Some of what I come across on the web... Also check out my Content & Curation site: kristentreglia.com
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miracle of life
miracle of life
The animation on this video is truly amazing, made me think of my “What Are the Odds” post. #perspective
What New Power Looks Like
What New Power Looks Like
Digital Literacy
SSSC Digital Literacy workshop
TEDxWarwick - Doug Belshaw - The Essential Elements of Digital Literacies
Since the time I was in elementary school I wanted to become a marine biologist to study and swim with sharks. Next summer I’m planning a trip to Australia and for my 40th birthday, *this* is what I plan on doing.... Check out the video here. #dreamvacation
Great Whites circling the “ghost cage” video. This was pretty amazing and would totally love to do this, but with a door that stayed closed!
Corruption
Make No Mistake the FIFA War is Not About Football or Corruption via The Wire
FIFA Indictments Reveal Loretta Lynch’s Hypocrisy via Aljazeera America
The importance of play
Play is more than just fun (TED video)
Children today are suffering a severe deficit of play (article)
Freedom Act
House Passes USA Freedom Act to Curb NSA Spying
NSA Reform Falters as House Passes Gutted USA Freedom Act
Did Judge Who Tuled NSA Phone Dragnet Illegal Call Snowden a Whistleblower?
Study: Congress Really Doesn't Care What You Think
Why Politicians Don’t Want Us To Think, But Opinions Are OK
The FBI Used to Recommend Encryption, Now They Want to Ban It
XKCD Finally Takes Physics To Task
2015 Fordham Law Review Symposium
Last week I attended this symposium on corruption at Fordham- it was fantastic!
I would definitely recommend checking out Lawrence Lessig’s TED talk We the People, and the Republic We Must Reclaim or my other links before viewing:
What is Corruption, How Should We Define It, and Why Is It Bad? Panel Rick Hansen, Lawrence Lessig, and Zepher Teachout (starts at 25:00)
Preet Bharara gave the keynote
I <3 Jimmy
I'm a big fan of Jimmy Kimmel, the other day at lunch a friend and I shared some of these videos. Had to make a post and share!
I'm F*@#cking Matt Damon
I'm F*@#cking Ben Affleck
Matt Damon Takes Over Jimmy Kimmel Live
Jimmy Kimmel Auditions for Every Matt Damon Role
Matt Damon: "I'm still F@ing Sarah Silverman"
Apologies to Matt Damon
Ben Affleck Stays Loyal to Jimmy Kimmel
Robin Williams Helps Matt Damon with His Monologue
Matt Damon Interviews Gary Oldman, Amy Adams and Nicole Kidman
Celebrities Congratulate Matt Damon on the Show
Lessig, Teachout, Bharara
We the People, and the Republic We Must Reclaim Lawrence Lessig TED talk
The Bare Knuckle Fight Against Money in Politics Zepher Teachout & Lawrence Lessig on Bill Moyers
Cuomo vs. Bharara: Battle of the Heavyweights
Cuomo's Office Hobbled Ethics Inquiries by Moreland Commission
RELATED: Check out my flipboard on: Wealth and Inequality
I'm also a LL fan not only because of #creativecommons but
Lawrence Lessig on the Free Access Movement
"Harvard’s Lawrence Lessig is easily the most important voice in intellectual property today, whose work — including founding Creative Commons"
Newest YouTube user to fight a takedown is copyright guru Lawrence Lessig
"Lessig's lawsuit runs through the checklist of fair use, making a case for why his lecture falls under that distinction: he used a small proportion of the song, his lecture doesn't compete with the market for the song in any way, and the lecture is an entirely new creation. Phoenix wanted its song to entertain and make money; Lessig's lecture was educational, and neither he nor Creative Commons, the sponsor, made any profit."
10 Years of Creative Commons: An Interview with Co-Founder Lawrence Lessig
Also see
Prosecutor as Bully
The Internet's Own Boy: The Story of Aaron Swartz (video, 1:44:59, CC available)
The Internet’s Own Boy review: Remembering—and honoring—Aaron Swartz
Booking Video: Aaron Swartz Jokes, Jousts With Cops After MIT Bust
Former Reddit co-owner arrested for excessive JSTOR downloads
MIT not to blame for Aaron Swartz prosecution, MIT report says
Aaron Swartz
Bharara, Teachout, Lessig are all going to be here... and it's free and open to the public...
program here: http://calendars.fordham.edu/EventList.aspx…
register here: http://calendars.fordham.edu/EventRegistration.aspx…
Cuomo vs Bharara
Cuomo's Office Hobbled Ethics Inquiries by Moreland Commission
From the Snowden, Poitras, Greenwald AMA on reddit
SuddenlySnowden EDWARD SNOWDEN 3499 points 2 hours ago*
"What's the best way to make NSA spying an issue in the 2016 Presidential Election? It seems like while it was a big deal in 2013, ISIS and other events have put it on the back burner for now in the media and general public. What are your ideas for how to bring it back to the forefront?" (masondog13)
Snowden's reply:
"This is a good question, and there are some good traditional answers here. Organizing is important. Activism is important.
At the same time, we should remember that governments don't often reform themselves. One of the arguments in a book I read recently (Bruce Schneier, "Data and Goliath"), is that perfect enforcement of the law sounds like a good thing, but that may not always be the case. The end of crime sounds pretty compelling, right, so how can that be?
Well, when we look back on history, the progress of Western civilization and human rights is actually founded on the violation of law. America was of course born out of a violent revolution that was an outrageous treason against the crown and established order of the day. History shows that the righting of historical wrongs is often born from acts of unrepentant criminality. Slavery. The protection of persecuted Jews.
