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This is a twine all about changes in society, whether serious sociological analysis or just odd and interesting stories about how our lives and societies are changing. The societies described can be American, European, Asian - anywhere where interesting changes are taking place.
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Resilience Thinking - People and PlaceWe are a long way from understanding how to create a resilient world. Nevertheless, it is possible to offer some visions for what a resilient world might look like. A resilient world would promote biological, landscape, social and economic diversity. Diversity is a major source of future ...
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Eight Ways In-Vitro Meat will Change Our Lives | h+ MagazineEight Ways In-Vitro Meat will Change Our Lives "Future Flesh" is squatting on your plate. Are you nervous? Stab it with a fork. Sniff it. Bite! Chew, swallow. Congratulations! Relax and ruminate now because you're digesting a muscular invention that will massively impact the planet. ...
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Patterico's Pontifications » KSM Show Trial Watch: The Evidence Mounts11/19/2009 KSM Show Trial Watch: The Evidence Mounts Filed under: General — Patterico @ 6:35 am Eric Holder, reassuring the mother of a 9/11 victim that trying KSM in federal court is the right thing to do: There are reasons why bringing this case in an Article III court when it comes to ...
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A propósito de Pierre Clastres y su “sociedad contra el Estado”Según sus investigaciones, las sociedades no jerárquicas poseen mecanismos culturales que impiden activamente la aparición de figuras de poder, sea aislando a los posibles candidatos a jefe, sea descartando completamente el mando y creando en cambio jefes con poder de aconsejar, con autoridad ...
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Archeology of violence - Pierre ClastresPierre Clastres broke up with his mentor Claude Levi-Strauss to collaborate with Gilles Deleuze and Felix Gattari on their Anti-Oedipus. He is the rare breed of political anthropologist—a Nietzschean—and his work presents us with a generalogy of power in a native state. For him, tribal societies ...
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19After six months as a guard at Guantánamo, Terry Holdbrooks converted to Islam. What made him do it, asks Sarfraz Manzoor | World news | The GuardianThis certainly counts as a change!Al Wood added 6 weeks ago
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JR Art - PhotographeYesterday (2009.06.11), JR presented his projects at the Maison Européenne de la Photographie. If there is a chance for changes, it might probably come with people taking action the way he is.shal added 5 months ago
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1Sex Without Intimacy: No Dating, No Relationships : NPROnce, we needed to breed / mate early for species survival. Our species became more secure, but for groups and the individual "selfish gene" and for children to better prosper, early breeding / mating still made sense. After all, by the time one raised their children and maybe began to get ...JDP added 5 months ago
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6Home"In 200,000 years on Earth, humanity has upset the balance of the planet, established by nearly four billion years of evolution. The price to pay is high, but it is too late to be a pessimist: humanity has barely ten years to reverse the trend, become aware of the full extent of its spoliation ...Giorgio Bertini added 5 months ago
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6When the Unconventional Becomes Conventional: Monetary Policy in Extraordinary Times - redesigning an airplane while flying itA Central Banker candidly lecturing about extreme monetary experiments.Giorgio Bertini added 6 months ago
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