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    <title>The Wisdom of Not Knowing (with Pico Iyer and Nathan Gardels) - YouTube</title>
    <dc:date>2025-09-16T17:16:11+00:00</dc:date>
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In this episode, renowned travel writer Pico Iyer describes how globalization – which offered up the mirage of a global monoculture – has instead led to a clash of civilizations and identity. For Pico, wisdom resides not in mastery but in doubt. From his decades of constant travel to his retreats in silence, Iyer describes how humility and stillness can open a clearer view of the world than certainty ever could.

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0:00 Intro
2:15 What’s in a Name
4:28 Travel and Stillness
7:19 The Contemplative Life
9:02 The Mirage of Globalization
14:06 The Inward Clash of Civilizations
17:36 The Nation of No Nation
24:24 The Return of the Strong Gods
26:54 Science, Spirituality, and the Dalai Lama
31:36 Leonard Cohen and the Half-Known Life
40:50 Ego and Undeludedness
43:00 Living in the Moment
46:41 Fire and Impermanence
52:19 The Danger of Certainty"]]></description>
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    <title>Podcast - The Final Episode - Through the Looking Glass, On Philosophy &amp; Watches</title>
    <dc:date>2025-07-25T08:20:15+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://www.beyondthedial.com/post/podcast-the-final-episode-through-the-looking-glass-on-philosophy-watches/</link>
    <dc:creator>robertogreco</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["Farewell, and thank you all for listening. The Aesthetic Revolution Will Be Beautiful!"

[Also here:
https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/through-the-looking-glass-on-watches-philosophy-the/id1472733566?i=1000650769924
https://open.spotify.com/episode/5q14vURgxkB0UkRIXGBbxR ]]]></description>
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    <title>Why Are Birthrates Plummeting Worldwide? - YouTube</title>
    <dc:date>2025-03-22T17:47:35+00:00</dc:date>
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    <dc:creator>robertogreco</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["Birth rates are plummeting worldwide – and while this might seem like nothing new – as it has been the case in developed countries for quite some time. The thing that is interesting is that we are seeing declining birth rates everywhere and the standard explanations that you have heard in the past don’t really hold up."]]></description>
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    <title>Opinion | Covid’s Deadliest Effect Took Five Years to Appear - The New York Times</title>
    <dc:date>2025-03-14T09:26:09+00:00</dc:date>
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    <dc:creator>robertogreco</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["February 2025. A blustery morning. I alight, a little breathless, from the subway at 168th street and walk the oddly deserted blocks toward the hospital where I work. I hear a distant cough. A windblown plastic bag tumbles along the sidewalk and lodges itself in the skeletal branches of a tree. The familiar, insistent whine of an ambulance rises in the distance.

It has been five years since the world was blown into the tumult of a lethal pandemic. Back then, deserted streets and distant coughs, to say nothing of ambulances docking into hospitals, would have carried a very different meaning. But as Proust wrote, the moments of the past do not remain still. We have metabolized a global trauma — millions of deaths, nations brought to their knees, a generation scarred by grief, isolation and loss — so rapidly that it seems, at times, not to have happened at all.

As the pandemic rose, I saw my patients get sick and in some cases die, including a 42-year-old mother of two young children whose loss is seared into my soul. As it receded, I served on then Gov. Andrew Cuomo’s commission to rebuild New York’s health infrastructure. Back then, the overwhelming public sentiment was: never again. Today, it seems: never what?

But Covid didn’t just change billions of individual lives. It changed our country’s basic approach to public health, in fundamental ways that are becoming fully visible only now — and which the Trump administration looks likely to render irreversible.

It was sometime in the thick of the pandemic, in January 2021, that I reread John M. Barry’s superlative book “The Great Influenza,” which tells the story of the 1918 pandemic and the birth of public health as a discipline in the United States. Before that, shielding the population from disease was primarily the domain of either individual heroic doctors such as John Snow (who solved London’s 1854 cholera epidemic by tracking its epicenter to a contaminated water pump — and, so the story goes, breaking off the handle) or civic interventions such as the new sewer system that London installed to address the Great Stink of 1858.

That ad hoc approach changed in October 1918, when William Welch inaugurated a school of public health at Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore. Its trainees would learn to dissect patterns of disease in populations, just as a pathologist might perform an autopsy on an individual patient. They would confront future epidemics and health crises systematically, through public institutions, issuing mandates, dispensing carefully vetted information and managing the surveillance and containment of contagion — tools that, as Mr. Barry notes, lack the drama of individual heroism but have saved countless millions of lives.

Mr. Barry has written no fewer than five afterwords for his book, the most recent in 2021, while the world was still adjusting to the novel coronavirus. In it, he wrote that one of the great lessons of the 1918 pandemic is that “public health measures — the non-pharmaceutical interventions of social distancing, proper ventilation” and so on — “work.” I’ve seen it myself, at times of crisis and times of calm, in New York, across the country, around the world.

It came as a surprise for me, then, when I heard Dr. Céline Gounder, an infectious disease doctor and a member of President Joe Biden’s Covid-19 Advisory Board, and listened to her pronounce that public health was nearly dead. It was October 2024, and we were seated in a chilly tent at the National Academy of Medicine meeting in Washington.

Dr. Gounder was referring to what she calls the “unglamorous public infrastructure” — the interlocking institutions that function constantly and invisibly, and don’t depend on private enterprise or personal decisions. Yes, we conquered Covid, but “if we are inclined to think of our victory against Covid as a public health success,” she warned me, “we should really reconsider.”

What seemed to succeed, instead, was a deployment of private enterprise (backed by state subsidies): the invention of vaccines by pharmaceutical companies; their delivery in significant measure through private hospitals and clinics; the ascendancy of private decision-making by individuals, schools and businesses; and the surveillance of the pandemic by private institutions.

Covid was a privatized pandemic. It is this technocratic, privatized model that is its lasting legacy and that will define our approach to the next pandemic. It solves some problems, but on balance it’s a recipe for disaster. There are some public goods that should never be privatized.

Dr. Gounder checked off the basic mechanisms by which public health experts confront a pandemic: They create systems to understand and track its cause and spread; they identify the people most at risk; they deploy scalable mechanisms of protection, like air and water sanitation; they distribute necessary tools, such as vaccines and protective gear; they gather and communicate accurate information; and they try to balance individual freedoms and mass restrictions.

In the case of Covid, each of these responsibilities became increasingly relegated to the private sphere. In one of President Trump’s first national speeches about Covid, he told the nation, “You’re going to be hearing from some of the largest companies and greatest retailers and medical companies in the world.” And so we did.

As the new administration engulfs Washington, we are witnessing the further, and perhaps final, phase of this retreat. In its first weeks, the Trump administration announced far-reaching cuts in the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention as well as reportedly severe restrictions on the kind of research its employees can conduct. It moved to dismantle the U.S.A.I.D., even though the agency funds crucial health efforts around the world, including an early detection system for epidemics. The president proposed slashing funding for medical research at universities. And of course, to lead the Department of Health and Human Services, he chose Robert Kennedy Jr., who may have done more than anyone else alive to recast the miracle of vaccines as a dark and dangerous conspiracy.

The mechanisms that Dr. Gounder identified may no longer function at all. Their time of death will be this chaotic political moment. But the illness set in during the pandemic.

