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Theory of Change. I am increasingly convinced that the difference between effective and ineffective people is their skill at developing a theory of change.

Theory of Change

Theory of change is a funny phrase — I first heard it in the nonprofit community, but it’s also widespread in politics and really applies to just about everything. Unfortunately, very few people seem to be very good at it. Let’s take a concrete example. Imagine you want to decrease the size of the defense budget. The typical way you might approach this is to look around at the things you know how to do and do them on the issue of decreasing the defense budget.

A theory of change is the opposite of a theory of action — it works backwards from the goal, in concrete steps, to figure out what you can do to achieve it. AUDIENCE MEMBER: Congress passes a new budget with a smaller authorization for defense next year. Yes, that’s true — but let’s get more concrete. Great, great — so how do you get them to do that? But this is also not an insoluble problem. Timeline Photos - Bastian A. Knuth. La place Rouge ornée d'une gigantesque malle Louis Vuitton provoque l'indignation à Moscou. Dissident Futures Art and Ideas Festival. Participants: Architects/Designers/Planners for Social Responsibility (ADPSR) (Raphael Sperry and Deanna Van Buren), Code for America (Mike Migurski and Cyd Harrell), Takehito Etani, Fantastic Futures Project, Future Cities Lab (Jason Johnson and Nataly Gattegno), Peter Foucault, GAFFTA (Josette Melchor), Green House Project (Juan Carlos and David Gabriner), Jonoah's Arc, Kanari Productions, Kyle Herbert (with Jenifer Wofford), Ray Gilstrap, NASA’s Ames Research Center, Institute for the Future: Future for Good Fellows (Milton Chen, Gabriella Gomez-Mont, Sam Gregory, Shannon Spanhake, David Thigpen, and Ariel Waldman), Walidah Imarisha, InsTED Talks with Jaime Cortez (with L.

Dissident Futures Art and Ideas Festival

M. Dissident Futures Art and Ideas Festival Sat, Nov 23, Noon–9 PM Grand Lobby, Screening Room, Third Street Courtyard, Youth Arts Lounge FREE w/ RSVP YBCA invites you to participate in a one-day interactive festival in conjunction with the Dissident Futures visual arts exhibit in our Downstairs Gallery. The Call of Cthulhu (avec tweets) · wstonesoxfordst. Alternatives to the Singularity. Stan Lee on superhero science. Premiering on PBS next Tuesday, Superheroes: A Never-Ending Battle is a three-part series about the history of comic book heroes and their impact on culture.

Stan Lee on superhero science

La folle stratégie de la paupérisation - Page 1. Quand la consommation de drogue se lit dans les eaux usées. Une étude réalisée par une équipe du CNRS témoigne d'une grande disparité territoriale dans les usages en France.

Quand la consommation de drogue se lit dans les eaux usées

Et si l’analyse des eaux d’égouts devenait la méthode de référence pour mesurer avec précision la consommation de drogues sur l’ensemble des territoires ? Ce protocole, développé par des scientifiques dans toute l’Europe depuis la fin des années 2000, commence en tout cas à porter ses fruits et prendre de l’ampleur, avec notamment, la publication au début du mois d’une première carte de France de la consommation de drogues par une équipe du CNRS. Cinq chercheurs du laboratoire Santé Publique-Environnement de l’université Paris-Sud, en partenariat avec Veolia, ont pu analyser des échantillons d’eaux provenant de 25 stations d’épuration à travers la France, lors de deux campagnes de prélèvement en 2012. Ils y ont recherché les molécules de 17 drogues illicites présentes dans l’urine et les selles des consommateurs grâce à des spectromètres de masse. Inspirations. A Game That Deals in Personal Data. A demo of the Data Dealer game.

A Game That Deals in Personal Data

All kinds of companies and services – social networks, data brokers, loyalty card programs to name just a few – amass and analyze details about millions of consumers’ activities and preferences. But the inner workings of this surveillance economy remain largely opaque to the public despite the recent revelations of widespread government data-mining of people’s phone and e-mail records. Now a group of Web developers in Austria has introduced an online game called Data Dealer that aims to make the business of consumer profiling more transparent. The animated game encourages players to amass and sell fictional profiles containing details like the names, birth dates, weight, height, shopping and dietary habits of imaginary consumers. The idea behind this cartoon data collection ecosystem is to give players a visceral sense of the widespread trade in personal data, says Wolfie Christl, a co-creator of the game.

Mr. List of fictional diseases. Items in this list are followed by a brief description of symptoms and other details.

List of fictional diseases

In literature[edit] In film[edit] On television[edit] In video games[edit] See also[edit] References & further reading[edit] Disease in Fiction. Jonah Lehrer. Google Earth: simulez l'impact d'une bombe nucléaire en 3D. Nukemap est un site permettant de visualiser, sur Google Map, les dommages causés par une bombe nucléaire sur une zone géographique préalablement choisie.

Google Earth: simulez l'impact d'une bombe nucléaire en 3D

Une nouvelle fonctionnalité vient enrichir le site: visualiser en 3D la taille du champignon et la zone touchée par l'impact d'une bombe nucléaire.