For a different take on our current world situation, please listen to the following radio interview with contributing editor and author Barry Carter. Listen to the interview
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Towards a Gifting Culture
Timothy Wilken Yesterday, I posted Eric Steven Raymond’s article The Hacker Milieu as Gift Culture as a preface to a series of articles on Gifting, Gifting Networks, Gifting Exchanges, Gifting […]
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Reposted from Kuro5hin. Rusty Human reality is socially constructed. That is, most of the “facts” that determine our daily lives are socially constructed facts, which are true as long as […]
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Arthur Noll I believe Timothy and I are basically saying the same thing about reductionism and measurement. We can more easily make mistakes in our understanding of complex systems, small […]
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By Eric Sommer By a ‘synergy’, I mean a system of interactions between two or more actors or centers of action. The word ‘synergy’ comes from a Greek word meaning […]
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by Eric Steven Raymond To understand the role of reputation in the open-source culture, it is helpful to move from history further into anthropology and economics, and examine the difference […]
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Timothy Wilken The strategy of physics called reductionism has been one of the most powerful tools in the history of science. What is reductionism? How does it work? Lawrence Krauss […]
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Daniel Pink “School is like starting life with a 12-year jail sentence in which bad habits are the only curriculum truly learned.” Those are the words of John Taylor Gatto, […]
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The Rest of the Story… from The Guardian “So here we have it. The equivocating distinction between civilisation and savagery, between the “massacre of innocent people” or, if you like, […]
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Arthur Noll responds in the dialogue started yesterday: Bill, I’m not sure why you say that I stress materialism too much. My understanding of things does not diminish the importance […]
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