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    <title>What Has Happened to Taste?</title>
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    <dc:creator>robertogreco</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["Technology has made it easier than ever to broadcast the things we like. Do any of us actually know anymore why we like them?"

...

"The ease and omnipresence of these technologiescan feel insurmountable. Who could bring themselves to get off Spotify? But they aren’t only swallowing us. Especially in the age of AI, when creation is just as cheap as curation, technology is killing the entire online experience. The Dead Internet Theory supposes that AI slop has taken over all previously genuine human activity on the Internet. Discussion forums have been flooded with bot accounts, all photos and videos are generated by AI, etc. It’s the natural and metaphorical end state for the version of taste we have now: literal robots endlessly aping things that already exist with minute variations. But we’re not there yet, and in fact, if the dead parts of the Internet are our flattened, gerrymandered style subcultures, perhaps that’s good.

As much as we’re told that the Web has become this poisonous, self-referential cesspool, such that finding inspiration offline is the new gold standard—or at least that’s what the consensus is here in Brooklyn—I think that’s too easy. For all the harm technology has done to our ability to develop taste, it’s still true that the Internet has given us unparalleled access to just about anything. We can now sift through the entire discographies of obscure international bands, watch independent short films, and read archived magazines whenever we want. I believe it still holds promise.

Here is what we must get rid of: Having taste today is synonymous with having “good taste.” That is what we mean when we say that someone “has taste”; we mean that they have good taste. That is a lie.

There was a time when taste was cultivated through trial and error. We used to have to take risks and suffer through its repercussions. By basking in the discomfort of ill-fitting silhouettes and excessive layering, we learned what worked best for us. We weren’t constantly trying to define and communicate what our tastes were because there wasn’t a “right” answer to what makes good taste. We got to good taste, such as it was, through a series of horrendous choices that exhibited bad taste.

The evil of the Dead Internet Theory, if it is right, is that it leaves us nowhere to turn for inspiration. But it supposes that the Algorithm is all that there is. There are broad swaths of the Internet that haven’t been colonized; the Algorithm is only the neatly paved brick road on the Internet’s uneven, treacherous terrain. It has its limits. No one’s stopping you from venturing off the beaten path to destinations that aren’t optimized for visibility: personal websites, anonymous bulletin boards, resource libraries.

“Internet walks”—the act of aimlessly surfing through online rabbit holes, not unlike how we experienced Wikipedia when it was new and wondrous, clicking from page to page until you wound up with knowledge you never would have suspected even existed—exposes us to the less legible textures of the Web. There are tools designed to facilitate this. The platform Are.na is like a nonalgorithmic Pinterest board where you can follow different people and traverse the parts of the Internet they bookmark. “The goal is not self-improvement,” says a note at the bottom of its home page. “The goal is engaging more deeply with the World.” It is precisely through navigating the vast, digital ridges that we’re forced to consider what resonated and why. That provokes introspection, through which the walls that once gerrymandered our tastes slowly crumble.

This notion, of course, is older than the Internet. In 1958, Guy Debord—a contemporary of Sontag, the author of The Society of Spectacle, and a member of the French postwar avant-garde group Situationist International—introduced the concept of the dérive. Defined as an unstructured, improvised wandering through an urban landscape, dérive pushes participants to let go of the relationships they have with their social environment. Pick a color and follow it; close your eyes and identify the loudest persistent sound you’re hearing, then walk to go find it; at every intersection, roll the dice to see which way to turn. In other words, walk for walking’s sake. A predecessor of Baudrillard, Debord saw the practice as the antidote to society’s “decline of being into having, and having into merely appearing.”

Debord’s position operated in direct opposition to a culture of being “intentional.” Today’s algorithmic culture is the epitome of intentional. Nothing is an accident. Terms like curated and mindful are sprinkled across everything. What those terms obscure is a lack of introspection. Debord believed that by refamiliarizing ourselves with the things of the world rather than the relationships we have to them, we could find new, deeper meaning and come to know ourselves better. Perhaps by refamiliarizing ourselves with the physical (wearing a shirt) rather than the intellectual (what the shirt says about you), we can find a way out of what we would today call the Algorithm. Objects of trends, when considered in isolation, are simply things. They stop representing our membership in an algorithmic faction or signaling social status. They become free to mean anything for anyone.

The risk is that you will occasionally step on thorns. You will have moments of bad taste. But taste is by definition subjective, so unpopular tastes should exist, too. Where there is preference for Rick Owens, there’s also demand for Allbirds and skinny jeans. Our fixation on embodying the consensus of whatever algorithmic faction we fall under has asphyxiated every ounce of whimsy. Aren’t occasional poor choices worth the trade-off?

I now occasionally start my mornings with an aimless walk around the neighborhood, fueled partially by a desire to happen upon some caffeine. I no longer judge shops by their Japandi aesthetic, and I’ve stopped using Google Maps to read reviews or navigate to nearby joints. I’ve gotten the sense that much of the most highly acclaimed spots, while perfectly Instagrammable, make horrible coffee. But that’s by my own definition of what makes coffee good, and my opinion is that the best cup of coffee is just something that’s piping hot and costs less than three dollars. I recognize that that’s out of step in Brooklyn, but who’s a better judge of what I like best than me? I think it’s fair to say that I’ve tried enough happenstance coffee at this point to have an actual opinion. Cheap, hot coffee is what I like, and I’m not ashamed to say it. I earned it.

The same goes with taste. Forget the expensive coffee. Ignore the barber’s perfectly curated Instagram. Give the wrong bands a chance. Watch Kurosawa, sure, but not because another famous director, QT or otherwise, said anything—watch Kurosawa because Rashomon will terrify you. I could say more, but I’ll stop there because I’m getting away from my point. The point of this essay is don’t take my word for it."]]></description>
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    <dc:creator>robertogreco</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["A New York Times Book Review Editors’ Choice · A Washington Post Notable Nonfiction Book of 2025 · A People Best Book of November 2025 · An NPR Most Anticipated Book of Fall 2025

A revealing exploration of a quarter century of cultural stagnation, examining the commercial and technological forces that have come to dominate contemporary culture—from music and fashion to art, film, TV, and beyond

Over the past twenty-five years, pop culture has suffered from a perplexing lack of reinvention. We’ve entered a cultural “blank space”—an era when reboots, rehashes, and fads flourish, while bold artistic experimentation struggles to gain recognition. Why is risk no longer rewarded, and how did playing it safe become the formula for success? Acclaimed cultural historian W. David Marx sets out to uncover the answers.

In this ambitious cultural history, Marx guides us through the blur of the twenty-first century so far, from the Obama era to the rise of K-pop, from Paris Hilton to the Marvel cinematic universe, from Beyoncé and Taylor Swift to . . . Beyoncé and Taylor Swift, whose enduring influence highlights both their adaptability and the broader shifts in pop culture. Combining sociological, economic, and political insights with a deep dive into art, street culture, fashion, and technology, Blank Space dissects the rise of profit-driven, formulaic trends and the shifting cultural norms that often prioritize going viral over innovation. He reveals how backlash against indie snobbery and nineties counterculture gave rise to a “counter-counterculture”—one marked by antiliberal sentiment, the celebration of business heroes, and the increasing influence of industry plants and the elite class. In a world of crypto bros, nepo babies, and AI-driven art, Marx offers readers a much-needed dose of clarity and context.

Vibrantly narrated and sharply argued, Blank Space is an essential guide for anyone looking to understand the chaos of the twenty-first century, the trends, tastemakers, and icons who shaped it, and how we might push our culture forward over the next quarter century—through renewed emphasis on creativity, community, and the values that transcend mere profit."

[See also:
https://craigmod.com/onmargins/s02e04/

"Speaking of books you should nab. Longtime friend and member of the Craig Mod Cinematic Universe, W. David Marx, has a new book fresh off the presses: Blank Space: A Cultural History of the Twenty-First Century. I loved this book. I also hated it, in the sense that it affirmed my growing sense of dread around “cultural production” in 2025. I got to read it back in September, and I marked the hell out of it. And then David and I recorded a new episode of On Margins, the first in about five years.

The book is a look at the last twenty-five years of (largely) American pop-culture: art, film, music, and politics, as politics has veered firmly (entirely?) into mostly bad-faith entertainment. Spread out over Marx’s 380 (quick) pages, something’s off:
<blockquote>The first step in reversing cultural stagnation is to accept that artistic invention is a social good. And like so many other social goods, it isn’t necessarily going to have its production prioritized by the market. We — creators and audiences alike — have to make an effort to encourage bold new forms of culture. Even failures and half steps will be more interesting than overly market-tested products.</blockquote>
Reading Blank Space didn’t necessarily “radicalize” me, but it made me overtly grateful for the work I’m doing: work grounded in the world, physicality, relying on social media as little as possible, operating at “human scale” and creating as many “durable” and “deep” connections as possible, attempting to elevate everyone who’s involved. I’ve been lucky. I’m able to walk, to write, to photograph, and then collate all that into printed books. It’s easier than ever to sell printed books online thanks to companies like Shopify. And it’s easier than ever to form a relationship with a fulfillment warehouse, set up a DHL account, and ship the things around the earth. Global shipping is the 10th wonder of the world. I love that I work with talented printers and binders, paying their employees well. I love that I have readers who are OK with paying what my books cost. I like that the arc of the work is slow and loping, that daily updates might happen in spurts, but they are 2,000-5,000 words spurts, amidst an outsized walk, more like an ascetic ritual, calming, fullness-giving, the opposite of whatever it is you have to access to upload daily TikToks.

Work like mine has almost no representation in David’s book. There’s a ruthlessness that’s taken hold across all strata of cultural making (and life itself). Everything turned into a casino, “traps” galore. Billions as the only goal. Achieved celebrity? Start a coffee brand (or gin brand, or tequila brand; I’m shocked nobody is selling their own cigarettes). Leave “nothing on the table.” Epicurean maximizing. That sort of thing. The whole world in a swivet about every dumb breath by some dumdum. AI now turning the future protean. Models upending models within days. Solid ground made liquid for the next decade.

David’s book is funny. I mean, it’s heartbreaking, mainly. But you’ll laugh as your soul is pummeled. David quotes all the fools of the last twenty-five years. They are happy to shoot themselves in their own feet, again and again. The book is most tragic when it dips into politics. In our On Margins chat, we mention Obama, how his ascension symbolized some “completion” — “it was love triumphing over hate, and peace over war, and all sorts of things of the way we were told how things were going to play out because of the natural order of the world, that there would be some sort of correction and this was the correction.” It’s surreal now to think of that world in 2010. The iPhone basically still new. Obama in the White House. The full conversion of everything online to brain traps, to teleportation heroin, still years away. Back when you actually had to “follow” folks to see their content. 2010, just fifteen years ago, but about seven generations of mental life. Back when a trillion-dollar company was a pipe dream (Apple being the first to hit that number, in 2018; now it feels like a monthly announcement, Nvidia hitting $5T a month ago), back when you didn’t nab a $100B valuation as a startup before you even launched a product. Back when Apple’s own apps weren’t loaded with ads. Back when not everything was “recurring revenue” driven. Back when even non-institutional investors had a chance to get in on a company like Facebook or Google while they were still in ascendancy.

Still, around that (now seemingly Brigadoonish) time, I already had a growing sense of doom / skepticism around how much tech money was being bandied about:
<blockquote>Craig: Early 2008, 2009, 2010, I was very negative on Facebook. Very early because I remember explicitly that Facebook was eating up all the designers, uh, from Brooklyn who were doing genuinely interesting work. I remember being really depressed about that. But if Facebook offers you a million dollar salary — especially in 2008, 2009, 2010, it’s hard to turn down. But it felt like there was this incredible compromise that had started to happen.</blockquote>
And David, expanding on this point:
<blockquote>David: This is a really important point of the 21st century, which is I graduated in 2001, and I don’t think anyone around me, even the money hungry people were like, I’m going to be a billionaire. No, it was just on zero people’s minds. And the best was like, dude, did you know you could go work for an investment bank and within five years you could be making $1 million?</blockquote>
Anyway, you should absolutely read David’s book. It deals with all of this and more. His ability to synthesize vast swaths of history and criticism into sane, compressed chapters is inspiring. It’s a fun read, and may radicalize you, too, in better directions. Or just reaffirm the path you’re already on. Or just get you to step offline for a few moments."

"Pop Culture Got Stale. Counterculture Went Right-Wing.
How the rise and fall of the nihilist hipster gave us the cruel reactionaries of today."
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/11/21/books/review/culture-right-wing-david-marx.html
https://archive.ph/idxdR

"Make Culture Weird Again
Even failures and half steps will be more interesting than the boring stuff."
https://www.theatlantic.com/culture/2025/11/blank-space-book-excerpt-culture/685037/
https://www.theatlantic.com/culture/2025/11/blank-space-book-excerpt-culture/685037/?gift=j9r7avb6p-KY8zdjhsiSZzZAypQ-DyUUwPxyZrMsWaI
https://archive.ph/KJmQM ]]]></description>
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    <dc:date>2025-11-16T23:20:45+00:00</dc:date>
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    <dc:creator>robertogreco</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["Más allá de Rosalía, existe un revival cristiano entre algunos jóvenes con movimientos que convierten el catolicismo en moda pop, como Hakuna o Siloé, influencers pijas o la promoción de retiros espirituales Effetá. Moda pasajera o vocación duradera, fenómeno mediático o tendencia real, ética o estética... En este programa nos preguntamos "¿Por qué volvemos a hablar de Dios?" con Rafael Ruiz y Joseba García, sociólogos expertos en religión; hablamos de LUX y mística religiosa con Frankie Pizá, y debatimos junto a Ángela Rodríguez PAM y Estela Ortiz sobre el boom del género monjil, sus vínculos con movimientos reaccionarios como el de las tradwives y sus repercusiones, especialmente para las mujeres. Nos despedimos con una nueva entrega del humor de nuestra gran Antía Lousada.

Puedes ver la segunda parte de este programa, la sección de Antía Lousada aquí: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yatx73b7a84

Más información aquí: https://www.eldiario.es/carnecruda/programas/catolicismo-pop-volvemos-hablar-dios_132_12756315.html 

"La sociedad española es cada vez más secular: el número de católicos ha caído del 90% en los años setenta a apenas un 55% hoy, y entre los jóvenes la cifra es aún más baja. Sin embargo, algo está ocurriendo en los últimos años: entre 2023 y 2025 la catolicidad confesa entre menores de 35 años ha pasado del 34% al 41%. No es un fenómeno exclusivo de España: en Francia, por ejemplo, los bautizos de adultos y adolescentes se han duplicado en solo 2 años, y en Reino Unido, los jóvenes de 18 a 24 años que dicen asistir a misa han pasado del 4% en 2018 al 16%.

El sentimiento religioso tiene un revival en Occidente y se manifiesta en todas partes: de la catarsis mística de Rosalía a Hakuna, movimiento de masas que arrastra a decenas de miles de jóvenes católicos en todo el mundo desde Hakuna a Efetá. ¿Se trata de una moda pasajera o tiene vocación duradera? ¿Es solo fenómeno mediático o una tendencia real? Exploramos este revival religioso con los investigadores Rafael Ruiz y Joseba García, sociólogos expertos en religión.""]]></description>
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    <dc:creator>robertogreco</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["New York’s hottest status symbol is a grocery store selling nothing."

...

"Andrea Hernández, creator of the popular Substack Snaxshot—aptly dubbed by The New York Times the Nostradamus of snacking—has another name for stores like Erewhon: Hypebeast grocers. “It doesn’t seem like there’s enough in the store to make sense.” Hernández tells me, “There’s a difference between selling gourmet items versus selling the hype around the grocery store itself. Erewhon is the Supreme of grocery stores. The $30 smoothie I must try… They create an aura of scarcity.” The phenomenon is international. In Seoul, Monday Morning Market drops groceries like capsule collections.

In stark relief, Hernández describes our parents’ buying habits. They went to the store, and then got out. The big choice in the cereal aisle would be buying a private label (ShopRite’s own) over a name brand (Barilla) for the sake of affordability and value. Then, “Along comes our generation, growing up with social media and inheriting the behaviors of affordable affluence. It’s the lipstick effect.” You may not be able to afford a Birkin, but you can go and try a $20 strawberry at Erewhon and post about it in the same way. Whether you eat the berry at all, actually, doesn’t matter.

