Monthly Archives: March 2016

Main – 24 March, 2016

  1. Communicating Data to Drive Change | Stanford Social Innovation Review
  2. Foreign Policy Research Institute
  3. The Rhino Den’s Kerry Patton has a call to… – Ranger Up Military and MMA Apparel
  4. Belgium Attacks: “Sit And Wait” – | @TheRhinoDen | Home Of All Things Military
  5. Main Sit
  6. Preview: Cornel West – CBS News
  7. Slavoj Žižek: Why ‘Political Correctness’ Gets In Its Own Way | Big Think
  8. Are You a Psychopath? Take the Test. | Big Think
  9. Dan Harris: Hack Your Brain’s Default Mode With Meditation | Big Think
  10. 2 Times Steve Jobs Beat the Odds by Using a Forgotten Communication Tool | Big Think
  11. How Social Media is Polarizing Us | Big Think
  12. Big Think | Videos, articles, and tips to help you succeed, from the world’s leading experts
  13. Self-Compassion: The Often Missing Ingredient in Healthy Eating – Mindful
  14. Inside Edge Fielding | FanGraphs Sabermetrics Library
  15. Why the Republican establishment is actually winning – The Washington Post
  16. Leveraging American Ingenuity through Reusable and Open Source Software | whitehouse.gov
  17. This mind-boggling study shows just how massive sea level rise really is – The Washington Post
  18. Why Can’t “I” Be Happy? — Matthieu Ricard – Lion’s Roar
  19. Dru Wynings
  20. Top Stories and Breaking News from Inside.com
  21. The Open Mind, Hosted by Alexander Heffner
  22. The Army Has Lost The Art Of Leadership
  23. Politics – Videos on the People, Issues, and Ideas Changing the World – FORA.tv
  24. Home – Pulse Pledge
  25. When it rains, it pours | Retro Reporter
  26. Mindful.org – Once you understand your personality it’s easy to…
  27. Shambhala – Vision, Lineage, Meditation, Community
  28. Apodeictic dictionary definition | apodeictic defined
  29. 3DownNation
  30. MLB Offense Visualized As Contact Vs. Power
  31. Bear Walk Exercise-shoulder STRENGTH LIKE A BEAR!! – YouTube
  32. Learn How To Propertly Do The Bear Walk Exercise
  33. SlitherineGames – YouTube
  34. Kodo – Spirit of Taiko – YouTube
  35. jojo flores – YouTube
  36. Matthew and the Atlas – Fisherman’s Wife [Full Song] – YouTube
  37. Amitabha Buddha Thangka Medium Plus- High Quality Brocade
  38. Booming Tree on Video
  39. Deborah B. – Edmonton Drum Circle (Edmonton, AB) – Meetup
  40. Here’s how to fix America’s crumbling bridges
  41. Mining for metals in society’s waste
  42. Can drinking water be delivered without disinfectants like chlorine and still be safe?
  43. Evolution of moral outrage: I’ll punish your bad behavior to make me look good
  44. Charlie Rose | charlierose.com
  45. John Kasich, Mainstream Republicans’ Last Hope – The New Yorker
  46. The Great Divide – The New Yorker
  47. After the Fact – The New Yorker
  48. How to Beat Writer’s Block – The New Yorker
  49. CBC News The National: Rex Murphy : Archives
  50. CBC News – The National – Rex Murphy
  51. Being Pure: The Practice of Vajrasattva – – Bodhicharya
  52. Heart Wisdom – Complete Set – – Bodhicharya
  53. Supermassive black holes could be a source of mysterious cosmic rays
  54. Acceleration of petaelectronvolt protons in the Galactic Centre : Nature : Nature Publishing Group
  55. Democratic Transitions

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  1. American cities increased their use of civic engagement tools during the Great Recession, but did not fully embrace citizen involvement in decision-making | USAPP