Let’s begin with vaccination. The fight against Covid has been repeatedly told as a technological story and a story of corporate heroism. In record time, four major pharmaceutical companies — Pfizer, Moderna, AstraZeneca and Johnson & Johnson — created the vaccines that were used most to vaccinate the world. Pfizer’s and Moderna’s, in particular, are triumphs of science: Building on the prior work of academic scientists, they established the use of mRNA as a platform for vaccination. Drew Weissman and Katalin Karikó deservedly shared the 2023 Nobel Prize in Medicine for their research on mRNA; it is notable, however, that while they receive wide mention in the story of vaccine development, the decades-long funding of their science by public institutions such as the National Institutes of Health (which has also funded some of my research) is often left out. The “Moderna vaccine” is as much the “N.I.H. vaccine.”

The first Trump administration deserves fair praise for accelerating the development of these vaccines through Operation Warp Speed, a public-private partnership. But it was the private sector that prevailed and will be remembered.

In the United States, vaccines were delivered through an often ad hoc and chaotic system managed nominally by the government — but almost entirely run by private hospitals, clinics, pharmacies and district-run vaccination centers that relied on private-public partnerships. There was no federal system for scheduling the shots. Instead, countless different systems bloomed, many created by enterprising software companies, each seeking to simplify, but overall contributing to more chaos. Vaccine-hunting felt, at times, like a “Hunger Games” challenge, replete with illusory hopes and disappearing screens. In New York City, you stayed up late in order to pounce when the next tranche of appointments opened up. Then just as you clicked to claim a spot, it vanished — presumably to someone who had hit it a nanosecond before you had.

And remember the early days of testing? Public testing sites could take a couple of weeks to offer results. Anything quicker might require booking an appointment at a private facility, some of which charged hundreds of dollars. Other options arose, and soon the streets of major cities were lined with custom-outfitted vans and tents, the innovation of quick-thinking entrepreneurs who rushed in to meet a public need.

The collection and dissemination of facts during a pandemic is typically considered an essential public good and therefore best controlled through validated, state-endorsed channels. But it took three months for the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention to produce a national testing database. Rick Bright, the former head of the Biomedical Advanced Research and Development Authority, or BARDA, told me that the most important surveillance data “were generally reported by universities, such as Johns Hopkins, or the Covid Tracking Project, a private project coordinated by The Atlantic. The U.S. eventually adopted these dashboards, as did most news and media outlets, over any efforts that the government tried to produce.”

As for the responsibility to provide more than data at a moment of mass panic and obfuscation, many Americans looked to the government for answers. Dr. Anthony Fauci, the former director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, became for many a hero for shouldering the near-impossible task of dispensing information in the midst of a sandstorm of unknown unknowns. It was dangerous work. But as Zeynep Tufekci wrote here in June, “under questioning by a congressional subcommittee,” officials later “acknowledged that some key parts of the public health guidance their agencies promoted during the first year of the Covid-19 pandemic were not backed up by solid science. What’s more, inconvenient information was kept from the public.”

The lack of consistent messaging left ordinary people looking for answers elsewhere. They got them, or believed they did, from private echo chambers, conspiracy theorists, social media influencers and home remedy peddlers. All of a sudden, Joe Rogan and Dr. Fauci were seemingly equal authorities on virology, immunology and vaccine efficacy. That shift has had the lasting effect of greatly diminishing public trust in scientific authorities and science as a whole.

What does this mean for future pandemics? The good news is the pharmaceutical companies have already demonstrated that they can develop effective vaccines in record time. But it’s not hard to imagine downsides of giving corporations total control of this arena.

When the government withdraws from the private-public partnerships that have produced recent vaccine innovations, it also diminishes its ability to negotiate prices. High consumer cost would deepen health care inequities and decrease compliance. As the virus multiplied in unvaccinated people, it would get more chances to mutate, further endangering everyone, even those who got the shot. Private companies might well “donate” some number of doses or negotiate a lower price — but that would be a decision left to executives trying to optimize the shareholders’ interests, not to people making choices in the public’s interest.

And as imperfect as our distribution and reporting system has already proved to be, the government-run Vaccine Adverse Event reporting system has been an invaluable repository of nationwide reports that can be rapidly cross-searched by physicians and public health agencies. The degeneration of that vital infrastructure, or its transfer to private management, would have cascading effects. Imagine an adverse-event reporting system managed by the suppliers of vaccines. For a public already suspicious of the process, a conflict of interest like that could be a fatal blow to trust.

The same goes for the surveillance of pandemics. The C.D.C. monitors diseases worldwide and publishes the Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report, a publicly accessible report that acts as a weather vane of the status of diseases across the United States. Will it continue to do so? Infectious disease surveillance companies abound, and Google Trends and Apple Health have a lot more money to throw at this project, if they choose to, than Congress would be likely to allocate.

But training matters, and low-tech networks, built and nourished over decades, are powerful. In March 2023, the Marburg virus — an extraordinarily deadly contagion similar to Ebola — broke out in the Kagera region of Tanzania. The news of an unknown infection reached a local C.D.C.-trained health worker named Vedestina Shumbusho through a group chat. She informed the Tanzanian Ministry of Health, which swiftly moved to test and isolate the sick patients. A potential international disaster was averted. I don’t think that the patients were sitting at home on their iPhones, searching “What do I do when I have Marburg virus?”

The shift of surveillance to privately owned, profit-minded subscription services (with stated commitment to the public good but obvious obligations to the bottom line) should also raise alarm. Would premium clients get early access to surveillance data? Would they, or the company itself, use it for private gain? Could these sources always be trusted not to put a finger on the scale? What if one of their major funders is a big pharmaceutical company? A private entity looking to break into a new market might want to skew a country’s data to curry favor with its government. A company might even be incentivized to dramatize a far-off danger to increase user engagement on its platform.

Is this what we really want — handing off increasing levels of decision-making power to the private sphere? Americans may not agree about much, but it’s clear they are angry about the degree to which corporations constrain our choices about our health and our bodies. (Look, for instance, at the gleeful response to the coldblooded murder of a health insurance executive.) But just when we should be demanding more public accountability and reliability, we seem to be turning away from the idea that health is a collective endeavor, a public good at all, and retreating into the rhetoric of personal responsibility. The deeper message is that we’re all on our own, fighting our private battles. I fear we will come to regret it.

Later that afternoon, as I returned home to Chelsea, I walked past the triangular park that marks the AIDS memorial. I doubt New York City will build a Covid memorial park any time soon, but if it does, it will probably be “sponsored.” Perhaps some of the “largest companies and greatest retailers” would chip in, and maybe they’d charge admission (with a percentage no doubt donated to a good cause of their choosing). No names of the deceased would be carved in stone. The memorial sculpture would be some rendition of a strand of mRNA. Or a great glass bubble representing, simultaneously, the lipid nanoparticles within which some of the vaccines were suspended and the ultimate separation of the public air outside and the private air inside."]]></description>
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This self-lacerating story has formed the heart of an indictment of American school policies during the pandemic, increasingly cited by critics of the country’s mitigation policies as the clearest example of pandemic overreach.

But we keep getting more data about American student performance over the last few years, and the top lines suggest a pretty modest setback, even compared to how well the country’s students performed, in recent years, in the absence of any pandemic disruption.

Now, for the first time, we have good international data and can compare how American students performed to those in peer countries that, in many cases, made different choices about whether and when to close schools and whether and when to open them.

This data comes from the Program for International Student Assessment, coordinated by the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development in almost 80 countries typically every three years — a long-running, unimpeachable, nearly global standardized test measure of student achievement among the world’s 15-year-olds in math, reading and science.

And what it shows is quite eye-opening. American students improved their standing among their international peers in all three areas during the pandemic, the data says. Some countries did better than the United States, and the American results do show some areas of concern. But U.S. school policies do not seem to have pushed American kids into their own academic black hole. In fact, Americans did better in relation to their peers in the aftermath of school closures than they did before the pandemic.