How many people can really afford to do a full shop at one of these stores? In 2023 New York Magazine ran a sobering profile about the Angelinos going into debt to afford their Erewhon habit—people fixated both on the potential wellness benefits and the potential upward mobility Erewhon has to offer. Hernández remarks, “It’s depressing to think that this is the way that we are able to kind of have that same dopamine hit of keeping up with the Joneses, but it’s like, what’s in your grocery cart?” 

After the development of the first self-service grocery store Piggly Wiggly in 1916, packaging began to take on a more and more significant role in how we eat. There was an attempt to make products you might otherwise pass up in a grocery aisle more attractive. Now, with the advent of social media, branding, aesthetic intrigue, and hype are everything. “It’s the Trojan-horsing of aesthetics, the yass-ification of everything. Like, why does a can of beans have to look like that?” says Hernández. As she points out, Happier Grocery even offers transparent bags with the logo—like a walking display case for your carefully selected nut milks and pre-washed salad. 

The issue, Hernández feels, is that we’ve “shaped grocery stores in our clout-chasing image.” She explains, “We’re the apex consumers, and we’re treating grocery stores like luxury stores. Everything around us has to signal something because of social media.” Nussdorf, however, is skeptical of how Erewhon and its direct competitors’ clout chasing will translate to a New York audience: “I don’t think these smoothies with these influencers or designers in New York City that some of these other competitors are doing is making them that much money.”

These “HypeMarts” have more shared DNA with Balenciaga or Telfar than they do with a Whole Foods, relying on scarcity, drops, and branding for business. Beyond acting like clothing brands, these grocery stores also have their own clothing brands. Hernández tells me, “Happier grocery sells $120 jackets. Erewhon has been dropping, like, merch capsules.” Happier Grocer was created by a former Marc Jacobs designer and is owned by the same team that runs the W.S.A. building in FiDi and S.A.A. in Bushwick—two fashion hot spots—and the luxurious Cayman Heights hotel Palm Heights. Flamingo Estate, a popular lifestyle brand that sells a $80 jar of dried strawberries, has the tagline “Mother Nature is the last great luxury house.”"

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"Culturally, as our grocery stores have trended sparer, so too have our bodies. For the past two years, publications across the world have published, repetitively and without satisfaction, about whether being ultra thin was “back.” According to CNN, as of 2024 1-in-8 American adults has taken Ozempic or another GLP-1. For Hernández these grocery stores represent the final evolution of consumerism: When you see groceries not as a necessity but as luxury good.  “It’s fucking dystopian as hell at a time where you have food inaccessibility, and people are having to DoorDash or eat Taco Bell because it’s cheaper than going to the grocery store. In Austin, there’s a store that’s opening soon with underground delivery because it’s cheaper and doesn’t have any overhead costs.” The brand (can we even call it a store?) is called Goods and advertises two-minute grocery delivery via “underground delivery” sent to a pickup lane near you. Hernández speculates, “Maybe we are going to start getting more groceries from underground tunnels, and then only if you can afford it, you’re gonna go have that luxury experience of going to an actual grocery store.” If that all sounds like a pipe dream, then it’s worth noting that when Erewhon debuts a new product, they often set up a selfie station with vegetables as the photo backdrop. Hernández, who grew up shopping at local markets in Honduras, turns somber: “We cannot unlearn convenience. We’re basically cosplaying being able to connect with what nurtures us.”"]]></description>
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    <dc:creator>robertogreco</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["Since its launch in 2022, ChatGPT has become the fastest-growing consumer application in history. The tool is embedded in more and more areas of daily life and new research shows that it's also transforming how we write and even speak. 

A group of researchers analyzed more than 360,000 YouTube videos and 771,000 podcast episodes from before and after ChatGPT’s release to track the use of ChatGPT-affiliated words like "delve" and "examine."  

All of this has major implications. Adam Aleksic is an etymologist who studies the way the internet is reshaping language. His new book Algospeak tackles all of this. He joins me to discuss how ChatGPT and AI is transforming the way we talk, what words we use, and how we communicate."]]></description>
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    <dc:creator>robertogreco</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["How a new “woke” elite uses the language of social justice to gain more power and status—without helping the marginalized and disadvantaged"

...

"Society has never been more egalitarian—in theory. Prejudice is taboo, and diversity is strongly valued. At the same time, social and economic inequality have exploded. In We Have Never Been Woke, Musa al-Gharbi argues that these trends are closely related, each tied to the rise of a new elite—the symbolic capitalists. In education, media, nonprofits, and beyond, members of this elite work primarily with words, ideas, images, and data, and are very likely to identify as allies of antiracist, feminist, LGBTQ, and other progressive causes. Their dominant ideology is “wokeness” and, while their commitment to equality is sincere, they actively benefit from and perpetuate the inequalities they decry. Indeed, their egalitarian credentials help them gain more power and status, often at the expense of the marginalized and disadvantaged.

We Have Never Been Woke details how the language of social justice is increasingly used to justify this elite—and to portray the losers in the knowledge economy as deserving their lot because they think or say the “wrong” things about race, gender, and sexuality. Al-Gharbi’s point is not to accuse symbolic capitalists of hypocrisy or cynicism. Rather, he examines how their genuine beliefs prevent them from recognizing how they contribute to social problems—or how their actions regularly provoke backlash against the social justice causes they champion.

A powerful critique, We Have Never Been Woke reveals that only by challenging this elite’s self-serving narratives can we hope to address social and economic inequality effectively."

[See also:
https://press.princeton.edu/ideas/ideas-podcast-we-have-never-been-woke

via:

"A book on ‘wokeness’ Catholic evangelizers need to read" by Stephen G. Adubato
https://www.americamagazine.org/arts-culture/2025/05/09/review-we-have-never-been-woke-250608 ]]]></description>
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    <title>🟧 Overtourism destinations - One Thing</title>
    <dc:date>2024-08-29T21:01:07+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://onethingnewsletter.substack.com/p/overtourism-destinations</link>
    <dc:creator>robertogreco</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["Kyle Chayka: At last count, three of my friends have been traveling in the Dolomites in the past month, per Instagram evidence. By NYT standards, that’s enough for a trend piece. A year ago, I had never heard mention of them as a millennial destination. Now I’m familiar enough with the spiky peaks and Scotland-esque green valleys that I can identify them on sight. Of course, the Italian alps have always been compelling to travelers and perhaps hut-to-hut hiking is a pastime appealing to thirtysomethings in my demographic. But the sudden fad is interesting to observe. Different places seem to become fashionable every year, at different points in the year, the same way there’s always a new hot clothing brand (Dolomites = Loewe, in this case). As in fashion, classics get revived for a new season. Just observe TikTok’s obsession with the French Riviera in 2023.

Overtourism is everywhere. Pick a popular place, and you can probably find an article about it. This month, NYT reported that it’s ruining Barcelona, sparking protests with locals shooting squirt guns at tourists. It’s plaguing Kyoto, where residents are harassing tour guides. Santorini in Greece is having the “worst season ever” per CNN because cruise ships of visitors abandon the city by nightfall and don’t spend enough money: It’s both too crowded and economically unfeasible. Venice, the original overtourism victim, has a new fee for visitors as if it were an amusement park ride. Icelandic geography is getting trampled. Lisbon restaurants are offering lower prices to actual Portuguese.

In Barcelona, the deputy mayor said this of tourism: “We have to understand that the demand is unstoppable. The only thing we can do is control the supply.” A fascinating statement: There is no end of people wanting to visit Barcelona, so they must stop some percentage of people from being able to visit Barcelona. The city government does this by raising tourism taxes and banning Airbnbs, theoretically limiting tourists to the available number of officially licensed hotels and rooms. Barcelona had Google Maps remove a public bus route running to Parc Güell so that tourists wouldn’t destroy its usefulness for locals. (If the tourists can’t see it on their phones, does it even exist for them?)

This all leads me to wonder: Is there any way to truly prevent a place that is remotely appealing from being overrun? A destination must resist fashionability. Overinvesting on an ephemeral surge of tourism makes it even less economically sustainable, because when the surge passes, the excess revenue runs out and jobs disappear. It’s possible to stay off the touristic grid but only so long as some TikToker doesn’t blow up your spot. Like an obscure Japanese ryokan or a rural Aman resort, a destination could also be so expensive as to be inaccessible. (No one is that mad if the tourists are all extremely wealthy.) The ultimate resistance to tourism might be ugliness. If your city is unappealing enough, no one will want to go there. But then it might conversely become appealing for that very fact? See ‘90s Berlin. Tourism has become value arbitrage: Invest in an undiscovered place early so you don’t have to go there when it’s overrun.

One solution as a traveler is to intentionally visit a place during its off-season. Everywhere has one, it just might not be as perfectly appealing as Marseilles in July. But geography isn’t a ripening fruit that’s only good at one moment. The world is large and almost any corner of it holds something interesting. One memorable experience of our trip through Provence for me was stopping at a generic highway rest area (aire de service) to charge our glitchy electric car and walking inside to successfully order an espresso to go from the cafe’s grumpy staff in my terrible French. I had as much fun there as at some of the wineries. I’m not likely to intentionally plan a tour of international rest areas, as opposed to the Dolomites, but I might actually really enjoy that. It would be so generic as to be unique."]]></description>
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    <title>Stanley cup: What is the craze really about? It's not hydration.</title>
    <dc:date>2024-01-27T21:02:24+00:00</dc:date>
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    <dc:creator>robertogreco</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["The Stanley Quencher H2.0, which has been trending on TikTok and inspiring stampedes at Target, is a quintessentially American vessel: great for people who love ice, who drive cars, or who are Just Too Busy to refill a smaller cup throughout the day. Until my editor asked me, in the wake of the craze, if I had “a reusable water bottle philosophy”—I write about climate change—I knew nothing about the Stanley.

Friends filled me in: The insulated walls keep the contents cold all day. The base fits in cupholders; the handle makes it easier to sip from a heavy thermos while multitasking. A standard Stanley cup holds 40 ounces and runs $45. As my sister-in-law explained, it’s the expensive, brand-name version of a cup she got from Costco. “Except it’s been cult-ified,” she said. It’s basically a Big Gulp with a glow-up.

On the one hand, good: A reusable cup is better than going through endless plastic bottles, cups, and straws. There are worse things than Americans getting really into fancy water bottles. A status symbol that comes with a lifetime warranty—that feels hopeful for the planet.

But, of course, people aren’t just buying one and using it for life. To keep plastic out of oceans and to cut carbon emissions, reusable cups need to be used and reused, again and again, not hauled around for a season or two (or paired with an outfit) and then relegated to the back of the cupboard when a new model becomes hot. (Remember S’well?)

Water bottle brands are fads. My reusable water bottle philosophy, if I have one, is that the best water bottle is the one you already have. That’s what’s good for the planet. But what reusable water bottles have become in our culture is very much not about environmentalism. They don’t fly off shelves because we care about plastic-free oceans, but, as with any fad, because we want to fit in. For this fad in particular, there’s also something else going on: Water bottles play to our thirst for perfect hydration.

Hydration, we’ve been told, is the answer to just about everything. In addition to keeping us alive, water helps us detox, supports glowy #cleangirl skin, and keeps us focused. Being hydrated gives us a competitive edge. Planners and habit apps help us diligently track eight glasses a day or more. We cannot, the ethos goes, be trusted to get enough water into our bodies on our own. We require help, and fancy tools.

As Slate’s Decoder Ring explored in a 2021 episode titled “The Invention of Hydration,” the fear that we might not be getting enough water was first popularized to help sell Gatorade. It was perfected to sell bottled water; today it helps move various reusable bottles off the shelves, from Stanleys to the Yetis that were in vogue before them, to “motivational” bottles that cheerfully encourage you to keep drinking water.

Getting enough water is not nearly as hard as we think. Humans obviously need water to survive. But the inherited wisdom—drink eight, 8-ounce glasses of water a day (about one and a half 40-ounce Stanleys)—is misleading. It comes from a 1945 recommendation for someone with a 2,000-calorie diet. But it includes water from all kinds of food and drinks: Downing eight glasses of straight water a day was never actually the goal.

Foods like watermelon and soup help us hydrate; so do less obvious things, like spinach. According to a 2022 paper, food might fill 20 to 50 percent of our daily hydration need. Coffee and tea also count. A 2014 study found that for coffee drinkers who were used to having caffeine in their systems, coffee was just as hydrating as water (the diuretic effect may negatively impact hydration if you drink a lot of coffee, or if you aren’t used to drinking any coffee at all).

While water bottles nudge us to imagine hydration as an individual responsibility, coffee and tea remind us that it can be a social joy. The coffee klatch, the afternoon cuppa; traditionally, hydration has been a byproduct not of careful management, but of quality time. Maybe you don’t need another water bottle. Maybe what you actually need is a tea kettle—or a workplace where people have time to take breaks. (Unsurprisingly, hospital workers see themselves as water bottle trend bellwethers.)

Of course, many people do need lots of water to be hydrated—and are perfectly justified in toting it around. Gender, body composition, and age all change how much we should drink; so does anything that makes us work harder: exercising, fighting infections, or sweating to cool down. Nursing moms (another early Stanley cup market) typically drink more water than they did prior to nursing. Where dehydration is a real threat is for farm workers, particularly as global temperatures heat up.

As it turns out, drinking when you feel thirsty, as long as you aren’t drinking something super sugary, is a pretty good way to stay about as hydrated as you need to be. No complicated calculations needed. Pause and notice your body; then pause and take care of your needs. If another reusable water bottle is helpful for meeting those needs—get one. Ideally at a thrift store.

But the reusable water bottle craze is not just about our physical needs. Achieving peak hydration offers a sense of control in an uncertain world. Emotional Support Water Bottles can serve as psychological ballasts. When we feel insecure—whether we fear layoffs or a shifting of the social winds or the climate apocalypse—humans have an uncanny ability to allow objects to fill the void. You don’t need a new water bottle. You don’t need to overhydrate to be great. But you do deserve to feel safe. The better we get at supporting each other, the more resilient we will be when the next water bottle fad arrives."

[See also:

"I Spent a Week Parading My Coveted Stanley Cup Around New York City
It did not go as planned."
https://slate.com/human-interest/2024/01/stanley-cup-pink-target-40-ounce-theft-new-year-starbucks.html

"The viral cups that people are fighting each other over contain lead.Stanley, the maker of the obscenely large adult sippy cups that people are going feral over, confirms that yes, one part of the cups is made with lead — but that exposure to it would be “rare.” Lead in drinking cups has been a problem with other brands’ products in the past.

Some background: people are stockpiling Stanley cups in a rainbow of colors. They’re losing their jobs at Target for these things. There are Stanley cup flippers who buy up limited edition colors and sell them for $200 on Facebook Marketplace. I have a feeling the lead will not dissuade the fans."
https://www.theverge.com/2024/1/26/24052103/the-viral-cups-that-people-are-fighting-each-other-over-contain-lead

"Do Stanley cups contain lead or pose a risk of lead poisoning? Experts weigh in
Recently, multiple social media users have posted about concerns that drinking from Stanley mugs poses a lead exposure risk. But is that true? Here’s what to know."\
https://www.nbcnews.com/health/health-news/stanley-cups-contain-lead-pose-risk-lead-poisoning-experts-weigh-rcna135584

"Even Honey Bears Now Carry Stanley Cups: Controversial Street Artist Fnnch Reveals a New Muse"
https://sfstandard.com/2024/01/25/san-francisco-street-artist-fnnch-has-new-stanley-tumbler-series/ ]]]></description>
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    <dc:creator>robertogreco</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["From the generic hipster cafe to the ‘Instagram wall’, the internet has pushed us towards a kind of global ubiquity – and this phenomenon is only going to intensify"

...

"Pursuing Instagrammability is a trap: the fast growth that comes with adopting a recognisable template, whether for a physical space or purely digital content, gives way to the daily grind of keeping up posts and figuring out the latest twists of the algorithm – which hashtags, memes or formats need to be followed. Digital platforms take away agency from the business owners, pressuring them to follow in lockstep rather than pursue their own creative whims. There’s a risk as well in hewing too closely to trends. If a trope becomes stale, the algorithmic audiences won’t engage with it, either. That’s why the perfect generic coffee shop design keeps changing slightly, adding more potted plants or taking a few away. In the algorithmic feed, timing is everything.

