Nude paintings, obscene sculptures and gods having sex with animals: Pompeii's explicit artefacts which were kept secret by the prudish scholars of 19th-century Europe Erotic paintings and sculptures were part of everyday life in PompeiiBut when the artefacts were rediscovered they were kept out of sightItems were placed in 'Gabinetto Segreto' and hidden until 2000 By Hugo Gye Published: 16:19 GMT, 30 September 2013 | Updated: 17:19 GMT, 30 September 2013 When the treasures of Pompeii were unearthed in the 18th century, you might imagine that archaeologists would have been keen to show off their finds, which revolutionised modern understanding of the Roman world. But one part of the collection was hidden away for nearly 200 years - the erotic art which was a central part of everyday life as it adorned the houses of local citizens. And even now, the sexually explicit material with embarrassed its discoverers is kept in a so-called 'secret cabinet' separate from the rest of the material discovered in Pompeii and neighbouring Herculaneum. Warning: explicit content Beautiful: But extraordinary works of art were condemned as obscene by 19th-century scholars
About | Piggydb Piggydb is a flexible and scalable knowledge building platform that supports a heuristic or bottom-up approach to discover new concepts or ideas based on your input. You can begin with using it as a flexible outliner, diary or notebook, and as your database grows, Piggydb helps you to shape or elaborate your own knowledge. Soon, it will become an indispensable knowledge base to your creative work. ;-) With Piggydb, you can create highly structured content by connecting knowledge fragments to each other to build a network structure, which is more flexible and expressive than a tree structure. Fragments can also be classified using hierarchical tags. Piggydb does not aim to be a remember-everything-type-of-database application. How Piggydb Works 1. 2. Fragment Relationships: Tags: 3. Demo Piggydb Documents (view-only demo)Sand box(editable demo) You can login with the guest account (guest/guest).The owner-only features are disabled.The database might be cleared without a notice. Like this:
Lifelapse - Relive your life Journal Cost-Effectiveness Search Charity Program Operated by Students at Risk Photo This is a tale of good deeds gone unrequited. And of city officials unable to nourish the good fortune they find in their midst. I’m getting ahead of myself, however. Let’s walk into Public School 19, a brick fort of a school that sits alongside a hillside road in West Brighton on Staten Island. Jeanne Raleigh, 50, who greets me at the door, vibrates like a tuning fork. Each year, P.S. 19’s children collect piles and piles of pennies, plopping them in buckets. “I wanted to show the kids, ‘Hey, you can make a difference in this world!’ It could all end in the next few weeks. Should Common Cents fail to make its payroll and close, 721 city schools, public and private, will lose one of the nation’s most innovative service programs for elementary school children. Although they deny it now, school officials two years ago cut a sort of deal with Teddy Gross, the founder and executive director of Common Cents. Mr. Common Cents delivered gloriously. And about those pennies? Perhaps Mr.
Research | Homepage of Christopher (Chris) Welty Brief bio: Chris Welty is a Research Scientist at the IBM T.J. Watson Research Center in New York. Previously, he taught Computer Science at Vassar College, taught at and received his Ph.D. from Rensselaer Polytechnice Institute, and accumulated over 14 years of teaching experience before moving to industrial research. Chris' principal area of research is Knowledge Representation, specifically ontologies and the semantic web, and he spends most of his time applying this technology to Information Retrieval and, in the past, Software Engineering. Dr.
What is Qualitative Data Analysis (QDA) What are Qualitative Data? Qualitative data are forms of information gathered in a nonnumeric form. Common examples of such data are: Interview transcript Field notes (notes taken in the field being studied) Video Audio recordings Images Documents (reports, meeting minutes, e-mails) Images of types of qualitative data Such data usually involve people and their activities, signs, symbols, artefacts and other objects they imbue with meaning. What is Qualitative Data Analysis? Qualitative Data Analysis (QDA) is the range of processes and procedures whereby we move from the qualitative data that have been collected into some form of explanation, understanding or interpretation of the people and situations we are investigating. Someone's interpretation of the world, Why they have that point of view, How they came to that view, What they have been doing, How they conveyed their view of their situation, How they identify or classify themselves and others in what they say, Writing Interpreting
The Harvard Crimson :: Opinion :: Access For All Our professors do the research. They write the papers and proofread them. They even do the peer review. Then they sign the copyright over to publishers, who don’t pay them a dime—they’re paid by grants and salary, our taxes, and tuition. Harvard then pays again for the journals—many of them over $10,000 each—and most of us feel personally the bite each term when we buy our sourcebooks. That’s three ways we pay for the same research, writing, proofreading, and peer review. This same issue of access to scholarship hits even harder on people outside of our well-funded elite universities. Change is slow, however, because this situation perpetuates itself. If this situation sounds ridiculous to you, you’re not alone. In 2003, Donald Knuth, a laureate of computer science’s highest honor, the Turing Award, wrote a long letter to his colleagues on the editorial board of Elsevier’s Journal of Algorithms in protest of climbing prices and restrictions on access. Gregory N.
Mexico Soda Tax Proposed By President Enrique Peña Nieto To Control Obesity The country that tops per capita world consumption of Coca-Cola products is pondering a soda tax. Mexican President Enrique Peña Nieto proposed a tax on sugary beverages to rein in obesity as part of a larger reform effort unveiled Sunday. If the proposal were to become law, Mexicans would pay an extra peso -- about 7.6 cents -- per liter, according to McClatchy newspapers. The tax would net the Mexican government $900 million in revenue, the Wall Street Journal reports. The proposal to tax sugary drinks came as part of a broader reform package originally expected to address only tax policy. "The tax reform is a social policy reform," Pena Nieto said in a speech announcing his plan, the Associated Press reports. Mexicans drink more Coca-Cola products per capita than people from any other country in the world, at average of 728 8-ounce drinks per year in 2011, compared to 403 per year for Americans, according to McClatchy.
Make the Best Decisions Processing Qualitative Research Data With Tinderbox I wrote a while back that I often use a piece of software for the Mac called Tinderbox to churn through messy, unstructured focus group data and see the meaning and inherent structure in a soup of qualitative data. I was fortunate to be asked to present my method at a Tinderbox Weekend last November by Tinderbox auteur Mark Bernstein. It's a complicated process at the start, but once it's set up correctly you can zip through qualitative research data pretty quickly and develop structure in the process. Tinderbox is great for this because, unlike a traditional outliner, you don't have to impose that structure at the beginning of the process, and you don't have to find a single "box" to put information in. Qualitative data is messy, because people are messy--they don't all fit into single boxes either. Mark (and Eastgate's Stacy Mason) have been noodging me to make a screencast of this process, and I've finally gotten around to doing just that.
JOLT - Journal of Online Learning and Teaching Loud Voice Fighting Tide of New Trend in Education Photo Diane Ravitch made her name in the 1970s as a historian chronicling the role of public schools in American social mobility. In the 1990s, she went to work in the Bush administration’s Education Department, where she pushed for a rejection of 1960s relativism and a return to basics and standards. After leaving government, she called for the removal of incompetent teachers, for tying school performance to student scores, and for closing failing schools. Now Ms. Ravitch, 75, is in the full flower of yet another stage in her career: folk hero to the left and passionate scourge of pro-business reformers. She pumps out hundreds of barbed words on her blog and thousands of posts on Twitter. Ms. While previously well known in education circles, she gained a much broader audience after she publicly rejected almost everything she had once believed. Robert Pondiscio, a former Bronx schoolteacher who says Ms. Others say that Ms. Her critics call Ms. Ms. Both Mr. Ms.
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