The performance looks even stronger once you get into the weeds a bit. In reading, the average U.S. score dropped just one point from 505 in 2018 to just 504 in 2022. Across the rest of the O.E.C.D., the average loss was 11 times as large. In Germany, which looked early in the pandemic to have mounted an enviable good-government response, the average reading score fell 18 points; in Britain, the country most often compared with the United States, it fell 10 points. In Iceland, which had, by many metrics, the best pandemic performance in Europe, it fell 38 points. In Sweden, the darling of mitigation skeptics, it fell 19 points.

In science, the United States lost three points, about the same decline as the O.E.C.D. average and still above the level Americans reached in 2016 and 2013. On the same test, German students lost 11 points, and British and Swedish students dropped five; performance by students in Iceland fell by 28 points.

In math, the United States had a more significant and worrying drop: 13 points. But across the other nations of the O.E.C.D., the average decline from 2018 to 2022 was still larger: 16 points. And in historical context, even the 13-point American drop is not that remarkable — just two points larger than the drop the country experienced between the 2012 and 2015 math tests, suggesting that longer-term trajectories in math may be more concerning than the short-term pandemic setback. Break the scores out to see the trajectories for higher-performing and lower-performing subgroups, and you can hardly see the impact of the pandemic at all.

Of course, the Program for International Student Assessment is just one test, with all the limitations of any standardized measure. It is not good news, in general, if the world is struggling academically. And none of this is an argument for American educational excellence or never-ending remote learning or a claim there was no impact from closures on American kids or a suggestion that the country’s schools should have stayed closed as long as they did.

It is simply a call to assess the legacy of those closures in the proper context: a pandemic that killed 25 million people globally and more than a million in the United States and brought more than a billion children around the world home from school in 2020. In the 18 months that followed, American schools were not choosing between universal closures and an experience entirely undisturbed by Covid-19. They were choosing different ways of navigating the pandemic landscape, as was every other school system in the world. A good first test of whether the country bungled school closures is probably whether peer countries, in general, did better. The test scores imply that they didn’t.

So why do we keep telling ourselves the self-lacerating story of our pandemic educational failure?

One reason could be that while some state-level testing data shows no correlation between school closures and learning loss, some analysis of district-level data has shown a closer correlation. But this suggests that learning loss is not a national problem but a narrower one, requiring a narrower response.

Another is that testing is blind to other markers of well-being. Chronic absenteeism, for instance, is up significantly since before the pandemic and may prove a far more lasting and concerning legacy of school closure than learning loss. And the American Academy of Pediatrics declared a national mental health emergency — language that has been echoed by the American Medical Association.

But while American teenagers have reported higher levels of emotional distress in several high-profile surveys, here, too, the details yield a subtler picture. In the first year of the pandemic, according to a study supported by the National Institute of Mental Health, 17 percent fewer American teens made mental-health visits to emergency rooms than in the year before; in the second year, they made nearly 7 percent more. According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the proportion of teenage girls reporting persistent feelings of hopelessness and sadness rose from 47 percent in 2019 to 57 percent in 2021 — a concerning rise, though only slightly larger than the six-point increase from 2017 to 2019. The number of male teens reporting the same barely grew, from 27 percent to 29 percent, having risen much faster from 2017 to 2019.

Each of these data points should probably be understood in the context of mental health surveys of older Americans, such as the General Social Survey, which found that the percentage of American adults describing themselves as “very happy” fell from 31 percent in 2018 to 19 percent in 2021 and those describing themselves as “not too happy” nearly doubled to 24 percent. It is hard to disentangle the effects of school closure here from the experience of simply living through an anxious and disruptive time. To judge by the bleakest standard, youth suicide declined during the period of school closure and returned to prepandemic levels only after schools reopened.

Overall, American adults lost some confidence in the country’s school system in those years, with national approval dropping from 50 percent to 42 percent. But the drop is not from current parents of kids in school, whose approval rose throughout the pandemic, according to Gallup, from 72 percent in 2020 to 73 percent in 2021 to 80 percent in 2022. (Other recent surveys, including ones from Pew and The Times, have found similar postpandemic parental approval, between 77 percent and 90 percent.) Instead, as Matt Barnum suggested in ChalkBeat, the decline has been driven by the perspective of people without kids in those schools today — by childless adults and those who’ve opted out of the public school system for a variety of personal and ideological reasons.

Could we have done better? Surely. We might have done more to open all American schools in the fall of 2020 and to make doing so safe enough — through frequent pooled and rapid testing, more outdoor learning and better indoor ventilation, among other measures — to reassure parents, 71 percent of whom who said that summer that in-person school was a large or moderate risk to their children and a majority of whom said that schools should remain closed until there was no Covid risk at all. We could have provided more educational and emotional support through the darkest troughs of the pandemic and probably been clearer, throughout the pandemic, that the risk of serious illness to individual kids was relatively low.

But we could do better now, too, by sidestepping pandemic blame games that require us both to exaggerate the effect of school closures on educational achievement and the degree to which policymakers, rather than the pandemic, were responsible."]]></description>
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    <dc:creator>robertogreco</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["“I’m very much afraid of this ‘Foundation Complex.’ We’re getting praise from places that worry me.”
– Ella Baker, June 1963

“I want us all to be real creative about our tactics and strategies to dismantle the empire.”
– Joo-Hyun Kang, The Revolution Will Not Be Funded Conference, 2004

In 2004, along with women of color at UC Santa Barbara, INCITE! organized the conference: “The Revolution Will Not Be Funded: Beyond The Non-Profit Industrial Complex.” This conference drew in hundreds of organizers and activists searching for a space to address the ways in which the non-profit/NGO structure often obstructs radical movement building. At this conference, speakers and attendees addressed the following questions:

- What is the history of the non-profit model? What drove its development? 
- How did it impact the form and direction of social justice organizing?
- How has reliance on foundation funding impacted the course of social justice movements?
- How does 501(c)3 status impact social justice organizations’ relationship to the state?
- How does non-profit status allow the state to co-opt and control our movements?
- Are there ways the non-profit model can be used subversively to support more radical visions for social change?
- What are the alternatives for building viable social justice movements? 
- How do we resource our movements outside the non-profit structure?
- What models for organizing outside the NGO/non-profit model exist outside the U.S. that may help us?
 - What is the “non-profit industrial complex”?
 
The non-profit industrial complex (or the NPIC) is a system of relationships between:

- the State (or local and federal governments)
- the owning classes
- foundations
- and non-profit/NGO social service & social justice organizations that results in the surveillance, control, derailment, and everyday management of political movements.

The state uses non-profits to:

- Monitor and control social justice movements;
- Divert public monies into private hands through foundations;
- Manage and control dissent in order to make the world safe for capitalism;
- Redirect activist energies into career-based modes of organizing instead of mass-based organizing capable of actually transforming society;
- Allow corporations to mask their exploitative and colonial work practices through “philanthropic” work;
- Encourage social movements to model themselves after capitalist structures rather than to challenge them
 
How did INCITE! come to explore this issue?
 
In 2004, INCITE! learned the hard way that the revolution will not be funded. When we began in 2000, we took a stand against state funding since we perceived that antiviolence organizations who had state funding had been co-opted. It hadn’t occurred to us to look at foundation funding in the same way.

However, in a trip to India (funded, ironically, by the Ford Foundation), we met with many non-funded organizations that criticized us for receiving foundation grants. When we saw that groups with much less access to resources were able to do amazing work without foundation funding, we began to question our reliance on foundation grants.

