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    <title>Thoughts from John on the conflict : nerdfighters</title>
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    <dc:creator>lukeneff</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Thoughts from John on the conflict
Hank and I have been asked a lot to comment on the conflict between Israel and Palestine, and I understand why people want to hear from us.

There’s a Crash Course video on the history of the conflict, and I think that video mostly holds up despite being several years old. But on October 7th, there was a horrific terrorist attack in which the organization Hamas killed over a thousand Israeli civilians and kidnapped hundreds more. Hamas is a militant group that has frequently attacked Israel (and also killed many Palestinian civilians). Hamas has been the primary political leadership in the Gaza Strip since a coup in 2007.

This attack is especially horrifying because it represented the greatest loss of civilian life among Jewish people since the Holocaust, and I think it’s important to understand that many of us don’t know what it’s like to be less than one human lifetime removed from a systematic effort to end your people via the murder of over six million of them. Amid a huge surge of anti-Semitic actions globally, echoes of that tragedy, whether they come in the form of attacks on synagogues or lynch mobs in Dagestan, are especially terrifying because of the history involved.

One thing I think we find challenging as a species is to acknowledge the shared legitimacy of conflicting narratives. That is to say, there is legitimacy to the Israeli narrative that Jews need a secure homeland because historically when they haven’t had one, it has been catastrophic, and as we have seen again recently, anti-Semitism continues to be a terrifyingly powerful and profound force in the human story. There is also legitimacy to the Palestinian narrative that over the last seven decades, millions of Palestinians have been forced off their land and now live as stateless refugees in the West Bank and Gaza Strip, where their freedom of movement and assembly is highly restricted, and that the long history of violence in the region has disproportionately victimized Palestinians.

For civilians in Gaza, there is simply nowhere to go. They cannot go to Egypt, and they cannot go to Israel. And since Hamas’s terrorist attack, thousands of bombs have been dropped by the Israeli government onto areas of Gaza where civilians cannot help but be. The Israeli government argues the war is necessary to remove Hamas from power and cripple it as a military force. But the human cost of those bombings is utterly devastating, and I’m not convinced that civilian death on such a scale can ever be justified. Thousands of civilians have died in Gaza in the past three weeks, and many thousands more will die before Hamas is completely destroyed, which is the stated goal of the Israeli offensive. It’s heartbreaking. So many innocent people are being traumatized and killed–children and elderly people and disabled people who are unable to travel to the purportedly safer regions of Gaza. And I don’t think it’s “both sidesism” to say that civilian death from violence is, on any side, inherently unjust and horrific.

Save the Children, an organization we trust and have worked with for over a decade, recently said, “The number of children reported killed in just three weeks in Gaza is more than the number killed in armed conflict globally … for the last three years.” Doctors without Borders, another organization we’ve worked with closely, reports: “There is no safe space in Gaza. When fuel runs out, every person on a ventilator, premature baby in an incubator will die. We need an immediate ceasefire.” I am trying to listen to a variety of trusted voices, and this is what some of the voices I trust are telling me.

I don’t know what else to say except that I’m so scared and sad for all people who live in constant fear and under constant threat. I pray for peace, and an immediate end to the violence. But mostly, I am committed to listening. Even when it is hard to listen, even when I am listening to those I disagree with, I want to do so with real openness and in search of understanding. I will continue to try to listen a lot more than I speak–not just when it comes to this conflict, but with all issues where I have a lot to learn.

Again, here’s that crash course video. Thanks for reading. Please be kind to each other in comments if you can. Thanks.]]></description>
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    <dc:date>2023-05-27T14:10:55+00:00</dc:date>
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    <dc:creator>lukeneff</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[It is this reality, Bridle writes, that needs re-wilding if we are to survive the coming decades. 

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    <title>The impossible job: inside the world of Premier League referees | Referees | The Guardian</title>
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    <dc:creator>lukeneff</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[The impossible job: inside the world of Premier League referees
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    <title>The Steve Jobs Archive</title>
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    <dc:creator>lukeneff</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[I grow little of the food I eat, and of the little I do grow
I did not breed or perfect the seeds.

I do not make any of my own clothing.

I speak a language I did not invent or refine.

I did not discover the mathematics I use.

I am protected by freedoms and laws I did not conceive
of or legislate, and do not enforce or adjudicate.

I am moved by music I did not create myself.

When I needed medical attention, I was helpless
to help myself survive.

I did not invent the transistor, the microprocessor,
object oriented programming, or most of the technology
I work with.

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    <title>George Saunders Has Written the Best Book You’ll Read This Year - The New York Times</title>
    <dc:date>2020-11-09T22:45:30+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://www.nytimes.com/2013/01/06/magazine/george-saunders-just-wrote-the-best-book-youll-read-this-year.html</link>
    <dc:creator>lukeneff</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Junot Díaz described the Saunders’s effect to me this way: “There’s no one who has a better eye for the absurd and dehumanizing parameters of our current culture of capital. But then the other side is how the cool rigor of his fiction is counterbalanced by this enormous compassion. Just how capacious his moral vision is sometimes gets lost, because few people cut as hard or deep as Saunders does.”

]]></description>
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    <title>Opinion | A Dire Coronavirus Forecast as States Move to Reopen - The New York Times</title>
    <dc:date>2020-05-05T20:17:33+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://www.nytimes.com/2020/05/05/opinion/letters/coronavirus-toll-states-reopen.html?action=click&amp;module=Opinion&amp;pgtype=Homepage</link>
    <dc:creator>lukeneff</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Second, resistance to the application of necessary public health power to fight epidemics is deeply embedded in segments of the population. In the debate on the 1848 Public Health Act for England and Wales, one opponent put forth this argument: We would rather take our chances with the ravages of cholera than be bullied into public health.

