Tuesday, June 25, 2013

102 Interesting Notions From Around the World (Links to my Six Ideas, Big Think, and Better World Columns)



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    Decoding Dolphins

    by Christopher Dickey 
    What the wild creatures would say, if we could understand.
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    PRISM’s Global Reach

    by Christopher Dickey 
    Will the NSA’s program send non-Americans fleeing Facebook?
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    Under African Skies

    by Christopher Dickey 
    Getting high-speed internet to low-tech places.
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    Better Than Teflon

    by Christopher Dickey 
    Medicine grows a ‘natural’ artificial blood vessel.
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    Genghis Khan Democracy

    by Christopher Dickey 
    There’s something to be learned from ancient ways.
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    Weeding Out Voters

    by Christopher Dickey 
    Bill Maher takes on the racial divide oVER pot.
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    Eye-Witness Apps

    by Christopher Dickey 
    Making smartphones even smarter.
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    T-Rex Sex

    by Christopher Dickey 
    Scientists get bashful around old bones.

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    Practically Crazy

    by Christopher Dickey 
    After graduation, making pipe dreams into reality.

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    2. Killing Machines

      by Christopher Dickey 
      A plea to stop robotic soldiers ... Before it’s too late.
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      When Learning Goes Too Far

      by Christopher Dickey 
      Is the latest educational trend just a bad idea?
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      The Next American Century

      by Christopher Dickey 
      The power of immigration.

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        Dogged Determination

        by Christopher Dickey 
        Researching man’s best friend.
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        Raise the Roof

        by Christopher Dickey 
        Welcome to Wikihouse: the site for collaborative, buildable homes.
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        The Medium’s Message

        by Christopher Dickey 
        Televised violence doesn’t cause violent crime.
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        Ending Child Marriage

        by Christopher Dickey 
        The corrosive effect of a deplorable practice.

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          A Climate Of Agreement

          by Christopher Dickey 
          The vast majority of Scientists concur on global warming.
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          Online Security Games

          by Christopher Dickey 
          The catch-22 of closing cyberdoors.

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            Twenty-nothings

            by Christopher Dickey 
            Beware: the clock is ticking.
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            Unlocking the Lotus

            by Christopher Dickey 
            What a sacred plant can teach us.

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              Grand Grandparents

              by Christopher Dickey 
              How the Older Generation Shapes the New.
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              Printing Prosthetics

              by Christopher Dickey 
              The creation of 3-D digits.
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              Location, Location, Location

              by Christopher Dickey 
              The geographical explanation of American exceptionalism.
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              Building Mosques for Peace

              by Christopher Dickey 
              How religion prevents radicalism.

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              Around the World in Six Ideas

              by Christopher Dickey 

              Around the World in Six Ideas

              by Christopher Dickey April 22, 2013 04:45 AM EDT

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              The Big Think

              by Christopher Dickey 
              From wars for water to the first social network

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              Around the World in Six Ideas

              by Christopher Dickey 
              From rat brains to losing our religion.

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              Around the World in Six Ideas

              by Christopher Dickey 
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              Around the World in Six Ideas

              by Christopher Dickey 
              From Poachers to iDemocracy

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              Around the World in Six Ideas

              by Christopher Dickey 

              Around the World in Six Ideas

              by Christopher Dickey February 25, 2013 04:45 AM EST

              Around the World in Six Ideas

              by Christopher Dickey February 19, 2013 12:00 AM EST

              Around the World in Six Ideas

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              Around the World in Six Ideas

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Sunday, June 23, 2013

"You Say You Want a Revolution?", and other writings

The Daily Beast: You Say You Want a Revolution? 23 June 2013
Protests and riots are spreading around the world. Where do they come from and what do they signify? By Christopher Dickey.
http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2013/06/23/you-say-you-want-a-revolution.html


“Uprisings begin when people feel cheated by change.”


Newsweek Better World: Decoding Dolphins, 19 June 2013
What the wild creatures would say, if we could understand

Newsweek Better World: An App a Day Keeps the Doctor Away, 19 June 2013
Accessible medical technology goes to the ends of the earth

Newsweek Better World: PRISM's Global Reach, 19 June 2013
Will the NSA's program send non-Americans fleeing Facebook?

Newsweek Better World: Better than Teflon, 19 June 2013
Medicine grows a 'natural' artificial blood vessel

Newsweek Better World: Under African Skies, 19 June 2013
Getting high-speed internet to low-tech places
Background links: http://www.o3bnetworks.com


You might also be interested in "My Waltz With Orwell," links to columns dating back to Iran in 1999 that have brought his perspective to current events: http://christopherdickey.blogspot.fr/2013/06/my-waltz-with-orwell-1999-to-present.html
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My Waltz with Orwell: 1999 to the Present

In the wake of the NSA-PRISM-Snowden scandal (which has not yet finished, of course), there's a lot of talk about George Orwell and 1984. Michael Moynihan's Newsweek essay helped put things in perspective. We're not in 1984 yet, and many other societies are a lot closer to that totalitarian nightmare than ours. But I've gone back to the Orwell, as it were, many times over the years because there's almost always something to be learned from his writing, whether in 1984, or Animal Farm or his many marvelous essays. I think "Fable" (2011) and "American Nightmare" (2006) may be of particular interest. (Please do feel free to comment, tweet, share, etc.)


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    A Cautionary Fable

    by Christopher Dickey 
    ... here. We’re talking about a parable of all-too-human politics. We could talk about communism (as Orwell does), or fascism, or for that matter Jacobinism, Catholicism, Protestantism...
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    How Iran Protests Threaten Arab Rulers

    by Christopher Dickey 
    ... doesn't seem to mean much any more. But back in the middle of the 20th century, when George Orwell wrote the bleak, iconic novel 1984, he had a profound sense of the evil that men did...
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    Why Nations Can't Escape the Empire Trap

    by Christopher Dickey 
    When George Orwell was a young man in the 1920s, he served as a British policeman in the colony of Burma. On duty there he saw, as he put it, "the dirty work of empire at close...
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    American Dream, American Nightmare

    by Christopher Dickey 
    ... to be confused with patriotism, which Orwell defined as “devotion to a particular place and a particular way of life, which one believes to be the best in the world but has no wish...
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    Shadowland: Freedom's Just Another Word

    by Christopher Dickey 
    ... its hallucinatory rhetoric. George Orwell had the key words about right, describing the party slogans of another time, another place: "WAR IS PEACE; FREEDOM IS SLAVERY; IGNORANCE IS...
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    Shadowland: Pride And Prejudices

    by Christopher Dickey 
    ... willing to sacrifice sweet reason in order to save face, to protect pride. As George Orwell pointed out, they will refuse to see what's right in front of their noses. He called this...
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    Giving Voice To Freedom

    by Christopher Dickey 
    ..., capable of repression as surreal as anything imagined by George Orwell. This is a country where the dreaded intelligence agency is officially called the Ministry of Information. Last...
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