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Raw Thought: Aaron Swartz's Weblog What Happens in The Dark Knight Spoilers, obviously. As we’ve discussed, in Batman Begins 1960s-style full employment and antipoverty programs lead to skyrocketing crime while in The Dark Knight Rises 1980s-style tough-on-crime policies and neoliberal economics lead to a revolt of the economic underclass. The films are mirror images, one about the failure of liberal policies; the other about the failure of conservative policies. In this sense, The Dark Knight is truly the final film in this nihilistic trilogy, documenting the hopelessness of anything outside that usual left-right struggle. From the start, the city is torn about how to handle the Batman, who has inspired a wave of second-rate imitators. Dent is doing his own part to lock up the criminals, working inside the system. Dent decides the only way to win is to go big — really big. Just as Dent is frustrated with the justice system, the Joker is frustrated with the criminals. I was in Burma. Note the parallels. November 1, 2012

Michael Yon - Online Magazine The DOCTOR OpenDOAR - Home Page - Directory of Open Access Repositories DigitalKoans Nicole C. Eva and Tara A. Wiebe have published "Whose Research Is It Anyway? Here's an excerpt: NTRODUCTION Looking for ways to increase deposits into their institutional repository (IR), researchers at one institution started to mine academic social networks (ASNs) (namely, ResearchGate and Academia.edu) to discover which researchers might already be predisposed to providing open access to their work. Research Data Curation Bibliography, Version 9 | Digital Curation and Digital Preservation Works | Open Access Works | Digital Scholarship | Digital Scholarship Sitemap

How to Write: Future Work/Conclusions | A Guide to Surviving Grad School This post is the final part of a series on how to write a paper. The first was on abstracts, the second on introductions, the third on related work and fourth on methodology and analysis of results. I’m combining future work and conclusions into a single post since they are often found combined in a single section in a paper. While a conclusion is always necessary, sometimes people don’t include future work. While I don’t think it’s always necessary to have a future work section, I would argue that it’s always worthwhile to include some mention of future work. Let’s start with Future Work. The future work section is a place for you to explain to your readers where you think the results can lead you. Another way to look at the future work section, is a way to sort of “claim” an area of research. If you do include a future work section, it should be pretty short. Conclusions Conclusions are the last section people read in your paper, and therefore it’s what they leave remembering. Like this:

Paleofuture - Paleofuture Blog Blog do Kuramoto The blog of neurobiologist Björn Brembs An Online Guide to India's Political Cartoons R . Prasad/Mail Today A recent cartoon published in the Mail Today newspaper, carried caricatures resembling West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee and Home Minister Palaniappan Chidambaram. If India’s parliamentarians, who were recently incensed by a 63-year-old cartoon, decide it is time to eradicate any political cartoons that might offend, where should they start? India Ink has put together a short compilation of potential targets, compiled for cartoon lovers and outraged politicians both. While cartoons that appear in textbooks have loomed large in the news, it is newspapers, of course, which have spawned thousands of distorted caricatures and wickedly satirical cartoons. Courtesy of Surendra/The HinduA cartoon by Surendra that appeared in The Hindu on April 14, 2012, caricaturing Mamata Banerjee after her government arrested a professor. Mr. The Times of India also hosts a gallery of pioneering cartoonist R.K.

The China Beat · Blogging How the East Is Read Breaking Free From Consumerist Chains | zen habits ‘Do not trouble yourself much to get new things, whether clothes or friends…. Sell your clothes and keep your thoughts.’ ~Henry David Thoreau Post written by Leo Babauta. We are not consumers. We are not living lives meant to earn money in order to support a shopping habit, or a large home and two cars, or lives of luxury eating and entertainment. We are not living to support the corporations. We spend our childhoods — precious years that are far too fleeting — in schools geared to give us the best chance at getting a job. Either way, we find our path as consumers. Our lives are beholden to our shopping habits. What if we could break out of it? What’s the alternative? The funny thing is, there are millions of alternatives. It would be quieter, maybe, with more free time. It would be more focused on people instead of stuff. That’s all idealizing, of course, but it’s an alternative I could see happening. Steps to Freedom We must first become more aware of what has been done to our minds.

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