The 15 Best Miramax Films Today, the indie world and the film world at large lost a giant in the field, watching Disney close the doors and turn the lights off on Miramax. As sad a day like today is, and as uncertain as the future is, we can still hold on to the memories. Most of them are now on Blu-ray. Or at least Laser Disc (because we all own one). Without further tears in our eyes, we’d like to remember Miramax for their 15 Best Films. If you’re like me and Rob Hunter, your rental queue is already full. 15. The Pitch: Even if Rob Hunter doesn’t think Larry Clark’s harsh film about drug and sexual abandon amongst the youth in NYC is well acted, he’s wrong, and the movie is brilliant and challenging. 14. The Pitch: You probably haven’t seen this odd and creepy little flick, but if you have consider yourself one of the lucky few. 13. The Pitch: This film is mostly known for its twist, which is a shame, because the entire film is a thing of beauty. 12. 11.
New Whistleblower Protection Law “An Environmentally Significant Reform,” say Activists by Audrey Haynes – December 13, 2012 But some protections may be challenging to implement, they caution Last month President Obama signed the Whistleblower Protection Enhancement Act into law. The law revamps protections for federal employees who come forward and report misconduct, abuse of authority, or violation of law in their workplaces. These enhancements could be crucial in advancing environmental issues, but only if implemented properly. Photo by Farm SanctuaryThe new law closes judicially created loopholes in pre-existing whistleblower protection laws that inhibited federal employees, such as USDA food inspectors, from speaking out. “Protecting federal employees with the courage to come forward — at the risk of their own careers — to report waste, fraud, and abuse that they have witnessed is an important cornerstone of good and effective government,” said Congressman Todd Platts (R-Pennsylvania) in a statement. Fear of punishment is unfortunately common among federal scientists.
Nicos Poulantzas and the Capitalist State Nicos Poulantzas is a name that, today, is little known and seldom discussed out with certain academic circles. On the few occasions that the Greek Marxist is referenced by the organized Left, it is usually in relation to his public debate with Ralph Miliband on the nature of the State; or as an alleged proponent of Structural Marxism after Althusser. However, neither context provides a particularly accurate representation of this dynamic thinker: the Miliband debate only provides a small detail of Poulantzas’s rich investigations into the capitalist State; whilst reducing his lifelong political researches to the category of ‘Structural Marxism’ is inaccurate and unfair. Overview Poulantzas identified hegemony as strategically specific to the capitalist mode of production (CMP). The Power Bloc The first thing to examine in relation to continued supremacy of the dominant classes over the dominated is the specific make-up of each respective ‘bloc’. Against Instrumentalism
Taking time to learn | Early Career Ecologists By Lindsay Reynolds, PhD Blogging is a powerful avenue our society has developed as a way to communicate ideas, but 15 years ago the word didn’t even exist. And now, some people are already asking, has blogging hit its peak? The first Blackberry smartphone was introduced in 2002, and for a long time the only people I knew with smartphones were my friends in med school. This is a question every scientist has to ask themselves. While we’re in grad school, we have the opportunity to take classes to learn most of the tools we need for our science. One of my committee members used to preach about self-teaching. Solar powered data loggers for a stream gage in the field Investing time and money can be a risk. As scientists, we inherently have a tremendous capacity (and usually a love for!) Taking time to learn is important. Old fashioned paper-and-pencil field data Like this: Like Loading...
Table of contents (With last update date) Cover Foreword (August 13, 2009) Part 1. Quantum theory and consciousness Preface to part 1 (April 12, 2000) Chapter 1. 1.1. 1.6. 1.7. Chapter 2. 2.1. 2.2. 2.3. 2.4. 2.5. 2.6. Chapter 3. 3.1. 3.2. 3.3. 3.4. Chapter 4. 4.1. 4.2. 4.3. 4.4. Chapter 5. 5.1. 5.2. 5.3. 5.4. 5.5. 5.6. 5.7. 5.8. 5.9. 5.10. 5.11. 5.12. 5.13. 5.14. 5.15. 5.16. Chapter 6. 6.1. 6.2. 6.3. 6.4. 6.5. 6.6. 6.7. 6.8. 6.9. 6.10. 6.12. Part 2. Preface to part 2 (October 17, 2010) Chapter 7. 7.1. 7.2. 7.3. 7.4. 7.5. 7.6. 7.7. 7.9. 7.10. Chapter 8. 8.1. 8.2. Chapter 9. 9.1. 9.2. 9.3. 9.4. 9.6. Chapter 10. 10.1. 10.2. 10.3. 10.4. Chapter 11. 11.1. 11.2. 11.3. 11.4. 11.5. 11.6. 11.7.The victim/victimizer polar pair 11.8. 11.9. 11.10. Chapter 12. 12.1. 12.2. 12.3. 12.5. 12.6. 12.7. Chapter 13. 13.1. 13.2. 13.3. 13.4. 13.5. 13.6. 13.7. 13.8. 13.9. 13.10. 13.11. 13.12. 13.13. Chapter 14. 14.1. 14.2. 14.3. 14.4. 14.5. 14.6. 14.7. 14.8. Chapter 15. Chapter 16. 16.3. 16.4. 16.5. Part 3. Chapter 17. 17.1. 17.2.