  2. Fearless Leadership in a Social World | Stanford Social Innovation Review
  3. Alberta’s 50 Most Influential People: The Movers, The Shakers & The Difference-Makers – Alberta Venture
  4. Irvin and Stansbury: Advantages and Disadvantages of Public Participation – Intellitics
  5. Crowdsourcing and Public Participation II – Intellitics
  6. New EIPP Paper: Thoughts on Public Participation in Europe – Intellitics
  7. EU research – Making citizens’ VOICES heard | Ecsite
  8. Global Justice in the 21st Century | commentary on global issues
  9. OneTab extension for Google Chrome and Firefox – save up to 95% memory and reduce tab clutter
  10. Bernie for President? | Jacobin
  11. Jerry Coyne’s ‘Faith Versus Fact’ – The Atlantic
  12. Investing in Climate Change Study l Mercer
  13. News – Forward.com
  14. Protest the War | The Nation
  15. The Political Theology of Climate Denial
  16. Beyond charity, toward justice | American Friends Service Committee
  17. Help Us Strengthen Open Government | whitehouse.gov
  18. Senator Bernie Sanders of Vermont
  19. Reclaiming Public Education: Common Sense Approaches | Kettering Foundation
  20. Why Technology Hasn’t Delivered More Democracy | Foreign Policy
  21. Mercer study on climate change and investment risk: Divestment will help you get rich.
  22. hackpad; Public Participation – hackpad.com
  23. Climate of Doubt | FRONTLINE | PBS
  24. International Association for Public Participation (IAP2)
  25. Fearless Leadership in a Social World | Stanford Social Innovation Review
  26. Climate of Doubt | FRONTLINE | PBS
  27. Protest the War | The Nation
  28. Public Participation – hackpad.com
  29. Reclaiming Public Education: Common Sense Approaches | Kettering Foundation

Articles from FB Posts

  • Ordered by location
    1. Province takes meaningful steps toward climate change strategy | Alberta.ca
    2. Pessimism about climate change does not justify inaction | Al Jazeera America
    3. War Machines Are Developing Faster Than Our Ability to Regulate Them | Big Think
    4. Healthy Congress Index | Bipartisan Policy Center
    5. American cities increased their use of civic engagement tools during the Great Recession, but did not fully embrace citizen involvement in decision-making | USAPP
    6. ?Unusual suspects? Effects of technology on citizen engagement | Let's Talk Development
    7. Civil Society in Syria: A Milestone for Sustainable Peace : Building Peace
    8. Peacebuilding with Local Citizens : Building Peace
    9. Connectors and Dividers in Online Spaces : Building Peace
    10. Escaping Crisis, Embracing Data: A Path to Recovery in Zimbabwe : Building Peace
    11. The Shrinking Space for Online Civic Engagement : Building Peace
    12. Civil Power and the Partner State – Commons TransitionCommons Transition
    13. Closed in and crowded out: urbanising against the city – Commons TransitionCommons Transition
    14. Text, Talk, Act is back and powered by this amazing team! | Creating Community Solutions
    15. The Strategic Cost of Torture, Racism, and Bigotry | Center for Strategic and International Studies
    16. Wealth Inequality in the US, 2014 Edition | democracycollaborative.org
    17. There’s No Such Thing as Peacetime | Foreign Policy
    18. Summit to Nowhere | Foreign Policy
    19. Andrew Coyne: Politicians lie because there is no incentive to tell the truth | National Post
    20. How Mindfulness Can Defeat Racial Bias | Greater Good
    21. "What is your business in Council?" – My experience trying to participate in the City of Cape Town's budget | Groundup
    22. WorkFlowy Is a One List to Rule Them All Organization Tool
    23. Introducing Instant Articles | Facebook Media
    24. Oh, Harris. Oh, Chomsky | Metamoderna
    25. Psychologists Have Uncovered a Troubling Feature of People Who Seem Nice All the Time – Mic
    26. Why Piketty isn't Marx – Le Monde diplomatique – English edition
