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Teju Cole: The White Savior Industrial Complex (The Atlantic)
If we are going to interfere in the lives of others, a little due diligence is a minimum requirement.
africa  humanitarianism  humanrights  whitepeople  world 
8 weeks ago by matthewmcvickar
Jack McDonald: Joseph Kony and Crowdsourced Intervention (Kings of War)
Joseph Kony deserves to be put in cuffs and dragged before the ICC. Raising the profile of the heinous nature of the guy’s crimes is awesome. The idea that popular opinion can be leveraged with viral marketing to induce foreign military intervention is really, really dangerous. It is immoral to try and sell a sanitised vision of foreign intervention that neglects the fact that people will die as a result.
kony  world  news  from instapaper
12 weeks ago by matthewmcvickar
Charlie's Diary: Reasons to be Cheerful
“…the human world is indisputably in better shape overall in 2010 than it was in 2000.”
2010  history  decade  world 
january 2011 by matthewmcvickar
Washblog: Four Basic Kinds of Health Care Financing Around the World
The four most common types of healthcare that really work and don't really work and how ours is a jumble of parts of all four and all the proposals are pretty shitty.
healthcare  america  world  government  economics  health  society  history 
june 2010 by matthewmcvickar
Quiet American
ambient  audio  free  mp3  music  samples  travel  world  fieldrecording 
march 2010 by matthewmcvickar
kung fu grippe: On ‘Conspicuous Compassion.’
Why I don't think I'm a curmudgeon for thinking the green Iran icons are a joke. "…if you believe for one minute that publicly agreeing with an echo chamber is changing anyone’s mind, behavior, or outlook, you need to stand up, locate your disused front door, walk the fuck through it, and then go spend a full (unwired) day doing something to actually help another person."
merlinmann  charity  society  america  world  history  psychology  book  politics  culture  activism  cynicism  compassion  altruism 
december 2009 by matthewmcvickar
Flickr: Hamburger Eyes
Stunning.
photos  flickr  photography  travel  world  people  animals  nature 
august 2009 by matthewmcvickar
Guy Sargent: What Lies Beneath the Surface
A gallery of nice "large-format landscape and architectural work" photos by Guy Sargent.
photography  landscape  architecture  world 
may 2009 by matthewmcvickar
We Tell Stories: 'Hard Times' by Matt Mason & Nicholas Felton
A stylish, simple, infographical, curt, and summarily realistic at the world in which we currently live.
design  writing  web  culture  internet  typography  graphics  infographics  statistics  information  world  people 
march 2009 by matthewmcvickar
Butterflies and Wheels: Identity is That Which is Given
Kenan Malik writes that the attempt to preserve "cultural identity and authenticity" is largely an inauthentic act, one steeped in relativism and traditionalism, and more concerned with how individuals "should" act than how they actually do. Thanks to @kemp for the link.
history  culture  society  identity  racism  sociology  race  pluralism  multiculturalism  anthropology  people  world 
january 2009 by matthewmcvickar
Wollle: Garden of Eden (via VVORK)
"'Garden of Eden', 2007 by Wollle shows eight pedestals, each of which is covered with an airtight Plexiglas box. Via the internet, the latest air pollution levels in the capitals of the G8-countries are obtained. The system reproduces these levels artificially inside these boxes, each of which contains a lettuce that serves an indicator of the quality of the air inside the capsules."
world  science  green  pollution  art  outdoorart 
december 2008 by matthewmcvickar
The New Yorker: Kilcullen on Afghanistan
On the situation in Afghanistan and how, step-by-step and with troops we already have, we can start to fix it. "It's still winnable, but only just."
World  afghanistan  politics  America  war  middleeast 
november 2008 by matthewmcvickar
Michael Kenna Photographs
Beautiful photographs, at once empty and full. This set is called "Silent World" by whoever put this page together, but I can't find any reference to that collection on Kenna's website, so I think this is a fan mashup.
photography  travel  world  minimalism 
november 2008 by matthewmcvickar
Esquire: Chuck Klosterman: A Brief History of the Twenty-first Century
"Animals are banned from the moon. House cats now kill more people than heart disease."
humor  writing  futurism  scifi  klosterman  america  world  news  history 
october 2008 by matthewmcvickar
Google Maps: Places I've Lived
The homes, dorms, host families, and apartments I've called home over the last 22 years, or, In Which I Voluntarily Surrender More Information to GoogleBot.
self  world  society  googlemaps 
december 2007 by matthewmcvickar
World Sunlight Map
Currently sunny in...
world  earth  science  nature  wallpaper  weather 
november 2007 by matthewmcvickar
Wired: Clive Thompson Explains Why We Can Count on Geeks to Rescue the Earth
People like Bill Gates who can truly understand the horror of millions of people suffering will save us. "Perhaps we should avoid leaders who 'feel your pain,' because their feelings will crap out at, you know, eight people."
charity  psychology  people  billgates  world 
september 2007 by matthewmcvickar

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