FYI - "50 Books for Thinking About the Future Human Condition"
50 Books for Thinking About the Future Human Condition, a list by the RAND corporation... (from Metafilter)
Misc. Links for the week of 1/24
Links I've posted through the week are collected here...
- ProCon.org - Pros and Cons of Controversial Issues
- Stats about all US cities - maps, race, income, education, crime, weather, area codes, zip codes, similar cities
- "Want to know what actually happened? No Comment is a source for unedited news video with original sound." (link from Rebecca's Pocket)
- Karl Hartig: Data Visualization has handy graphs of data on topics incl. US population, immigration, and the information age, etc. (Link from The Presurfer)
- "Estonia: The end of the Age of Oil will not be a disaster if we are prepared for it" EnergyBulletin.net
FYI - "Making Generous Trouble: Creativity for Your Smart Heart"
"Making Generous Trouble: Creativity for Your Smart Heart by Anne Herbert is too long (save it for your lunch hour), and will lose you over and over again. But stick with it because you will find your thread again a little further down the page...
The idea is you have some great ideas. The idea is sometimes you don't notice your great ideas because they are very different than what already exists. That difference, which makes you shy off your ideas, is part of what makes your ideas great, and needed.
The idea is that the rest of us could use your great ideas if you get them out among us. The idea is your different ideas could help make a different world that would be a better place for us all to live. [...]
A guy I used to work for, Stewart Brand, said that once you have an idea you have about five minutes to do something about it. You don't have to do everything the idea calls for within five minutes, but you've got to do something right away to make it real.
I also like this part: I was at the stuff-from-Tibet show at the De Young Museum, and the standing Tibetan metal Buddha looked me in the eye and said..."Do it directly." And I agreed, yep, I'll do it directly. I didn't know what "Do" or "directly" meant in this case. [...]In alternative activist organizing, one of the ways you know you're doing a good thing is that the bad guys notice it and don't like it. So you and the bad guys keep fixated on each other and on what you both understand to be activities. Einstein and others said you can't solve a problem on the level at which it was created — you have to move to another level."
(from Rebecca's Pocket)
QUOTE OF THE DAY!
"Education is the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your temper or your self-confidence."
:-)
-Robert Frost
:-)
Email from World Affairs Council of Maine...
Two programs which might be of interest. We just now got this information, which we are passing along to you.
1- Chinese New Year Fair, Sunday, January 29, 11am-4pm, Catherine McAuley HS, 631 Stevens Avenue, Portland
Programs for Adults and Children
Lectures designed for those interested in doing business in China, co-sponsored by the Maine International Trade Center
Lectures and activities designed for educators who wish to bring China and Chinese culture into the classroom
Presentations and demonstrations on different aspects of Chinese culture
Chinese Shadow Puppet Show and Musical Performance
Chinese School Performance
Authentic Chinese cuisine on sale all day from Lotus Restaurant in Falmouth
Chinese items, crafts, books, etc. for sale
Admission: Adult $5, Child $3.
Sponsored by the Chinese and American Friendship Association of Maine
2- Bangor Foreign Policy Forum, Monday, January 30, 7:30am, Dr. George Jacobson on "Global Climate Change: High Stakes for International Science and Policy" at Montes Catering, 72 Columbia Street, Bangor. RSVP by January 25 to Nick.Laverty@umit.maine.edu
1- Chinese New Year Fair, Sunday, January 29, 11am-4pm, Catherine McAuley HS, 631 Stevens Avenue, Portland
Programs for Adults and Children
Lectures designed for those interested in doing business in China, co-sponsored by the Maine International Trade Center
Lectures and activities designed for educators who wish to bring China and Chinese culture into the classroom
Presentations and demonstrations on different aspects of Chinese culture
Chinese Shadow Puppet Show and Musical Performance
Chinese School Performance
Authentic Chinese cuisine on sale all day from Lotus Restaurant in Falmouth
Chinese items, crafts, books, etc. for sale
Admission: Adult $5, Child $3.
Sponsored by the Chinese and American Friendship Association of Maine
2- Bangor Foreign Policy Forum, Monday, January 30, 7:30am, Dr. George Jacobson on "Global Climate Change: High Stakes for International Science and Policy" at Montes Catering, 72 Columbia Street, Bangor. RSVP by January 25 to Nick.Laverty@umit.maine.edu
Quote of the Day
"Whatever you do will be insignificant, but it is very important that you do it."
-Mohandas Gandhi
Certainly pithier than my "whole world nibbling" quote!! :-)
Some Nominations for the 2006 "Bloggies"
Yes, there are even blog awards... the "Bloggies"! (And, yes, they're actually called that!!)
Voting continues on the nominees until 1/31 (and winners announced 3/13), but here are a couple of entries that caught my eye and I though you might find it interesting to have such a first-hand perspective... (although I don't follow most of these, so I wouldn't be able to vouch as to the quality of their content!)
From "Best African or Middle Eastern Blog":
- Sleepless in Sudan. Uncensored, direct from a dazed & confused aid worker in Darfur, Sudan
- Baghdad Burning: "Girl Blog from Iraq... let's talk war, politics and occupation."
From "Best Asian Blog":
- Simon World: "East meets Westerner"
From "Best Topical Blog":
From "Best Group Blog":
Quote of the Day (from "The Week" magazine)
“If you limit your actions in life to things that nobody can possibly find fault with, you will not do much.”
