kahudson / collective

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  1. Alex Tabarrok on innovation

    Alex Tabarrok, author of the ebook Launching The Innovation Renaissance: A New Path to Bring Smart Ideas to Market Fast discusses America’s declining growth rate in total factor productivity, what this means for the future of innovation, and what can be done to improve the situation.

    Accroding to Tabarrok, patents, which were designed to promote the progress of science and the useful arts, have instead become weapons in a war for competitive advantage with innovation as collateral damage. College, once a foundation for innovation, has been oversold. And regulations, passed with the best of intentions, have spread like kudzu and now impede progress to everyone’s detriment. Tabarrok outs forth simple reforms in each of these areas and also explains the role immigration plays in innovation and national productivity.

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    —Huffduffed by millerdl 3 weeks ago

  2. Glaeser on cities

    Edward Glaeser of Harvard University and author of The Triumph of Cities talks with EconTalk host Russ Roberts about American cities. The conversation begins with a discussion of the history of Detroit over the last century and its current plight. What might be done to improve Detroit’s situation? Why are other cities experiencing similar challenges to those facing Detroit? Why are some cities thriving and growing? What policies might help ailing cities and what policies have helped those cities that succeed? The conversation concludes with a discussion of why cities have such potential for growth.

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    —Huffduffed by millerdl one month ago

  3. Mahmood Mamdani - DEFINE AND RULE: Native as Political Identity

    The Center for Place, Culture and Politics presents DEFINE AND RULE: Native as Political Identity A talk by Mahmood Mamdani with discussant Ali Jimale Ahmed November 12, 2012 The CUNY Graduate Center Full details: pcp.gc.cuny.edu/events/define-and-rule-mahmood-mamdani-on-colonial-statecraft/

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  4. The Film Stage Show Interview - Shane Carruth on Upstream Color

    Huffduffed from http://thefilmstageshow.tumblr.com/post/47104621782/interview-shane-carruth-on-upstream-color

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    —Huffduffed by millerdl one month ago

  5. Upstream Color: Rian Johnson + Shane Carruth Q&A

    Huffduffed from http://www.theqandapodcast.com/2013/04/upstream-color-q.html

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  6. The Wu-Tang Clan’s 20-Year Plan

    Huffduffed from http://www.npr.org/blogs/therecord/2013/04/08/176519640/the-wu-tang-clans-20-year-plan?sc=tw&cc=share

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  7. Dialects Changing, But Not Disappearing In Philadelphia : NPR

    Researchers at the University of Pennsylvania are tracking changes in the Philadelphia accent. Reporter Zack Seward dips into archives that include more than a century’s worth of Philly natives. The researchers say most regional accents are alive and well, even in the digital age, but they’re always changing.

    http://www.npr.org/2013/04/05/176368267/dialects-changing-but-not-disappearing-in-philadelphia

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    —Huffduffed by kerim one month ago

  8. Howard Rheingold: ‘Net Smart’: Forum | KQED Public Media for Northern CA

    As we are increasingly inundated with information from websites like Twitter and Facebook, it’s become more and more difficult to filter out what’s important. In his new book, ‘Net Smart: How to Thrive Online,’ Howard Rheingold guides the way with tips on how to use social networks and ‘crap detection’ to figure out what’s relevant.

    http://www.kqed.org/a/forum/R201208291000

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    —Huffduffed by kerim one month ago

  9. 5by5 | Systematic #33: Merlin Mann - Failing gracefully

    Merlin Mann guests to talk about failure, success and self perception.

    http://5by5.tv/systematic/33

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  10. Joseph Reagle on the gender gap in geek culture

    Is geek culture sexist? Joseph Reagle, Assistant Professor of Communications Studies at Northeastern University and author of a new paper entitled, “Free as in Sexist? Free culture and the gender gap,” returns to Surprisingly Free to address geek feminism and the technology gender gap.

    According to Reagle, only 1% of the free software community and 9% of Wikipedia editors are female, which he sees as emblematic of structural problems in the geek community. While he does not believe that being a geek or a nerd is in any way synonymous with being a sexist, he concludes that three things that he otherwise loves—geekiness, openness, and the rhetoric and ideology of freedom–are part of the problem inasmuch as they allow informal cliques to arise, dominate the discussion, and squeeze out minority views. Reagle also comments on a unintentional androcentricity he has observed even amongst free software community heroes, highlighting the ways in which this behavior can be alienating to women and prevents geek culture from growing beyond its traditional base.

    Reagle prescribes a 3-step solution to sexism in geek culture: talking about gender; challenging and expanding what it means to be a geek; and not allowing the rhetoric of freedom to be used as an excuse for bad behavior.

    Reagle further supports efforts to form female-only subcultures within the geek community, which opponents argue goes against the free software value of openness. Instead of the balkanization of their movement that opponents fear, these closed-group discussions actually strengthen geek culture at large, according to Reagle.

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    —Huffduffed by millerdl 2 months ago

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