Our suspicions were confirmed when, in February 2004, INCITE! received an e-mail from the Ford Foundation with the subject line “Congratulations!” and an offer of “a one-year or two-year grant of $100,000” to cover our general operating expenses in response to a grant proposal the Ford Foundation had solicited from us. We committed to two major projects (SisterFire multimedia tour and Color of Violence III conference in New Orleans) based on this funding. Then, unexpectedly on July 30, 2004, the Ford Foundation sent another letter, explaining that it had reversed its decision because of our organization’s statement of support for the Palestinian liberation struggle.

INCITE! learned firsthand the dangers of relying on foundations for our movement building. But we also learned that social justice organizations do not always need the foundation support they think they do. Strapped with this sudden loss of funding but committed to organizing two major projects, INCITE! members started raising money through grassroots fundraising — house parties, individual calls, T-shirt sales, and so on — and we were able to quickly raise the money we lost when the Ford Foundation rescinded their grant offer.

This story is not an isolated incident. The NPIC has a long and complicated legacy. The Revolution Will Not Be Funded anthology and conference recordings review this history and political context, but offer no simple answers. The contributors are a multigenerational assembly of organizers working inside and outside the NPIC from a variety of — even conflicting — perspectives. However, we hope the book and conference continue a conversation about how to think beyond state-proctored models like the non-profit system for organizing political projects for social change."]]></description>
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    <title>Yanis Varoufakis on the Economic Situation - The Dig</title>
    <dc:date>2020-09-06T16:31:18+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://www.thedigradio.com/podcast/yanis-varoufakis-on-the-economic-situation/</link>
    <dc:creator>robertogreco</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[[also here: https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:643b759fcc3f ]

“Dan’s recent live event with Yanis Varoufakis on how 2020 revealed that 2008 had changed capitalism forever.

Also: we had some pod feed issues last week. If you missed Dan’s interview with brilliant organizers Andres Celin and Rapheal Randall—and this is a must-listen for everyone interested in organizing—check it out: www.thedigradio.com/podcast/organize-to-win-with-andres-celin-and-rapheal-randall/ “

[See also:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m7890OEUIq0
https://www.thedigradio.com/podcast/yanis-varoufakis-on-the-economic-situation/ ]]]></description>
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    <title>As the Pandemic Drives the Global Economy Apart, Societies May Break Apart, Too</title>
    <dc:date>2020-03-20T21:48:33+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://www.foreignaffairs.com/articles/2020-03-19/real-pandemic-danger-social-collapse</link>
    <dc:creator>robertogreco</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["As of March 2020, the entire world is affected by an evil with which it is incapable of dealing effectively and regarding whose duration no one can make any serious predictions. The economic repercussions of the novel coronavirus pandemic must not be understood as an ordinary problem that macroeconomics can solve or alleviate. Rather, the world could be witnessing a fundamental shift in the very nature of the global economy.

The immediate crisis is one of both supply and demand. Supply is falling because companies are closing down or reducing their workloads to protect workers from contracting COVID-19, the disease caused by the new coronavirus. Lower interest rates can’t make up the shortfall from workers who are not going to work—just as, if a factory were bombed in a war, a lower interest rate would not conjure up lost supply the following day, week, or month. 

The supply shock is exacerbated by a decrease in demand due to the fact that people are locked in, and many of the goods and services they used to consume are no longer available. If you shut countries off and stop air traffic, no amount of demand and price management will make people fly. If people are afraid or forbidden to go to restaurants or public events because of the likelihood of getting infected, demand management might at most have a very tiny effect—and not necessarily the most desirable one, from the point of view of public health.

The world faces the prospect of a profound shift: a return to natural—which is to say, self-sufficient—economy. That shift is the very opposite of globalization. While globalization entails a division of labor among disparate economies, a return to natural economy means that nations would move toward self-sufficiency. That movement is not inevitable. If national governments can control or overcome the current crisis within the next six months or a year, the world would likely return to the path of globalization, even if some of the assumptions that undergirded it (for example, very taut production chains with just-in-time deliveries) might have to be revised.

But if the crisis continues, globalization could unravel. The longer the crisis lasts, and the longer obstacles to the free flow of people, goods, and capital are in place, the more that state of affairs will come to seem normal. Special interests will form to sustain it, and the continuing fear of another epidemic may motivate calls for national self-sufficiency. In this sense, economic interests and legitimate health worries could dovetail. Even a seemingly small requirement—for instance, that everyone who enters a country needs to present, in addition to a passport and a visa, a health certificate—would constitute an obstacle to the return to the old globalized way, given how many millions of people would normally travel.

That process of unraveling might be, in its essence, similar to the unraveling of the global ecumene that happened with the disintegration of the Western Roman Empire into a multitude of self-sufficient demesnes between the fourth and the sixth centuries. In the resulting economy, trade was used simply to exchange surplus goods for other types of surplus produced by other demesnes, rather than to spur specialized production for an unknown buyer. As F. W. Walbank wrote in The Decline of the Roman Empire in the West, “Over the whole [disintegrating] Empire there was a gradual reversion to small-scale, hand-to-mouth craftsmanship, producing for the local market and for specific orders in the vicinity.”

In the current crisis, people who have not become fully specialized enjoy an advantage. If you can produce your own food, if you do not depend on publicly provided electricity or water, you are not only safe from disruptions that may arise in food supply chains or the provision of electricity and water; you are also safer from getting infected, because you do not depend on food prepared by somebody else who may be infected, nor do you need repair people, who may also be infected, to come fix anything at your home. The less you need others, the safer and better off you are. Everything that used to be an advantage in a heavily specialized economy now becomes a disadvantage, and the reverse.

The movement to natural economy would be driven not by ordinary economic pressures but by much more fundamental concerns, namely, epidemic disease and the fear of death. Therefore, standard economic measures can only be palliative in nature: they can (and should) provide protection to people who lose their jobs and have nothing to fall back on and who frequently lack even health insurance. As such people become unable to pay their bills, they will create cascading shocks, from housing evictions to banking crises.

Even so, the human toll of the disease will be the most important cost and the one that could lead to societal disintegration. Those who are left hopeless, jobless, and without assets could easily turn against those who are better off. Already, some 30 percent of Americans have zero or negative wealth. If more people emerge from the current crisis with neither money, nor jobs, nor access to health care, and if these people become desperate and angry, such scenes as the recent escape of prisoners in Italy or the looting that followed Hurricane Katrina in New Orleans in 2005 might become commonplace. If governments have to resort to using paramilitary or military forces to quell, for example, riots or attacks on property, societies could begin to disintegrate.

Thus the main (perhaps even the sole) objective of economic policy today should be to prevent social breakdown. Advanced societies must not allow economics, particularly the fortunes of financial markets, to blind them to the fact that the most important role economic policy can play now is to keep social bonds strong under this extraordinary pressure."]]></description>
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    <title>Bong Joon-ho Discusses PARASITE, Genre Filmmaking And The Greatness Of ZODIAC - YouTube</title>
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    <link>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dXuXfgquwkM</link>
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…

“As a matter of fact, i didn’t set out to deal with the theme of class struggle. When we look around, however, we can identify both the poor and the rich, and the disparity can be seen everywhere. In depicting their unique stories and situations, the topic emerged organically.“

]]></description>
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    <title>Simon Kuestenmacher on Twitter: &quot;This World #History Timeline shows the main superpowers and dynasties over the last 5000 years. Gorgeous piece of work. These type of charts really help to understand who ruled at the same time on the other side of the glo</title>
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    <dc:date>2017-10-14T23:54:10+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://www.sublimefrequencies.com/</link>
    <dc:creator>robertogreco</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["SUBLIME FREQUENCIES is a collective of explorers dedicated to acquiring and exposing obscure sights and sounds from modern and traditional urban and rural frontiers via film and video, field recordings, radio and short wave transmissions, international folk and pop music, sound anomalies, and other forms of human and natural expression not documented sufficiently through all channels of academic research, the modern recording industry, media, or corporate foundations.

