I will not allow them to chill me
“We want to show the world that we are innovators. We want to show the world that cloud storage has a right to exist. And, of course, when you launch something like this, you can expect some...
View ArticleOn Privacy…
Privacy protects us from abuses by those in power, even if we’re doing nothing wrong at the time of surveillance. Too many wrongly characterize the debate as “security versus privacy.” The real choice...
View ArticlePedagogy of Idea of Power
A paper from much later Papert IBM Journal 2000 “What’s the big idea? Toward a pedagogy of idea power Here he distinguishes between the psychological (how a person is affected by a treatment) and...
View ArticleNYT Newspeak
Asylum is for people who are afraid to return to their own country because they fear persecution, unlawful imprisonment or even death because of their race, their ethnicity, their religion, their...
View ArticleOpen Access Manifesto
Information is power. But like all power, there are those who want to keep it for themselves. The world's entire scientific and cultural heritage, published over centuries in books and journals, is...
View ArticleImportant Lesson
“This experience has taught me one very important lesson: without Congressional action or a strong judicial precedent, I would strongly recommend against anyone trusting their private data to a company...
View ArticleUndownloading
So, it seems that ebook users need to add a new word to their vocabulary: “undownloading” — what happens when you leave the authorized zone in which you may read the ebooks you paid for, and cross into...
View ArticleThe Textbook Liberation Project
“We aim for maximum financial impact against the publishing industry and maximum political impact among the University administration and faculty. This will force the complicit parties to declare which...
View ArticleKindle, Lego and E-Books
What do you do when Digital Restrictions Management prevents you from doing a lot of things on your own device. I do not know if we can even say it is a device we own, as the company offering books to...
View ArticleEquity Over Excellence
There is an interesting piece in The Atlantic by Sergey Ivanov on the education system in Finland. Though the article is written from a viewpoint of an American, there are a lot of take home points for...
View ArticleKnowledge: Technical and Scientific
Utility had been deliberately excluded from Aristotelian natural philosophy. Aristotle had nothing against practical knowledge, which he called techne; he simply did not consider it to be the same kind...
View ArticleSomething to Hide
You probably do have something to hide, you just don’t know it yet. via Wired
View ArticleWhy did not scientific revolution occur in India?
If one wonders why did not the scientific revolution happen in India some aspects of how knowledge was limited might have an implication. I present here a comparative study of conditions prevailing in...
View ArticleThe Forbidden Library
What do you do when you find something offensive? Whether it be a book, a film or any other art form? You ask for a ban. You not only ban the book, perhaps want to ban the creator of the said object,...
View ArticleTechnologies in the classroom
How to modernise education? How to make use of new technological developments that are around us to make learning in schools better? These are some of the questions that we will look at in the current...
View ArticleNYT Newspeak
Asylum is for people who are afraid to return to their own country because they fear persecution, unlawful imprisonment or even death because of their race, their ethnicity, their religion, their...
View ArticleOpen Access Manifesto
Information is power. But like all power, there are those who want to keep it for themselves. The world's entire scientific and cultural heritage, published over centuries in books and journals, is...
View ArticleRecord, Research, Report: an approach to science education
Science education should move away from rote and memory based approach. Science in the schools should be done primarily with hands, and be supported by building conceptual structures based on this...
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