]]></description>
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    <title>El Loco: The Obsessive Genius of Marcelo Bielsa - Eight by Eight</title>
    <dc:date>2020-01-12T20:47:30+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://www.8by8mag.com/el-loco/</link>
    <dc:creator>lukeneff</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[“If players weren’t human,” Bielsa noted at Vélez, “I’d never lose.” But players are human. Perhaps that’s why his longest-lasting successes were at the national level.]]></description>
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    <title>robertogreco</title>
    <dc:date>2020-01-07T19:46:37+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://robertogreco.tumblr.com/post/189929947103/a-criminal-is-a-person-with-predatory-instincts</link>
    <dc:creator>lukeneff</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[“A criminal is a person with predatory instincts who has not sufficient capital to form a corporation. Most government is by the rich for the rich. ]]></description>
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    <title>What kind of Muppet are you, chaos or order?</title>
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    <link>https://slate.com/human-interest/2012/06/chaos-theory.html</link>
    <dc:creator>lukeneff</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Every once in a while, an idea comes along that changes the way we all look at ourselves forever. Before Descartes, nobody knew they were thinking. They all believed they were just mulling. Until Karl Marx, everyone totally hated one another but nobody knew quite why. And before Freud, nobody understood that all of humanity could be classified into one of two simple types: people who don’t yet know they want to sleep with their mothers, and people who already know they want to sleep with their mothers. These dialectics can change and shape who we are so profoundly, it’s hard to imagine life before the paradigm at all.

The same thing is true of Muppet Theory, a little-known, poorly understood philosophy that holds that every living human can be classified according to one simple metric: Every one of us is either a Chaos Muppet or an Order Muppet.

Chaos Muppets are out-of-control, emotional, volatile. They tend toward the blue and fuzzy. They make their way through life in a swirling maelstrom of food crumbs, small flaming objects, and the letter C. Cookie Monster, Ernie, Grover, Gonzo, Dr. Bunsen Honeydew and—paradigmatically—Animal, are all Chaos Muppets. Zelda Fitzgerald was a Chaos Muppet. So, I must tell you, is Justice Stephen Breyer.


Want to listen to this article out loud? Hear it on Slate Voice.

Order Muppets—and I’m thinking about Bert, Scooter, Sam the Eagle, Kermit the Frog, and the blue guy who is perennially harassed by Grover at restaurants (the Order Muppet Everyman)—tend to be neurotic, highly regimented, averse to surprises and may sport monstrously large eyebrows. They sometimes resent the responsibility of the world weighing on their felt shoulders, but they secretly revel in the knowledge that they keep the show running. Your first grade teacher was probably an Order Muppet. So is Chief Justice John Roberts. It’s not that any one type of Muppet is inherently better than the other. (Order Muppets do seem to attract the ladies, but then Chaos Muppets collect the chicken harems.) It’s simply the case that the key to a happy marriage, a well-functioning family, and a productive place of work lies in carefully calibrating the ratio of Chaos Muppets to Order Muppets within any closed system. That, and always letting the Chaos Muppets do the driving.

]]></description>
<dc:subject>humanity human_behavior anki</dc:subject>
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<item rdf:about="https://www.nytimes.com/2019/09/19/magazine/poem-small-kindnesses.html">
    <title>Poem: Small Kindnesses - The New York Times</title>
    <dc:date>2019-09-25T03:20:15+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://www.nytimes.com/2019/09/19/magazine/poem-small-kindnesses.html</link>
    <dc:creator>lukeneff</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Small Kindnesses
By Danusha Laméris

I’ve been thinking about the way, when you walk
down a crowded aisle, people pull in their legs
to let you by. Or how strangers still say “bless you”
when someone sneezes, a leftover
from the Bubonic plague. “Don’t die,” we are saying.
And sometimes, when you spill lemons
from your grocery bag, someone else will help you
pick them up. Mostly, we don’t want to harm each other.
We want to be handed our cup of coffee hot,
and to say thank you to the person handing it. To smile
at them and for them to smile back. For the waitress
to call us honey when she sets down the bowl of clam chowder,
and for the driver in the red pick-up truck to let us pass.
We have so little of each other, now. So far
from tribe and fire. Only these brief moments of exchange.
What if they are the true dwelling of the holy, these
fleeting temples we make together when we say, “Here,
have my seat,” “Go ahead — you first,” “I like your hat.”]]></description>
<dc:subject>poetry community attention poetry_unit humanity</dc:subject>
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<item rdf:about="https://fs.blog/2019/05/resonance-open-doors/">
    <title>Resonance: How to Open Doors For Other People</title>
    <dc:date>2019-05-15T18:38:39+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://fs.blog/2019/05/resonance-open-doors/</link>
    <dc:creator>lukeneff</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Resonance is not only a mammalian ability but an outright necessity. Our infants will die if not provided with the warmth of connection with another being, despite being provided with all their physiological needs: shelter, food, and water. This has been illustrated in somewhat inhumane 13th-century human ‘experiments’ by Frederick the Great depriving babies of human connection and more recently by Harry Harlow in rhesus monkeys. Baby monkeys choose to spend 17 hours a day with a soft, cloth mother that does not provide food compared to only one hour a day with a wire mother that actually provides milk. Connection is a far superior sustenance.

]]></description>
<dc:subject>connections humanity animals</dc:subject>
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<item rdf:about="https://kottke.org/19/04/the-notre-dame-fire-and-the-invisible-tragedy-of-the-everyday">
    <title>The Notre Dame Fire and the Invisible Tragedy of the Everyday</title>
    <dc:date>2019-04-18T02:56:15+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://kottke.org/19/04/the-notre-dame-fire-and-the-invisible-tragedy-of-the-everyday</link>
    <dc:creator>lukeneff</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Executive director of the World Peace Foundation Alex de Waal says that almost all the famines that occur today are political decisions, a “matter of system” as Kinsella puts it. In the modern world, hunger, homelessness, lack of proper healthcare, and lack of access to education are all political decisions as well. The simple truth is that we can take care of everyone on Earth, but we choose not to.