SUBLIME FREQUENCIES is focused on an aesthetic of extra-geography and soulful experience inspired by music and culture, world travel, research, and the pioneering recording labels of the past."

[See also: https://www.instagram.com/sublimefrequencies/ ]

[via: https://www.instagram.com/p/BaHOtRtF4T8/ ]]]></description>
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    <title>World map featuring dumplings goes viral</title>
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    <title>Translation and the news—crossing languages in the age of networked journalism - FOLD</title>
    <dc:date>2016-03-14T00:53:06+00:00</dc:date>
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    <dc:creator>robertogreco</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[[See site for references relating to each of the different notes.]

"As my time as a Knight Visiting Nieman Fellow winds down, I wanted to reflect a bit on what I’ve learned about journalism, translation and the importance of the network in contemporary digital journalism. Much of this applies more broadly—language is going to be and already is a critical issue for technologists concerned about supporting the increased range of people online—, but I’ll focus on the specifics of journalism in this post.

It’s been an incredible few weeks of interviews, conversations, seminars, workshops, historical research (especially at the beautiful Widener Library), Hacks/Hackers, a conference on comments and going beyond them. We also managed to squeeze in a few pilot projects with Bridge, our platform for translating social media. I’ll be writing a longer, more thoughtful version of my time for Nieman Lab in coming weeks, so I’ll not try to craft too much of a logical narrative in this post.

Instead, some notes to jot down:

We’re moving toward a majority internet population. With 3.3 billion online and a 832% growth rate, the internet is incredibly diverse.

The “next billIon” have arrived, and already, language diversity is steadily increasing. I’ve written before about how ostensibly “offline”communities like in rural northern Uganda, North Korea and Cuba are impacted by the internet, and it’s important to keep in mind that the internet has ripple effects far beyond those who are formally online. As we crossed into a majority urban population, even rural areas have now oriented toward cities, providing raw and manufactured materials and serving as dumping grounds.

A similar effect will no doubt take place with the internet—even if not everyone is officially connected with a single user account, they will be pressured to find creative solutions to get connected. (Zachary Hyman and I have a piece coming out soon in Makeshift to this effect, and you can read what Julia Ticona and I discussed in the US context for Civicist.)

With regards to language, the sheer diversity of speakers online is stunning. From 2000 to 2015, we’ve seen 6592% growth amongst Arabic speakers, 2080% amongst Chinese speakers and 3227% amongst Russian speakers, to name a few. Even more striking is the fact that English speakers will soon be the minority online, and the growth of non-Top Ten language continues apace. If the news is breaking, it’s almost always going to happen online too. And more importantly, it will be happening in many more languages than English.

Multilingual content hasn’t caught up with multilingual users.

This is both a challenge and an opportunity. According to the IDN World Report, English content is vastly overrepresented on the web. Part of this, of course, can be explained by the fact that many people speak English as a second language. But other languages, like Arabic, Chinese and Spanish, are severely underrepresented.

This sounds like an opportunity for content creators to make relevant content for language speakers, whose experience of the internet is much more limited than that of English speakers. At the same time, adapting the current business models—advertising and pay to read—for these new markets will be a challenge. As Buzzfeed’s Greg Coleman pointed out, global advertising presents unique challenges. If so many people speak English, why bother with other languages?

As came through in many interviews I’ve done, readers tend to prefer their own language, even if they do speak English. I’d like to dive into this with more rigorous research, but it generally makes sense. As digital journalist and Nieman Fellow Tim de Gier described it to me, the internet is full of road bumps. Our job as journalists is to reduce those road bumps and point people to our articles. If it’s in another language, even one we speak, that’s just one more bump in access.

Networked journalism is here to stay. And it’s an opportunity for more diverse stories.

In 2006, Jeff Jarvis defined networked journalism as a field where "the public can get involved in a story before it is reported, contributing facts, questions, and suggestions. The journalists can rely on the public to help report the story; we’ll see more and more of that, I trust. The journalists can and should link to other work on the same story, to source material, and perhaps blog posts from the sources.... After the story is published — online, in print, wherever — the public can continue to contribute corrections, questions, facts, and perspective … not to mention promotion via links."

He added that he hoped it would be a sort of self-fulling prophecy, as more newsrooms turned to networks to both source and distribute the news. Journalists are shifting from simply manufacturers of news to moderators of conversations.

This month, at the Beyond Comments conference hosted by MIT Media Lab and the Coral Project, it became increasingly clear that major news outlets are striving for an alternative. In a terrific panel moderated by Anika Gupta, journalists like Amanda Zamora, Joseph Reagle, Monica Guzmán and Emily Goligoski pointed out that we need to make a shift from thinking of the audience as an audience to thinking of them more as a community.

To meet both speed and accuracy, translators need better tech and better processes.

In a breaking news environment, both speed and accuracy are critical. Indeed, translation and technology have always worked closely together. There are two examples that stick in my mind. The first is the Filene-Finlay simultaneous translator, developed at IBM and used in the Nuremberg trials. The second is the printing press: in Western Europe, it wasn't until books were translated from Latin to vernacular languages that they started to have an impact.

What does this look like in the digital context? It's something we're exploring at Meedan with Bridge, our platform for social media translation. Other great examples include Yeeyan, a Chinese platform for crowdsourcing news translation; Amara, for subtitling videos on platforms like TED; and Wikipedia.

But just as importantly as the tech, we need better systems and processes. The rigorous training of UN interpreters has made simultaneous interpretation at scale possible today. Glossaries, keeping up to date with the news, pairing interpreters together--this is the stuff that makes the tech powerful, because the humans behind it are more effective.

These processes can be supplemented with new tools in the digital context. Machine translation, translation memories, dynamic and shared glossaries can all help, as can fostering a collaborative mindset. What's most striking to me is the fact that interpretation at the UN is collaborative, with at least two interpreters per language pair. As we do away with the myth that translation is a one-to-one matter (i.e., one translator to one text), we can generate a stronger body of translations made possible through collaboration.

....And that's it for now - I'll be working on a much longer report, complete with case studies and examples, for the Nieman Lab in coming weeks. Thanks for reading, and stay tuned!"]]></description>
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    <dc:date>2015-07-03T07:17:12+00:00</dc:date>
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    <dc:date>2015-01-22T17:37:58+00:00</dc:date>
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Accelerated through the fear from the attacks of 9/11 and all what followed, the so called ‘Western Society’ is constructing the greatest wall ever build on this planet. On different building sites on all five inhabitable continents, walls, fences and high-tech border surveillance are under construction in order to secure the citizens and their high quality of life within this system. The fall of the Berlin Wall was described as the historical moment that marks the demolition of world’s last barrier between nation states. Yet it took the European Union only six years to create with the Schengen Agreement in 1995 a new division only 80km offset to the east of Berlin. 

Producer: Theo Deutinger"]]></description>
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    <title>The Refugee Project</title>
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The Refugee Project is an interactive map of refugee migrations around the world in each year since 1975. UN data is complemented by original histories of the major refugee crises of the last four decades, situated in their individual contexts."]]></description>
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    <title>Border Blaster | Shows | KCET</title>
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    <link>http://www.kcet.org/shows/borderblaster/</link>
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    <title>CrisisWatch | The Monthly Conflict Situation Report</title>
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    <title>The World is Getting Better. Quickly. - Anil Dash</title>
    <dc:date>2013-06-11T06:54:59+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://dashes.com/anil/2013/02/the-world-is-getting-better-quickly.html</link>
    <dc:creator>robertogreco</dc:creator><dc:subject>anildash optimism 2013 development poverty health world perspective</dc:subject>
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    <title>Building an Open-Source Map of the World's Languages</title>
    <dc:date>2013-05-23T20:33:10+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://jonathansoma.com/open-source-language-map</link>
    <dc:creator>robertogreco</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["We're trying to map the world's languages, and we can't do it alone.

