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"Most of us think of international borders as invisible, but clear-cut lines: stand on one side, and you’re in one country; stand on the other, you’re in another country. But here’s a list of five international borders that, for one reason or another, are not quite that simple." 
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"In the end of 2012 I travelled to USA to experience something new. And it was something I didn't expect: emptiness and density. 'Merge' is the last part of a project series 'Empty, Dense, Merge' which explores two opposite feelings through the photos of places located in USA. In this project two opposite places are merged into one: New York City, where, it seems like everyone wants to live there, and Grand Canyon / Death Valley, which are unlivable."
John Blunnie's curator insight,
July 28, 2013 1:14 PM
Great photo combining the U.S.'s great spaces with its metropolisis'.
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The odds of rising to another income level are notably low in certain cities, like Atlanta and Charlotte, and much higher in New York and Boston.
Ryane Williams's curator insight,
July 22, 2013 8:47 PM
Facilities management entails a broad array of disciplines including, but not limited to, planning, designing, leasing, space planning, product management, capital management, construction management, property management, and real estate acquisition, planning and disposal. 
Charles Henderson's comment,
August 14, 2013 12:37 AM
Would have been nice for them to include cost of living comparisons. You might be in the top 20% of the country making $107,000 in NYC, but that's only $48,000 in Atlanta. Median income in Atlanta is $30,000 which would be $67,000 in NYC (about $21000 higher than NYC's current median salary). Where you live makes a difference, but HOW you live is just as important.
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Facebook recently announced a change to reports that is slowly being rolled out to accounts. Wondering where to start and how to pull a basic ad performance report? Here's a walk-through of how to set up your first report. Via Bonnie Burns
Bonnie Burns's curator insight,
July 17, 2013 11:31 AM
At first glance, the new reports layout may leave you scratching your head about where to start and how to pull a basic performance report. For now, advertisers can still use the old reporting interface, but here we'll walk through setting up your first report.
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Thousands of British schoolchildren are being taught Saudi national curriculum, according to programme (BBC Panorama (2010) exposed islamic schools in UK.5000 muslim kids were being taught violent homophobia & jew hatred. Via Annabel Kaye
Annabel Kaye's curator insight,
July 14, 2013 12:49 PM
Most religions seem to reserve the right to teach children to hate someone for some reason. Often it is gay people, and often it is people from a rival religion. Many religions views on the role and rights of women are off the graph in terms of lack of equality and respect.
From abuse at catholic schools by priests, to Immams with nasty attitudes, to the religious apartheid of jewish only schools - is it time, with budget cuts so tough everywhere, we looked at the cost of this to the state and put an end to it?
Let parents pay the full cost of religious education or put their kids into schools to mix with other kids of other religions like everyone else?
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From the big bang all the way to Usain Bolt’s 9.58 second hundred- meter dash record in 2009, French graphic designer René Mambembé takes us on a minimalist journey through history. With clean, simple designs to represent each major event, looking through his work is almost like taking a history quiz to see how many key moments you can identify. After the dinosaurs and the Ice Age, Mambembé starts with Cubism in the 1900′s and goes decade by decade highlighting the most memorable occasions, ending with some likely predictions for the 2010′s. Brush up on your history by trying to label each minimalist design as you scroll through! Via Lauren Moss
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Technology and Collective Action: The Effect of Cell Phone Coverage and Political Violence in Africa
2013 study in American Political Science Review showing the association between increased cell phone availability and usage and the capacity for violent conflict. Via John Postill, Andrea Naranjo
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Anthropology Museum views slavery from lens of Underground Railroad archaeological study | NIU Today
What evidence did runaway slaves leave behind at an Underground Railroad station? What tools help an archaeologist uncover and identify that evidence? Is slavery itself an historic artifact? These are just a few of the questions posed to visitors in “Trowels and Fair Trade: Revealing the Underground Railroad and Contemporary Slavery.” This new exhibition at the NIU Anthropology Museum presents a fresh perspective on slavery as seen through the lens of anthropology"
Via Andrea Naranjo
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RT @PEJPew: New from @FactTank: 5 facts about ethnic and gender diversity in U.S. #newsrooms http://t.co/Og0DvXIb60
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@larryelder I challenge you to a debate about racism. http://t.co/U3VMW4szWS
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ABC News Tom Freeland: Jury instructions likely prevented Zimmerman conviction Jackson Clarion Ledger On both the primary charge of second degree murder and the secondary charge of manslaughter, the instructions set forth the definitions of a...