The other strategy is to remain consistent, not worrying about trends or engagement and simply sticking to what you know best – staying authentic to a personal ethos or brand identity in the deepest sense. In a way, coffee shops are physical filtering algorithms, too: they sort people based on their preferences, quietly attracting a particular crowd and repelling others by their design and menu choices. That kind of community formation might be more important in the long run than attaining perfect latte art and collecting Instagram followers. That is ultimately what Anca Ungureanu was trying to do in Bucharest. “We are a coffee shop where you can meet people like you, people that have interests like you,” she said. Her comment made me think that a certain amount of homogeneity might be an unavoidable consequence of algorithmic globalisation, simply because so many like-minded people are now moving through the same physical spaces, influenced by the same digital platforms. The sameness has a way of compounding."]]></description>
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    <title>The Treasure Chest - The Tudor North Flag Is the Most Discouraging Watch of the Last Decade — David Vaucher - Hopelessly Addicted to Watches, Style, Gear and Everyday Carry</title>
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    <dc:creator>robertogreco</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["“Luck is when preparation meets opportunity”.

I hate this phrase.

It is such bullshit, but I definitely get the impression that this is an unpopular opinion because it is an exceedingly common refrain - almost a truism - in certain circles, mostly on LinkedIn and #keepgrinding accounts on Instagram. “Hate” is a strong word though, so I should explain why hearing this makes my skin crawl. 

This saying is nowhere nearly as clever-sounding as tech/finance/crypto/GaryV-bros think it is. Taken at face-value, the phrase implies that there is no such thing as “dumb” luck; everything is entirely in one’s control, all one has to do is work hard consistently, and then one day magically everything will just click into place and you’ll get everything your heart desires.

“Geez, well that sounds awesome!", you think to yourself. 

But then you take another second and you think:

“Hold on, I can do the preparation part, but what about the opportunity?”

Yes, we can network like maniacs or walk past the CEO’s office every day on the way to the bathroom, PowerPoint deck filled with ideas in-hand, but sometimes “opportunity” and “dumb luck” really are the same thing. 

Did you email the recruiter when they just happened to be swamped? Is the CEO really going to notice you, or did the opportunity for a promotion belong to his golf buddy’s son all along, who was lucky enough to be born into the right family? 

What I’m getting at here is that “Luck is when preparation meets opportunity” sounds very causal - do a, then b, then sit back for c - but it’s actually very circular, and it’s used in reverse by people who have already made it.

This is the main reason I can’t stand this saying: it relies on a massive survivor bias to make sense, and for every person who was able to get in front of Kanye because the timing was just right, who sent one article to the New Yorker and got a big break, or emailed the CEO out of the blue and was hired on the spot, there are many others who did the exact same thing (perhaps more), with similarly good supporting material, and did not obtain the same outcome.

But, if you’re on the winning side, you can dismiss any and all circumstance that went into your success and chalk it all up to your hard work when you say “well I just out-hustled everyone and was prepared when the opportunity came”.

I already know the main objection to this, so no, I’m not taking away from the hard work these lucky few did do after they got their opportunity (I’m glad Anthony Bourdain went as far as he did because I’m a huge fan of his content), but I have a saying of my own:

Generally-speaking, everyone who has “made it” will have worked hard, but not everyone who worked hard will have had the chance to “make it”. 

What does any of this have to do with the Tudor North Flag?

[image: "The Tudor North Flag may be gone, but thankfully I own one and can enjoy it for many years and decades to come."]

The sad truth is that in life, you can do absolutely everything right, take risks, outwork everyone, and still watch the slacker coast past you because when it counted they caught a lucky break or two more than you did.

Tudor DID do everything right with its North Flag, and yet this is a model that went nowhere. I’d go so far as to say that there is Tudor “pre-North Flag”, and Tudor “post-North Flag”, and the current trajectory that Tudor is on is almost entirely due to this model not taking off, when in fact it objectively had everything going for it.

Perhaps even the trajectory of the ENTIRE WATCH INDUSTRY can be tied back to the failure of the North Flag.

Quite simply, the Tudor North Flag is the most discouraging watch of the past decade."

...

"What’s even stranger is that, if you’ll indulge me here for a moment, the vibes of this watch are very similar to another watch that did in fact manage to, if not fully break the watch internet, at least crack it.

The Tudor North Flag is the original Vacheron Constantin Overseas Dual Time Everest
While I have an appreciation for the “Holy Trinity” and haute-horlogerie in general, I’ve long since given up the desire to own this type of watch. Sure, there might be just a teeny, tiny bit of sour grapes at play, but being completely honest, I think hype has for far too long infested the upper reaches of the watch world, and I just have a lot more fun learning about the $500 - $5,000 range (also, putting my consultant hat on for a second, I just don’t think the marginal cost to get into something like a Patek is worth the marginal benefit over other alternatives, but I should be careful not to let too much common sense enter into a discussion about watches…)

There is one exception, and that’s the Vacheron Constantin Overseas Dual Time Everest.

Released at the end of 2021, this watch started its life as a prototype two years earlier, strapped to the wrist of photographer and explorer Cory Richards. From the moment I saw the first prototype of the Dual Time (not the chronograph model that was eventually released beside it, I’m totally ice-cold on that one), I was totally smitten; killer looks, titanium, just the right splashes of orange popping against the cool grey theme of the dial and strap, what’s not to love!

It was a limited edition, therefore preventing any chance I might have realistically had to own the watch (go ahead and laugh…).

As I was writing this article though, I took comfort in the fact that I own a very, very close approximation in the Tudor North Flag!

I mean, just take a look at the way that watch was marketed:

[image: "A really excellent product shot of the Tudor North Flag, you don’t see integrated bracelet sports-watches marketed like this, with perhaps one exception…(Image source: www.wakefieldsjewellers.co.uk)"]

The Tudor North Flag was clearly marketed as a tool for adventurers, with mountain climbing in particular being the point of focus; that is evident from the shot above, to the watch being frozen in a block of ice at Salon QP, to Tudor’s official print ads.

Now, consider that the Vacheron Constantin Everest started out on the wrist of a mountain climber, and how the watch was subsequently marketed: 

[image: "You could basically interchange the watches in the two above photos featuring the Tudor North Flag and the Vacheron Constantin Overseas Dual Time Everest, respectively (Image source: www.montres-de-luxe.com)."]

So, the spirit of both watches is identical, and the specifics are pretty damn close as well:

Integrated bracelet sports watches…

Both with “citrus”-colored accents…

Both with straps that play off the dial colors (I’ll admit one difference here, the Vacheron Constantin looks awesome on the strap, the North Flag not so much)…

Both with in-house movements.

Look, I’m not saying that people at Vacheron Constantin sat around a table and said “you know that Tudor North Flag, well, it’s such a success that we have to make our own version”, but I am saying that if you don’t see the similarities between the two watches, we can’t be friends because you probably also think the Earth is flat.

So, what happened?

The Vacheron Constantin was a slam dunk, and the Tudor North Flag was a much more affordable, non-limited watch from one of the industry’s mega-brands, marketed in the exact same way as the Holy Trinity offering.

It should have been a smash.

Instead, it got smashed.

The watch community asked for one thing, and bought another

...

"We are now in a time where the “hype” watches are pretty boring (either the usual sports-watch suspects or blinged-out versions of them), and the general releases are, well, pretty boring. That’s not to say they’re categorically bad, but they’re not the Tudor North Flag, and we are a looooonnnng way from the Tudor of old, with the Heritage Advisor, or hell, a red Tudor Black Bay.

With all this in mind, I settled on using the word “discouraging” rather than “disappointing”. The Tudor North Flag is discouraging because it’s a taste of what the watch industry could have been, and a reminder that no matter how hard you try, sometimes success really does come down to nothing more than luck and timing."]]></description>
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    <title>Beyond Horology Podcast: Why We Collect Watches with guest psychiatrist Erik Nilzèn 🇸🇪 on Apple Podcasts</title>
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Visit Doing Time Blog here: www.doingtime.se/

Visit Erik’s Instagram here:
https://www.instagram.com/doktornsklockor/

We welcome your rating on Apple Podcast, as well as your feedback, questions and recommendations via DM on our Instagram!
https://instagram.com/beyondhorologypodcast"

[Also here:

https://www.listennotes.com/podcasts/beyond-horology/why-we-collect-watches-with-43tidTps-J5/

https://open.spotify.com/episode/2jmUfEM65bZAPlw7l5QizH

https://anchor.fm/beyond-horology/episodes/Why-We-Collect-Watches-with-guest-psychiatrist-Erik-Nilzn-e18ka72 ]]]></description>
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    <title>【F】 Why Is Everyone Always Wearing A Dive Watch?</title>
    <dc:date>2022-08-14T01:02:24+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://www.fratellowatches.com/why-is-everyone-always-wearing-a-dive-watch/</link>
    <dc:creator>robertogreco</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["An attempt to explain why dive watches are oh-so popular

You’re probably right, I might have overdone it a bit with the title here. But isn’t a dive watch the most common choice when starting a watch collection? And isn’t it the kind of watch that most enthusiasts frequently wear? My answer to both of those questions is an emphatic “yes”. But why? Especially in today’s world where most of us are full-time desk divers, we don’t need such water-resistant and capable watches. But still, we wear a lot of dive watches, especially as our everyday pieces. Let’s take a look at a few plausible explanations behind the popularity of this genre."

[a few comments of note that are better than the original article given my own thoughts on the matter:

https://www.fratellowatches.com/why-is-everyone-always-wearing-a-dive-watch/#comment-839107

"To say overall, dive watches are not the most outspoken designs is just not an accurate statement if one took just a quick glance into the marketplace. Even for Rolex (Hulk, Kermit, Starbucks) bthe dive watch is their opportunity to let loose in terms of color ways, contrasting materials, performance claims, etc. At the opposite end take a look at a usually uptight brand like Nomos and their 300 m Ahoi line in bright red and blue dials. While not exactly a dive watch it is still their platform to let loose a bit. Or the JLC Master Compressor Diving GMT. That beast certainly doesn’t look like your Dad’s reverso. Perhaps this is the article that should have been written."

https://www.fratellowatches.com/why-is-everyone-always-wearing-a-dive-watch/#comment-839128

"One of the main draws of a mechanical timepiece is the perceived longevity and robustness compared to a here-today gone-tomorrow smart watch or other piece of short-lived electronic tech. A diving watch speaks to that desire probably better than most watches, because the thought is, if it can stand up to the pressures of the ocean, surely it can handle whatever I can throw at it. Then, add the fact that it has a bezel that can do much of what a Chronograph can do, without the complication, expense etc. – you’ve got a robust, functional timepiece that feels like something you can depend on and use without worry – and that is the perfect kind of all-around watch for many wrists."

https://www.fratellowatches.com/why-is-everyone-always-wearing-a-dive-watch/#comment-839142

"Big, sturdy, waterproof, real tools which, the older and the more worn out they get, the more charm and personality they acquire. Same like a used hammer or screwdriver that will never let you down.
We guys like that."

https://www.fratellowatches.com/why-is-everyone-always-wearing-a-dive-watch/#comment-839175

"Meh, dive watches are modern man’s need to buy more than he needs. We buy SUVs even though we live in moderate climates on well-paved roads. We buy McMansions when a 2-bedroom apartment would suffice. And be buy these tough tool watches even though we’re afraid to take them anywhere near water.

Here’s a better take on the subject:
https://www.hodinkee.com/articles/the-almost-inexplicable-popularity-of-the-divers-watch "]]]></description>
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    <title>The Extraordinary King of Luxury Fashion - YouTube</title>
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    <dc:creator>robertogreco</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["To outsiders, luxury fashion is a curious industry where consumers seem to irrationally shell out hundreds and thousands of dollars for sneakers, handbags, wallets, or T-shirts.  

But take a step inside, and you’ll find the world of high fashion is more like Game of Thrones with  Italian, English, and French houses like Gucci, Louis Vuitton, YSL, and Balenciaga fighting to be the king.  For the houses that get to sit on the throne, they don’t last for long.  

Brands like Versace, Tony Burch, and Coach once dominated in the 2000’s.  Fast to the 2020’s and today’s top players are Gucci, Louis Vutton, YSL.  Now what if I told you that there’s a high fashion brand that’s more lucrative and successful than Gucci, YSL, Moncler, and Louis Vutton? 

A brand who only sells its products to a carefully curated list of only its highest spending customers, takes no preorders, refuses to expand inventory, or scale production.  A brand whose products are so elusive that they appreciate thousands of dollars and are often resold for profit.   A brand that does not allow returns, refunds, or exchanges.  A brand who has remained independent, manufactures by hand, spends the least on marketing, and yet grosses close to what Gucci makes every year.   

That brand is Hermès and they are the current king in high fashion. Hermès operates their business with a playbook and style that no other brand can even come close to emulating."]]></description>
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    <title>Evidence is the new catchword in education, but it requires some scrutiny</title>
    <dc:date>2020-02-25T06:43:25+00:00</dc:date>
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    <dc:creator>robertogreco</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[[Via: https://twitter.com/cblack__/status/1230977979255181313

See also: 
https://twitter.com/cblack__/status/1231084473317388288

“”Any parent who has more than one child, or anybody who knows somebody who has more than one child, or anybody who has siblings, knows that children are DIFFERENT…

“Our definition of an evidence-based program has got to be put in the dustbin.”

[video of Jack P. Shonkoff talk:
https://video.unctv.org/video/ncecs-2019-summit-lunchkeynote-speaker-m4zrdp/]

“21st century science is screaming at us: 

HUMAN VARIATION.

“We have to liberate ourselves from the question of “on AVERAGE, what’s the best policy.”

[image]

The “evidence” in evidence-based programs is actually extraordinarily weak. Very slight increases in average test scores qualify you as “evidence-based,” even though the range of actual outcomes remains largely unchanged.

[image]

“We do what we do, we measure everything we can think of, we assume the prayer position on the side of the computer, waiting for something to come out that reaches a level of statistical significance, and we are declared an evidence based program.”

[image]

On the other hand:

Five year survival rates for childhood leukemia increased from 3% in 1964 to over 90% today–– NOT primarily as a result of new treatments, but as a result of correctly matching the right treatment to the right child.

[image]

So instead of trying to find the one right “treatment” for all children –– an impossible goal –– we should be seeking to understand the differences between children and why the things we’re doing work better for some kids than for others.

[image]

Then we can build on “what works” for the kids it’s working for, and try something different for the kids we are failing:

[image]

H/T Catherine Myers @cathyfamilyhome for this link.”]


“We’ve all heard or read it in some form: “This is evidence-based” or “The research says”. If a policy or practice in education is not based on evidence then, frankly, it doesn’t get a look in. Evidence is the new catchword in education. On the surface, that’s reassuring.

But this obsession requires scrutiny. Unchallenged claims of an evidence base leave stakeholders vulnerable to the ideological bias of those with vested interests. So where has this obsession with evidence come from?

Enthusiasm for evidence-based policy making in Australia has its roots firmly embedded in the United Kingdom and is derived from decision-making in medicine, known as evidence-based medicine.

In the UK and the US, principles of evidence-based medicine have been used by policy-makers and clinicians to treat illnesses. They have also been extended over time to allied health services and related social work and human service practice. In Australia, “evidence-based” policy making has become a feature of the way many government departments, education included, form their strategies and policy proposals.

Given considerable public interest and investment in health and education, using evidence as the basis for funding and resource decisions should not surprise anyone.

Governments are constantly approached with policy proposals and initiatives from their own departments, party-aligned think-tanks and a range of other players. They need a clear basis for why a particular initiative, program, policy or practice should be favoured. In contemporary times this justification is based on “evidence”, which is seen to be sensible, rational and efficient.

But evidence is not as straightforward as some might imply. Like all knowledge, evidence is socially constructed, context dependent and highly contested.

Too often “evidence-based” policy has involved limiting rather than broadening alternatives, privileging particular forms of evidence over others, and narrowing consultative processes.

It is more about whose evidence is valued, and for what underlying purpose, than employing an “evidence-based” approach to policy making.