]]></description>
<dc:subject>health suffering humanity politics</dc:subject>
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<item rdf:about="https://paleofuture.gizmodo.com/technology-ranked-1830501100">
    <title>Technology, Ranked</title>
    <dc:date>2019-01-05T22:51:26+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://paleofuture.gizmodo.com/technology-ranked-1830501100</link>
    <dc:creator>lukeneff</dc:creator><dc:subject>invention_unit invention history humanity technology</dc:subject>
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<item rdf:about="http://diarmaidmurray.tumblr.com/post/168851964044/most-of-the-characters-in-my-fantasy-and">
    <title>Diarmaid</title>
    <dc:date>2017-12-26T02:33:07+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://diarmaidmurray.tumblr.com/post/168851964044/most-of-the-characters-in-my-fantasy-and</link>
    <dc:creator>lukeneff</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Most of the characters in my fantasy and far-future science fiction books are not white. They’re mixed; they’re rainbow. In my first big science fiction novel, The Left Hand of Darkness, the only person from Earth is a black man, and everybody else in the book is Inuit (or Tibetan) brown. In the two fantasy novels the miniseries is ‘based on,’ everybody is brown or copper-red or black, except the Kargish people in the East and their descendants in the Archipelago, who are white, with fair or dark hair. The central character Tenar, a Karg, is a white brunette. Ged, an Archipelagan, is red-brown. His friend, Vetch, is black. In the [Sci Fi Channel] miniseries, Tenar is played by Smallville’s Kristin Kreuk, the only person in the miniseries who looks at all Asian. Ged and Vetch are white.

My color scheme was conscious and deliberate from the start. I didn’t see why everybody in science fiction had to be a honky named Bob or Joe or Bill. I didn’t see why everybody in heroic fantasy had to be white (and why all the leading women had ‘violet eyes’). It didn’t even make sense. Whites are a minority on Earth now—why wouldn’t they still be either a minority, or just swallowed up in the larger colored gene pool, in the future? […]

I think it is possible that some readers never even notice what color the people in the story are. Don’t notice, don’t care. Whites of course have the privilege of not caring, of being ‘colorblind.’ Nobody else does.

I have heard, not often, but very memorably, from readers of color who told me that the Earthsea books were the only books in the genre that they felt included in—and how much this meant to them, particularly as adolescents, when they’d found nothing to read in fantasy and science fiction except the adventures of white people in white worlds. Those letters have been a tremendous reward and true joy to me.

So far no reader of color has told me I ought to butt out, or that I got the ethnicity wrong. When they do, I’ll listen. As an anthropologist’s daughter, I am intensely conscious of the risk of cultural or ethnic imperialism—a white writer speaking for nonwhite people, co-opting their voice, an act of extreme arrogance. In a totally invented fantasy world, or in a far-future science fiction setting, in the rainbow world we can imagine, this risk is mitigated. That’s the beauty of science fiction and fantasy—freedom of invention.

But with all freedom comes responsibility. Which is something these filmmakers seem not to understand.]]></description>
<dc:subject>race diversity humanity science_fiction</dc:subject>
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<item rdf:about="https://www.farnamstreetblog.com/2017/12/2017-letter/">
    <title>Farnam Street’s 2017 Annual Letter to Readers</title>
    <dc:date>2017-12-21T17:39:35+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://www.farnamstreetblog.com/2017/12/2017-letter/</link>
    <dc:creator>lukeneff</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Well, I hate to break it to you, but I’m human. I struggle. A lot. Here’s what you miss with the curated feeds: In the past year alone, I’ve been on my couch crying; I’ve been betrayed by a close friend; I’ve tried and failed to develop a relationship with my biological father; I’ve had days when I think it would be easier to win an Olympic gold medal than to get my kids to school without losing my patience; I’ve been so exhausted that I can barely keep my eyes open; I’ve looked at a sink full of dishes and said “not tonight”; and there is so much more. The point is, you might see the results, but you don’t see the struggle. And when you see only the best in others, without seeing the reality of others, you are nudged toward thinking less of yourself.

So if your Facebook feed is full of happy people doing things that make you feel bad about your life, either change the feed or be conscious of the fact that everyone struggles from time to time but not everyone lets you see it. Be aware of how what you’re seeing affects you. And remember that the people you allow into your life, both in person and online, are the people you will end up becoming.

Curate carefully. Choose people who add value to your life and meaning to your relationships. And stop giving a damn about what other people think.]]></description>
<dc:subject>humanity thinking farnamstreet</dc:subject>
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<item rdf:about="https://pocket.co/sMyD7G">
    <title>Living in a thin moist layer on a small wet rock NOV 03 2015</title>
    <dc:date>2017-01-08T15:39:29+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://pocket.co/sMyD7G</link>
    <dc:creator>lukeneff</dc:creator><dc:subject>history human geology humanity</dc:subject>
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<item rdf:about="http://kottke.org/16/07/the-oppression-of-silence">
    <title>The oppression of silence</title>
    <dc:date>2016-07-04T03:46:49+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://kottke.org/16/07/the-oppression-of-silence</link>
    <dc:creator>lukeneff</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[And then I explained to him how naive we were, that the world did know and remain silent. And that is why I swore never to be silent whenever and wherever human beings endure suffering and humiliation. We must always take sides. Neutrality helps the oppressor, never the victim. Silence encourages the tormentor, never the tormented. Sometimes we must interfere. When human lives are endangered, when human dignity is in jeopardy, national borders and sensitivities become irrelevant. Wherever men or women are persecuted because of their race, religion, or political views, that place must -- at that moment -- become the center of the universe.

]]></description>
<dc:subject>politics humanity</dc:subject>
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<item rdf:about="http://kottke.org/16/01/the-invention-of-farming">
    <title>The invention of farming</title>
    <dc:date>2016-01-15T21:18:39+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://kottke.org/16/01/the-invention-of-farming</link>
    <dc:creator>lukeneff</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Rather than heralding a new era of easy living, the Agricultural Revolution left farmers with lives generally more difficult and less satisfying than those of foragers. Hunter-gatherers spent their time in more stimulating and varied ways, and were less in danger of starvation and disease. The Agricultural Revolution certainly enlarged the sum total of food at the disposal of humankind, but the extra food did not translate into a better diet or more leisure. Rather, it translated into population explosions and pampered elites. The average farmer worked harder than the average forager, and got a worse diet in return. The Agricultural Revolution was history's biggest fraud.

