Mar
03
In The Public Domain: Enclosing the Commons of the Mind James Boyle introduces readers to the idea of the public domain and describes how it is being tragically eroded by our current copyright, patent, and trademark laws. In a series of fascinating case studies, Boyle explains why gene sequences, basic business ideas and pairs of musical [...]
Nov
07
Jimmy Wales, the founder of Wikipedia, recently visited a slum in India and reported that he “met this young man on the street who told me that he had used Wikipedia to pass his 11th grade exams.” Wikipedia is an open source project that has fundamentally changed how we access information. How could we apply [...]
Sep
17
This is a great TED talk! Psychologist Jonathan Haidt studies the five moral values that form the basis of our political choices, whether we’re left, right or center. In this eye-opening talk, he pinpoints the moral values that liberals and conservatives tend to honor most. And he challenges all of us to step outside of [...]
Jan
14
(Americanos – Milano 2011) A new book from Ari Versluis and Ellie Uyttenbroek, Exactitudes comes out in December. Ari and Ellie are based in Rotterdam The Netherlands and have systematically documented numerous identities over the past 14 years in a series called exactitudes. It is an anthropological record of people’s attempts to distinguish themselves [...]
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