Don’t get me wrong: it’s essential that policy and practice are based on solid evidence. But too often only half the picture is revealed. Either evidence is sought to justify an existing preferred position, or the complexities of teaching and learning are glossed over in favour of an “evidence-based” silver bullet.

Those responsible for decision making about schools need to be wary of dogma masquerading under the rhetoric of “evidence-based” policy or practice.

My advice is to be wary of those spruiking evidence drawn from within their own echo chamber, such as those who repeatedly quote and promote each others’ work. Insist on seeing alternative evidence, including that acquired from teachers working in different contexts, using different strategies and achieving equivalent or better results.

Steer clear of conferences where there is a striking similarity in the evidence being pitched in keynotes and workshops. And analyse carefully whether an evidence-based solution you’ve been handed might actually address a different matter, or result in unintended consequences.

Claims of evidence need to be treated with the degree of caution we apply when we now look at news: Is it fake or authentic? How am I being positioned? Are there alternative views on this topic? Whose interest is being served here?

Critical thinking skills are increasingly seen as an essential skill for young people. When it comes to evidence, the same skills should be utilised by those responsible for their education.”

[See also:
https://twitter.com/ecomentario/status/1231507376647307264

“The evidence-based camp in education is contradictory because it isn’t really about evidence, it is about control.

Otherwise, they would not ignore what is informed in this fragment taken from “I use evidence to inform my teaching” by @mcnuttGISA

1/
https://medium.com/human-restoration-project/i-use-evidence-to-inform-my-teaching-25a4979d4d7f

At the very least, the evidence-based camp is not about the well-being of students, or if it is, its thinking is based on very toxic and dysfunctional notions of well-being and community, and a false sense of peace that exists only because dissent and diversity are crushed. 2/

And as Martyn Hammersley would say: “There is an initial problem with the notion of evidence-based practice which needs to be dealt with. This is that its name is a slogan whose rhetorical effect is to discredit opposition.” 3/

https://books.google.com.mx/books?id=t29EAgAAQBAJ [searched for above quote]

Ultimately, the real dispute is not so much about evidence as it is about the ethics of what conventional schools do and the societies they are meant to support and intend to build. 4/"]]]></description>
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    <title>College Freshmen’s Most Popular Names - The Atlantic</title>
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    <title>Engagement Is the Enemy of Serendipity – Dan Cohen</title>
    <dc:date>2019-07-28T20:57:05+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://dancohen.org/2019/07/23/engagement-is-the-enemy-of-serendipity/</link>
    <dc:creator>robertogreco</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["Whenever I’m grumpy about an update to a technology I use, I try to perform a self-audit examining why I’m unhappy about this change. It’s a helpful exercise since we are all by nature resistant to even minor alterations to the technologies we use every day (which is why website redesign is now a synonym for bare-knuckle boxing), and this feeling only increases with age. Sometimes the grumpiness is justified, since one of your tools has become duller or less useful in a way you can clearly articulate; other times, well, welcome to middle age.

The New York Times recently changed their iPad app to emphasize three main tabs, Top Stories, For You, and Sections. The first is the app version of their chockablock website home page, which contains not only the main headlines and breaking news stories, but also an editor-picked mixture of stories and features from across the paper. For You is a new personalized zone that is algorithmically generated by looking at the stories and sections you have most frequently visited, or that you select to include by clicking on blue buttons that appear near specific columns and topics. The last tab is Sections, that holdover word from the print newspaper, with distinct parts that are folded and nested within each other, such as Metro, Business, Arts, and Sports.

Currently my For You tab looks as if it was designed for a hypochondriacal runner who wishes to live in outer space, but not too far away, since he still needs to acquire new books and follow the Red Sox. I shall not comment about the success of the New York Times algorithm here, other than to say that I almost never visit the For You tab, for reasons I will explain shortly. For now, suffice it to say that For You is not for me.

But the Sections tab I do visit, every day, and this is the real source of my grumpiness. At the same time that the New York Times launched those three premier tabs, they also removed the ability to swipe, simply and quickly, between sections of the newspaper. You used to be able to start your morning news consumption with the headlines and then browse through articles in different sections from left to right. Now you have to tap on Sections, which reveals a menu, from which you select another section, from which you select an article, over and over. It’s like going back to the table of contents every time you finish a chapter of a book, rather than just turning the page to the next chapter.

Sure, it seems relatively minor, and I suspect the change was made because confused people would accidentally swipe between sections, but paired with For You it subtly but firmly discourages the encounter with many of the newspaper’s sections. The assumption in this design is that if you’re a space runner, why would you want to slog through the International news section or the Arts section on the way to orbital bliss in the Science and Health sections?

* * *

When I was growing up in Boston, my first newspaper love was the sports section of the Boston Globe. I would get the paper in the morning and pull out that section and read it from cover to cover, all of the columns and game summaries and box scores. Somewhere along the way, I started briefly checking out adjacent sections, Metro and Business and Arts, and then the front section itself, with the latest news of the day and reports from around the country and world. The technology and design of the paper encouraged this sampling, as the unpacked paper was literally scattered in front of me on the table. Were many of these stories and columns boring to my young self? Undoubtedly. But for some reason—the same reason many of those reading this post will recognize—I slowly ended up paging through the whole thing from cover to cover, still focusing on the Sox, but diving into stories from various sections and broadly getting a sense of numerous fields and pursuits.

This kind of interface and user experience is now threatened because who needs to scan through seemingly irrelevant items when you can have constant go-go engagement, that holy grail of digital media. The Times, likely recognizing their analog past (which is still the present for a dwindling number of print subscribers), tries to replicate some of the old newspaper serendipity with Top Stories, which is more like A Bunch of Interesting Things after the top headlines. But I fear they have contradicted themselves in this new promotion of For You and the commensurate demotion of Sections.

The engagement of For You—which joins the countless For Yous that now dominate our online media landscape—is the enemy of serendipity, which is the chance encounter that leads to a longer, richer interaction with a topic or idea. It’s the way that a metalhead bumps into opera in a record store, or how a young kid becomes interested in history because of the book reviews that follow the box scores. It’s the way that a course taken on a whim in college leads, unexpectedly, to a new lifelong pursuit. Engagement isn’t a form of serendipity through algorithmically personalized feeds; it’s the repeated satisfaction of Present You with your myopically current loves and interests, at the expense of Future You, who will want new curiosities, hobbies, and experiences."]]></description>
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    <title>Episode 58: The Neoliberal Optimism Industry de Citations Needed Podcast</title>
    <dc:date>2019-02-08T20:22:25+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://soundcloud.com/citationsneeded/episode-58-the-neoliberal-optimism-industry</link>
    <dc:creator>robertogreco</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["We're told the world is getting better all the time. In January, The New York Times' Nick Kristof explained "Why 2017 Was the Best Year in Human History." The same month, Harvard professor and Bill Gates' favorite optimist Steven Pinker lamented (in a special edition of Time magazine guest edited by - who else? - Bill Gates) the “bad habits of media... bring out the worst in human cognition”. By focusing so much on negative things, the theory goes, we are tricked into thinking things are getting worse when, in reality, it's actually the opposite.

For the TEDtalk set, that the world is awesome and still improving is self-evidently true - just look at the data. But how true is this popular axiom? How accurate is the portrayal that the world is improving we so often seen in sexy, hockey stick graphs of upward growth and rapidly declining poverty? And how, exactly, are the powers that be "measuring" improvements in society?

On this episode, we take a look at the ideological project of telling us everything's going swimmingly, how those in power cook the books and spin data to make their case for maintaining the status quo, and how The Neoliberal Optimism Industry is, at its core, an anti-intellectual enterprise designed to lull us into complacency and political impotence.

Our guest is Dr. Jason Hickel."]]></description>
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    <title>Want to Learn How the World Sees Your College? Look on YouTube - The Chronicle of Higher Education</title>
    <dc:date>2019-01-28T20:51:18+00:00</dc:date>
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    <dc:creator>robertogreco</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["Informal platforms like YouTube or Reddit help students demystify the application and admissions process, said Kevin Martin, a former admissions counselor at the University of Texas at Austin who runs an admissions-consulting business.

Videos uploaded by college students offer an authentic lens into student life and campus culture, which are helpful for high schoolers looking to visualize themselves on a specific campus.

"I'm honestly surprised at the amount of not only students but also parents who would go to YouTube to find information," said Martin, who also runs a YouTube channel titled "UT Admissions Guy." "Students who would often fall through the cracks or don't have access to traditional counseling resources are turning to social media for information."

Keri Nguyen, a Florida high-school senior, even applied to a few colleges she felt were a reach for her academic record because of the YouTube videos she watched."YouTubers, like Rowan Born [from the University of Southern California], made me feel better about the college-application process, because as someone who doesn't have the best test scores or grades compared to some of my peers, I felt very discouraged," Nguyen said."]]></description>
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    <title>99 Reasons 2016 Was a Good Year – Future Crunch – Medium</title>
    <dc:date>2017-01-01T23:55:14+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://medium.com/future-crunch/99-reasons-why-2016-has-been-a-great-year-for-humanity-8420debc2823#.tj7kowhpd</link>
    <dc:creator>robertogreco</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[[See also Chris Hadfield’s list: 

"With celebrity death and elections taking the media by the nose, it’s easy to forget that this year saw a great many positives. Let’s look."
https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:017019e54e7b ]

"Our media feeds are echo chambers. And those echo chambers don’t just reflect our political beliefs; they reflect our feelings about human progress. Bad news is a bubble too."

Some of the biggest conservation successes in generation

[1 – 9]

Huge strides forward for global health

[10 – 24]

Political and economic progress in many parts of the world

[25 – 41]

We finally started responding seriously to the climate change emergency

[42 – 59]

The world got less violent

[60 – 66]

Signs of hope for a life-sustaining economy

[67 – 78]

Endangered animals got a some well-deserved breaks

[79 –  90]

The world got more generous

[91 – 99]"]]></description>
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    <title>Chris Hadfield on Twitter: &quot;With celebrity death and elections taking the media by the nose, it’s easy to forget that this year saw a great many positives. Let’s look.&quot;</title>
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    <dc:creator>robertogreco</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[[See also: "99 Reasons 2016 Was a Good Year: Our media feeds are echo chambers. And those echo chambers don’t just reflect our political beliefs; they reflect our feelings about human progress. Bad news is a bubble too."
https://medium.com/future-crunch/99-reasons-why-2016-has-been-a-great-year-for-humanity-8420debc2823#.tj7kowhpd

"With celebrity death and elections taking the media by the nose, it’s easy to forget that this year saw a great many positives. Let’s look.

1. The Colombian government and FARC rebels committed to a lasting peace, ending a war that killed or displaced over 7 million people.

2. Sri Lanka spent five years working to exile the world’s deadliest disease from their borders. As of 2016, they are malaria free.

3. The Giant Panda, arguably the world’s second cutest panda, has official been removed from the endangered species list.

4. @astro_timpeake became the first ESA astronaut from the UK, symbolizing a renewed British commitment to space exploration.

5. Tiger numbers around the world are on the rise for the first time in 100 years, with plans to double by 2022.

6. Juno, a piece of future history, successfully flew over 588 million miles and is now sending back unprecedented data from Jupiter.

7. The number of veterans in the US who are homeless has halved in the past half-decade, with a nearly 20% drop in 2016.

8. Malawi lowered its HIV rate by 67%, and in the past decade have seen a shift in public health that has saved over 250,000 lives.

9. Air travel continue to get safer, and 2016 saw the second fewest per capita deaths in aviation of any year on record.

10. India’s dogged commitment to reforestation saw a single day event planting more than 50 million trees, a world record.

11. Measles has been eradicated from the Americas. A 22 year vaccination campaign has led to the elimination of the historic virus.

12. After a century, Einstein’s theory of gravitational waves has been proven correct, in a ‘moon shot’ scientific achievement.

13. China has announced a firm date for the end of the ivory trade, as public opinion is becoming more staunchly environmentalist.

14. A solar powered airplane flew across the Pacific Ocean for the first time, highlighting a new era of energy possibilities.

15. Costa Rica’s entire electrical grid ran on renewable energy for over half the year, and their capacity continues to grow.

16. Israeli and US researchers believe they are on the brink of being able to cure radiation sickness, after successful tests this year.

17. The ozone layer has shown that through tackling a problem head on, the world can stem environmental disasters, together.

18. A new treatment for melanoma has seen a 40% survival rate, taking a huge step forward towards long-term cancer survivability.

19. An Ebola vaccine was developed by Canadian researchers with 100% efficacy. Humans eradicated horror, together.

20. British Columbia protected 85% of the world’s largest temperate rainforest, in a landmark environmental agreement.

21. 2016 saw the designation of more than 40 new marine sanctuaries in 20 countries, covering an area larger than the United States.

22. These marine reserves include Malaysia’s 13 year struggle to complete a million hectare park, completed this year.

23. This also includes the largest marine reserve in history, created in Antarctica via an unprecedented agreement by 24 nations.

24. Atmospheric acid pollution, once a gloomy reality, has been tackled to the point of being almost back to pre-industrial levels.

25. Major diseases are in decline. The US saw a 50% mortality drop in colon cancer; lower heart disease, osteoporosis and dementia.

26. Uruguay successfully fought tobacco companies to create a precedent for small countries looking to introduce health-focused legislation.

27. World hunger has reached its lowest point in 25 years, and with poverty levels dropping worldwide, seems likely to continue.

28. The A.U. made strides to become more unified, launching an all-Africa passport meant to allow for visa-free travel for all citizens.

29. Fossil fuel emissions flatlined in 2016, with the Paris agreement becoming the fastest UN treaty to become international law.

30. China announced a ban on new coal mines, with renewed targets to increase electrical capacity through renewables by 2020.

31. One third of Dutch prison cells are empty as the crime rate shrank by more than 25% in the last eight years, continuing to drop.

32. In August went to the high Arctic with some incredible young artists. They helped open my eyes to the promise of the next generation.

33. Science, economics, and environmentalism saw a reversal in the overfishing trends of the United States this year.

34. @BoyanSlat successfully tested his Ocean Cleanup prototype, and aims to clean up to 40% of ocean-borne plastics starting this year.

35. Israel now produces 55% of its freshwater, turning what is one of the driest countries on earth into an agricultural heartland.

36. The Italian government made it harder to waste food, creating laws that provided impetus to collect, share and donate excess meals.

37. People pouring ice on their head amusingly provided the ALS foundation with enough funding to isolate a genetic cause of the disease.

38. Manatees, arguably the most enjoyable animal to meet when swimming, are no longer endangered.

39. Grizzlies, arguable the least enjoyable animal to meet while swimming, no longer require federal protection in US national parks.

40. Global aid increased 7%, with money being designated to helping the world’s 65 million refugees doubling.

41. 2016 was the most charitable year in American history. China’s donations have increased more than ten times since a decade ago.

42. The Gates Foundation announced another 5 billion dollars towards eradicating poverty and disease in Africa.

43. Individual Canadians were so welcoming that the country set a world standard for how to privately sponsor and resettle refugees.

44. Teenage birth rates in the United States have never been lower, while at the same time graduation rates have never been higher.

45. SpaceX made history by landing a rocket upright after returning from space, potentially opening a new era of space exploration.

46. Finally - The Cubs won the World Series for the first time in 108 years, giving hope to Maple Leafs fans everywhere. Happy New Year.

There are countless more examples, big and small. If you refocus on the things that are working, your year will be better than the last."]]></description>
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    <dc:creator>robertogreco</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["So – if I’m not against art, or coloring, or relaxation or mindfulness what is my problem? Here it is: The explosion of mindfulness as the cure-all du jour. And I’m wondering why is this happening? Why now?

Brave New World  is Aldous Huxley’s ironic title for his dystopian novel. In this future the fictional drug soma has “All of the benefits of Christianity and alcohol without their defects.” Huxley takes the word soma – this “Christianity without tears” – from an unknown drug believed to have been used in ancient Indian Vedic cults as part of religious ceremonies. The soma of Brave New World is a perversion of that ancient drug. Rather than conferring insight and wisdom it clouds reality. It is not used to deliver enlightenment but rather to blunt ugly truths that arise to disturb the surface of experience. Soma is a tool of the state to keep its citizens quiet and to prevent them from the seeing the truth and demanding change."