Linguists have awesome visualizations up their sleeves, but they don't have a universal, open-source dataset for where languages are spoken.

We're going to fix that!"]]></description>
<dc:subject>maps mapping language languages via:meetar jonathansoma world global</dc:subject>
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<item rdf:about="http://sitaphul.tumblr.com/tagged/Teju-Cole">
    <title>SITAPHUL</title>
    <dc:date>2012-08-14T20:11:32+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://sitaphul.tumblr.com/tagged/Teju-Cole</link>
    <dc:creator>robertogreco</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Someone has assembled each of the playlists that Teju Cole has shared on Twitter.]]></description>
<dc:subject>tolisten africa world music playlists tejucole</dc:subject>
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    <title>A statement | Flickr - Photo Sharing!</title>
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<item rdf:about="http://www.librarything.com/series/Life%20World%20Library">
    <title>Life World Library | Series | LibraryThing</title>
    <dc:date>2012-07-31T01:21:28+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://www.librarything.com/series/Life%20World%20Library</link>
    <dc:creator>robertogreco</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[[A series of books that I used to look through and read frequently. I saw some of them in the Clatsop Community College library today. A few images: http://www.flickr.com/photos/robertogreco/tags/lifeworldlibrary/ ]

[Another reference: http://www.volumelists.com/detail.php?ser=Life%20World%20Library ]

[Update 2 Aug 2012: By contrast, while I love the idea and content of this series http://www.librarything.com/series/Time-Life%3A+The+Great+Cities , I'm not fond of the design. Short story: loved what they did in the 60s, was disappointed by what they did in the 70s.]]]></description>
<dc:subject>cv notalgia lifeworldlibrary 1960s photography culture world lifemagazine books</dc:subject>
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    <title>The WVS Cultural Map of the World</title>
    <dc:date>2012-06-21T06:19:20+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://www.worldvaluessurvey.org/wvs/articles/folder_published/article_base_54</link>
    <dc:creator>robertogreco</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["This map reflects the fact that a large number of basic values are closely correlated; they can be depicted in just two major dimensions of cross-cultural variation. ** Update ** Added supplementary data file.

Each country is positioned according to its people's values and not its geographical location. To a large extent the two coincide, but the map measures cultural proximity, not geographical proximity. Thus, Australia, Canada, the U.S. and Great Britain are cultural neighbors, reflecting their relatively similar values, despite their geographical dispersion."

[via: http://twitter.com/lauracricket/status/214034738892115969 ]]]></description>
<dc:subject>world democracy psychology values charts mapping maps culture</dc:subject>
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<item rdf:about="http://www.economist.com/node/21556577?fsrc=scn/tw/te/ar/starttheenginesangela">
    <title>Start the engines, Angela : The world economy is in grave danger. A lot depends on one woman [follow links]</title>
    <dc:date>2012-06-14T03:52:58+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://www.economist.com/node/21556577?fsrc=scn/tw/te/ar/starttheenginesangela</link>
    <dc:creator>robertogreco</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[The recessions in the euro zone’s periphery are deepening. Three consecutive months of feeble jobs figures suggest America’s recovery may be in trouble (see article). And the biggest emerging markets seem to have hit a wall. Brazil’s GDP is growing more slowly than Japan’s. India is a mess (see article). Even China’s slowdown is intensifying. A global recovery that falters so soon after the previous recession points towards widespread Japan-style stagnation.

But that looks like a good outcome when set beside the growing danger of a fracturing of the euro. The European Union, the world’s biggest economic area, could plunge into a spiral of bank busts, defaults and depression—a financial calamity to dwarf the mayhem unleashed by the bankruptcy of Lehman Brothers in 2008. The possibility of a Greek exit from the euro after its election on June 17th, the deterioration of Spain’s banking sector and the rapid disintegration of Europe’s cross-border capital flows have all increased this danger (see article).]]></description>
<dc:subject>world europe india china economy doom! via:Taryn</dc:subject>
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<item rdf:about="http://www.flickr.com/groups/68997865@N00/">
    <title>Flickr: Transport Timetables and Ticket SCANS.</title>
    <dc:date>2012-05-07T04:23:49+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://www.flickr.com/groups/68997865@N00/</link>
    <dc:creator>robertogreco</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["A group for people interested in railroad, bus and airline timetables and tickets. Extracts from historic and current schedules from North America, Australia and worldwide. Discuss urban and long distance rail and bus timetables. Shipping and ferry timetables are included. 

SCANS of transport tickets and timetables are sort. Please do NOT post photos of people holding a ticket or timetable."]]></description>
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<item rdf:about="http://www.ted.com/talks/paddy_ashdown_the_global_power_shift.html">
    <title>Paddy Ashdown: The global power shift | Video on TED.com</title>
    <dc:date>2012-01-16T02:04:02+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://www.ted.com/talks/paddy_ashdown_the_global_power_shift.html</link>
    <dc:creator>robertogreco</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["Paddy Ashdown claims that we are living in a moment in history where power is changing in ways it never has before. In a spellbinding talk at TEDxBrussels he outlines the three major global shifts that he sees coming."
]]></description>
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<item rdf:about="http://xkcd.com/980/">
    <title>xkcd: Money</title>
    <dc:date>2011-11-25T20:30:19+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://xkcd.com/980/</link>
    <dc:creator>robertogreco</dc:creator><dc:subject>money xkcd economics visualization economy finance infographics inequality wealth wealthdistribution us world 2011 data statistics comparison toshare classideas class randallmonroe</dc:subject>
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<item rdf:about="http://www.chinasmack.com/2011/pictures/adrian-fisk-what-are-young-chinese-thinking-about.html">
    <title>What Are Young Chinese Thinking About? – chinaSMACK</title>
    <dc:date>2011-09-15T01:24:55+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://www.chinasmack.com/2011/pictures/adrian-fisk-what-are-young-chinese-thinking-about.html</link>
    <dc:creator>robertogreco</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["In today’s China, the population of people 16 to 30 years old has reached 322 million but in the mainstream media, these ordinary young people’s thoughts and voices are often drowned out. British photographer Adrian Fisk traveled 12,500 kilometers and had a group of young people write down their thoughts on paper. Their future is also China’s future."]]></description>
<dc:subject>china youth 2011 voice adrianfisk perspective classideas society world life work</dc:subject>
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<item rdf:about="http://blogs.hbr.org/haque/2011/08/the_great_splintering.html">
    <title>The Great Splintering - Umair Haque - Harvard Business Review</title>
    <dc:date>2011-08-15T06:06:30+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://blogs.hbr.org/haque/2011/08/the_great_splintering.html</link>
    <dc:creator>robertogreco</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["a social contract's been torn up…bedrock of an enlightened social contract is, crudely, that rent-seeking is punished, & creating enduring, lasting, shared wealth is rewarded & that those who seek to profit by extraction are chastened rather than lauded. Today's world of bailouts, golden parachutes, sky-high financial-sector salaries — while middle incomes stagnate — seems to be exactly the reverse…The eye of this perfect storm is extreme income inequality that makes the Glided Age look Leninist…rule of law is visibly, easily flouted by the rich, it usually ends up being seen as laughable by the poor. London's become a city where many young people feel they're finished before they start…social upheaval's spreading…Our institutions are failing…We're going to have to build shelter: more resilient, less dysfunctional institutions that can deliver on the promise of real human prosperity that matters, lasts, and multiplies."]]></description>
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<item rdf:about="http://blog.longnow.org/2011/08/10/almost-everything-is-getting-better/">
    <title>» Almost everything is getting better - Long Views: The Long Now Blog</title>
    <dc:date>2011-08-14T06:38:32+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://blog.longnow.org/2011/08/10/almost-everything-is-getting-better/</link>
    <dc:creator>robertogreco</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["Last week The Millennium Project released its 02011 State Of The Future report, looking at trends for the past twenty years and projecting ahead for the next decade. (Not the 10,000 year future, but still of interest.) You can read an executive summary of the report here.

