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POPSBelgian Prime Minister Offers Resignation VRTNieuws: * Premier Yves Leterme Resigns: http://www.deredactie.be/cm/de.redactie.english/news/080715_Leterme_quits * The End Of Leterme's Dream: http://www.deredactie.be/cm/de.redactie.english/news/080715_Leterme_portrait * Five Turbulent Days Leading to the Crisis: http://www.deredactie.be/cm/de.redactie.english/news/080715_crisis_overview De Morgen: * All Articles: http://www.demorgen.be/dm/article/pagedList.do?language=nl&navigationItemId=989&navigation=&nodeId=62906&nodeTitle=Land-in-crisis
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POPSThe Big Picture Ubiquitous Transparency, New Models of Development, The Rise of the Post-Hegemonic World
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POPSPoliticizing Science: The Alchemy of Policymaking (Free Ebook) In this book leading scientists share their experiences and observations of developing and testing hypotheses, offering insights on the dangers of manipulating science for political gain. It describes how politicization--whether by misapplication, overextension, or outright manipulation of the scientific record to advance particular policy agendas--imposes expenditures of money, missed opportunities, and burdens on the economy.
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POPSThe Politicization of Science Great article! You'll need bugmenot to log in & read it. Apart from the fact that in reality decision-makers rarely are the wise, unbiased, and entirely objective people textbooks would have them be, this model fails to consider the real-world phenomenon of “an excess of objectivity.” “Excess of objectivity” is a term coined by Dan Sarewitz, professor of science and society at Arizona State University (ASU), who, in an interview for bridges, claims that “there is plenty of science to go around. You don’t really need to distort the science. All you need to do in many cases is find the right science. That is not an indictment of science or scientists, but a statement about the complexity of reality and nature and the difficulty of defining problems in very narrow ways.”
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POPSNASA Stops Thinking the research NIAC funds is "the sort of stuff that a very small investment could yield a very great return".
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POPSDemocratizing the Information Revolution. The Technological Proletariat Through the illustrative work of Sugata Mitra, an Indian computer scientist, we will turn to Dewey’s understanding of both inquiry and education – how we think and how we should learn – with an eye towards their potential for the ‘furnishing of proper conditions’ that Dewey speaks of in our first quotation. More strongly, this paper shows that Dewey’s philosophy of inquiry and education can provide the model for a mass computer-literacy initiative along the lines of those already devised by Sugata Mitra. Given the enormous amount of tools and information available on the Internet , the possibilities today for communication and learning as selfeducation are fantastic. It becomes our job, then, to explain precisely how we might allow this ‘technological proletariat’ to gain access to the democratizing possibilities of the ‘Information Revolution.’
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