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DIVERSITY NOW! We present the 2013 winners of the student competition designed to change minds. (i-D and @allwalkscatwalk present the 2013 winners of Diversity Now!
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When filmmaker Shantha Bloemen was stationed in a remote village in Zambia as a worker with an international aid organization, she had to adjust to living in a different culture. But one thing struck her as oddly familiar: almost everyone in the village wore secondhand clothing from the West. Bloemen began to imagine stories about the people who used to wear the clothing, wondering if the original owners had any idea that the castoffs they had given to charities ended up being sold to Africans half a world away.
Kristen McDaniel's curator insight,
July 19, 2013 9:48 AM
It's fascinating to look at the effects of globalization, and a great look at how economies change. When people in the Western world drop a bag of clothes off at a charity, I doubt we think they'd end up in a village in Africa. Warning: it does get a little preachy at the end. 
Mr Ortloff's curator insight,
October 8, 2013 12:44 PM
Is direct aid a good thing or not? How does secondhand clothing impact local economies? 
Jess Deady's curator insight,
May 4, 2014 3:57 PM
Westernization is a popular theme thats happening in the East. Even though people don't know it, the clothes they give away may be some that are taken to places like Africa. Hand-me-downs are popular in the U.S. but even more so in Africa. The t-shirt you give away to someone might end up across the world. Who knows.
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"By using Facebook data from the 2.5 million people in New York or New England that ‘like’ either the Red Sox or Yankees I was able to create a more accurate rivalry map than ever before."
Mark Hathaway's curator insight,
September 15, 2015 8:13 AM
This map pretty much met my general expectations for the size of Red Sox's and Yankee Nations. Most of New England is clearly Red Sox Nation. As a Yankee fan living in hostile territory, I was heartened to know that Yankee territory is not all that far away. Connecticut is the true battleground in the fight for more territory. That state serves as the crossroads between New England values and culture, and New York values and culture. I think this map says a lot more about New York and New England than just who supports each baseball team. Sports is often a window into our lives and habits. If you asked me to divide New England from New York, I would probably divide it along these lines. 
Adam Deneault's curator insight,
December 6, 2015 4:53 PM
This is a pretty interesting map, I am unsure though if using Facebook is actually an accurate tool of determination for the Yankees and Red Sox borders, but I guess it is alright if someone is just trying to figure out a general idea of what fans live where in the North East. As assumed, most of New England was going to be fans of the Red Sox, and as the more west you went toward NY, that it would change to the Yankees. Clearly though, after looking through the article, Connecticut is where the battle hits hardest, Eastern Conn likes the Red Sox, Western Conn likes the Yankees, with a mix toward the middle. What I find quite interesting though is the map of the Mass/NY line how it shows instantly a diving line between the two teams without crossing borders. 
Corey Rogers's curator insight,
December 14, 2018 12:58 AM
Usually when you think Red Sox vs. Yankees, you think New York vs. New England but it is more diverse than that. You can find Yankee fans deep inside of "Red Sox territory" and the same thing goes for Yankee fans as well. It is too tough to draw a specific line for who is a fan for each team. Just need to leave it open for cross region fans and just enjoy the rivalry.
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"Whether you’re creating a checklist for instructional design, evaluating an assessment, skimming a favorite unit of yours, or using it as a walkthrough instrument to get a feel for the level of student thinking in a classroom, Bloom’s Taxonomy is a powerful tool for any educator at any level." Via EDTECH@UTRGV
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A look at the unique video game two Harvard PhD students created to help people develop more empathetic relationships. Via Josué Cardona
Tamra Dollar's curator insight,
July 18, 2013 3:27 PM
What a great e-tool to promote character building!