]]></description>
<dc:subject>humanity civilization history</dc:subject>
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<item rdf:about="http://tinyletter.com/vruba/letters/6-73-uummannaq">
    <title>6, 73: Uummannaq</title>
    <dc:date>2016-01-04T19:28:17+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://tinyletter.com/vruba/letters/6-73-uummannaq</link>
    <dc:creator>lukeneff</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[I hope that we will remember the people who are leaving us now as people. I hope that, one day, we will be remembered as people.
]]></description>
<dc:subject>memory war people humanity future history history_writing_prompt</dc:subject>
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<item rdf:about="http://www.reddit.com/r/nba/comments/25a7gc/im_dying_to_go_to_the_wizards_game_tonight_but/chfaukv">
    <title>dsklerm comments on I'm dying to go to the Wizards game tonight, but none of my friends want to go. How awkward is it to go to a game by yourself?</title>
    <dc:date>2014-05-13T13:09:26+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://www.reddit.com/r/nba/comments/25a7gc/im_dying_to_go_to_the_wizards_game_tonight_but/chfaukv</link>
    <dc:creator>lukeneff</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Good. goooooooood.
Sports are such a communal activity. I was seeing a girl a year or so back who hated sports. Hated jock culture, said things like she hoped if she had a son he wouldn't play sports... Etc. Don't get me wrong, amazing girl but we talked a lot about this. I tend to think outside of sex, sports are the the closest we get to our baser instincts of fight flight and fuck. You gather a few hundred people in a shabby soccer stadium in a 3rd world country, you get 110,000 people in a college football arena, you get everything in between. You get everyone together for one cause, one goal; root for your guys. Songs are sung, chants are said, people dance, people dress up, people make events of these things. Don't tell me the hair didn't stand up straight on your neck when David Ortiz said this is ourrrrr fuckin city. Sports are so beautiful.
We put our children, our weakest and most vulnerable members of society though the gauntlet. So they can learn how to win with grace, how to tolerate defeat, how to overcome adversity. The way grass and sweat smell will always be ingrained in me because of sports, it will always trigger a nostalgic memory of a simpler time. We learn how to make friends and we build lifelong bonds. Did you know the old saying actually goes blood (of the covenant) is thicker than water (of the womb)? We grow together, as a society, as a community. As people as humans as growth through experience, and sports are an integral part of the human experience.
Go to that fucking game. Cheer your ass off. Talk some hoops with the guy next to you. Talk some shit to that guy in a pacer jersey. It's what we were meant to do. It's what we were born to do. I fucking love sports.]]></description>
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    <title>There Was No First Human | It's Okay To Be Smart | PBS Digital Studios - YouTube</title>
    <dc:date>2014-04-15T13:35:35+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xdWLhXi24Mo#t=198</link>
    <dc:creator>lukeneff</dc:creator><dc:subject>evolution humanity</dc:subject>
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    <title>Richie Parker: Drive -- SC Featured - YouTube</title>
    <dc:date>2013-09-19T22:55:55+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qiLDMBDPCEY</link>
    <dc:creator>lukeneff</dc:creator><dc:subject>all_the_feels human humanity talent workhard life freshman_humanities</dc:subject>
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<item rdf:about="http://storify.com/rogre/the-hard-sell-confidence-crash-pop-ups-human-scale">
    <title>The Hard Sell, Confidence, Crash, Pop-ups, Human Scale (with image, tweets) · rogre · Storify</title>
    <dc:date>2013-08-11T14:15:01+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://storify.com/rogre/the-hard-sell-confidence-crash-pop-ups-human-scale</link>
    <dc:creator>lukeneff</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[The Hard Sell, Confidence, Crash, Pop-ups, Human Scale
]]></description>
<dc:subject>humanity humility intelligence doubt confidence</dc:subject>
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    <title>Photo by velojoy • Instagram</title>
    <dc:date>2012-10-31T19:07:47+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://instagram.com/p/RdELhUOrMw/</link>
    <dc:creator>lukeneff</dc:creator><dc:subject>good humanity</dc:subject>
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<item rdf:about="http://jezebel.com/5946643/reddit-users-attempt-to-shame-sikh-woman-get-righteously-schooled">
    <title>Reddit Users Attempt to Shame Sikh Woman, Get Righteously Schooled</title>
    <dc:date>2012-09-27T17:25:28+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://jezebel.com/5946643/reddit-users-attempt-to-shame-sikh-woman-get-righteously-schooled</link>
    <dc:creator>lukeneff</dc:creator><dc:subject>religion faith humanity diversity reddit internet story</dc:subject>
<dc:source>https://pinboard.in/</dc:source>
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<item rdf:about="http://www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/i-lost-my-faith-in-humanity#.UCJ-YbdYbMU.twitter">
    <title>McSweeney’s Internet Tendency: Interviews With People Who Have Interesting or Unusual Jobs: I Lost My Faith in Humanity.</title>
    <dc:date>2012-08-08T16:01:47+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/i-lost-my-faith-in-humanity#.UCJ-YbdYbMU.twitter</link>
    <dc:creator>lukeneff</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Q: When did you lose your faith in humanity?
A: I work at a casino. About six years ago a guy keeled over on the smoking patio. There were two women with him. One ran into the casino to get help, but the other one who was still out there—she stole his chips. That’s when I lost faith in humanity. It turns out that the woman who stole his chips was a registered nurse!]]></description>
<dc:subject>humanity</dc:subject>
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<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:lukeneff/b:28815cf43b12/</dc:identifier>
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<item rdf:about="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RMEOzOBHqDw">
    <title>The World's Most Powerful Photographs- YouTube</title>
    <dc:date>2012-08-03T00:23:55+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RMEOzOBHqDw</link>
    <dc:creator>lukeneff</dc:creator><dc:subject>show&amp;tell humanity freshmen_humanities history photography ze_frank</dc:subject>
<dc:source>https://pinboard.in/</dc:source>
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<item rdf:about="http://ayjay.tumblr.com/post/27760974337/robert-gifford-a-psychologist-at-the-university">
    <title>Robert Gifford, a psychologist at the University... - more than 95 theses</title>
    <dc:date>2012-07-22T15:13:06+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://ayjay.tumblr.com/post/27760974337/robert-gifford-a-psychologist-at-the-university</link>
    <dc:creator>lukeneff</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[“Robert Gifford, a psychologist at the University of Victoria in British Columbia who studies the behavioral barriers to combating climate change, calls these habits of mind “dragons of inaction.” We have trouble imagining a future drastically different from the present. We block out complex problems that lack simple solutions. We dislike delayed benefits and so are reluctant to sacrifice today for future gains. And we find it harder to confront problems that creep up on us than emergencies that hit quickly. “You almost couldn’t design a problem that is a worse fit with our underlying psychology,” says Anthony Leiserowitz, director of the Yale Project on Climate Change Communication.”]]></description>
<dc:subject>climate global_warming change future humanity</dc:subject>
<dc:source>https://pinboard.in/</dc:source>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:lukeneff/b:78cbf2043961/</dc:identifier>
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<item rdf:about="http://opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/07/09/are-you-an-optimist-or-a-pessimist/">
    <title>Are You an Optimist or a Pessimist? - NYTimes.com</title>
    <dc:date>2012-07-12T15:36:34+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/07/09/are-you-an-optimist-or-a-pessimist/</link>
    <dc:creator>lukeneff</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[If a one kilometer asteroid had approached the Earth on a collision course at any time in human history before the early twenty-first century, it would have killed at least a substantial proportion of all humans. In that respect, as in many others, we live in an era of unprecedented safety: the twenty-first century is the first ever moment when we have known how to defend ourselves from such impacts, which occur once every 250,000 years or so.