Everything I Need to Know I Learned in the Forest Republished from yesmagazine.org By Vandana Shiva My ecological journey started in the forests of the Himalaya. My father was a forest conservator, and my mother became a farmer after fleeing the tragic partition of India and Pakistan. It is from the Himalayan forests and ecosystems that I learned most of what I know about ecology. The songs and poems our mother composed for us were about trees, forests, and India’s forest civilizations. My involvement in the contemporary ecology movement began with “Chipko,” a nonviolent response to the large-scale deforestation that was taking place in the Himalayan region. In the 1970s, peasant women from my region in the Garhwal Himalaya had come out in defense of the forests. Logging had led to landslides and floods, and scarcity of water, fodder, and fuel. Women knew that the real value of forests was not the timber from a dead tree, but the springs and streams, food for their cattle, and fuel for their hearths. Beyond Monocultures What Nature Teaches
6 Insane Discoveries That Science Can't Explain We like to feel superior to the people who lived centuries ago, what with their shitty mud huts and curing colds by drilling a hole in their skulls. But we have to give them credit: They left behind some artifacts that have left the smartest of modern scientists scratching their heads. For instance, you have the following enigmas that we believe were created for no other purpose than to fuck with future generations. The Voynich Manuscript The Mystery: The Voynich manuscript is an ancient book that has thwarted all attempts at deciphering its contents. It appears to be a real language--just one that nobody has seen before. Translation: "...and when you get her to put the tennis racket in her mouth, have her stand in a fountain for a while. There is not even a consensus on who wrote it, or even when it was written. Why Can't They Solve It? Could you? Don't even try. As you can imagine, proposed solutions have been all over the board, from reasonable to completely clownshit. Our Guess:
Preparing Ph.D. Graduates for Climate Change Careers | DISCCRS Debunking Economics - The Naked Emperor Dethroned? (v. 2) af Steve Keen - Køb bogen hos SAXO.com Forlagets beskrivelse In this expanded and updated new edition, Keen builds on his scathing critique of conventional economic theory whilst explaining what mainstream economists cannot: why the crisis occurred, why it is proving to be intractable, and what needs to be done to end it. Illustrations Bibliotekernes beskrivelse Debunking Economics 2 exposes what many non-economists may have suspected and a minority of economists have long known: that economic theory is not only unpalatable, but also plain wrong. Kundernes boganmeldelser af Debunking Economics Der ingen anmeldelser af Debunking Economics Log ind for at skrive en anmeldelse. Se også: Statistics
Obama vs. physics: Why climate change won’t wait for the president Change usually happens very slowly, even once all the serious people have decided there’s a problem. That’s because, in a country as big as the United States, public opinion moves in slow currents. Since change by definition requires going up against powerful established interests, it can take decades for those currents to erode the foundations of our special-interest fortresses. Take, for instance, “the problem of our schools.” Even facing undeniably real problems — say, discrimination against gay people — one can make the case that gradual change has actually been the best option. Which is not to say that there weren’t millions of people who suffered as a result. And that’s always been the difficulty with climate change — the greatest problem we’ve ever faced. We’re talking about a fight between human beings and physics. Physics doesn’t understand that rapid action on climate change threatens the most lucrative business on Earth, the fossil fuel industry.
Lev Tolstoj Lev Nikolajevitj Tolstoj (russisk: Лев Николаевич Толстой, lyt + ?), i vesten også Leo Tolstoj (9. september 1828 – 20. november 1910) var en russisk forfatter og politisk tænker, der blev født på familiens gods i Jasnaja Poljana ved Tula syd for Moskva, Rusland. I 1847 forlod han universitetet uden eksamen. Han fik sit gennembrud med erindringsværket Barndom i 1852. Tolstoj gennemlevede en religiøs krise og i de næste 10-15 år skrev han især religiøse og moralske skrifter. På dansk foreligger novellesamlingen Fortællinger(1965) med de to kendte novelle i 1. bog: Herre og tjener og Jord, jord! I 1901 blev Tolstoj udstødt af den ortodokse kirke. Religiøse og politiske anskuelser[redigér | redigér wikikode] Tolstoj udviklede i The Kingdom of God is within you en overbevisning baseret især på Bjergprædikenen i Det Nye Testamente, som gik imod stat og krig. Udmærkelser[redigér | redigér wikikode] Flere veje og pladser er opkaldt efter Lev Tolstoj. Noter[redigér | redigér wikikode]