    27. Andrew Coyne: The case for watching our language on Islamism | National Post
    28. New era: Alberta NDP spends extra $624M, but introduces tax hike on wealthy to pay for it | National Post
    29. Let’s discuss Open Co-ops and Commons on Discourse! | Open Co-op Commons
    30. New algorithm can separate unstructured text into topics with high accuracy and reproducibility
    31. Ali Soufan Interviewed on PBS Frontline: Has the U.S.’ Counterterrorism Policy Worked in Yemen? | The Soufan Group
    32. TSG Report Quoted in The Guardian: It’s Dangerous to be so Cosy with the Gulf’s Autocrats | The Soufan Group
    33. Rethinking capitalism, starting in the classroom
    34. [Op-Ed] We Need a Yelp for Civic Engagement to Get the 21st Century Democracy We Want | TechPresident
    35. Why the Iran Nuke Talks Might Fail | The Diplomat
    36. The Nuclear Implications of Iran-Pakistan Tensions | The Diplomat
    37. Russian Intelligence in Kyrgyzstan, Cold War Redux | The Diplomat
    38. Outgoing US Defense Secretary Hagel Warns of Limits of Military Power | The Diplomat
    39. Your Guide to the UN Climate Change Talks | The Diplomat
    40. New urbanism isn't just for liberals — conservatives should embrace it too
    41. Playing the Long Game
    42. Financing the Ecovillage Movement | Converting Businesses to Worker Co-ops | GEO Weekly Newsletter
    43. How We Create “Policymaking Simulations” | Voice Of the People | Campaign for a Citizen Cabinet
    44. What Works Scotland: Closing the commissioning gap: Supporting community and social enterprise through participatory budgeting
    45. Journal / Participatory budgeting: community X-Factor or civic pedagogy? | The Academy of Urbanism
    46. MIT Science Prof Threatens to Undo Everything Religious Right Holds Dear | Alternet
    47. Why Are Americans So Easy to Manipulate and Control? | Alternet
    48. The Rigged Economic System: Why No One Can End Reagan’s “Dead Wrong” Voodoo Economics | Alternet
    49. How Our Media Is Helping America Turn into a Land of Political Idiots | Alternet
    50. Here's How 7 of Bernie's Economic Proposals Would Radically Improve the Majority of Americans' Lives | Alternet
    51. How the Wealthy Rob Our Most Productive People | Alternet
    52. Robert Reich: The Wealthy Have Pulled America Back to the 19th Century | Alternet
    53. Are We Becoming a Theocracy? 4 Fundamentalist Ideologies That Threaten America | Alternet
    54. Episode 59: John Adams & John Marshall
    55. Republicans, Democrats and Libertarians Launch Structural Congressional Reform Effort | Business Wire
    56. The Libertarian Mind: A Manifesto for Freedom | Cato Institute
    57. Journalist Jane Mayer follows money trail to billionaires behind U.S. radical right – Home | The Current with Anna Maria Tremonti | CBC Radio
    58. Doctors face uncharted territory with doctor assisted suicide ruling | The Current with Anna Maria Tremonti | CBC Radio
    59. World Forum for Democracy
    60. 'Dear Humanity, We Have a Systems Problem': New Project Aims to Promote Deep Solutions, Radical Transformation | Common Dreams | Breaking News & Views for the Progressive Community
    61. My War on Terror: Letter to an Unknown American Patriot | Common Dreams | Breaking News & Views for the Progressive Community
    62. Tools and Tips | The Communications Network
    63. Compact for America Compact for a Balanced Budget | Got Fewer than 2 Minutes to Learn How to Save the Republic?
    64. Compact for America Compact for a Balanced Budget | The Ultimate Compact for America Pitch! Seven Reasons Why the Compact for a Balanced Budget is Best
    65. Decisive proof of "conservative distrust in science"? You tell me… – Cultural Cognition Blog – Weekend update:
    66. Group conflict and risk perceptions: two accounts – Cultural Cognition Blog –
    67. Should we care about the public's *climate science* literacy? – Cultural Cognition Blog – What is "ordinary climate science intelligence" *for*?