Do you think Deutsch’s claim is true? Is it true that “we live in an era of unprecedented safety”?]]></description>
<dc:subject>humanity progress social_studies</dc:subject>
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<item rdf:about="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0F5lbMrCj80&amp;feature=youtu.be">
    <title>This Will Restore Your Faith In Humanity - YouTube</title>
    <dc:date>2012-07-03T20:13:03+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0F5lbMrCj80&amp;feature=youtu.be</link>
    <dc:creator>lukeneff</dc:creator><dc:subject>show&amp;tell good humanity</dc:subject>
<dc:source>https://pinboard.in/</dc:source>
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<item rdf:about="http://ideas.time.com/2012/03/21/how-to-talk-to-young-black-boys-about-trayvon-martin/">
    <title>How To Talk To Young Black Boys About Treyvon Martin by Touré | TIME Ideas | TIME.com</title>
    <dc:date>2012-03-22T14:55:49+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://ideas.time.com/2012/03/21/how-to-talk-to-young-black-boys-about-trayvon-martin/</link>
    <dc:creator>lukeneff</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[3. There is nothing wrong with you. You’re amazing. I love you. When I look at you I see a complex human being with awesome potential but some others will look at you and see a thug. Even if their only evidence is your skin. Their racism relates to larger anxieties and problems in America that you didn’t create. When someone is racist toward you—either because they’ve profiled you or spat some slur or whatever—they are saying they have a problem. They are not speaking about you. They’re speaking about themselves and their deficiencies.

]]></description>
<dc:subject>race racism america american_history society humanity</dc:subject>
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<item rdf:about="http://www.buzzfeed.com/mjs538/every-world-press-photo-winner-from-1955-2011">
    <title>Every World Press Photo Winner From 1955-2011</title>
    <dc:date>2012-02-23T06:05:18+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://www.buzzfeed.com/mjs538/every-world-press-photo-winner-from-1955-2011</link>
    <dc:creator>lukeneff</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[humanity]]></description>
<dc:subject>history humanity photography</dc:subject>
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<item rdf:about="http://thinkyouunderthetable.tumblr.com/post/15157587526/on-the-internet-and-quietness">
    <title>Think You Under the Table On the Internet and Quietness</title>
    <dc:date>2012-01-02T05:42:19+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://thinkyouunderthetable.tumblr.com/post/15157587526/on-the-internet-and-quietness</link>
    <dc:creator>lukeneff</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[My friend Wes linked to this article in the New York Times Sunday Review Op-Ed. It’s about how we’re in danger of losing our selves and our sanity due to screens, the internet, and cellphones (it’s well written and probably better than that description, but…). But as I read these articles from time to time there is a sense that there is something right about them, but I think I ultimately largely disagree with these assessments. Does anyone else find that they don’t have a problem with their selfhood in the context of the internet/cellphones? Maybe it’s because a large part of the way I use these gadgets and all this information is for reading quality writing (like the article Wes linked to) and interacting in intellectually engaging ways with other humans. But that would just reiterate to me that technology is what one makes of it. It isn’t inherently distracting. It can be used for reflective analysis of how one uses technology, like what I’m doing right now. This is form and content in harmony.

]]></description>
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<item rdf:about="http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2011/12/22/magazine/the-lives-they-lived.html?ref=magazine&amp;ref=magazine#view=uneasy_rider">
    <title>The Lives They Lived - Interactive Feature - NYTimes.com</title>
    <dc:date>2011-12-29T21:40:02+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2011/12/22/magazine/the-lives-they-lived.html?ref=magazine&amp;ref=magazine#view=uneasy_rider</link>
    <dc:creator>lukeneff</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[We’re on I-95, and she unhooks the pole, and she’s holding the morphine bag over her head with her gown that’s flying up in the air so you could see her entire naked, bony body with the morphine bag whipping in the wind, and we’re passing by these guys in their Lamborghinis, and I’m looking at them like, What the hell kind of life are you living? Look at me, I’m on top of the world here.]]></description>
<dc:subject>humanity comedy death via:joshweichhand</dc:subject>
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<item rdf:about="http://wesleyhill.tumblr.com/post/14561801842/i-dont-like-this-expression-first-world">
    <title>writing in the dust: I don’t like this expression “First World...</title>
    <dc:date>2011-12-23T00:19:01+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://wesleyhill.tumblr.com/post/14561801842/i-dont-like-this-expression-first-world</link>
    <dc:creator>lukeneff</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[I don’t like this expression “First World problems.” It is false and it is condescending. Yes, Nigerians struggle with floods or infant mortality. But these same Nigerians also deal with mundane and seemingly luxurious hassles. Connectivity issues on your BlackBerry, cost of car repair, how to sync your iPad, what brand of noodles to buy: Third World problems. All the silly stuff of life doesn’t disappear just because you’re black and live in a poorer country. People in the richer nations need a more robust sense of the lives being lived in the darker nations. Here’s a First World problem: the inability to see that others are as fully complex and as keen on technology and pleasure as you are.