…

"I have no problem with children learning anything that can help them thrive in our stress-inducing, anxiety-ridden age. My problem lies with the fact that we must first stop creating and exacerbating the problems to which all this is then the answer. As a society we are driving our kids crazy and we have to stop."

…

"Let’s return for a moment to those backpacking counter cultural wanderers and to those who have searched for inner peace and meaning and found answers that include the moral and spiritual wisdom of the Buddhist tradition. That tradition is about enlightenment and developing our intellectual capacity to the fullest. It is about waking up, compassion and kindness. Admirable goals and worthy aspirations. Nothing wrong with that. It would be good to see schools helping children know themselves better and see themselves as a part of the great universe. But the mindfulness fad is often about mindless acceptance of the unacceptable – more to do with mitigating symptoms of sickness rather than true self-awareness and personal growth."

[See also (referenced within): http://www.salon.com/2015/11/08/they_want_kids_to_be_robots_meet_the_new_education_craze_designed_to_distract_you_from_overtesting/ ]]]></description>
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[Text, slides, and videos here: 
http://superflux.in/blog/howwillwelive
https://medium.com/@anabjain/how-will-we-live-d9baf00acac9#.lmc9kxsed ]]]></description>
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    <dc:creator>robertogreco</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["Wise to tablets’ distraction potential, some teachers have banned them completely. But that seems ridiculous, considering that sometimes students were required to buy tablets, therefore wasting a couple hundred bucks by not using them. Teachers need to find a happy medium, like having tablet-free lessons followed by a tablet-integrated activity. Also, teachers should consider using laptops instead. They feel more serious, and the addition of a keyboard facilitates actual work and note taking. Laptops may lack the sleek design appeal of their tablet counterparts, but they are far more functional as teaching tools, and a better long-term investment in EdTech.

So yes, tablets can be used to create a new age of interconnected classrooms of the future — but they are just as likely to turn into procrastination stations. You have been warned."

…

"Like a good little pupil, my first move after school everyday is to boot up my teachers’ websites on an oh-so-eager hunt for my homework assignments. If I’m lucky, a teacher proficient in the dark arts of web design will gift me with a clean, easy-to-use web page. Conversely, an — ahem — older faculty member might construct a lime-green monstrosity that truly should be ashamed to call itself a website.

If teachers feel like students are judging them, that’s because we are. We grew up in an age of immaculately designed websites that were made to be user-friendly.
I pity the poor English teacher out there who definitely didn’t sign up for web design when applying for the job, but times are changing. Nowadays, students often have more knowledge than teachers when it comes to tech. So if teachers are struggling even to post homework, or are leaving students to navigate a site that looks like MySpace circa 1999, it makes them look, to put it simply, outdated.

To remedy the inconsistency, my suggestion is to teach the teachers. Introducing, drum roll please, teacher website building bootcamp! All joking aside, schools should introduce technical support for struggling teachers so that students won’t have to suffer through any more clumsy attempts at websites."

…

"A touch capable projector screen… Yeah, I don’t see the big whoop for this one. It’s cheaper to hook an iPad up to a projector than to splurge on this thing. Clunky, expensive, and dare I say sometimes dumb, interactive white boards have not been the wave of the future as expected. The biggest selling point is how students can interact with the board. But the limited applications make these boards not worth their price tag, which can run $1,000 and up."

…

"Really though, I should be honest with you. The truth is I will never like Evernote or other note-taking apps because I am an old-timey pen and paper type gal. A tactile learner, if you will. So when my AP English teacher required that we use Evernote to download daily schedules and to share our in-class notes with her, I just wasn’t having it. People have been trying to capture the notebook experience with the addition of styluses and connectable keyboards, but for me, nothing will be the same as flipping open the real thing. Sorry, Evernote: it’s not you, it’s me."

…

"Teachers: Before you use social media for education, consider the risks. Twitter conversations are public and completely subject to trolling, when people purposefully target, provoke, and offend online. Trolling can cause a perfectly educational discussion to devolve into a heated argument that a teacher cannot control. Cyberbullying is still alive and well. Imagine a student trying to add an important, poignant comment to a class Twitter feed and not only getting no retweets or likes, but also being ridiculed for sharing an opinion. Teachers and students will be at the mercy of the Wild West of Twitter. The Internet can be swift and cruel. Twitter especially is not for the faint of heart.

Despite the rather scary picture I just painted, Twitter holds immense promise in its ability to connect teachers, classrooms, and schools to students and issues we care about. The best part of using social media in education is that people like me — who obsessively use social media anyway — can now do so in an academically constructive way. My hope is that young people will be taken more seriously, as education and social media converge."

…

"Though EdTech seems like it’s here to stay, I think that technology in the classroom has a long way to go before being used effectively. The issues that plague EdTech are major — cheating, distraction, privacy concerns, inconsistency in implementation, inequality in access, and price.

I truly believe that the most memorable parts of my education have come when a teacher has taken the time to sit down and talk me through an equation, or given an impassioned speech on how sodium and chlorine become salt. The next step for EdTech is to foster and enhance those memorable moments in school, get teens excited to learn, and make students feel invested in their education anew. While I still have qualms about where EdTech is today, I predict that with time, there will only be more technology saturation, more tech-literate kids, and more opportunities to use tech in the classroom.

One day, I’ll become the crotchety old grandma who says, “Back in my day, we only had iPads, not hologram decks.” And some young whippersnapper will respond, “Well, let me tell you how teens really feel about holograms.”"]]></description>
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    <title>The Muddied Meaning of ‘Mindfulness’ - NYTimes.com</title>
    <dc:date>2015-04-17T18:40:39+00:00</dc:date>
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    <dc:creator>robertogreco</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["Most newly stylish coinages carry with them some evidence of grammatical trauma. Consider “affluencer,” “selfie,” “impactful.” Notes of cynicism and cutesiness come through. But every now and then a bright exception to this dispiriting routine appears. A rookie word makes its big-league debut, a stadium of pedants prepares to peg it with tomatoes and — nothing. A halfhearted heckle. The new word looks only passably pathetic. Maddeningly, it has heft.

“Mindfulness” may be that hefty word now, one that can’t readily be dismissed as trivia or propaganda. Yes, it’s current among jaw-grinding Fortune 500 executives who take sleeping pills and have “leadership coaches,” as well as with the moneyed earnest, who shop at Whole Foods, where Mindful magazine is on the newsstand alongside glossies about woodworking and the environment. It looks like nothing more than the noun form of “mindful” — the proper attitude toward the London subway’s gaps — but “mindfulness” has more exotic origins. In the late 19th century, the heyday of both the British Empire and Victorian Orientalism, a British magistrate in Galle, Ceylon (now Sri Lanka), with the formidable name of Thomas William Rhys Davids, found himself charged with adjudicating Buddhist ecclesiastical disputes. He set out to learn Pali, a Middle Indo-Aryan tongue and the liturgical language of Theravada, an early branch of Buddhism. In 1881, he thus pulled out “mindfulness” — a synonym for “attention” from 1530 — as an approximate translation of the Buddhist concept of sati.

The translation was indeed rough. Sati, which Buddhists consider the first of seven factors of enlightenment, means, more nearly, “memory of the present,” which didn’t track in tense-preoccupied English. “Mindfulness” stuck — but may have saddled the subtle sati with false-note connotations of Victorian caution, or even obedience. (“Mind your manners!”)

“Mindfulness” finally became an American brand, however, a hundred years later, when the be-here-now, Eastern-inflected explorations of the ’60s came to dovetail with self-improvement regimes. In the 1970s, Jon Kabat-Zinn, a molecular biologist in New England and a longtime meditator in the Zen Buddhist tradition, saw in Rhys Davids’s word a chance to scrub meditation of its religious origins. Kabat-Zinn believed that many of the secular people who could most benefit from meditation were being turned off by the whiffs of reincarnation and other religious esoterica that clung to it. So he devised a new and pleasing definition of “mindfulness,” one that now makes no mention of enlightenment: “The awareness that arises through paying attention on purpose in the present moment, and non-judgmentally.”"

…

"If it’s a revolution, it’s not a grass-roots one. Although mindfulness teachers regularly offer the practice in disenfranchised communities in the United States and abroad, the powerful have really made mindfulness their own, exacting from the delicate idea concrete promises of longer lives and greater productivity. In January, during the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, Kabat-Zinn led executives and 1 percenters in a mindfulness meditation meant to promote general well-being. Many in pinstripes and conference lanyards also took time away from panels on Bitcoin and cybersecurity to communally breathe, and to attend a packed session called The Human Brain: Deconstructing Mindfulness, led by Thomas R. Insel, the director of the National Institute of Mental Health."

…

"Mindfulness as “keeping in tune” has a nice ring to it. But it’s “focused on the task at hand” that appeals to managers, like Jackson, who are conscious of performance goals. Might workplace mindfulness — in the cubicle or on the court — be just another way to keep employees undistracted and to get them to work harder for nothing but airy rewards? In this context of performance enhancement, “mindfulness” seems perilously close to doggerel from the same playbook that brought us corny affirmations, inner children and vision boards.

Maybe the word “mindfulness” is like the Prius emblem, a badge of enlightened and self-satisfied consumerism, and of success and achievement. If so, not deploying mindfulness — taking pills or naps for anxiety, say, or going out to church or cocktails — makes you look sort of backward or classless. Like driving a Hummer.

As usual with modish and ideologically freighted words, this one has also come to inform high-minded prescriptions for raising children. Evidently they’re no longer expected to mind their manners; we are expected instead to mind their emotional states. Recently, Hanna Rosin, in Slate, argued that mindful parenting might be a Trojan horse: Though the mindful mother claims to stay open-minded about her child’s every action and communication, she ends up being hospitable to only the kid’s hippie, peacenik side — the side she comes to prefer.

In Rosin’s example, a mother supposedly mindful of her son’s capacity for violence nonetheless doesn’t rest until he gives a peaceable, sympathetic explanation for it — that he was hurt and overreacted. “I was mad, and he had it coming,” which might be the lad’s own truth, doesn’t fly. The mother’s “mindful attention,” rather than representing freedom from judgment, puts a thumb on the scale.

It’s profoundly tempting to dismiss as cant any word current with Davos, the N.B.A. and the motherhood guilt complex. Mindful fracking: Could that be next? Putting a neuroscience halo around a byword for both uppers (“productivity”) and downers (“relaxation”) — to ensure a more compliant work force and a more prosperous C-suite — also seems twisted. No one word, however shiny, however intriguingly Eastern, however bolstered by science, can ever fix the human condition. And that’s what commercial mindfulness may have lost from the most rigorous Buddhist tenets it replaced: the implication that suffering cannot be escaped but must be faced. Of that shift in meaning — in the Westernization of sati — we should be especially mindful."]]></description>
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    <title>Insights: K-HOLE, New York — Insights: K-HOLE, New York — Channel — Walker Art Center</title>
    <dc:date>2015-03-28T08:56:16+00:00</dc:date>
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    <dc:creator>robertogreco</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["K-HOLE exists in multiple states at once: it is both a publication and a collective; it is both an artistic practice and a consulting firm; it is both critical and unapologetically earnest. Its five members come from backgrounds as varied as brand strategy, fine art, web development, and fashion, and together they have released a series of fascinating PDF publications modeled upon corporate trend forecasting reports. These documents appropriate the visuals of PowerPoint, stock photography, and advertising and exploit the inherent poetry in the purposefully vague aphorisms of corporate brand-speak. Ultimately, K-HOLE aspires to utilize the language of trend forecasting to discuss sociopolitical topics in depth, exploring the capitalist landscape of advertising and marketing in a critical but un-ironic way.

In the process, the group frequently coins new terms to articulate their ideas, such as “Youth Mode”: a term used to describe the prevalent attitude of youth culture that has been emancipated from any particular generation; the “Brand Anxiety Matrix”: a tool designed to help readers understand their conflicted relationships with the numerous brands that clutter their mental space on a daily basis; and “Normcore”: a term originally used to describe the desire not to differentiate oneself, which has since been mispopularized (by New York magazine) to describe the more specific act of dressing neutrally to avoid standing out. (In 2014, “Normcore” was named a runner-up by Oxford University Press for “Neologism of the Year.”)

Since publishing K-HOLE, the collective has taken on a number of unique projects that reflect the manifold nature of their practice, from a consulting gig with a private equity firm to a collaboration with a fashion label resulting in their own line of deodorant. K-HOLE has been covered by a wide range of publications, including the New York Times, Fast Company, Wired UK, and Mousse.

Part of Insights 2015 Design Lecture Series."

[direct link to video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7GkMPN5f5cQ ]]]></description>
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    <title>Review: Björk Unfurled in Many Guises at MoMA - NYTimes.com</title>
    <dc:date>2015-03-06T00:58:39+00:00</dc:date>
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    <dc:creator>robertogreco</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["Björk should have said no — not because her work isn’t museum-worthy but because, as proved here, the Modern is not up to the task. The show is billed as a “midcareer survey,” but its disappointing catalog indicates little of the research, documentation or context setting that such projects usually entail, and the exhibition hasn’t been allotted much more gallery space than one of the museum’s “projects series” showing work by emerging artists. Given the number of Björk fans it will probably attract, the show’s future as a logistical nightmare seems clear. It was already indicated at the preview on Tuesday night."

…

"As a result, the Björk exhibition stands as a glaring symbol of the museum’s urge to be all things to all people, its disdain for its core audience, its frequent curatorial slackness and its indifference to the handling of crowds and the needs of its visitors. To force this show, even in its current underdone state, into the atrium’s juggernaut of art, people and poor design is little short of hostile. It superficially promotes the Modern’s hipness while making the place even more unpleasant than usual. Given that the pavilion seems designed to comfortably hold around 300 to 350 people, those Björk fans are going to spend a great deal of time waiting in line or, worse, near the pavilion."]]></description>
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    <title>The Techies Who Are Hacking Education by Homeschooling Their Kids | WIRED</title>
    <dc:date>2015-02-05T17:32:20+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://www.wired.com/2015/02/silicon-valley-home-schooling/</link>
    <dc:creator>robertogreco</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[“Do It Yourself” is a familiar credo in the tech industry—think of the hobbyists of the Homebrew Computing Club hacking together the personal computer, Mark Zuckerberg building the next great communications medium from his Harvard dorm room, or Palmer Lucky soldering together the Oculus Rift from spare parts in his garage. Progressive education is another leitmotif that runs through tech history—Larry Page and Sergey Brin have attributed much of their success to the fact that they attended a Montessori school. In recent years, Peter Thiel has launched a broadside against higher education, and Sir Ken Robinson’s lecture, “How Schools Kill Creativity,” has become the most popular TED Talk of all-time, with 31 million views. Now, all those strains are coming together to create a new phenomenon: the techie homeschooler.

This may come as a shock to those of us who still associate homeschooling with fundamentalists eager to shelter their kids from the evils of the secular state. But it turns out that homeschooling has grown more mainstream over the last few years. According to the most recent statistics, the share of school-age kids who were homeschooled doubled between 1999 and 2012, from 1.7 to 3.4 percent.

And many of those new homeschoolers come from the tech community."

…

"Perhaps it’s not surprising that the tech community—a group not known for mastering the delicate social mores of adolescence—might pursue an unconventional approach to schooling. “I never really fit in,” says Flickr and Hunch co-founder Caterina Fake, who has homeschooled three kids (two of whom have since moved on to public school) along with her partner, serial entrepreneur Jyri Engestrom. “I grew up not watching any TV, excluded from pop culture, sitting around reading T.S. Eliot and playing classical music. But those things benefited me so much! I felt different in a good way—like I had secret superpowers.”"

…

"Feel free to roll your eyes at this point. There’s something inherently maddening about a privileged group of forward-thinkers removing their children from the social structures that have defined American childhood for more than a century under the presumption that they know better. (And if you want to see how antiauthoritarian distrust can combine malevolently with parental concern, look no further than the Disneyland measles outbreak caused by the anti-vaccine crowd.) I hear you. As a proud recipient of a great public school education, I harbor the same misgivings.

