Thursday, February 18, 2010

Air power

http://mobile.nytimes.com/article;jsessionid=77A572BF9FCF8A48D1B985E4E3F8EE8F.w6?a=554851&f=28&sub=Contributor

LUKE WALDEN BIO

LUKE WALDEN – Short Biography (2010)

Luke Walden is a documentary filmmaker, cameraman and editor. His most recent film, The Narcotic Farm, received public funding from the Independent Television Service, aired nationally on public television in 2008 and 2009, and received the Accolade Award for best documentary research and the Radar Hamburg Film Fest special topics award. Luke’s other awards include the 2004 Audience Award for Best Bocumentary Short at the San Francisco Independent Film Festival and as Director of Photography, the SIGNIS prize at the 2008 Santiago Film Festival in Chile for Slice, a narrative feature. His freelance clients have included the New York Public Library, the United Nations department of Peacekeeping, and the Mbarara University of Science and Technology in Uganda. Luke is a graduate of Brown University with a BA in Greek, Latin and Ancient history and literature and a graduate of the Rhode Island School of Design with an Masters of Fine Arts in photography, video art, and documentary film. He has taught photography as an adjunct professor at the University of Connecticut and Rhode Island School of Design, and filmmaking at the New York Film Academy. A native of Boston, Luke lived and worked in New York for ten years and now lives in Portland, Oregon with his wife and daughter.

Guest lecture

Our guest lecture is Feb. 23rd. We're starting promptly at 8:00am, please don't be late!


All Things Considered piece with my two collaborators but not me about 8 minutes
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=96437766

Scientific American brief article and slide show
http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=narcotics-recovery-farm

London International Documentary Film Fest and Barbican directors' interview (text)
http://www.facebook.com/note.php?note_id=214759087845

Raindance Film Fest (London) webpage and review
http://www.raindance.co.uk/site/index.php?id=402,4640,0,0,1,0

KBOO Portland radio interview with me alone. 26 minutes Research/ethics story starts at about 14 or 15 minutes
http://kboo.fm/node/11329

Our website:
www.narcoticfarm.com

Amazon page for the book
http://www.amazon.com/Narcotic-Farm-Americas-Prison-Addicts/dp/0810972867/ref=pd_bbs_sr_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1224559883&sr=8-1

Monday, February 1, 2010

power

http://scienceblogs.com/cortex/2010/01/power.php

Reminder

Please remember to read the articles noted in the syllabus. Tomorrow we start John Rawls.

Saturday, January 30, 2010

Gates

http://www.gmsp.org/

Are African American, American Indian/Alaska Native, Asian and Pacific Islander American, or Hispanic American;

Thursday, January 21, 2010

linux

http://apcmag.com/linux-now-75-corporate.htm

Avatar

2-D Avatar To Be Pulled From Theaters In China
via Slashdot by kdawson on 1/19/10

SimonTheSoundMan notes that Avatar is being pulled from screens in China for being too successful, and too provocative in its anti-authoritarian message. (The 3-D and IMAX versions will remain.) "The communist nation’s state-run movie distributor China Film Group is unexpectedly yanking the James Cameron-directed blockbuster 'Avatar' from 1,628 2-D screens this week in favor of a biography of the ancient philosopher Confucius starring Chow-Yun Fat. ... According to a report in the Hong Kong newspaper Apple Daily, the move was made at the urging of propaganda officials who are concerned that 'Avatar' is taking too much market share from Chinese films and drawing unwanted attention to the sensitive issue of forced evictions."

Supreme Court rolls back campaign cash limits

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/34822247/ns/politics-supreme_court/

Thursday

There were some great questions today. Very well done. (These points were not tangents, but were integral to the class and an important part of what it means to wrestle with these issues).

Sorry we didn't get to watch the entire video. Please feel free to watch the rest at home. Have a great weekend.

pete

What would Jesus shoot?

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/us_military_weapons_bible_references

Thanks to Ryan.

Friday, January 8, 2010

Anti-Muslim images are protected speech

http://www.usatoday.com/news/religion/2010-01-07-muslim-cartoons_N.htm?csp=34&utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+UsatodaycomNation-TopStories+%28News+-+Nation+-+Top+Stories%29

cell phones

http://abcnews.go.com/Technology/wireStory?id=9511411

Optional

http://www.edge.org/3rd_culture/sapolsky09/sapolsky09_index.html

net

http://reason.com/archives/2010/01/06/the-war-over-neutrality

Dubai

http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/news/2799483/Dubai-waiter-rapes-British-girl-then-SHE-and-fiance-are-held-for-illegal-sex.html

DA suicide

http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=122168263&ft=1&f=1027

Hunger

http://factcheck.org/2010/01/moveonorg-starved-for-facts/

Baltimore

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/01/07/us/07baltimore.html

Week 1 Review

Grasshoppers, Week 1 went well. I think that it provided a solid intro to basic ethics. Here’s what we did:

- Discussed the Dunning-Kruger effect and related it to our inquiry

- Looked at the rudiments of how to make arguments (PP/C). Applied this to a few ethical positions.

- Began our examination of why we need reasons for our beliefs

- Discussed the idea that not all processes are the same. Some processes are better than others.

For Week 2, remember to read the “How to Make an Argument” paper and listen to the news daily. Also, please remember to do the assigned reading noted in the syllabus. (If you haven’t already done so, please bring in a 1 gig thumb drive).

Have a great weekend!

pete

Wednesday, January 6, 2010

UK

http://www.cnn.com/2010/WORLD/europe/01/04/britain.afghanistan.demo/index.html

yoga

http://www.cnn.com/2010/CRIME/01/05/yoga.lawsuit.lee/index.html

Tuesday, January 5, 2010

Welcome!

Welcome Grasshoppers.

Optional talk (not required, but very interesting): http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=78Jl2iPPUtI