    68. Will thorium save us from climate change? | Science Matters | David Suzuki Foundation
    69. ‘Supply side’ deficiencies in our parties, parliament, and local government each contribute to our democratic malaise : Democratic Audit UK
    70. Britain is facing a crisis of democracy but the main parties cannot respond : Democratic Audit UK
    71. 6 Ways to Better Manage Your Focus and Improve Your Productivity
    72. Paolo Spada | Participatory Budgeting's Global Success | Foreign Affairs
    73. The Right Way to Lose a War: America in an Age of Unwinnable Conflicts | Foreign Policy Research Institute
    74. America’s “Anti-ISIS Coalition” Never existed. There is No “US-led war on ISIS” | Global Research – Centre for Research on Globalization
    75. The Two Contending Visions of World Government: The Origin and Broader Context of Obama’s “Trade” Deals | Global Research – Centre for Research on Globalization
    76. Violence: The American Way of Life | Global Research – Centre for Research on Globalization
    77. Municipal Recipes – Guerrilla Translation!
    78. Ash Award for Innovation in Governance: Harvard Kennedy School – HKS Live
    79. Irvin and Stansbury: Advantages and Disadvantages of Public Participation
    80. Fifth Assessment Report – Climate Change 2013
    81. A New Theory of Distraction – The New Yorker
    82. Israel’s One-State Reality
    83. Can Obama Duck Lame-Duck Syndrome?
    84. Edward Albee’s Bad Marriages
    85. The Free-Speech Crisis – The New Yorker
    86. Why the Press Is Less Free Today – The New Yorker
    87. Crisis in Mexico: The Protests for the Missing Forty-Three – The New Yorker
    88. Why MOOCs are Failing the People They're Supposed to Help
    89. The Moral Injury – NYTimes.com
    90. How We Learned to Kill – NYTimes.com
    91. About PPF | Participatory Politics Foundation
    92. FRONTLINE | PBS – Climate of Doubt
    93. What Makes Boko Haram’s Atrocities So Hard To Track? | Hunting Boko Haram | FRONTLINE | PBS
    94. The Fight for Yemen | FRONTLINE | PBS
    95. U.S. military role in Afghanistan will still be combat – Philip Ewing – POLITICO
    96. Chance for activists to air ideas after Walter Scott death marks shift – Post and Courier
    97. The Neuroscience of Empathy | Psychology Today
    98. The Philosophical Challenge – PUBLICAGENDA.ORG
    99. “Rabid partisanship”: Paul Krugman eviscerates legal assault on Obamacare and the “corrupt” judges who enable it – Salon.com
    100. Robert Reich: The sharing economy is hurtling us backwards – Salon.com
    101. It’s not about mental illness: The big lie that always follows mass shootings by white males – Salon.com
    102. The Limits of Discourse : As Demonstrated by Sam Harris and Noam Chomsky : Sam Harris
    103. Memories May Not Live in Neurons’ Synapses – Scientific American
    104. Bedis Bouziri on Tunisia's Participatory Budgeting Initiative – Shareable
    105. Facebook Instant Articles: The future of news looks better than we thought.
    106. How Culture Shapes the Climate Change Debate | Stanford Social Innovation Review
    107. Fearless Leadership in a Social World
    108. Four Social-Change Results That Innovation Labs Deliver | Stanford Social Innovation Review
    109. Innovating Practice in a Culture of Expertise | Stanford Social Innovation Review
    110. Making Capitalism Work for the Poor | Stanford Social Innovation Review
    111. Preserving the American Dream | Stanford Social Innovation Review
    112. Promoting Government Action on Income Equality | Stanford Social Innovation Review
    113. Transforming Government Funding to Drive Impact | Stanford Social Innovation Review
    114. Making Ideas Move | Stanford Social Innovation Review
    115. James B. Glattfelder: Who controls the world? | Talk Video | TED.com
    116. The Rise of Invisible Unemployment – The Atlantic
    117. How to Build a Happier Brain — The Atlantic
    118. How Columbus Day Fell Victim to Its Own Success – The Atlantic
    119. Appomattox and the Ongoing Civil War — The Atlantic
    120. Why Did We Invade Iraq? – The Atlantic
    121. Jerry Coyne's 'Faith Versus Fact' – The Atlantic