One event that illustrated the gap between the Africa of conjecture and the real Africa was the BlackBerry outage of a few weeks ago. Who would have thought Research In Motion’s technical issues would cause so much annoyance and inconvenience in a place like Lagos? But of course it did, because people don’t wake up with “poor African” pasted on their foreheads. They live as citizens of the modern world. None of this is to deny the existence of social stratification and elite structures here. There are lifestyles of the rich and famous, sure. But the interesting thing about modern technology is how socially mobile it is—quite literally. Everyone in Lagos has a phone.]]></description>
<dc:subject>firstworldproblems diversity humanity</dc:subject>
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<item rdf:about="http://www.nytimes.com/2011/11/11/nyregion/bonded-in-love-and-disability-a-couple-keeps-a-promise-till-death.html?_r=2&amp;partner=rss&amp;emc=rss">
    <title>Bonded by Disability, a Couple Keeps a Promise Till Death - NYTimes.com</title>
    <dc:date>2011-11-11T23:10:07+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://www.nytimes.com/2011/11/11/nyregion/bonded-in-love-and-disability-a-couple-keeps-a-promise-till-death.html?_r=2&amp;partner=rss&amp;emc=rss</link>
    <dc:creator>lukeneff</dc:creator><dc:subject>humanity good</dc:subject>
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<item rdf:about="http://www.firstpost.com/world/china-wonders-if-in-the-rush-of-life-it-has-lost-its-soul-111292.html">
    <title>China wonders if, in the rush of life, it has lost its soul | Firstpost</title>
    <dc:date>2011-10-24T12:58:53+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://www.firstpost.com/world/china-wonders-if-in-the-rush-of-life-it-has-lost-its-soul-111292.html</link>
    <dc:creator>lukeneff</dc:creator><dc:subject>humanity human_behavior</dc:subject>
<dc:source>https://pinboard.in/</dc:source>
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<item rdf:about="http://www.samharris.org/blog/item/how-to-lose-readers-without-even-trying/">
    <title>The Blog : How to Lose Readers (Without Even Trying) : Sam Harris</title>
    <dc:date>2011-08-30T03:28:23+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://www.samharris.org/blog/item/how-to-lose-readers-without-even-trying/</link>
    <dc:creator>lukeneff</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Many of us have been extraordinarily lucky—and we did not earn it. Many good people have been extraordinarily unlucky—and they did not deserve it. And yet I get the distinct sense that if I asked some of my readers why they weren’t born with club feet, or orphaned before the age of five, they would not hesitate to take credit for these accomplishments. There is a stunning lack of insight into the unfolding of human events that passes for moral and economic wisdom in some circles. And it is pernicious. Followers of Rand, in particular, believe that only a blind reliance on market forces and the narrowest conception of self interest can steer us collectively toward the best civilization possible and that any attempt to impose wisdom or compassion from the top—no matter who is at the top and no matter what the need—is necessarily corrupting of the whole enterprise. This conviction is, at the very least, unproven. And there are many reasons to believe that it is dangerously wrong. ]]></description>
<dc:subject>culture economics human humanity</dc:subject>
<dc:source>https://pinboard.in/</dc:source>
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<item rdf:about="http://www.ditext.com/diamond/mistake.html">
    <title>The Worst Mistake in the History of the Human Race</title>
    <dc:date>2011-07-14T03:24:01+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://www.ditext.com/diamond/mistake.html</link>
    <dc:creator>lukeneff</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[While the case for the progressivist view seems overwhelming, it's hard to prove. How do you show that the lives of people 10,000 years ago got better when they abandoned hunting and gathering for farming? Until recently, archaeologists had to resort to indirect tests, whose results (surprisingly) failed to support the progressivist view. Here's one example of an indirect test: Are twentieth century hunter-gatherers really worse off than farmers? Scattered throughout the world, several dozen groups of so-called primitive people, like the Kalahari bushmen, continue to support themselves that way. It turns out that these people have plenty of leisure time, sleep a good deal, and work less hard than their farming neighbors. For instance, the average time devoted each week to obtaining food is only 12 to 19 hours for one group of Bushmen, 14 hours or less for the Hadza nomads of Tanzania. One Bushman, when asked why he hadn't emulated neighboring tribes by adopting agriculture, replied, "Why should we, when there are so many mongongo nuts in the world?"

...

One answer boils down to the adage "Might makes right." Farming could support many more people than hunting, albeit with a poorer quality of life. (Population densities of hunter-gatherers are rarely over on person per ten square miles, while farmers average 100 times that.) Partly, this is because a field planted entirely in edible crops lets one feed far more mouths than a forest with scattered edible plants. Partly, too, it's because nomadic hunter-gatherers have to keep their children spaced at four-year intervals by infanticide and other means, since a mother must carry her toddler until it's old enough to keep up with the adults. Because farm women don't have that burden, they can and often do bear a child every two years.


