Stop Railing on the Unemployed; Our Problems Are Structural – 27 June, 2013Posted in: Articles, Equality In western cultures it is all to easy to finger point and rail on the unemployed. Due to us living within the confines of a work to earn to pay to live system we find ourselves in a position of needing some form of employment. This sets us up into an environment of structural violence and desperate competition against each other in class warfare, which is a race to the bottom to see who can accumulate the most before we die. So long as we operate under this antiquated and outmoded system we will have a certain level of unemployment that is only likely to grow as our population expands. Currently there are nowhere near enough full-time employment opportunities and part time jobs not only result in underemployment, but still leave people dependent on the social welfare system. “The research evidence suggests that when someone is unemployed long-term they become much less employable,” Nicholas Gruen Related posts: About Challenged Species
Free Online Psychology Courses | Best Place to Learn Psychology Online Psychology has become a popular course of study for many individuals. A wide range of fields are increasingly interested in the effects of psychology on their work; businessmen, doctors, and artists are desired to learn the way people think to be more successful in their fields. And, psychology is becoming a much bigger personal interest in recent years. Because of the burgeoning interest in psychology, a number of online psychology courses have begun to appear. There are several advantages to taking online courses in psychology. Acadosc.com's Free Psychology Course Acadsoc.com offers a great email course that covers a number of basic psychological concepts, such as memory, intelligence, personality, and development. You can sign up for their online psychology courses on their website. This is a great place to start for people who want to learn the basics of psychology. UC Berkeley's Free Psychology Course For a more personal psychology study, try Dacher Keltner’s “Human Happiness”.
The Collective Evolution II: The Human Experience 'The Collective Evolution II: The Human Experience' is a documentary focused on showing each of the dimensions to the experience we call life. Its intention is to provide the viewer with the tools and understanding needed to step out of current limitations and instead experience the infinite potentiality we are all capable of. The documentary concludes by addressing the shift in consciousness that has already begun and continues to intensify on the planet. “The two most important days in your life are the day you are born and the day you find out why.” “We are the facilitators of our own creative evolution.” FLUORIDE: The Hard to Swallow Truth is a short documentary that looks at the initial theories behind the effectiveness of fluoride and where it originated. July 2012 NEWS: Harvard Study Finds Fluoride Lowers IQ - Published in Federal Govt Journal “In point of fact, fluoride causes more human cancer death, and causes it faster than any other chemical.” Related Posts
Psychology Tutorials and Demonstrations Keep up-to-date on these tutorials. This is a page that will contain links to hypertext tutorials in psychology as they become available. Currently there are links to tutorials in: Index What's New What's New Artificial Intelligence Eliza. Biopsychology/Physiopsychology A collection of General Biopsychology Animations and Tutorials (This covers concepts as well as content.) by John H. Clinical Psychology Eliza. Cognitive Psychology Change/Inattentional Blindness Videos. Return to index Developmental Psychology Educational Psychology Tutorials. by Margaret Anderson. General Collections e.psych. by Gary Bradshaw at Mississippi State University. Return to index. Learning Research Methods and Statistics Hypertext Tutorial on Social Science Experimental and Correlational Study Design Issues by Don R. Sensation and Perception Social Psychology NetLabs. Related Sites: Austria Information Switchboard's Big Information Value of the Week, 9/27/97 PsychologicalScience.net Cool Site Maintained by John H.
