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Exercising the Franchise of Digital Citizenship

Happy Carl Sagan Day!

My favorite links about Carl:

Carl Sagan’s last interview with Charlie Rose (Full Interview) Carl Sagan Tribute Series (working my way through list) Neil deGrasse Tyson - Carl Sagan Experience LOVE THIS Symphony of Science - ‘We Are All Connected’ (ft. Sagan, Feynman, deGrasse Tyson & Bill Nye) Why Carl Sagan is Truly Irreplaceable Lessons of Immortality and Mortality From My Father, Carl Sagan

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Students Hate Writing Papers. Professors Hate Grading Papers. Let

Everybody in college hates papers. Students hate writing them so much that they buy, borrow, or steal them instead. Plagiarism is now so commonplace that if we flunked every kid who did it, wed have a worse attrition rate than a MOOC. And on those rare occasions undergrads do deign...

http://chronicle.com/blogs/profhacker/an-open-letter-in-defense-of-rebecca-schuman/54301

https://www.change.org/petitions/scholars-writers-and-teachers-open-letter-in-defense-of-rebecca-schuman

twenty years of edtech

Dear America: Meet Bernie Sanders. Properly, this time.

Time to set the record straight.

I need to collect all of the Bernie Sanders images/quotes I’ve collected from FB and turn them into an animated gif...  #project

I’m still skeptical... but out of all of the politicians he sounds like the best bet....

some links

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/h-a-goodman/bernie-sanders-can-become-president-has-replaced-i-like-him-but-he-cant-win_b_7733476.html

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/h-a-goodman/almost-every-major-poll-shows-bernie-sanders_b_7937906.html?ncid=fcbklnkushpmg00000063

He argues that rich nations should change their goal from one of economic growth to that of "increased happiness in a situation of stable income and declining population". This sentiment is echoed by both Graeme Maxton, leading economist and author of The End of Progress, while Charles Sturt University Professor of Public Ethics Clive Hamilton observes that in our developed economies, "people buy things they don't need, with money they don't have, to impress people they don't like".

http://phys.org/news/2013-12-population-growth-bodes-decline-standards.html

The NSA Speech: Obama Accepts the Logic of Staying Terrorized

If the vision he laid out Friday prevails, mass surveillance on innocents will continue and we'll never enjoy pre-9/11 privacy again.

Impostor Syndrome

Learning to Deal with Impostor Syndrome

13 Charts That Will Make Total Sense To People With Impostor Syndrome

Fighting Impostor Syndrome

Aliens and Encryption

HOW SCIENTISTS SEARCH THE COSMOS FOR ENCRYPTED ALIEN SIGNALS (AND OTHER ONES TOO) via The Intercept

Carl Sagan, Stephen Hawking and Arthur C. Clarke - God, The Universe and Everything Else (1988) [52:10]

Bummed I missed the first episode of the new Cosmos, but I'll catch it on Sunday!

A couple of clips from this excellent video, an hour well spent...   Big questions and Curiosity Science, Politics, and Skepticism Creativity