-Lewis Carroll,
quoted in the Fort Lauderdale Sun-Sentinel
:-)
Presentation on Mainers returning from Iraq...
Would anybody be interested in attending this program? Shall we schedule a van?? Let us know by commenting to this post if you want to go!
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WORLD AFFAIRS AFTER HOURS PROGRAM
“Mainers Serve and Return from Iraq”
Please join the World Affairs Council of Maine for a timely and informative evening forum about the role our Maine National Guard service members performed while serving in Operation Iraqi Freedom. We will be honored with the presence of Major General Libby who will lead this panel discussion. The speakers will share their experience in the Maine National Guard and what their deployments to Iraq meant to them as well as their perspective on what their service meant to the people of Iraq. The speakers will include:
Major General John (Bill) Libby, Lewiston native, University of Maine
Adjutant General Maine National Guard
Commissioner, Department of Defense, Veterans and Emergency Management
First Sergeant Michael D. Lord, Brunswick native,
“Mainers Serve and Return from Iraq”
Please join the World Affairs Council of Maine for a timely and informative evening forum about the role our Maine National Guard service members performed while serving in Operation Iraqi Freedom. We will be honored with the presence of Major General Libby who will lead this panel discussion. The speakers will share their experience in the Maine National Guard and what their deployments to Iraq meant to them as well as their perspective on what their service meant to the people of Iraq. The speakers will include:
Major General John (Bill) Libby, Lewiston native, University of Maine
Adjutant General Maine National Guard
Commissioner, Department of Defense, Veterans and Emergency Management
First Sergeant Michael D. Lord, Brunswick native,
University of Southern Maine
1SG Lord, First Sergeant Battery A, 1-152nd Field Artillery
Mike currently continues full time employment with the Civil Operations Section of the Counter Drug Program.
Lieutenant Colonel Mark Leahey, Lewiston native, Bates College
Executive Officer, LTC, Field Artillery, 172 FA Corps RAOC, Base Camp Adder, Southern Iraq
Mark currently resides in Rochester, NH and is employed by Pfizer.
and Major Dwaine Drummond
When: Thursday, February 9, 2006
Registration 5:45-6:00 pm; Presentation with Q/A 6-7:30 pm
Where: University of Southern Maine-Lewiston/Auburn College, 51 Westminster Street, Lewiston, Room 170. Parking is available in the University Parking lot. The College is off Exit 80 (formerly Exit 13) of the Maine Turnpike. Westminster Street is beside the Maine Public Broadcasting building. Lewiston-Auburn College is a brown cedar-sided building at the top of the hill, next to Ryder Truck.
Admission: Free and open to the public. For more information or with questions, call 753-6560. In case of inclement weather, call the University’s Storm Line at 753-6595. If school is cancelled, there will be no program.
Sponsored by
The World Affairs Council of Maine
in collaboration with USM/Lewiston Auburn College
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Special Upcoming WAC Events
Feb. 24-26 ~ The 19th Annual Camden Conference, “China on the World Stage"
Visit www.camdenconference.org for more information. WAC is a cooperating organization on this event.
March 2 ~ Distinguished Speaker Program and Dinner, Brad Babson & Evans Revere, “Current Briefing and Update on North Korea and Nearby areas."
1SG Lord, First Sergeant Battery A, 1-152nd Field Artillery
Mike currently continues full time employment with the Civil Operations Section of the Counter Drug Program.
Lieutenant Colonel Mark Leahey, Lewiston native, Bates College
Executive Officer, LTC, Field Artillery, 172 FA Corps RAOC, Base Camp Adder, Southern Iraq
Mark currently resides in Rochester, NH and is employed by Pfizer.
and Major Dwaine Drummond
When: Thursday, February 9, 2006
Registration 5:45-6:00 pm; Presentation with Q/A 6-7:30 pm
Where: University of Southern Maine-Lewiston/Auburn College, 51 Westminster Street, Lewiston, Room 170. Parking is available in the University Parking lot. The College is off Exit 80 (formerly Exit 13) of the Maine Turnpike. Westminster Street is beside the Maine Public Broadcasting building. Lewiston-Auburn College is a brown cedar-sided building at the top of the hill, next to Ryder Truck.
Admission: Free and open to the public. For more information or with questions, call 753-6560. In case of inclement weather, call the University’s Storm Line at 753-6595. If school is cancelled, there will be no program.
Sponsored by
The World Affairs Council of Maine
in collaboration with USM/Lewiston Auburn College
-----------
Special Upcoming WAC Events
Feb. 24-26 ~ The 19th Annual Camden Conference, “China on the World Stage"
Visit www.camdenconference.org for more information. WAC is a cooperating organization on this event.
March 2 ~ Distinguished Speaker Program and Dinner, Brad Babson & Evans Revere, “Current Briefing and Update on North Korea and Nearby areas."
This week's assignment...
- Respond to your Blogger invitation email and join the class blog.
- Subscribe to The Week news magazine.
- Post an introduction, in which you introduce yourself, your major, and/or whatever immediate plans you might have after graduation, etc.; what big challenge the world is facing and what perhaps could be done to address it, in your opinion; and which article in Global Issues will be your "pet topic" for this semester.
See you Tuesday!
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