And yet, as I talked to more of these homeschoolers, I found it harder to dismiss what they were saying. My son is in kindergarten, and I fear that his natural curiosity won’t withstand 12 years of standardized tests, underfunded and overcrowded classrooms, and constant performance anxiety. The Internet has already overturned the way we connect with friends, meet potential paramours, buy and sell products, produce and consume media, and manufacture and deliver goods. Every one of those processes has become more intimate, more personal, and more meaningful. Maybe education can work the same way."

…

"The Cook family are not just homeschoolers but unschoolers. They don’t prefer homeschooling simply because they find most schools too test-obsessed or underfunded or otherwise ineffective. They believe that the very philosophical underpinnings of modern education are flawed. Unschoolers believe that children are natural learners; with a little support, they will explore and experiment and learn about the world in a way that is appropriate to their abilities and interests. Problems arise, the thinking goes, when kids are pushed into an educational model that treats everyone the same—gives them the same lessons and homework, sets the same expectations, and covers the same subjects. The solution, then, is to come up with exercises and activities that will help each kid flesh out the themes and subjects to which they are naturally drawn.

All of which sounds great. But, to put this in tech terms, it’s an approach that doesn’t scale very well. It seemed exhausting enough for Samantha to help her two sons write one-sentence business plans; it’s hard to imagine anyone offering the same kind of energy and attention to each student in a 20-person classroom. Indeed, that’s precisely why schools adopt a one-size-fits-all model. Unlike the Cooks, they don’t have the luxury of tailoring an entire lesson plan to the needs and proclivities of one or two students. They have to balance the needs of individual students against the needs of the class as a whole—including kids who come into school with different interests, skills, and abilities. That’s why so many teachers aim for the middle of the bell curve—hoping to have the maximum impact on the largest number of students, even as they risk losing the outliers on either end of the chart.

Of course, there are plenty of private schools, charters, or gifted programs pursuing some version of what’s called student-directed learning. But most unschoolers told me that even these schools were still too focused on traditional standards of achievement. (To be fair, it’s hard to imagine that even the most enlightened private school would be able to stay in business if it couldn’t demonstrate to parents that it was teaching their children how to read or add.) Unless every family homeschools their children—a prospect that even homeschooling advocates say is untenable—it will remain an individualized solution to a social need.

And this is where technologists see a great opportunity—to provide differentiated, individualized education in a classroom setting. There’s a lot of excitement around Khan Academy because it steps in to handle a teacher’s least personalized duties—delivering lectures, administering and grading quizzes—freeing up time for one-on-one tutoring. Last year, Khan Academy launched the Khan Lab School, an offshoot that will create “a working model of Khan Academy’s philosophy of learning in a physical school environment.” AltSchool, a startup created by a former Googler, has launched a series of “micro-schools” in which teachers help students create their own individualized lesson plans.

Jyri Engestrom, Caterina Fake’s partner, signed up with AltSchool this year. The couple had been homeschooling for a couple of years, an experiment that gradually expanded into a 10-student “microschool” called Sesat School. This year, his students started attending AltSchool part-time, in what he calls a “hybrid” approach. He says it’s just one example of how a new crop of startups could use technology to create new educational models, somewhere between homeschooling and traditional school. He foresees a day when the same forces that have upended everything from the entertainment industry to transportation wreak havoc on our current model of education, when you can hire a teacher by the hour, just as you would hire a TaskRabbit to assemble your Ikea furniture.

“I’m feeling like something is brewing right now,” Engestrom says. “The cost of starting a company has gone down because there are online tools you can use for free. I can see that happening with school. So much of that stuff is just up for grabs.”"]]></description>
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    <dc:creator>robertogreco</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["Unlike so much of education in this country, teaching at home is broadly unregulated. Along with steady growth in home schooling has come a spirited debate and lobbying war over how much oversight such education requires.

Eleven states do not require families to register with any school district or state agency that they are teaching their children at home, according to the Coalition for Responsible Home Education, a nonprofit group that is pushing for more accountability in home schooling. Fourteen states do not specify any subjects that families must teach, and only nine states require that parents have at least a high school diploma or equivalent in order to teach their children. In half the states, children who are taught at home never have to take a standardized test or be subject to any sort of formal outside assessment.

And the movement is growing. Once mainly concentrated among religious families as well as parents who wanted to release their children from the strictures of traditional classrooms, home schooling is now attracting parents who want to escape the testing and curriculums that have come along with the Common Core, new academic standards that have been adopted by more than 40 states.

According to the most recent federal statistics available, the number of school-age children who were home-schooled in the United States was close to 1.8 million in 2011-12, up from 1.5 million five years earlier. According to federal data, the highest concentration of home-schooling families are in the South and West, although precise figures are difficult to collect because many states, including Connecticut, Oklahoma and Texas, do not require families to register with either a school district or the state education agency."

[See also: “The states that don't require homeschooled kids to learn math or English, in one map”
http://www.vox.com/2015/1/5/7495465/homeschooling-regulations-subjects-teachers ]]]></description>
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    <dc:creator>robertogreco</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["But if I went to the desert for space, when I got there I discovered another element that is abundant in desert architecture that was visually startling to me in its newness after the hard, gray-green industrial tones of the Bunker. This "new" material-- wood-- seemed so interesting to me that in 2011 I made a Facebook album called Reclaimed Wood to chart the material and its aesthetic progress to popularity, of which I was already certain. The first photos I took were of the ceiling in an old Ice Locker that Donald Judd, the original gentrifier, had purchased in Marfa. Built in the early 1900s, the locker had heavy white stucco and iron walls but the most beautiful, heavy, old, vintage wooden railroad beams in its ceiling; the effect of the wood was to soften what would be a hard industrial space into a pleasing, welcoming, artisanal atmosphere, and this is why Judd bought the building and converted it into an artist workshop and studio space. Judd, in a sense, predicted Reclaimed Wood forty years before everyone else caught on. All of the buildings he purchased in Marfa are masterful, original, unstudied versions of what has now become a national craze: the American industrial building with a soft, artistic and artisanal side. In Marfa these buildings were built for the railroad and then abandoned, decayed, and converted to art functions later. Thus their combined hardness/softness has had decades to develop.

After some months in Texas, I returned to the city and noticed that wood was steadily appearing everywhere and spreading. It began in small coffee shops like Four Barrel coffee shop (along with its textile counterpart, nautical rope, which often accompanies wood as a nod to wood's ship-ly connotations of pirates and sailors) and spread to restaurants and finally, back to the same tech company offices that I had left in pursuit of space and more organic forms. That's to say that the irony of all of this is that no environments have been more committed to retrofitting themselves with reclaimed wood than the very spaces that drive the technology that drives people to seek refuge from technology in more open, organic spaces. As technology filled our lives, so did our lives become increasingly filled with soft wooden beams and forms, a kind of reverse de-industrialization of the technical space using organic materials. We now plant these warm-colored, gnarled wooden objects like talismans amid our screens, a reminder of organic shapes, something to touch that, reassuringly, can't be swiped on.

It is thus that we have reached Peak Reclaimed Wood, where some restaurants and coffee shops are so plastered in vintage wooden planks and beams that there is no room for a single new plank of wood (in these spaces, the wood becomes less an accent than an attempt to create the illusion of living in a cabin, which is a related desire to reclaimed wood, but not identical. The desire to live in a coffee-house-as-cabin-- or to import actual cabins into your tech cafeteria, as Twitter did-- is something like a desire to live in the country or the past, without actually living there). And so, because aesthetics have to shift when they become saturated, what is next?

In my next post I will address what comes after Reclaimed Wood and why I think the next turn will be to 80s Hilton-esque business hotel stylings and what that means about us and what we need now."

[via: https://twitter.com/tealtan/status/549965313295781888 ]

[See also (referenced within: "Facebook IRL: A Short History of Facebook's Design Aesthetic"
http://www.katelosse.tv/latest/2014/2/4/facebook-irl-a-short-history-of-facebooks-design-aesthetic]]></description>
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    <title>Speed Kills: Fast is never fast enough - The Chronicle of Higher Education</title>
    <dc:date>2014-10-21T19:43:58+00:00</dc:date>
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    <dc:creator>robertogreco</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["In the past 50 years, two economies that operate at two different speeds have emerged. In one, wealth is created by selling labor or stuff; in the other, by trading signs that are signs of other signs. The virtual assets scale at a speed much greater than the real assets. A worker can produce only so many motorcycles, a teacher can teach only so many students, and a doctor can see only so many patients a day. In high-speed markets, by contrast, billions of dollars are won or lost in billionths of a second. In this new world, wealth begets wealth at an unprecedented rate. No matter how many new jobs are created in the real economy, the wealth gap created by the speed gap will never be closed. It will continue to widen at an ever-faster rate until there is a fundamental change in values.

One of the most basic values that must be rethought is growth, which has not always been the standard by which economic success is measured. The use of the gross national product and gross domestic product to evaluate relative economic performance is largely the product of the Cold War. As the battleground between the United States and the Soviet Union expanded to include the economy, the question became whether capitalism or communism could deliver more goods faster."

…

"The problem is not only, as Michael Lewis argues in Flash Boys, finding a technological fix for markets that are rigged; the problem is that the entire system rests on values that have become distorted: individualism, utility, efficiency, productivity, competition, consumption, and speed. Furthermore, this regime has repressed values that now need to be cultivated: sustainability, community, cooperation, generosity, patience, subtlety, deliberation, reflection, and slowness. If psychological, social, economic, and ecological meltdowns are to be avoided, we need what Nietzsche aptly labeled a "transvaluation of values."

…

"The growing concern about the effectiveness of primary, secondary, and postsecondary education has led to a preoccupation with the evaluation of students and teachers. For harried administrators, the fastest and most efficient way to make these assessments is to adopt quantitative methods that have proved most effective in the business world. Measuring inputs, outputs, and throughputs has become the accepted way to calculate educational costs and benefits. While quantitative assessment is effective for some activities and subjects, many of the most important aspects of education cannot be quantified. When people believe that what cannot be measured is not real, education and, by extension society, loses its soul.

Today’s young people are not merely distracted—the Internet and video games are actually rewiring their brains. Neuroscientists have found significant differences in the brains of "addicted" adolescents and "healthy" users. The next edition of the standard Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders will very likely specify Internet addiction as an area for further research. The epidemic of ADHD provides additional evidence of the deleterious effects of the excessive use of digital media. Physicians concerned about the inability of their patients to concentrate freely prescribe Ritalin, which is speed, while students staying up all night to study take Ritalin to give them a competitive advantage.

Rather than resisting these pressures, anxious parents exacerbate them by programming their kids for what they believe will be success from the time they are in prekindergarten. But the knowledge that matters cannot be programmed, and creativity cannot be rushed but must be cultivated slowly and patiently. As leading scientists, writers, and artists have long insisted, the most imaginative ideas often emerge in moments of idleness.

Many people lament the fact that young people do not read or write as much as they once did. But that is wrong—the issue is not how much they are reading and writing; indeed they are, arguably, reading and writing more than ever before. The problem is how they are reading and what they are writing. There is a growing body of evidence that people read and write differently online. Once again the crucial variable is speed. The claim that faster is always better is nowhere more questionable than when reading, writing, and thinking.

All too often, online reading resembles rapid information processing rather than slow, careful, deliberate reflection. Researchers have discovered what they describe as an "F-shaped pattern" for reading web content, in which as people read down a page, they scan fewer and fewer words in a line. When speed is essential, the shorter, the better; complexity gives way to simplicity, and depth of meaning is dissipated in surfaces over which fickle eyes surf. Fragmentary emails, flashy websites, tweets in 140 characters or less, unedited blogs filled with mistakes. Obscurity, ambiguity, and uncertainty, which are the lifeblood of art, literature, and philosophy, become decoding problems to be resolved by the reductive either/or of digital logic.

Finally, vocationalization. With the skyrocketing cost of college, parents, students, and politicians have become understandably concerned about the utility of higher education. Will college prepare students for tomorrow’s workplace? Which major will help get a job? Administrators and admission officers defend the value of higher education in economic terms by citing the increased lifetime earning potential for college graduates. While financial matters are not unimportant, value cannot be measured in economic terms alone. The preoccupation with what seems to be practical and useful in the marketplace has led to a decline in the perceived value of the arts and humanities, which many people now regard as impractical luxuries.

That development reflects a serious misunderstanding of what is practical and impractical, as well as the confusion between the practical and the vocational. As the American Academy of Arts and Sciences report on the humanities and social sciences, "The Heart of the Matter," insists, the humanities and liberal arts have never been more important than in today’s globalized world. Education focused on STEM disciplines is not enough—to survive and perhaps even thrive in the 21st century, students need to study religion, philosophy, art, languages, literature, and history. Young people must learn that memory cannot be outsourced to machines, and short-term solutions to long-term problems are never enough. Above all, educators are responsible for teaching students how to think critically and creatively about the values that guide their lives and inform society as a whole.

That cannot be done quickly—it will take the time that too many people think they do not have.

Acceleration is unsustainable. Eventually, speed kills. The slowing down required to delay or even avoid the implosion of interrelated systems that sustain our lives does not merely involve pausing to smell the roses or taking more time with one’s family, though those are important.

Within the long arc of history, it becomes clear that the obsession with speed is a recent development that reflects values that have become destructive. Not all reality is virtual, and the quick might not inherit the earth. Complex systems are not infinitely adaptive, and when they collapse, it happens suddenly and usually unexpectedly. Time is quickly running out."]]></description>
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    <dc:creator>robertogreco</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["Forget the dire predictions of a looming shortfall of scientists, technologists, engineers, and mathematicians"

…

"Clearly, powerful forces must be at work to perpetuate the cycle. One is obvious: the bottom line. Companies would rather not pay STEM professionals high salaries with lavish benefits, offer them training on the job, or guarantee them decades of stable employment. So having an oversupply of workers, whether domestically educated or imported, is to their benefit. It gives employers a larger pool from which they can pick the “best and the brightest,” and it helps keep wages in check. No less an authority than Alan Greenspan, former chairman of the Federal Reserve, said as much when in 2007 he advocated boosting the number of skilled immigrants entering the United States so as to “suppress” the wages of their U.S. counterparts, which he considered too high.

Governments also push the STEM myth because an abundance of scientists and engineers is widely viewed as an important engine for innovation and also for national defense. And the perception of a STEM crisis benefits higher education, says Ron Hira, because as “taxpayers subsidize more STEM education, that works in the interest of the universities” by allowing them to expand their enrollments."

…

"Many children born today are likely to live to be 100 and to have not just one distinct career but two or three by the time they retire at 80. Rather than spending our scarce resources on ending a mythical STEM shortage, we should figure out how to make all children literate in the sciences, technology, and the arts to give them the best foundation to pursue a career and then transition to new ones. And instead of continuing our current global obsession with STEM shortages, industry and government should focus on creating more STEM jobs that are enduring and satisfying as well."]]></description>
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    <title>I'm 13 and None of My Friends Use Facebook</title>
    <dc:date>2013-08-12T23:42:09+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://mashable.com/2013/08/11/teens-facebook/</link>
    <dc:creator>robertogreco</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["I’m a teen living in New York. All of my friends have social networks — Instagram, Vine, Snapchat, etc. Facebook used to be all I could talk about when I was younger. “Mom, I want a Facebook!” and other whining only a mother could put up with.

But now, at 13, I’ve been noticing something different. Facebook is losing teens lately, and I think I know why.

Part of the reason Facebook is losing my generation's attention is the fact that there are other networks now. When I was 10, I wasn’t old enough to have a Facebook. But a magical thing called Instagram had just come out ... and our parents had no idea there was an age limit. Rapidly, all my friends got Instagrams.

Now, when we are old enough to get Facebook, we don’t want it. By the time we could have Facebooks, we were already obsessed with Instagram. Facebook was just this thing all our parents seemed to have.

This leads me into my next point: Although I do have a Facebook, none of my other friends do."

…

"All of our parents and parents' friends have Facebooks. It’s not just the fact that I occasionally get wall posts like, “Hello sweetie pie!” But my friends post photos that get me in trouble with those parents."

…

"In the end, Facebook has been trying too hard. Teens hate it when people try too hard; it pushes them away. It’s like if my mom told me not to do something — I immediately need to do it. When she forces something on me, I really don’t want to do it.