]]></description>
<dc:subject>evolution humanity economics history</dc:subject>
<dc:source>https://instapaper.com/</dc:source>
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<item rdf:about="http://www.kk.org/thetechnium/archives/2011/07/found_quotes_8.php?">
    <title>The Technium: Found Quotes, 8</title>
    <dc:date>2011-07-11T21:17:51+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://www.kk.org/thetechnium/archives/2011/07/found_quotes_8.php?</link>
    <dc:creator>lukeneff</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[It is said that we are all three different people: the person we think we are (the one we have invented), the person other people think we are (the impression we make) and the person we think other people think we are (the one we fret about). -- Stephen Bayley, The Gentle Art of Selling Yourself, March 4, 2007

In civilizations without boats, dreams dry up, espionage takes the place of adventure, and the police take the place of pirates. -- Michel Foucault, Of Other Spaces, 1967]]></description>
<dc:subject>politics society technology quotes leadership personhood humanity</dc:subject>
<dc:source>https://pinboard.in/</dc:source>
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<item rdf:about="http://snarkmarket.com/2011/6889">
    <title>Possible Worlds « Snarkmarket</title>
    <dc:date>2011-05-24T05:44:33+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://snarkmarket.com/2011/6889</link>
    <dc:creator>lukeneff</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Critics like Charles Taylor have accused Malick of pursuing a false dualism in his work, of sending in a crude human archetype, boorish and unseemly, to “despoil the uncorrupted beauty of nature.” But Malick’s nature is not Milton’s; here it is the garden that is fallen. Oddly, in this, our most profound modern fable of war, humanity is a transfiguring force: the first of nature’s forms to buck its amino acid programming, to strain tragically at something beyond Hobbesian survival. In the end, The Thin Red Line is a work of humanism, not nature worship; a reminder that even if history and war should extinguish the first flickers of truth and beauty, they will linger on in human memory, as hints of a possible transcendence. ]]></description>
<dc:subject>human humanity film philosophy</dc:subject>
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<item rdf:about="http://blog.frankchimero.com/post/5546566205/human-hierarchy-creating-space-for-a-face">
    <title>Frank Chimero - Human Hierarchy—Creating Space for a Face</title>
    <dc:date>2011-05-16T17:36:39+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://blog.frankchimero.com/post/5546566205/human-hierarchy-creating-space-for-a-face</link>
    <dc:creator>lukeneff</dc:creator><dc:subject>digital_design digital community humanity</dc:subject>
<dc:source>https://pinboard.in/</dc:source>
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<item rdf:about="http://www.clusterflock.org/2011/05/is-this-right.html#comments">
    <title>Is this right? | clusterflock</title>
    <dc:date>2011-05-12T19:40:34+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://www.clusterflock.org/2011/05/is-this-right.html#comments</link>
    <dc:creator>lukeneff</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Deron Bauman on May 12th, 2011 at 12:22 pm
My favorite idea lately has to do with all the autonomous systems we have running in the background below the awareness of our conscious selves.

Deron Bauman on May 12th, 2011 at 12:23 pm
The hum of the factory, as it were.]]></description>
<dc:subject>thinking humanity words_used_well</dc:subject>
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    <title>A Star Is Made - New York Times</title>
    <dc:date>2011-04-28T00:48:27+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://www.nytimes.com/2006/05/07/magazine/07wwln_freak.html?_r=2&amp;pagewanted=all</link>
    <dc:creator>lukeneff</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[When someone is very good at a given thing, what is it that actually makes him good?]]></description>
<dc:subject>assessment complexity human humanity ideation strange strategy</dc:subject>
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<item rdf:about="http://www.nytimes.com/2011/04/27/books/robert-w-fogel-investigates-human-evolution.html?_r=2&amp;partner=rss&amp;emc=rss&amp;pagewanted=all">
    <title>Robert W. Fogel Investigates Human Evolution - NYTimes.com</title>
    <dc:date>2011-04-26T22:53:13+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://www.nytimes.com/2011/04/27/books/robert-w-fogel-investigates-human-evolution.html?_r=2&amp;partner=rss&amp;emc=rss&amp;pagewanted=all</link>
    <dc:creator>lukeneff</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[ But Mr. Fogel said that he remained an optimist at heart. The human body is enormously flexible and responsive, he said, a fact that fills him with confidence that “the trend of larger bodies and longer lives will continue into the future.” ]]></description>
<dc:subject>evolution science humanity</dc:subject>
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<item rdf:about="http://www.43folders.com/2011/04/22/cranking">
    <title>Cranking</title>
    <dc:date>2011-04-23T01:46:15+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://www.43folders.com/2011/04/22/cranking</link>
    <dc:creator>lukeneff</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["DAD-dy! DAD-dy! DAD-dy!"

Just like I think she's The Greatest Thing in the Universe.

But, even when my shitty little crank was not attached to anything, I did keep cranking. Because, Dads do their job. It's what they do.

They crank. They crank and crank and crank and crank.

My book needs to be about choosing a hard thing and then living with it. Because it’s your thing.

I'm done cranking. And, I'm ready to make a change.

This is not me quitting the book. No fucking way. This is me doubling down on the book--on my book.]]></description>
<dc:subject>inspiration btfi writing writing_process creativity work workhard happiness humanity ideation</dc:subject>
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<item rdf:about="http://mavenist.tumblr.com/post/3566344174">
    <title>Vonnegut on loneliness</title>
    <dc:date>2011-02-28T18:44:25+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://mavenist.tumblr.com/post/3566344174</link>
    <dc:creator>lukeneff</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[“What should young people do with their lives today? Many things, obviously. But the most daring thing is to create stable communities in which the terrible disease of loneliness can be cured.”