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"Young entrepreneur Andy Didorosi believes that the way to Detroit’s new era depends on better leadership and a solid connection between the city and the suburbs. The city in 2012 axed its plans to build the M-1 light rail, the transit solution that would’ve bridged that vital connection, Didorosi bought a bus, had a local artist trick it out with a wicked mural, and he started the Detroit Bus Company. Dedicated to a more connected city, Andy Didorosi is bringing Detroit home one ride at a time."
Cynthia Williams's curator insight,
July 25, 2013 12:52 PM
Andy is creating a transportation system for the new Detroit. Once the inevitable downsize takes place his idea for transportation could take off.
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We might have grown skeptical about our cultural legacy, but it is quite natural for us to assume that our own cognitive theories are the latest word when compared with those of our predecessors. Yet in some areas, the questions we are now asking are not too different from those posed some two-three centuries ago, if not earlier. One of the most topical questions in today’s cognitive science is the precise role of language in the brain and in human perception. Further disciplines, such as anthropology and evolutionary biology, are concerned with the emergence of language: How is it that homo sapiens is the only species possessing such a complex syntactic and sematic tool as human language? What is the relationship between human language and animal communication? Could there be any bridge between them, or are they of categorically different orders, as seems to be suggested by Noam Chomsky’s views? - See more at: http://blog.oup.com/2013/06/language-society-18th-century-enlightenment/#sthash.ZetIKiEo.dpuf Via Andrea Naranjo
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The latest issue of Anthropologies containing a collection of short pieces on race and racism is now available. Check out the table of contents below for the complete list of articles including my own submission on the public perception of anthropology and race (with a hint of the digital). I recommend reading the entire issue which offers a good mix of personal anecdotes from life and stories from the field as well as hard-hitting academic commentary. Standouts include Ryan Anderson's intro, and Doug La Rose and Steve Bunce's papers, which go beyond simply rehashing American ideas about race. All of the pages are open to comments and discussion, so let's keeping talking about race and/in anthropology. Via Andrea Naranjo
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RT @pnmcdaniel: Immigrant workers, taxpayers, & entrepreneurs are integral to US #economy http://t.co/wj0mUhAr0v #CIRmeansjobs http://t.co/…;
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RT @hatereads: The Washington Post is fucked up http://t.co/RoQRrb1RFk? #hatereads
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Global Times Remain on guard against mass media's ability to perpetuate stereotypes Global Times Recently, news that a young couple in Shanghai almost got divorced following an argument over who ate more shrimp at home triggered fierce discussion...
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The founder of Microsoft says intelligent assistant software could tackle some of the world’s biggest problems.
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A recent report from the Cooperative Children’s Book Center at the University of Wisconsin-Madison found that despite the increasing diversity in the U.S., the number of children’s books written by or about people of color continues to be very low.
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It is Puzzling, but every human being chose to live in a normal, happy and free country, in a Democratie, if possible.
These borders and boundaries indicate something that I thought of while rewatching Independence Day (the Smith/Goldblum flick from '96)... If we make a mess, and destroy this planet, aliens wouldn't want it. The land that no one wants, is probably wanted by someone in reality... I am a fervent believer in aliens, and spend my free time diving into attempts to solve my quandary about the higher questions of the universe. I think that the area that no one wants, everyone wants. Unlike state boundaries in the US, planets are divided as separate entities from other planets, but grouped in solar systems, galaxies, asteroid belts, etc... I can't wait for the day some pompous fool gets on the bridge of a starship from Earth and sits in the captain's chair and says "Lieutenant, take us to Sector ----- (so and so)"... We will have moved up from the United States and Canada to the United Sectors of Galaxies! And that little bit of land that 'no one wants,' everyone actually wants... same with planets. Terraforming will allow those unsightly balls of fury that float around a star to become the most inhabitable of them all! I wonder where these things will stop... or if it keeps going to larger sectors, endlessly? Well, we will likely encounter other species with territorial claims... play nice, America! Or the Aliens will pop out of your stomach. Though there are some politicians now that seem to have popped out of someone's stomach, I think the threat is more domestic while territory disputes occur nowadays, as it is humans arguing with humans, but it will increase when the Martians come to claim what is theirs.