Teens just like to join in on their own. If you’re all up in their faces about the new features on Facebook, they’ll get annoyed and find a new social media."]]></description>
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    <title>College grads in theater and arts landing jobs ahead of tech grads</title>
    <dc:date>2013-07-31T20:02:11+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://www.usatoday.com/story/money/personalfinance/2013/07/30/tech-job-unemployment/2595669/</link>
    <dc:creator>robertogreco</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["Recent graduates with tech degrees face higher unemployment rates after the Great Recession."

…

"Here's a surprise for college students: Recent graduates with technology degrees are having a tougher time finding a job than their peers in the arts.

The unemployment rate for recent grads with a degree in information systems is more than double that of drama and theater majors, at 14.7% vs. 6.4%, according to a recent Georgetown University study. Even for computer science majors, the jobless rate for recent grads nears 9%.

Anthony Carnevale, director of Georgetown's Center on Education and the Workforce, said the statistics reflect the recession that officially ended in 2009. Certain job markets, like IT, are inherently cyclical, and are more affected by dips in the economy, Carnevale explained.

"During the recessions, those people lose their jobs," he said. "They're not computer scientists or programmers or people who understand the innards of computers; they're people who use computer information at their job," such as workers at a bank's customer service desk.

Drama and theater jobs, on the other hand, are not heavily affected by the recession, and tend to have lower unemployment rates because there are fewer graduates in these fields, Carnevale added."

[See also: https://www.openforum.com/articles/why-english-majors-are-the-hot-new-hires/ ]]]></description>
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    <title>Why English Majors are the Hot New Hires | The New OPEN Forum</title>
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    <dc:creator>robertogreco</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["Years ago while interviewing an English major, I mentioned that—for many reasons—I liked hiring individuals who have a degree in the humanities. When I finished speaking, I noticed that the applicant was slightly choked up. He said, "You are the only person who has made me feel good about my degree." It's not uncommon for English majors—or anyone majoring in the humanities for that matter—to get a bad rap. Even Marc Andreessen, founder of Netscape, not too long ago said that people should get math-oriented degrees; otherwise, they will end up working in shoe stores.

We place a great value on a STEM education (degrees in science, technology, engineering and mathematics). But are the tables turning? Are hiring managers beginning to see the value that a liberal arts education—and an English major in particular—brings to the workplace? Recently, some high-profile businesspeople came out in favor of hiring English majors. Bestselling author and small-business expert Steve Strauss, for example, has admitted that "English majors are my employee of choice." And Bracken Darrell, CEO of Logitech, had this to say: "When I look at where our business is going, I think, boy, you do need to have a good technical understanding somewhere in there, to be relevant. But you’re really differentiated if you understand humanities.""

[Related: http://www.usatoday.com/story/money/personalfinance/2013/07/30/tech-job-unemployment/2595669/ ]]]></description>
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<item rdf:about="http://therealnews.com/t2/index.php?option=com_content&amp;task=view&amp;id=31&amp;Itemid=74&amp;jumival=10482">
    <title>Chris Hedges: As a Socialist, I Have No Voice in the Mainstream - Pt 6 of 7</title>
    <dc:date>2013-07-29T19:41:07+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://therealnews.com/t2/index.php?option=com_content&amp;task=view&amp;id=31&amp;Itemid=74&amp;jumival=10482</link>
    <dc:creator>robertogreco</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[[now here:
https://therealnews.com/chedgesrealityassertspt6 ]

"I think we’re in this kind of strange period when the language we use to describe our economic and political system no longer matches the reality. I mean, laissez-faire capitalism—we don’t live in a system of laissez-faire capitalism when the federal government bails out these institutions to the tunes of trillions of dollars and then keeps pumping out free money from the Fed and handing it to—that’s not laissez-faire capitalism. And yet I’m sure that if you went to Wharton or Harvard Business School, they would still be teaching this fictional system. And we haven’t yet moved into a period where the vocabulary we use to describe our reality matches that reality. And that’s always a revolutionary period, because there’s a disconnect between the way we speak about ourselves and the way we actually function. And that’s where we are. And so we in many ways are searching for the words to describe what’s happening to us and then to articulate another vision of where we want to go. And we haven’t gotten there yet."

[via: http://scudmissile.tumblr.com/post/56796659481/i-think-were-in-this-kind-of-strange-period-when ]

[The rest in the series at The Real News website with transcripts:
part 1 http://therealnews.com/t2/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=31&Itemid=74&jumival=10441
part 2 http://therealnews.com/t2/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=31&Itemid=74&jumival=10449
part 3 http://therealnews.com/t2/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=31&Itemid=74&jumival=10456
part 4 http://therealnews.com/t2/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=31&Itemid=74&jumival=10461
part 5 http://therealnews.com/t2/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=31&Itemid=74&jumival=10468
part 7 http://therealnews.com/t2/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=31&Itemid=74&jumival=10486

[now here:
https://therealnews.com/chedgesrealityassertspt1
https://therealnews.com/chedgesrealityassertspt2
https://therealnews.com/chedgesrealityassertspt3
https://therealnews.com/chedgesrealityassertspt4
https://therealnews.com/chedgesrealityassertspt5
https://therealnews.com/chedgesrealityassertspt7

And on Youtube:
part 1 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p1JF94vovww
part 2 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XR0oGJ2yrmc
part 3 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5vWcyetC3CI
part 4 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GCjMdOo7KkY
part 5 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ff-G0DPkBv8
part 6 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OX6n861Gu6Q
part 7 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hNm_GAIXOWw ]]]></description>
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    <title>Millennials Support Causes, Not Institutions, Survey Finds | PND | Foundation Center</title>
    <dc:date>2013-07-25T23:01:33+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://foundationcenter.org/pnd/news/story.jhtml?id=430000014</link>
    <dc:creator>robertogreco</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["Millennials — young men and women born between 1979 and 1994 — passionately support causes rather than the institutions working to address them; are highly selective about which organizations to follow on social media; and value the intrinsic benefits of volunteering such as networking and gaining professional expertise, a new report from Achieve and the Case Foundation finds.

Based on survey responses from more than twenty-six hundred individuals, the report, 2013 Millennial Impact Report (34 pages, PDF), found that 73 percent of millennials volunteered for a nonprofit organization in 2012. When asked about their motivations, 79 percent said they were passionate about the cause or issue, 67 percent felt they could make a difference for a cause they cared about, and 56 percent wanted to connect and network with like-minded people. The survey also found that in a crowded and noisy media landscape, 49 percent of millennials actively follow one to five nonprofits on social media, 80 percent like it best when nonprofits have mobile-friendly Web sites, and 59 percent like receiving news or action-oriented updates with links to more information and next steps."

[If true, this bodes well for Kickstarter culture, pop-up culture, and the like.]]]></description>
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    <title>Younger Americans’ Library Habits and Expectations | Pew Internet Libraries</title>
    <dc:date>2013-06-27T01:53:43+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://libraries.pewinternet.org/2013/06/25/younger-americans-library-services/</link>
    <dc:creator>robertogreco</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["Additionally, younger patrons are significantly more likely than older library visitors to use the library as a space to sit and ready, study, or consume media—some 60% of younger library patrons have done that in the past 12 months, compared with 45% of those ages 30 and older. And most younger Americans say that libraries should have completely separate locations or spaces for different services, such as children’s services, computer labs, reading spaces, and meeting rooms: 57% agree that libraries should “definitely” do this.

Along those lines, patrons and librarians in our focus groups often identified teen hangout spaces as especially important to keep separate from the main reading or lounge areas, not only to reduce noise and interruptions for other patrons, but also to give younger patrons a sense of independence and ownership. A library staff member in our online panel wrote:

“Having a separate children’s area or young adults area will cater solely to those groups and make them feel that the library is theirs. They do not have to deal with adults watching them or monitoring what book they pick or what they choose to do—it’s all about them and what they want with no judgment. Children and teens love having their own space so why not give them that at the library?”"]]></description>
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<item rdf:about="http://www.theatlantic.com/national/archive/2013/05/why-private-schools-are-dying-out/275938/">
    <title>Why Private Schools Are Dying Out - Chester E. Finn Jr. - The Atlantic</title>
    <dc:date>2013-05-24T20:15:49+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://www.theatlantic.com/national/archive/2013/05/why-private-schools-are-dying-out/275938/</link>
    <dc:creator>robertogreco</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["A few elite institutions at both the grade-school and college levels are doing better than ever. But their health conceals the collapse of private-sector options in the U.S."

…

"Three factors keep all these changes from being more visible and talked about.

First, of course, they're gradual, and thus (proverbially) difficult to perceive. Second, it's not in the interest of private schools or colleges to acknowledge that they have a problem -- lest it create the educational equivalent of a run on the bank, with clients fleeing for fear of being abandoned after a sudden collapse. Much of the allure of private schools, after all, is based on their reputations, which they work hard to sustain. Hence they maintain a brave front while quietly shrinking, discounting -- and recruiting full-pay students from wealthy families in other lands, particularly in Asia.

Third, elite private institutions are doing just fine, many besieged by more applicants than ever before. The wealthiest Americans can easily afford them and are ever more determined to secure for their children the advantages that come with attending them. And at the K-12 level, a disproportionate fraction of those wealthy people live in major cities where the public school options are unappealing. So we're not going to see an enrollment crisis anytime soon at Brown, Amherst, or Duke, nor at Andover, Sidwell Friends, or Trinity. Indeed, New York's new Avenues School is able to fill its classes with families willing and able to pay its staggering $43,000 per annum.

Because these elite schools and colleges are also highly visible -- and where the "chattering classes" want (and can afford) to enroll their own daughters and sons -- they create a façade of private-sector vitality. Behind it, however, like the Wizard of Oz's curtain and Potemkin's building facades, there is much weakness, a weakness that probably afflicts the vast majority of today's private schools and colleges."]]></description>
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    <title>Meta is Murder. Writing and lesser things by Mills Baker. Look at the masterpiece, and not at the frame —....</title>
    <dc:date>2013-03-26T22:35:55+00:00</dc:date>
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    <dc:creator>robertogreco</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[<blockquote>Look at the masterpiece, and not at the frame — and not at the faces of other people looking at the frame.</blockquote>

"Vladimir Nabokov in his lectures on Russian literature, opposing the primary type of academic and popular criticism: what we might call the demographic-reactive type. The overwhelming majority of opinion derives less from any internal response to a work of art (or political idea or cultural trend) than from what sorts of reactions we imagine on other faces looking at the frame, as it were.

If we’re observant, we see that when we encounter something we have often hardly finished perceiving it when we begin to imagine how others might react, and how still others would react to that reaction, and only at last do we begin to react according to our own demographic allegiances or resentments. We carry our friends, but still more our enemies, with us in every judgment."]]></description>
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<item rdf:about="http://www.zephoria.org/thoughts/archives/2013/03/01/facebook-college.html">
    <title>danah boyd | apophenia » Is Facebook Destroying the American College Experience?</title>
    <dc:date>2013-03-04T23:00:01+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://www.zephoria.org/thoughts/archives/2013/03/01/facebook-college.html</link>
    <dc:creator>robertogreco</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["What most students (and parents) fail to realize is that the success of the American college system has less to do with the quality of the formal education than it does with the social engineering project that is quietly enacted behind the scenes each year. Roommates are structured to connect incoming students with students of different backgrounds. Dorms are organized to cross-breed the cultural diversity that exists on campus. Early campus activities are designed to help people encounter people whose approach to the world is different than theirs. This process has a lot of value because it means that students develop an appreciation for difference and build meaningful relationships that will play a significant role for years to come. The friendships and connections that form on campuses shape future job opportunities and help create communities that change the future. We hear about famous college roommates as exemplars. Heck, Facebook itself was created by a group of Harvard roommates. But the more basic story is how people learn to appreciate difference, often by suffering through the challenges of entering college together."

"Getting to know people whose life stories seem so foreign is hard. And yet, such relationship building across lines of difference can also be tremendously transformative."

[Goes well with: http://www.foreignpolicy.com/articles/2013/02/27/dont_trust_anyone_over_70 and http://www.aeonmagazine.com/world-views/nigel-warburton-cosmopolitanism/ ]]]></description>
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    <title>A brave new world: science fiction predictions for 2013</title>
    <dc:date>2013-01-05T14:00:58+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://www.guardiannews.com/books/booksblog/2013/jan/03/science-fiction-predictions-2013</link>
    <dc:creator>robertogreco</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["With the novel Empty Space in 2012, M John Harrison concluded his Kefahuchi Tract trilogy begun with Light in 2002 and Nova Swing in 2006. Empty Space and its precursors paint their drama across a canvas reaching from the infinite scale of space-time, down through the quantum universe and into the depths of the human heart. Harrison's masterpiece is the outcome of a decades-long project to fuse the conceptual strength of SF with the human insights of literary fiction. Robert Macfarlane, chair of the Booker prize judging panel in 2013, picked Empty Space as his book of the year recently, and it's unlikely to be the first plaudit as more literary readers discover M John Harrison's remarkable writing."

"Space is SF's new black: Once upon a time our imagination populated outer space with exotic alien civilisations, and the space race inspired thousands of SF novels through the 60s and 70s. But when exploration revealed nothing but a barren solar system and infinite vacuum, space fell…"]]></description>
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    <title>No Teachers, No Class, No Homework; Would You Send Your Kids Here? - Emily Chertoff - The Atlantic</title>
    <dc:date>2012-12-20T04:26:33+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://www.theatlantic.com/national/archive/2012/12/no-teachers-no-class-no-homework-would-you-send-your-kids-here/265354/</link>
    <dc:creator>robertogreco</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["Many agree that the generation of Americans now in their teens and 20s had some of the most over-supervised and over-structured childhoods in U.S. history. It will be interesting to see whether these trends will continue, or whether these next-generation parents react to their own disciplined upbringings by becoming more hands-off. If they grow to resent the way they were raised, democratic schools may come to look like a pretty appealing option for their own children."]]></description>
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    <title>Psychotherapy’s Image Problem Pushes Some Therapists to Become ‘Brands’ - NYTimes.com</title>
    <dc:date>2012-11-29T02:09:16+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://www.nytimes.com/2012/11/25/magazine/psychotherapys-image-problem-pushes-some-therapists-to-become-brands.html?pagewanted=all</link>
    <dc:creator>robertogreco</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["“Nobody wants to buy therapy anymore…They want to buy a solution to a problem.” This is something Truffo discovered in her own former private practice of 18 years, during which she saw a shift from people who were unhappy and wanted to understand themselves better to people who would come in “because they wanted someone else or something else to change,” she said. “I’d see fewer and fewer people coming in and saying, ‘I want to change.’”"

"I explained that I could help him with clarity but couldn’t guarantee his timeline. The day before our appointment, he called again and told me he found a relationship coach to help sort things out. She gave him a four-session-package guarantee.

There’s not a lot I can do when this happens, primarily because therapists, governed by a board, can’t make outcome claims the way coaches can."

"“For most people who seek therapy, they find a feeling of catharsis in sharing their story of suffering with an objective, caring therapist. On the other hand…"]]></description>
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    <title>As Children’s Freedom Has Declined, So Has Their Creativity | Psychology Today</title>
    <dc:date>2012-09-24T03:57:03+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/freedom-learn/201209/children-s-freedom-has-declined-so-has-their-creativity</link>
    <dc:creator>robertogreco</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["Kyung Hee Kim’s recent research report documenting a continuous decline in creativity among American schoolchildren over the last two or three decades

"Creativity is nurtured by freedom and stifled by the continuous monitoring, evaluation, adult-direction, & pressure to conform that restrict children’s lives today.  In the real world few questions have one right answer, few problems have one right solution; that’s why creativity is crucial to success in the real world. But more and more we are subjecting children to an educational system that assumes one right answer to every question and one correct solution to every problem, a system that punishes children (and their teachers too) for daring to try different routes. We are also, as I documented in a previous essay, increasingly depriving children of free time outside of school to play, explore, be bored, overcome boredom, fail, overcome failure—that is, to do all that they must do in order to develop their full creative potential."]]></description>
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<item rdf:about="http://www.theatlanticcities.com/arts-and-lifestyle/2012/07/shopping-mall-turns-60-and-prepares-retire/2568/">
    <title>The Shopping Mall Turns 60 (and Prepares to Retire) - Arts &amp; Lifestyle - The Atlantic Cities</title>
    <dc:date>2012-07-18T22:59:49+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://www.theatlanticcities.com/arts-and-lifestyle/2012/07/shopping-mall-turns-60-and-prepares-retire/2568/</link>
    <dc:creator>robertogreco</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["About a third of our malls are still thriving, and those are the biggest, newest ones. But America is no longer building many new highways, which means we’ve stopped creating prime new locations for mall development. Some of the earliest amenities of the enclosed mall—air-conditioning!—no longer impress us. And the demographics of suburbia have changed dramatically. Malls draw the largest share of their customers from teenagers, and the baby boomers who largely populate suburbia no longer have teenagers at home.