These 31 charts will destroy your faith in humanity Earlier this week, Rob Wile of Business Insider posted his graph-heavy opus: "31 Charts That Will Restore Your Faith In Humanity." Naturally, we here at Wonkblog were all eager to see the results. But we'd quibble a bit with Wile's interpretations of the data. His charts all struck us as horrible news. So we're re-analyzing them here with the proper, gloom-heavy spin: 1) Inter-state wars are on the rise since 2002. Systemic Peace 2) Dictatorships still exist: 3) We haven't eradicated human slavery: It's Getting Better All The Time / Stephen Moore & Julian Simon 4) People around the world are becoming just as lazy as the French: "The Improving State of the World" (c) Cato Institute 2007. 5) Look at all the frivolous crap we're spending money on: 6) Pretty much everyone in the United States can now read Fifty Shades of Grey: 7) More 77-year-olds are dying than ever before: 8) We vanquished infectious disease only to find more horrible ways to die: 11) We're still shooting each other all the time:
The Missing Piece in our Educational System | Study Skills UAE and Online There is a missing piece in our educational system. We do not teach students HOW TO LEARN in the classroom ! ! Specifically, we do not teach them what to do INSIDE their mind. This missing piece is the number #1 reason I’ve found why some students struggle in school. The learning process To simplify things lets think of learning as a 3 step process. Step 1) The information to be learned is presented to the student. Step 2) While listening to the teacher or reading from the book the students are doing SOMETHING inside their thinking process in order to understand and memorize the information. Step 3) The school will then evaluate the student with an exam or test or some other way to determine how much of the information the student has understood and remembered. The Missing Piece – We are not considering the students ‘Mental Strategy’ But what about the part in between when the student is thinking, processing, memorizing the information !! What is a ‘Mental Strategy’ ? Author: Tony Barlow
Can We Create a Network of 100 Sharing Cities by 2015? Fifty cities around the world began mapping their shared resources in October and November during Shareable's worldwide Map Jam. This is just the beginning of the Sharing Cities Network - an ambitious project to create one hundred sharing cities by 2015. A Sharing City is a city where housing, food, transportation, energy, and money are locally owned and democratically governed. Where we create our own meaningful and dignified work together and creatively play in community centers, urban farms, makerspaces and art collectives. The Sharing Cities Network is a grassroots network for sharing innovators to discover together how to create as many of these sharing cities around the world as fast as possible. The Sharing Cities Network will scale up and replicate successful sharing models by: increasing collaboration between sharing projectsspreading best practices among memberscatalyzing new sharing projectsultimately, creating complete sharing cities.
23 THINGS WORLD CLASS ACHIEVERS DO Over the past twenty years, I’ve been lucky enough to travel to more than 85 countries, speak on stage with Sir Richard Branson and Seth Godin, do personal change work with thousands of people including Billionaires, Olympic Athletes and Celebrities. While helping them make the specific adjustments they needed in different areas of their life, I also got to learn a massive amount about what they do that separates them from everybody else. Indeed, as I applied what I learned from them to my own life, it made a huge difference to me too. World Class Achievers focus on what they want to achieve. Of course, these are just some of the things that I have found the most successful people I have ever met, tend to do.
Most Exciting Technology/Company At EVS27 -- EP Tender Cars Published on December 8th, 2013 | by Zachary Shahan There were some pretty wicked cars at EVS27, cool wireless charging technology, Brammo electric motorcycles, and more, but the technology offering that excited me the most was what EP Tender is looking to bring to market. It’s nothing scientifically revolutionary. Below is a video of the interview I conducted with founder/CEO Jean-Baptiste Segard, which includes pretty much all of the details, but following the video is also a text summary of what EP Tender is looking to bring to market. The EP Tender website actually very succinctly states what this contraption is (in French, but the translation from Google looks quite good): “in plain language: a generator mounted on a small trailer and available for rent (Tender’Lib ® ) …” As Jean-Baptiste notes, an electric vehicle is a completely adequate vehicle — an excellent vehicle even — almost every day of the year for most people — 360 days a year, as he says. About the Author Related Posts
Factory-in-a-Day project aims to deploy work-ready robots within 24 hours Industrial robots have proven useful in reducing production costs in large factories, with major enterprises enlisting their services to execute repetitive tasks. The Factory-in-a-Day project, which kicked off in October, aims to also make robotic technology beneficial to small and medium enterprises (SMEs), by developing adaptable robots that can be integrated with workplace systems within 24 hours. Until now, SMEs have not been well suited to the benefits of robotic technology as, compared to enterprises of larger size, they rely on a more agile workforce made up of few large machines and many humans completing simple repetitive tasks. Common short-duration batch operations in SMEs, such as packing or checking the quality of seasonal fruit, only have small production periods. As developing and training a robot to execute these tasks can take weeks or even months, the expense generally outweighs the money saved in labor costs. Source: Factory-in-a-Day
10 TED Talks on predicting the future Art Playlist: 9 talks that give a new view of nature Most people rarely feel compelled to stare at grains of sand. But when those same grains are magnified hundreds of times and rendered in three dimensions, they appear like individual pieces of colored glass crafted by a skilled artist — no two pieces the same. In today’s TEDTalk, photographer turned microbiologist turned inventor Gary Greenberg […] Playlist A TEDx playlist: 6 talks that became phenomena As of this week, more than 20,000 TEDxTalks have been given at 5,000+ events held in 137 countries around the globe.
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