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The World, As Seen Through Contested Wikipedia Pages

18 July, 2013Culture, On Humanity

The ten most controversial (i.e. most prone to edit wars) articles in the English, German, French, Spanish Czech, Hungarian, Romanian, Arabic, Farsi, and Hebrew language Wikipedias: Source: Taha Yasseri1, Anselm Spoerri, Mark Graham1, and János Kertész. “The most controversial topics in Wikipedia: A multilingual and geographical analysis” Upcoming chapter in Global Wikipedia: International and cross-cultural […]

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2010s: The Decade Asian America Goes Mainstream

05 June, 2013Culture, Demographics

In an effort to prepare for the release of Iron Man 3 I devoted a several hours over the past few weeks to all of the Marvel Studio blockbusters I missed when serving as a missionary for the LDS Church. These films inspired the following observation: Asians Americans [1] are now an established part of America’s popular culture.The […]

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Do The Great Books Have a Place in the 21st Century?

27 May, 2013Books and Literature, Culture, Education, On Humanity, Possessions For All Time

A selection of the 60 volume Great Books of the Western World.Image source. A “proper education” changes with its times. In the days of America’s founding a true education was a classical education. An educated man was not simply expected to be familiar with the great works of Greek and Roman civilization; the study of […]

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America Torn Apart: Panel Discussion With Charles Murray and Robert Putnam

21 May, 2013Community, Culture, Demographics, Video of the Day, Wealth

This video is worth your time. It is long. But it is worth your time. Murray & Putnam: Is Class Division Tearing U.S. Apart? from The Aspen Institute 2012e– and The Atlantic on FORA.tv A longer post on similar themes is in the works. Until that post is completed this is an excellent place to […]

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Notes From All Over (14/5/2013) – Historical Linguistics, Guanxi, and Scary Government Data Bases

15 May, 2013Climate, Culture, Geopolitics, Military Affairs, Near East, Notes From All Over, Oligarchy, The Middle Kingdom, Tyranny

A collection of articles, essays, and blog post of merit.This one is a bit smaller than normal; there are a few other posts or essays that deserve to go here, but I hope to devote entire posts to them at a later date. TOP BILLING:“An Introduction to Historical Linguistics’ – Terry Crowley and Claire Bowern. Part […]

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Notes From All Over (14/4/2013) – Digital Feudalism, Macrohistory, and Energy

14 April, 2013Culture, Energy, Epidemiology, History, Japan, Military Affairs, Notes From All Over, Political Theory, Southeast Asia, The Middle Kingdom, Tyranny, Wealth

A collection of articles, essays, and blog post of merit. This collection is a large one. TOP BILLING Our Internet Surveillance StateBruce Schneier. Schneier on Security. 25 March 2013. The Internet is a surveillance state. Whether we admit it to ourselves or not, and whether we like it or not, we’re being tracked all the […]

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West and East and How We Think

02 April, 2013Books and Literature, Culture, Education, Japan, Korea, On Humanity, The Middle Kingdom

What impact does culture have on cognition? Psychologist Richard Nisbett has conducted dozens of studies to find out the answer to this question. Presented in The Geography of Thought: How Asians and Westerners Think Differently, the results of his study are fascinating – and their implications far reaching. “Perception: How Germans and Chinese See Each Other” from […]

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The Power of Ideas in History: An Example From Antiquity

06 March, 2013Complex Systems, Culture, History, Romans and Grecians, The Middle Kingdom

Han Gaozu- Deified Founder of the Han DynastyImage Source Many drivers shape the course of world history. With a few exceptions, I lend little respect to those works that try to explain all of history as the result of one great thing – geography, genetics, climate, culture, class conflict, freedom, or whatever. Usually there is […]

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Strategy Is Who You Are

27 February, 2013Culture, History, Narrative, Possessions For All Time, Steppe and Sown, Strategy, The Middle Kingdom

A lesson from the business strategists: an organization’s strategy is a reflection of its culture, not grand plans made by its leaders. An example from Ancient China shows how this truth applies to crafting strategies of war and peace.I firmly believe that theorists of war and diplomacy have much to gain from studying the business […]

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Playing Around With Google Ngram

17 December, 2010Culture, History, Image of the Day, Media

Google Labs has released a cool new tool: Google Ngram Viewer. CNET News explains how it works: Google’s Ngram Viewer: A time machine for wordplayLancey Whitney. CNET News. 17 December 2010. Courtesy of the folks at Google Labs, Ngram Viewer can work its analysis as a result of Google’s sometimes contentious digitization of vast quantities […]

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The World, As Seen Through Contested Wikipedia Pages

2010s: The Decade Asian America Goes Mainstream

Do The Great Books Have a Place in the 21st Century?

America Torn Apart: Panel Discussion With Charles Murray and Robert Putnam

Notes From All Over (14/5/2013) – Historical Linguistics, Guanxi, and Scary Government Data Bases

Notes From All Over (14/4/2013) – Digital Feudalism, Macrohistory, and Energy

West and East and How We Think

The Power of Ideas in History: An Example From Antiquity

Strategy Is Who You Are

Playing Around With Google Ngram

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