For all these reasons, the suburban mall of Gruen’s plan appears to be victim of more than just the recession. Dunham-Jones, who has tracked this trend in her book Retrofitting Suburbia, estimates that more than 40 malls nationwide have been targeted for significant redevelopment. And she can count 29 that have already been repurposed, or that have construction underway."

[via and more: http://www.laphamsquarterly.org/deja_vu/2012/07/mall-madness.php ]
]]></description>
<dc:subject>grueneffect dayton detroit ellendunham-jones 2012 consumptionpatterns consumption victorgruen cities architect architecture urbanism urban trends shopping suburbs us malls shoppingmalls via:maxfenton</dc:subject>
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<item rdf:about="http://digbysblog.blogspot.com/2012/07/tale-of-two-scandals-dcjohnson.html">
    <title>Hullabaloo - A Tale of Two Scandals</title>
    <dc:date>2012-07-15T07:09:14+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://digbysblog.blogspot.com/2012/07/tale-of-two-scandals-dcjohnson.html</link>
    <dc:creator>robertogreco</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["Finally, the country has changed. Over the course of the last two decades we've seen a rather dramatic degradation of political norms, generally. We've had partisan impeachments, stolen elections, bogus wars and massive financial failure. People are a lot more cynical. There was a time when it would have been a reckless act of chutzpah to nominate a Vulture capitalist in the wake of the 2008 meltdown, but now it's just par for the course."]]></description>
<dc:subject>via:tom.hoffman politics 2012 vulturecapitalism society trends capitalism</dc:subject>
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<item rdf:about="http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2012/jul/13/hari-kunzru-new-york-literary-hipsters">
    <title>Why is New York's literary crowd suddenly in thrall to Hungarian fiction? | Hari Kunzru | Books | The Guardian [&quot;this summer, a copy of Sátántangó slung casually on the cafe table is the local masonic sign of literary ambition&quot;]</title>
    <dc:date>2012-07-14T05:59:47+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2012/jul/13/hari-kunzru-new-york-literary-hipsters</link>
    <dc:creator>robertogreco</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["The thing about New York (and, a fortiori, the gentrified bits of Brooklyn, where writers go when their Manhattan apartments are expropriated by the One Percent) is that it doesn't have a "contemporary master of the apocalypse". It has post-Ivy relationship anatomists, adderall-enhanced pop culture essayists, dirty realist white-guy novelists and hipster poets who transcribe their sexts and cut them up with Wikipedia entries on HPV and Jersey Shore. It has, at the last count, 247 trillion recent MFA graduates, at least a dozen of which are to be found, on any given morning, abseiling down the glassy exterior of the Random House publishing building, in an attempt to get Sonny Mehta to read their collection of short stories modelled on Denis Johnson's Jesus's Son."

"Odd as it may seem, the utopian yearning for an authentic literary culture is part of a growing current of opposition to the status quo."]]></description>
<dc:subject>culture ows occupywallstreet publishing trends books chadharbach jonathanfranzen dondelillo translation literaryfiction jameswood sonnymehta statusquo literature nyc lászlókrasznahorkai robertobolaño 2012</dc:subject>
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<item rdf:about="http://www.theatlanticcities.com/arts-and-lifestyle/2012/07/why-you-should-be-skeptical-latest-statistics-city-vs-suburban-population-growth/2571/">
    <title>Why You Should Be Skeptical of Statistics on City vs. Suburban Population Growth - Arts &amp; Lifestyle - The Atlantic Cities</title>
    <dc:date>2012-07-13T23:57:14+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://www.theatlanticcities.com/arts-and-lifestyle/2012/07/why-you-should-be-skeptical-latest-statistics-city-vs-suburban-population-growth/2571/</link>
    <dc:creator>robertogreco</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["One of the reasons it's frustrating that you just hear about city versus suburbs is there's so much heterogeneity of suburbs, that it's really not fair to treat all suburbs as the same. Some suburbs are dense. Some are old streetcar suburbs. Some have been trying, through transit investment and investment in main streets downtown, to create walkable denser communities. This has been happening throughout the country.

What we need to do is stop looking at these crude city-versus-suburb divides and we need to start looking at where is the growth actually happening. Is it happening in places where we'd expect — are people voting with their feet, so to speak, to go to these denser places? Is it actually the case that people want more urban existence? I think we'd probably find evidence that's the case. That does not mean the overwhelming majority of Americans want that. One of the issues is how big of a market is there for the urbanist ideal. We just don't know."]]></description>
<dc:subject>trends us urbanism urban demographics davidking ericjaffe via:javierarbona 2012 density suburbs cities</dc:subject>
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    <title>Dunne and Raby's &quot;a/b&quot; design manifesto (jpg)</title>
    <dc:date>2012-06-14T03:55:01+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://www.dunneandraby.co.uk/img/projects/large/a_b-1.jpg</link>
    <dc:creator>robertogreco</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["Dunne and Raby's "a/b" design manifesto, a work in progress circa 2009" -- https://twitter.com/promich/status/210651247714385920]]></description>
<dc:subject>design manifesto slides lists trends via:TomC manifestos anthonydunne fionaraby dunne&amp;raby</dc:subject>
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    <title>Some teens aren't liking Facebook as much as older users - latimes.com</title>
    <dc:date>2012-06-01T06:25:48+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://www.latimes.com/business/la-fi-facebook-teens-20120531,0,248487,full.story</link>
    <dc:creator>robertogreco</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["For these youngsters the social networking giant's novelty has worn off. They are checking out new mobile apps, hanging out on Tumblr and Twitter, and sending plain-old text messages from their phones."]]></description>
<dc:subject>via:kissane parents adolescents teens blogging texting trends socialnetworks socialnetworking 2012 tumblr twitter facebook</dc:subject>
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<item rdf:about="http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052702304450004577277482565674646.html?fb_action_ids=3394159534423&amp;fb_action_types=news.reads&amp;fb_source=other_multiline">
    <title>A Field Guide to the Middle-Class U.S. Family - WSJ.com</title>
    <dc:date>2012-03-21T17:28:12+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052702304450004577277482565674646.html?fb_action_ids=3394159534423&amp;fb_action_types=news.reads&amp;fb_source=other_multiline</link>
    <dc:creator>robertogreco</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["Anthropologist Elinor Ochs and her colleagues at the University of California, Los Angeles have studied family life as far away as Samoa and the Peruvian Amazon region, but for the last decade they have focused on a society closer to home: the American middle class.

Why do American children depend on their parents to do things for them that they are capable of doing for themselves? How do U.S. working parents' views of "family time" affect their stress levels? These are just two of the questions that researchers at UCLA's Center on Everyday Lives of Families, or CELF, are trying to answer in their work."

"Among the findings: The families had very a child-centered focus, which may help explain the "dependency dilemma" seen among American middle-class families, says Dr. Ochs. Parents intend to develop their children's independence, yet raise them to be relatively dependent, even when the kids have the skills to act on their own, she says."

[Bane of my existence]]]></description>
<dc:subject>via:lauralavoie counterproductivepractices research 2012 society trends anthropology elinorochs familytime child-centered ucla helicopterparents helicopterparenting independence children parenting us families</dc:subject>
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<item rdf:about="http://radiofreeschool.blogspot.com/2012/03/this-feels-painful.html">
    <title>Radio Free School: This feels painful.</title>
    <dc:date>2012-03-05T00:52:50+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://radiofreeschool.blogspot.com/2012/03/this-feels-painful.html</link>
    <dc:creator>robertogreco</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["…discovered…number of homeschoolers out there organizing workshops, events…but the atmosphere…is far from joyous…anxious people doing this thing…tend to be homeschoolers as opposed to unschoolers…feels painful…grim & serious…the feeling that 'we need to be the best.' 

Learning is not about being excited about something; it's about covered a unit…showing off what we know…less about collaborative & supportive inquiry, more about competition & every kid to herself.

…a disappointment…I was hoping for a meeting of adventurous minds…community whose members encourages one another & believe in learning for self discovery & contribution.

…not what I'm seeing. I see a lot of tired, strained looking mothers out there. Very uninspiring…

I worry about new people coming to unschooling. Who do they turn to? Where do they go?

As to those pained home educators, I suggest you take a walk around your city; relax…let those 'teaching moments' pass you by once in a while. It's all good."]]></description>
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    <title>Children's Books Lose Touch With Nature - NYTimes.com</title>
    <dc:date>2012-03-02T06:59:46+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://parenting.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/02/29/childrens-books-lose-touch-with-nature/</link>
    <dc:creator>robertogreco</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["A group of researchers, led by the University of Nebraska-Lincoln’s J. Allen Williams Jr., examined the pictures found in the pages of Caldecott Medal-winning books from 1938 (the first year the prize was awarded) to today. They looked for images of a natural environment (as opposed to a “built” or “modified” environment like a house or park) and of wild animals (rather than domesticated or anthropomorphized creatures). What they found probably doesn’t surprise any parent or child for whom the world of “Blueberries for Sal” is completely alien: where once children’s books offered essentially equal illustrative doses of built and natural environments, natural environments “have all but disappeared” in the last two decades."]]></description>
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    <title>Panda Express Takes Sweet And Sour Beyond The Food Court : The Salt : NPR</title>
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    <link>http://www.npr.org/blogs/thesalt/2012/02/22/147256897/panda-express-takes-sweet-and-sour-beyond-the-food-court</link>
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"The spiciness, that teriyaki flavor. Those different types of sour & tart & tangy…really starting to become more appealing. In fact, if you just look at the kids' aisle for candy…that's most of the types of food we see. Very tart & sour flavors are what kids are looking for."

So are older kids, like college students who routinely devour Korean food & seek out Korean-influenced frozen yogurt, like Pinkberry. It's reflective of a changing American palate. Tristano says there are about 40,000 Asian restaurants in US that represent about 13% of all full service sales.

"Compared to Italian at about 11%," he observes. "Now Italian used to be larger than Asia, but the 2 have flipped over the past 2 years."

…admits "Asian" seems like ridiculously broad category compared to Italian, but it's in Panda's interest to play up pan-Asian approach; 1 stop for Chinese, Korean & Thai."]]></description>
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    <title>Is Africa really urbanising rapidly? Not according to recent data | The Global Urbanist</title>
    <dc:date>2012-02-24T07:23:47+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://globalurbanist.com/2012/02/21/is-africa-really-urbanising</link>
    <dc:creator>robertogreco</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["It is common knowledge that sub-Saharan Africa is urbanising faster than anywhere else in the world ... but what if we're wrong?! This misconception, based on simplistic projections from very old data, is contradicted by recent censuses, which suggests we need to rethink our understanding of urban poverty across the continent."

[Have been wondering about this *a lot* lately. Is the internet slowing/reversing urbanization. When I was a rural kid, then an urban young adult, I could never imagine giving up the libraries, bookstores, etc. of the urban environment. But with the internet, I don't se myself as unhappy back in the woods.]
]]></description>
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    <title>The Career Of The Future Doesn't Include A 20-Year Plan. It's More Like Four. | Fast Company</title>
    <dc:date>2012-01-16T10:12:53+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://www.fastcompany.com/magazine/162/average-time-spent-at-job-4-years</link>
    <dc:creator>robertogreco</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["Hasler has several of these skills in spades…interests are transdisciplinary…a "T-shaped person," w/ both depth in 1 subject & breadth in others…demonstrates cross-cultural competency (fluent Spanish, living abroad) & computational thinking (learning programming & applying data to real-world problems)…intellectual voracity that drove him to write 50k words on Western cultural history while running coffee shop is a sign of sense making (drawing deeper meaning from facts) & excellent cognitive load management (continuous learning & managing attention challenges)…desire to synthesize his knowledge & apply it to helping people & his ability to collaborate w/ those who have different skills, shows high degree of social intelligence."

"…not every older worker is frightened by the 4-year career. Some…have been living this way for decades, letting their curiosity—or their faster metabolism—guide them. What stands out is their sense of confidence that things can (and will) turn out okay."]]></description>
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<item rdf:about="http://www.designindaba.com/article/pop-supping">
    <title>INSPIRE / NEWS &amp; ARTICLES | Design Indaba</title>
    <dc:date>2012-01-16T07:49:13+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://www.designindaba.com/article/pop-supping</link>
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    <title>Rising Share of Americans See Conflict Between Rich and Poor | Pew Social &amp; Demographic Trends</title>
    <dc:date>2012-01-13T07:16:51+00:00</dc:date>
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<item rdf:about="http://popupcity.net/">
    <title>The Pop-Up City</title>
    <dc:date>2011-12-17T07:47:40+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://popupcity.net/</link>
    <dc:creator>robertogreco</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["The Pop-Up City is a blog that explores the latest designs, trends and ideas that shape the city of the future. We strongly focus on new concepts, strategies and methods for a dynamic and flexible interpretation of contemporary urban life. The Pop-Up City is curated by the creative directors of Golfstromen, along with an international team of reporters."]]></description>
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    <title>Welcome to the post-digital world, an exhilarating return to civility – via Facebook and Lady Gaga | Simon Jenkins | Comment is free | The Guardian</title>
    <dc:date>2011-12-05T17:45:57+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2011/dec/01/post-digital-world-web</link>
    <dc:creator>robertogreco</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["Post-digital is not anti-digital. It extends digital into the beyond. The web becomes not a destination in itself but a route map to somewhere real. In Marshall McLuhan's terminology, it is cold where live is hot. This is why concerts did not die with the invention of records, but thrived on the difference. The screen relieves loneliness, as once did letters and phones, but it remains a window on the world, not a door. You cannot download the thunderous beat and sweaty presence of thousands at a Lady Gaga concert, any more than you can make love on Facebook, much as some try. You have to go somewhere for it to happen.

I find this return to civility exhilarating not from any animus against technology. I do not buy Carr's thesis that the internet is somehow scrambling our brains, that we are losing the ability to read long sentences or handle complex information critically…"]]></description>
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    <link>http://techcrunch.com/2011/11/14/generation-make/</link>
    <dc:creator>robertogreco</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["We have a distrust of large organizations…don’t look down on people creating small businesses. But we’re not emotionless…We have anger…flares up to become Arab Spring & OccupyWallStreet…We have ego…every entrepreneur who thinks their tech startup is the best…We have passion, & an intense drive to follow…through, immediately. Our generation is autonomous…impatient. We refuse to pay our dues…want to be running the department. We hop from job to job…average tenure…is just 3 years. We think we can do anything we can imagine…hate the idea that we should ever be beholden to someone else. We do this because we have been abandoned by the institutions that should have embraced us…We are a generation of makers…of creators. Maybe we don’t have the global idealism of the hippies. Our idealism is more individual: that every person should be able to live their own life, working on what they choose, creating what they choose…"]]></description>
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    <title>A Conversation With Allison Arieff, Writer and Editor on Sustainability - Nicholas Jackson - Life - The Atlantic</title>
    <dc:date>2011-11-08T23:42:27+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://www.theatlantic.com/life/archive/2011/10/a-conversation-with-allison-arieff-writer-and-editor-on-sustainability/246440/</link>
    <dc:creator>robertogreco</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["Making sustainability a trend has minimized its relevance and stymied its progress. Climate change, declining resources, peak oil -- these aren't passing fads. "Green is the new black," "eco-chic," "eco-fabulous," -- I even got a pitch from Eco-Stiletto! All that marketing-speak has done little for sustainability except validate old behaviors. It's a notion that you can go green by buying more stuff. We'll always need things, but we need a real focus on making those things less expendable, less, well, "trendy," and more efficient, healthier, durable, built to last."]]></description>
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