- Kurt Vonnegut]]></description>
<dc:subject>writing_prompt humanity community</dc:subject>
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    <title>McCarty Musings: A Holy Choir of Drag Queens</title>
    <dc:date>2011-02-21T15:50:24+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://mccarty.typepad.com/mccarty_thoughts/2011/02/a-holy-choir-of-drag-queens.html</link>
    <dc:creator>lukeneff</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[t's funny how the most vital things I do as a nurse almost never require a degree.]]></description>
<dc:subject>humanity teaching</dc:subject>
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    <title>Adaptation to Windowlessness: Do Office Workers Compensate for a Lack of Visual Access to the Outdoors? — Environment and Behavior</title>
    <dc:date>2011-02-19T17:32:04+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://eab.sagepub.com/content/early/2011/01/12/0013916510368351.abstract?papetoc</link>
    <dc:creator>lukeneff</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[If office workers lack a view to natural features outdoors, do they compensate by bringing plants and pictures of nature indoors? The authors used cross-sectional survey data from 385 Norwegian office workers to investigate whether such compensation occurs. The authors found that workers without windows had roughly five times greater odds of having brought plants into their workspaces than workers with windows, independent of age, gender, type of office, job demands, control over work, and personalization. Windowless workers also had three times greater odds of having brought pictures of nature into their workspaces. The authors consider implications of the findings for environmental design that offers contact with nature to people who spend much of their time indoors. ]]></description>
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<item rdf:about="http://www.npr.org/blogs/monkeysee/2011/02/02/133435625/dr-cornel-wests-extraordinary-conversation-with-craig-ferguson">
    <title>Dr. Cornel West's Extraordinary Conversation With Craig Ferguson : Monkey See : NPR</title>
    <dc:date>2011-02-09T04:22:24+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://www.npr.org/blogs/monkeysee/2011/02/02/133435625/dr-cornel-wests-extraordinary-conversation-with-craig-ferguson</link>
    <dc:creator>lukeneff</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[That's right. Late-night television brings you what is truly and sincerely intended as a discussion of your humanity.

What made the show so unusual doesn't rely on whether you agreed with everything either of them said, or whether this or that comment had any element of awkwardness, or anything of that nature. It was the calm good humor and ... really, the gentleness of this exchange. It is a qualitatively different use of this form. It is an effort to use, of all things, the late-night talk show as a home for the kind of conversations that too rarely happen in public and are almost never broadcast on commercial television.]]></description>
<dc:subject>race american_history humanity racism cornel_west</dc:subject>
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<item rdf:about="http://www.youmightfindyourself.com/post/2453239458/this-is-what-we-do-humans-we-tinker-and-change">
    <title>This Is What We Do, Humans.</title>
    <dc:date>2010-12-25T03:32:30+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://www.youmightfindyourself.com/post/2453239458/this-is-what-we-do-humans-we-tinker-and-change</link>
    <dc:creator>lukeneff</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[This is what we do, humans. We tinker and change and endlessly imagine a more perfect future. And, at the same time, we idealize the past. So, we’re trapped. Progress’ constant companion is nostalgia for the way things used to be.

The thing we forget about progress: there is no master plan. It lurches forward, in the dark, accidentally, and you’re never sure where it’s taking you. There’s no going back, whether it wants to or not.
Cite Arrow Ira Glass, This American Life]]></description>
<dc:subject>ira_glass humanity progress quote</dc:subject>
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    <title>Hit-and-run victim was quiet and dependable, co-workers say - St. Petersburg Times</title>
    <dc:date>2010-10-05T19:40:46+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://www.tampabay.com/news/obituaries/hit-and-run-victim-was-quiet-and-dependable-co-workers-say/1124721</link>
    <dc:creator>lukeneff</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[He broke no laws, other than a 2007 open-container violation.

Every year, Rogers put up a small artificial Christmas tree and decorated it. "I kind of forced him" to celebrate holidays, Rogers said. She gave him a mountain bike after his was stolen, and bought extra reflectors for his birthday. Because it was important not to wait, she gave him the reflectors Sept. 10, before his birthday.

Two days later, Mr. Smith had nearly finished the bike ride home from work and was just a block from the mobile home park when a car hit his bicycle from the rear in the 7300 block of Fourth Street N. Witnesses reported it was a white or light-colored midsized sedan — possibly a Ford Taurus or Mercury Sable. Police said that Mr. Smith was following bicycle safety recommendations such as wearing light-colored clothing, using reflectors and riding in the bicycle lane.

His head struck a metal light pole. He never regained consciousness.
]]></description>
<dc:subject>writing humanity</dc:subject>
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<item rdf:about="http://stevemiranda.wordpress.com/2010/10/01/my-favorite-all-time-moment-as-a-teacher/">
    <title>My favorite all-time moment as a teacher</title>
    <dc:date>2010-10-02T01:09:08+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://stevemiranda.wordpress.com/2010/10/01/my-favorite-all-time-moment-as-a-teacher/</link>
    <dc:creator>lukeneff</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Here’s my favorite all-time moment as a teacher from my time working in a traditional school:

I was standing in the hall during the five minutes between classes when one student, who was a drummer in the jazz band, pulled out his drumsticks and began tapping on his locker. A friend walked up and began clapping a beat. Quickly, three others joined them: one was beat-boxing, one slapping his thighs, the other also clapping a beat.

It was awesome. A five-man percussion band had formed, spontaneously, and was in full jam when the final bell rang alerting students that they should be in class. The boys all looked at each other, recognizing they needed to wrap it up. Within 30 seconds, they concluded their impromptu jam session. I smiled at them and said, “Now get to class.” They responded with a smile, “On our way, Miranda.”

They all moved on to their respective classes where, I suspect, their teacher welcomed them and admonished them not to be late next time. That was the culture of the
]]></description>
<dc:subject>squishy&gt;slick humanity education</dc:subject>
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    <title>&quot;If you can think of times in your life that you’ve treated people with extraordinary decency and...&quot;</title>
    <dc:date>2010-09-01T18:40:21+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://portraitoftheartistasayoungman.tumblr.com/post/1048822359</link>
    <dc:creator>lukeneff</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[“If you can think of times in your life that you’ve treated people with extraordinary decency and love, and pure uninterested concern, just because they were valuable as human beings. The ability to do that with ourselves. To treat ourselves the way we would treat a really good, precious friend. Or a tiny child of ours that we absolutely loved more than life itself. And I think it’s probably possible to achieve that. I think part of the job we’re here for is to learn how to do it. I know that sounds a little pious.”
]]></description>
<dc:subject>humanity dfw</dc:subject>
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