But even on less extremist topics, we can find similar examples. How about the prohibition of alcohol? Gay marriage? Marijuana?
Where would we be today if the government, enjoying powers of perfect surveillance and enforcement, had -- entirely within the law -- rounded up, imprisoned, and shamed all of these lawbreakers?
Ultimately, if people lose their willingness to recognize that there are times in our history when legality becomes distinct from morality, we aren't just ceding control of our rights to government, but our agency in determing thour futures.
How does this relate to politics? Well, I suspect that governments today are more concerned with the loss of their ability to control and regulate the behavior of their citizens than they are with their citizens' discontent.
How do we make that work for us? We can devise means, through the application and sophistication of science, to remind governments that if they will not be responsible stewards of our rights, we the people will implement systems that provide for a means of not just enforcing our rights, but removing from governments the ability to interfere with those rights.
You can see the beginnings of this dynamic today in the statements of government officials complaining about the adoption of encryption by major technology providers. The idea here isn't to fling ourselves into anarchy and do away with government, but to remind the government that there must always be a balance of power between the governing and the governed, and that as the progress of science increasingly empowers communities and individuals, there will be more and more areas of our lives where -- if government insists on behaving poorly and with a callous disregard for the citizen -- we can find ways to reduce or remove their powers on a new -- and permanent -- basis.
Our rights are not granted by governments. They are inherent to our nature. But it's entirely the opposite for governments: their privileges are precisely equal to only those which we suffer them to enjoy.
We haven't had to think about that much in the last few decades because quality of life has been increasing across almost all measures in a significant way, and that has led to a comfortable complacency. But here and there throughout history, we'll occasionally come across these periods where governments think more about what they "can" do rather than what they "should" do, and what is lawful will become increasingly distinct from what is moral.
In such times, we'd do well to remember that at the end of the day, the law doesn't defend us; we defend the law. And when it becomes contrary to our morals, we have both the right and the responsibility to rebalance it toward just ends."
We do NOT want to trade our civil liberties for ANY amount of freedom. Death + freedom > slavery + safety. This is not complicated.
by commentator on ArsTechnica post
Privacy matters, pass it on
https://www.flickr.com/photos/krillion/16433017276/
While other futurists predicted flying cars and robots everywhere, Clarke was more interested in where communication was headed, and his predictions are remarkably accurate decades later.
Fermi Paradox and Elon
http://singularityhub.com/2014/10/05/elon-musk-is-right-colonizing-the-solar-system-is-humankinds-insurance-policy-against-extinction/
http://bigthink.com/videos/bill-nyes-answer-to-the-fermi-paradox
Playlist: Videos that will blow your mind
290 Seconds That Will Blow Your Mind
4 Information Ages
Changing Educational Paradigms
How Schools Kill Creativity
Juan Enriquez: The Next Species of Human
The History and Future of Time
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Visual Notes
Boston Dynamic
(Big dog, Pet man etc)
Bus stops are far more interesting and useful places to have art than in museums. Graffiti has more chance of meaning something or changing stuff than anything indoors. Graffiti has been used to start revolutions, stop wars, and generally is the voice of people who aren't listened to. Graffiti is one of those few tools you have if you have almost nothing. And even if you don't come up with a picture to cure world poverty you can make somebody smile while they're having a piss.
The history of innovation isn’t a straight line, but a squiggly, winding path. In How We Got To Now, my new book and PBS documentary series, I highlight some of the creative mistakes that helped sh...
It’s a Mistake Not to Use Mistakes as Part of the Learning Process
Sometimes, words just complicate things. What if our brains could communicate directly with each other, bypassing the need for language?
Neil Harbisson, who dons an electronic eye that enables him to hear color and is the world's first government-recognized cyborg, has famously said, "I don’t feel that I’m using technology. I don’t ...
Physicists propose identification of a gravitational arrow of time
Is It Time to Accept That We're Alone in the Universe?
#educationimagined
Which Marvel Superhero Could Run a University?
Important Question: Which Marvel Superhero Could Run a University?
thoughts on google glass
cool... actually, I think google glass is pretty important in that it's a transitional technology--- kind of in the way that Martin Cooper created the first handheld mobile phone:
that in no way resembles what our smartphones look like today, or what they're capable of... but, that phone was a critical piece of electronics in the evolution of technology... I already have my eyes on what's next, by the time they "do a good job" on glass, I think we'll be close to seeing that... GG can still be useful, there's actually a bunch of cool ways that it can be used in education too-- the problem is that it's poorly executed, clunky and is just the start of what can be done with wearables, AR, and IoT...
In the first of a new TED-Ed series designed to catalyze curiosity, TED Curator Chris Anderson shares his boyhood obsession with quirky questions that seem to have no answers.
But this situation of linear movement is rapidly changing in every respect. And the greatest change is one that our Rip Van Winkle economist, looking only at the figures, wouldn’t even notice: In the past 20 years we have created a brand-new form of capital, a brand-new resource, namely knowledge.
Up until 1900, any society in the world would have done just as well as it did without men of knowledge. We may have needed lawyers to defend criminals and doctors to write death certificates, but the criminals would have done almost as well without the lawyers, and the patients without the doctors. We needed teachers to teach other ornaments of society, but this too was largely decoration. The world prided itself on men of knowledge, but it didn’t need them to keep the society running.
wealth and inequality
Economist uses lego bricks to show the ugly truth of social mobility
Here's What Happens When White People Move into Your Neighborhood
This is What Gentrification Really Is
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