While the report finds many things to worry about – global warming, terrorism, corruption – overall the trends are surprisingly hopeful, as shown in their chart called “Where we are winning”:"

[Appreciate the optimism, but these are select measures and probably global too. I wonder what US figures would look like. In the US, there are several that are getting much worse. UPDATE: Here's a start: http://www.adbusters.org/magazine/71/generation-fcked.html ]
]]></description>
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<item rdf:about="http://www.theatlantic.com/infocus/ww2.html">
    <title>World War II in Photos - Alan Taylor - In Focus - The Atlantic</title>
    <dc:date>2011-08-10T10:21:20+00:00</dc:date>
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    <dc:creator>robertogreco</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["World War II is the story of the 20th Century. The war officially lasted from 1939 until 1945, but the causes of the conflict & its horrible aftermath reverberated for decades in either direction. While feats of bravery & technological breakthroughs still inspire awe today, the majority of the war was dominated by unimaginable misery & destruction. In the late 30s, the world's population was approximately 2 billion. In less than a decade, the war between the nations of the Axis Powers & the Allies resulted in some 80 million deaths — killing off about 4% of the whole world. <br />
<br />
This series of entries will last from June 19 until October 30, 2011, running every Sunday morning for 20 weeks. In these photo essays, I hope to explore the events of the war, the people involved at the front and back home, and the effects the war had on everyday lives. The entries will follow a roughly chronological sequence, with some broader themes (such as "The Home Front") interspersed throughout…"]]></description>
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    <dc:creator>robertogreco</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["You: doing more with less. Corporate profits: up 22 percent. The dirty secret of the jobless recovery."]]></description>
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    <dc:creator>robertogreco</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["Find and translate 10,000 newspapers! Show only newspapers in chosen language. Search place or address."]]></description>
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<item rdf:about="http://www.newstatesman.com/non-fiction/2011/04/human-beings-world-mabey">
    <title>New Statesman - The Perfumier and the Stinkhorn</title>
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    <title>Where Children Sleep by James Mollison</title>
    <dc:date>2011-02-28T18:21:03+00:00</dc:date>
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    <title>A revolution against neoliberalism? - Opinion - Al Jazeera English</title>
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Berlin now.

If you believe the hype, and you really should, Berlin is the coolest city on the planet."]]></description>
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    <dc:date>2010-11-26T21:10:06+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://bigthink.com/ideas/25109</link>
    <dc:creator>robertogreco</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["What if the world were rearranged so that the inhabitants of the country with the largest population would move to the country with the largest area? And the second-largest population would migrate to the second-largest country, and so on?<br />
<br />
The result would be this disconcerting, disorienting map. In the world described by it, the differences in population density between countries would be less extreme than they are today. The world's most densely populated country currently is Monaco, with 43,830 inhabitants/mi² (16,923 per km²) (1). On the other end of the scale is Mongolia, which is less densely populated by a factor of almost exactly 10,000, with a mere 4.4 inhabitants/mi² (1.7 per km²)."]]></description>
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    <dc:date>2010-11-12T17:53:47+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://www.someecards.com/2010/11/11/stereotypical-cartography-map-world</link>
    <dc:creator>robertogreco</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Related: http://www.brainpickings.org/index.php/2010/09/27/yanko-tsvetkov-mapping-european-stereotypes/]]></description>
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<item rdf:about="http://flavorwire.com/127477/daily-dose-pick-where-children-sleep">
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    <link>http://flavorwire.com/127477/daily-dose-pick-where-children-sleep</link>
    <dc:creator>robertogreco</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["Photographer James Mollison’s Where Children Sleep documents the personal spaces of kids around the world, from the middle-class and prosperous to the strikingly impoverished.

Over the course of four years, Mollison captured more than a hundred images of children and their bedrooms, with support from independent organization Save the Children. Born in Kenya and raised in England, the artist lives and works in Italy, with his own multicultural upbringing inspiring this moving collection of photos spanning countries as diverse as Senegal, Lesotho, Nepal, China, India, Brazil, and the United States.

Visit the Mollison’s website, read a review of Where Children Sleep, learn more about Save the Children, and buy a copy of the book."]]></description>
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    <title>It’s Morning in India - NYTimes.com</title>
    <dc:date>2010-10-31T18:21:57+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://www.nytimes.com/2010/10/31/opinion/31friedman.html</link>
    <dc:creator>robertogreco</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["It looks, said Srivastava, as if “what is happening in America is a loss of self-confidence. We don’t want America to lose self-confidence. Who else is there to take over America’s moral leadership? American’s leadership was never because you had more arms. It was because of ideas, imagination, and meritocracy.” If America turns away from its core values, he added, “there is nobody else to take that leadership. Do we want China as the world’s moral leader? No. We desperately want America to succeed.”"]]></description>
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    <title>Ethan Zuckerman: Listening to global voices | Video on TED.com</title>
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    <dc:creator>robertogreco</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["Sure, the web connects the globe, but most of us end up hearing mainly from people just like ourselves. Blogger and technologist Ethan Zuckerman wants to help share the stories of the whole wide world. He talks about clever strategies to open up your Twitter world and read the news in languages you don't even know."

[script here: http://www.ethanzuckerman.com/blog/2010/07/14/a-wider-world-a-wider-web-my-tedglobal-2010-talk/ ]]]></description>
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    <dc:creator>robertogreco</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["world is much wider than we generally perceive it....Tools like twitter can trap us in...“filter bubbles”–internet is too big to understand, so we get picture of it that’s similar to what our friends see...wider world is click away, but we’re usually filtering it out...wasn’t how it was supposed to work...in 1970s, 35-40% of average nightly newscast focused on international stories...now 12-15%...same phenomenon in quality US newspapers...pays far closer attention to wealthy nations than poor ones...Most media show this GDP bias...internet isn’t flattening world as Nicholas Negroponte thought it would...making us “imaginary cosmopolitans”

[video here: http://blog.ted.com/2010/07/listening_to_gl.php ]]]></description>
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    <dc:creator>robertogreco</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["issue is not that World Cup football suffers from blown calls. The issue is that in WC football blown calls do not exist as a concept in the game. Short of financial collusion or threat, refs' perspective on game is a part of the game, no different than quality of a cross or accuracy of a shot on goal. This is quite a different attitude than other sports take regarding officiating.