    122. Why Winning the War on Climate Change Will Require a Technocratic Revolution – The Atlantic
    123. US wealth inequality – top 0.1% worth as much as the bottom 90% | Business | theguardian.com
    124. Why is Thomas Piketty's 700-page book a bestseller? | Money | The Guardian
    125. The secrets of the world's happiest cities | Society | The Guardian
    126. 3 Reasons to Be Optimistic About the Fight to Save the Climate | The Nation
    127. An Illustrated Guide to the Dumbest Things Republicans Have Said About Refugees | The Nation
    128. Bible Belt Buddhism | Tricycle
    129. Robert Reich: If You Want to Know What’s Happened to Our Democracy, Follow the Richest .01 Percent – Truthdig
    130. “Next Steps for U.S. Foreign Policy on Syria and Iraq” | United States Institute of Peace
    131. How politics makes us stupid – Vox
    132. This is an astonishingly good Iran deal – Vox
    133. Bernie Sanders: The Vox conversation – Vox
    134. Having a hard time finding a good place to die? Consumer Reports tells you where to go. – The Washington Post
    135. What happens when housing for the poor is remodeled as luxury studios – The Washington Post
    136. How your brain tricks you into thinking you’re greener than you actually are – The Washington Post
    137. Interfaith activists call solitary confinement immoral, ineffective – The Washington Post
    138. Harvard neuroscientist: Meditation not only reduces stress, here’s how it changes your brain – The Washington Post
    139. From War Room to Boardroom: Leadership Lessons From Two Generals – WSJ
    140. Is vitamin D good for you? – Zanaduu
    141. WorkFlowy – Chrome Web Store
    142. Facing Realities of Race | Consortiumnews
    143. Announcing the Open Policy Network grant-funded projects – Creative Commons
    144. Comparison of Real democracy vs. UK “democracy” – Google Docs
    145. Empeopled | Neil deGrasse Tyson: Politicians Denying Science Is 'Beginning Of The End Of An Informed Democracy'
    146. Our mission in Afghanistan was doomed at the start; nothing could have saved it | Foreign Policy
    147. America Is Losing the War in Syria | Foreign Policy
    148. Why Technology Hasn’t Delivered More Democracy | Foreign Policy
    149. Public Participation + Open Policymaking – hackpad.com
    150. Kumu – Harness the power of relationships.
    151. Kumu – Community and Manifesto
    152. Re-imagining the IAP2 Spectrum — Medium
    153. Announcing the Open Policy Network grant-funded projects?
    154. Great new piece on research by my much esteemed colleague, Dan Kahan, and his…
    155. RUSI – Dealing With Daesh – The UK’s Role in the Coalition
    156. Direct Action could deliver a useful outcome: carbon trading
    157. Explainer: is Direct Action constitutionally valid?
    158. Islamic State knows its history; to defeat it, we must know ours
    159. Think you know your rhetorical structures? I can't even …
    160. LANDLAB on Twitter: ""#NewUrbanism isn't just for liberals — conservatives should embrace it too" http://t.co/nbbNSQ2r6O"
    161. Events | Balsillie School of International Affairs
    162. Annual Media Panel | Canadian Eyes on World News: Perspectives from Media Leaders | Centre for International Governance Innovation
    163. North America Defaults the Great Game in the Arctic
    164. Disruptive Power: The Crisis of the State in the Digital Age- Eventbrite
    165. I am David Boaz, Cato Institute EVP and author of The Libertarian Mind: A Manifesto for Freedom. AMA! : IAmA
    166. Help Us Strengthen Open Government | The White House
    167. Scientist Richard Werthamer on Exxon and climate change | FRONTLINE – YouTube
    168. ? Citizen Engagement MOOC Google Hangout – YouTube
    169. Nuclear Negotiations with Iran – The Latest Progress – YouTube
    170. Knalij Intro Movie – YouTube
    171. The hOurworld Cooperative – YouTube
  • ProCon Analogs

    ProCon Analogs

    1. Dispute Finder – Rob Ennals
      1. Rob Ennals
      2. robennals's think-link at master – GitHub
      3. Rob Ennals – YouTube
      4. Dispute Finder Demo Video – YouTube
      5. Think Link Demo Video – YouTube
      6. Dispute Finder Video from 2010 Intel Labs Berkeley Open House – YouTube
