showing how oil is essential for almost every facet of our modern lifestyle, from driving to work to clothing and clean tap water. Through expert interviews, the film spells out in startling detail the challenges we would face in dealing with the possibility of a world without cheap oil—a world in which it may ultimately take more energy to drill for oil than we can extract from the oil the wells produce.”

This, to me, is paradise. I wander if that's any comfort to the man working 10 hours in the burning sun, drying my coffee. Buy fair trade! :)

San Pedro la Laguna, Guatemala. 2009.

"When we develop a genuine appreciation of the value of compassion, our outlook on others begins automatically to change. This can serve as a powerful influence on the conduct of our lives. When tempted to deceive others, our compassion for them will prevent us from entertaining the idea. When we realize our work is in danger of being exploited to the detriment of others, compassion will cause us to disengage from it."

His Holiness the Dalai Lama

"trei culori... cunosc pe lume.... amintind d'un brav popor..."

'I'll help you spread your wisdom!'

'A little water, a little bit of dust. That's all I need to grow!'

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