The idea that a sport could so willingly & systemically embrace perspective is beautiful to me. Not only because it highlights the changing specificity of moment-to-moment configurations of player, ball & officials, but also because it underscores the role of unfairness & randomness in human experience. Perhaps this is 1 reason why Americans dislike soccer so much: we are obsessed with fairness & transcendental truth, while football shows us that the universe is cruel not (just) through God's will, but because so many factors come into play all at once that it's impossible to account for them all."]]></description>
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    <title>New Visions of Home: Change Observer: Design Observer</title>
    <dc:date>2010-07-04T05:32:43+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://changeobserver.designobserver.com/entry.html?entry=14058</link>
    <dc:creator>robertogreco</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["The world is tumbling over the precipice of a major demographic shift. By 2030, it is estimated that 25 percent of the developed world’s population will be over 65 — an unprecedented proportion in human history. A century ago, that number was a mere 3 percent. In the U.S., the population over 65 is expected to double to 71.5 million in the next 15 years. Investment firm T. Rowe Price now advises retirement savings until age 92. ... Below is a sample of inventive approaches to living as we age. Few of these projects suggest “senior living”; in fact, many combine thoughtful programming with sophisticated aesthetics, and all have a human-centered approach."]]></description>
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    <title>Global Migration - A World Ever More on the Move - NYTimes.com</title>
    <dc:date>2010-07-03T20:58:41+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://www.nytimes.com/2010/06/27/weekinreview/27deparle.html?pagewanted=all</link>
    <dc:creator>robertogreco</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["At least one other trait amplifies the impact of modern migration: The expectation that governments will control it. In America for most of the 19th century, there was no legal barrier to entry. The issue was contentious, but the government attracted little blame. Now Western governments are expected to keep trade and tourism flowing and respect ethnic rights while sealing borders as vast as the Arizona desert and the Mediterranean Sea. Their failures — glaring if perhaps inevitable — weaken the broader faith in federal competence.]]></description>
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    <title>Along The Grand Trunk Road: Coming Of Age In India And Pakistan : NPR</title>
    <dc:date>2010-05-21T16:25:14+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=126395475</link>
    <dc:creator>robertogreco</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["An ancient road spans South Asia, connecting the present and the past in a dynamic -- and sometimes dangerous -- part of the world. NPR journalists travel the route and tell the stories of young people living there, who make up the majority of the populations in India and Pakistan."
]]></description>
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    <title>Whitefield Brothers: A Dance Travelogue : NPR</title>
    <dc:date>2010-04-27T07:10:00+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=126189858</link>
    <dc:creator>robertogreco</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["Earthology is a world-music pastiche that took Whitefield Brothers 15 years to assemble. Featuring mostly German musicians, it adds a few samples, selected non-Western instruments & plenty of guests. Yet no matter what flute, malletophone, horn section or rapper is providing flavor up top, all 13 tracks are anchored by bass & drums. These songs may not always be funk as that genre is loosely defined, but they're definitely funky. On "Taisho," most of the flavor is provided by the national instrument of Japan, a koto played by Masaru Nishimoto.

If you're a musician whose career is making club tracks, you can be happy just laying down dance beats. If you're an ethnomusicologist who spends his life seeking out indigenous sounds, they'll keep you thoroughly occupied. But for most of us, fusion that Whitefield Brothers achieve on Earthology represents the best of both worlds...a travelogue w/ roots you can feel in your gut, & it reminds you how various & unfathomable world can be."

[see also: http://www.stonesthrow.com/product/show/id/4054 AND http://www.last.fm/music/Whitefield+Brothers/Earthology ]]]></description>
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<item rdf:about="http://everytimezone.com/">
    <title>Every Time Zone</title>
    <dc:date>2010-04-27T07:00:47+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://everytimezone.com/</link>
    <dc:creator>robertogreco</dc:creator><dc:subject>timezones via:adamgreenfield time visualization travel world</dc:subject>
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<item rdf:about="http://designforthefirstworld.com/">
    <title>Design For the First World</title>
    <dc:date>2010-04-18T07:11:37+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://designforthefirstworld.com/</link>
    <dc:creator>robertogreco</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["We have been focus­ing our energy and resources on try­ing to solve our Devel­op­ing World prob­lems to become more like the First World. But per­haps it is time that we, the so called Third World minds, focused our energy and cre­ativ­ity on solv­ing some of the First World prob­lems. We will have a brighter future to look for­ward to, and per­haps this can help us rethink and approach our cur­rent prob­lems from a dif­fer­ent perspective."
]]></description>
<dc:subject>development activism change art designthinking problems culture design innovation competition world social firstworld thirdworld</dc:subject>
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<item rdf:about="http://rtstrategy.ca/2010/03/21/10-facts-on-us-health-care/">
    <title>10 Facts on US Health Care « rtstrategy</title>
    <dc:date>2010-03-21T23:53:49+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://rtstrategy.ca/2010/03/21/10-facts-on-us-health-care/</link>
    <dc:creator>robertogreco</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["1. US is only industrialized nation not to have Universal Health Care 2. Three “third-world” countries currently implementing Universal Health Care: India, South Africa, Mexico 3. Approx 45.7 million US residents have no health insurance = population of Texas, Florida, Oklahoma combined 4. US DOES provide Universal Health Care in three states: Mass, Iraq, Afghanistan 5. World Health Organization ranks US health care system as worlds highest in cost per person 6. WHO ranks US health care system as worlds 2nd most expensive in terms of proportion of income spent on health care per person (#1 = East Timor, population 1.1 million, recovering from war of independence) 7. WHO ranks US health care system as 37th in overall performance 8. WHO ranks US as 72nd in overall level of health 9. 2009 Harvard study found 44,800 excess deaths annually in US due to Americans lacking health insurance 10. Over 62% of US personal bankruptcies are attributed, at least in part, to health care costs"
]]></description>
<dc:subject>us healthcare health comparison policy universalhealthcare world statistics</dc:subject>
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<item rdf:about="http://scholasticadministrator.typepad.com/thisweekineducation/2010/02/thompson-the-equality-trust.html">
    <title>This Week In Education: Thompson: The Equality Trust [via: http://www.downes.ca/cgi-bin/page.cgi?post=51768]</title>
    <dc:date>2010-02-25T07:26:10+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://scholasticadministrator.typepad.com/thisweekineducation/2010/02/thompson-the-equality-trust.html</link>
    <dc:creator>robertogreco</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["Just as out-of-school effects trump schools' & teachers' contributions to learning, equality & inequality trumps economic wealth in creating livable society. Americans living in more equal states live around 4 years longer than those in more unequal states."]]></description>
<dc:subject>inequality disparity income economics well-being education comparison us statistics world international wellbeing</dc:subject>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:6fb7ae69cc8b/</dc:identifier>
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<item rdf:about="http://www.well.com/conf/inkwell.vue/topics/373/Bruce-Sterling-State-of-the-Worl-page01.html">
    <title>The WELL: Bruce Sterling: State of the World 2010</title>
    <dc:date>2010-01-04T07:27:06+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://www.well.com/conf/inkwell.vue/topics/373/Bruce-Sterling-State-of-the-Worl-page01.html</link>
    <dc:creator>robertogreco</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["you've treated your future as an "unpredictable lurching thing" & now you're all morose about that...your generation CREATED that situation! Ever heard of "disruptive innovation," "disintermediation," "offshoring," "small pieces loosely joined," "de-monetization," "plug & play," "the network as a platform"?...Guys w/ stacks of gold bars & working oil wells don't have stability! Much less guys like you...want some security? Demand government housing subsidies & guaranteed minimum income! They bailed out every broke mogul...might as well bail out civil population...You're Canadian always in Cali married to Briton always in Japan...you're not gonna "end up" anywhere. Forget about that...you have made your mobile bed...lie in it."..."coherent picture of your future."...imagine you're 3yo. You want to give your Dad, back in 1974, a coherent picture of 2010...something very actionable, lucid & practical...tell me what you oughta tell him about 2010, back in 1974. Use words of 1 syllable"
]]></description>
<dc:subject>brucesterling corydoctorow 2010 futurology futurism future politics business media environment predictions china brasil nomads neo-nomads technology society culture commentary google world life intelligence fear pessimism optimism jonlebkowsky jamaiscascio brazil</dc:subject>
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<item rdf:about="http://www.huxley.net/bnw-revisited/index.html">
    <title>Brave New World Revisited (1958) by Aldous Huxley</title>
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