      7. DisputeFinder Talk for ODET2010 – YouTube
      8. Dispute Finder: Making the Call on Web 'Facts' | News | Communications of the ACM
      9. 'Dispute Finder' web tool gives two sides of a story | New Scientist
      10. Confrontational Computing
      11. Dispute Finder : Reveal the other side of the story
      12. Press Coverage
      13. Dispute Finder
      14. Think Link
      15. Welcome to Dispute Finder
      16. The Team
      17. Press Coverage
      18. Confrontational Computing
      19. Think Link
      20. Confrontational Computing – Videos
      21. Dispute Finder is part of the broader Confrontation Computing – Google Search
      22. Rob Ennals
    2. Overleaf: Real-time Collaborative Writing and Publishing Tools with Integrated PDF Preview
    3. The Google app – Voice Search, Answers and Assistance
    4. The Institute for Civil Dialogue – Civil Dialogue Official Site
    5. Conservapedia
    6. New Trail – University of Alberta
    7. Fish tales: Combating fake science in popular media
    8. DTIC.mil
    9. The Governance Lab @ NYU
    10. The GovLab Canvas
    11. Enable mailing list capabilities of Discourse – Meta – Open Knowledge Forums
    12. Planet Open Science – Working Groups / Open Science – Open Knowledge Forums
    13. Moebio Labs website
    14. Scientist Richard Werthamer on Exxon and climate change | FRONTLINE – YouTube
    15. Idea Rally – YouTube
    16. IdeaConnection – YouTube
    17. Collaborative Open Innovation Transforming Corporate R & D – YouTube
    18. MOOC reflections – YouTube
    19. ProCon.org – Pros and Cons of Controversial Issues
    20. Remembering Michael Bauer – Network and Community – Open Knowledge Forums
    21. Continuing strong demand expected for forensic and valuation services
    22. Solve your innovation challenges at IdeaConnection.com.
    23. Faceted Navigation Design Gallery | Elements of Design
    24. Vialogues : Meaningful discussions around video
    25. Health Law Institute – Health Law and Science Policy Group – University of Alberta
    26. TimothyCaulfield – Health Law and Science Policy Group – University of Alberta
    27. Canada Research Chair – Timothy A. Caulfield
    28. Timothy Caulfield | Paceomics
    29. Research Hub – The Centre for e-Democracy
    30. Innovation Policy Lab At the Munk School of Global Affairs
    31. Head to Head – Al Jazeera English
    32. Episodes – Al Jazeera English
    33. Communication Matters by The Communications Network
    34. Public Dialogue Consortium (PDC)
    35. Information Philosophy – Harry G. Frankfurt
    36. The Macdonald-Laurier Institute’s Great Canadian Debates | Macdonald-Laurier Institute
    37. Stupidparty Math v. Myth –
    38. Defining Ideas | Hoover Institution
    39. Hoover Institution local file – Defining Ideas browse by topic
    40. Global Issues – Issues
    41. Global Issues – local files – Military Propaganda for Arms Sales
    42. Sources Subject Index Experts and Information in Sources Directory 2012
    43. Sources – local file Sources/Li_SuA.htm
    44. For & Against – President Bush Is The Reason For Our Economic Depression –
    45. For & Against local files – Politics
    46. OpenScienceLink
    47. Should the US have attacked Iraq? – US – Iraq War – ProCon.org
    48. Top 10 Pros and Cons – US – Iraq War – ProCon.org
    49. Should the US have attacked Iraq? – US – Iraq War – Reader Comments – ProCon.org
    50. Is the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (Obamacare) Good for America? – Obamacare – ProCon.org
    51. Top 10 Pros & Cons – Obamacare – ProCon.org
    52. Yes and No Answers to What Obamacare Does and Does Not Do – Obamacare – ProCon.org
    53. Is the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (Obamacare) Good for America? – Obamacare – Reader Comments – ProCon.org
    54. Carbon Emissions: Cap-and-trade versus Carbon Tax (arguments) – Debatepedia
    55. Top 100 Debates | idebate.org
    56. This House believes launching a military coup against a democratic government can be justified | idebate.org
    57. Controversial Debate Topics & Big Issues | Debate.org
    58. United States Policy Debate | Debate.org
    59. About | Anthology of Ideas
    60. VoteRockIt