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Flickr: Transport Timetables and Ticket SCANS.
"A group for people interested in railroad, bus and airline timetables and tickets. Extracts from historic and current schedules from North America, Australia and worldwide. Discuss urban and long distance rail and bus timetables. Shipping and ferry timetables are included.

SCANS of transport tickets and timetables are sort. Please do NOT post photos of people holding a ticket or timetable."
masstransit  publictransit  transit  transportation  tickets  flickr  airlines  global  world  australia  us  canada  northamerica  schedules  rail  trains  buses  timetables  from delicious
26 days ago by robertogreco
Paddy Ashdown: The global power shift | Video on TED.com
"Paddy Ashdown claims that we are living in a moment in history where power is changing in ways it never has before. In a spellbinding talk at TEDxBrussels he outlines the three major global shifts that he sees coming."
government  interconnectivity  interconnectedness  communities  networks  brasil  india  china  world  multipolar  us  un  turbulence  global  governance  society  unregulatedspace  terrorism  crime  regulation  corporations  history  2011  politics  power  paddyashton 
january 2012 by robertogreco
xkcd: Money
money  xkcd  economics  visualization  economy  finance  infographics  inequality  wealth  wealthdistribution  us  world  2011  data  statistics  comparison  toshare  classideas  class  from delicious
november 2011 by robertogreco
What Are Young Chinese Thinking About? – chinaSMACK
"In today’s China, the population of people 16 to 30 years old has reached 322 million but in the mainstream media, these ordinary young people’s thoughts and voices are often drowned out. British photographer Adrian Fisk traveled 12,500 kilometers and had a group of young people write down their thoughts on paper. Their future is also China’s future."
china  youth  2011  voice  adrianfisk  perspective  classideas  society  world  life  work  from delicious
september 2011 by robertogreco
The Great Splintering - Umair Haque - Harvard Business Review
"a social contract's been torn up…bedrock of an enlightened social contract is, crudely, that rent-seeking is punished, & creating enduring, lasting, shared wealth is rewarded & that those who seek to profit by extraction are chastened rather than lauded. Today's world of bailouts, golden parachutes, sky-high financial-sector salaries — while middle incomes stagnate — seems to be exactly the reverse…The eye of this perfect storm is extreme income inequality that makes the Glided Age look Leninist…rule of law is visibly, easily flouted by the rich, it usually ends up being seen as laughable by the poor. London's become a city where many young people feel they're finished before they start…social upheaval's spreading…Our institutions are failing…We're going to have to build shelter: more resilient, less dysfunctional institutions that can deliver on the promise of real human prosperity that matters, lasts, and multiplies."
society  economics  uk  world  capitalism  eudaemonia  umairhaque  2011  inequality  wealthdistrubution  socialcontract  change  collapse  looting  riots  london  greatsplintering  wealthdistribution  from delicious
august 2011 by robertogreco
» Almost everything is getting better - Long Views: The Long Now Blog
"Last week The Millennium Project released its 02011 State Of The Future report, looking at trends for the past twenty years and projecting ahead for the next decade. (Not the 10,000 year future, but still of interest.) You can read an executive summary of the report here.

While the report finds many things to worry about – global warming, terrorism, corruption – overall the trends are surprisingly hopeful, as shown in their chart called “Where we are winning”:"

[Appreciate the optimism, but these are select measures and probably global too. I wonder what US figures would look like. In the US, there are several that are getting much worse. UPDATE: Here's a start: http://www.adbusters.org/magazine/71/generation-fcked.html ]
optimism  economics  future  politics  policy  world  2011  longnow  millenniumproject  stateofthefuture 
august 2011 by robertogreco
World War II in Photos - Alan Taylor - In Focus - The Atlantic
"World War II is the story of the 20th Century. The war officially lasted from 1939 until 1945, but the causes of the conflict & its horrible aftermath reverberated for decades in either direction. While feats of bravery & technological breakthroughs still inspire awe today, the majority of the war was dominated by unimaginable misery & destruction. In the late 30s, the world's population was approximately 2 billion. In less than a decade, the war between the nations of the Axis Powers & the Allies resulted in some 80 million deaths — killing off about 4% of the whole world. <br />
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This series of entries will last from June 19 until October 30, 2011, running every Sunday morning for 20 weeks. In these photo essays, I hope to explore the events of the war, the people involved at the front and back home, and the effects the war had on everyday lives. The entries will follow a roughly chronological sequence, with some broader themes (such as "The Home Front") interspersed throughout…"
history  photography  war  ww2  wwii  us  world  classideas  20thcentury  from delicious
august 2011 by robertogreco
All Work and No Pay: The Great Speedup | Mother Jones
"You: doing more with less. Corporate profits: up 22 percent. The dirty secret of the jobless recovery."
culture  society  politics  economics  business  work  labor  us  world  comparison  productivity  2011  overwork  wages  growth  employment  unemployment  disparity  inequality  vacation  maternityleave  childcare  from delicious
july 2011 by robertogreco
Overworked America: 12 Charts that Will Make Your Blood Boil | Mother Jones
"In the past 20 years, the US economy has grown nearly 60 percent. This huge increase in productivity is partly due to automation, the internet, and other improvements in efficiency. But it's also the result of Americans working harder—often without a big boost to their bottom lines. Oh, and meanwhile, corporate profits are up 20 percent."
culture  politics  economics  business  work  labor  us  world  comparison  productivity  2011  overwork  wages  growth  employment  unemployment  disparity  inequality  vacation  maternityleave  childcare 
june 2011 by robertogreco
newspaper map | all online newspapers in the world, translate with one click
"Find and translate 10,000 newspapers! Show only newspapers in chosen language. Search place or address."
maps  mapping  languages  news  journalism  world  international  online  media  classideas  global  newspapers  from delicious
may 2011 by robertogreco
New Statesman - The Perfumier and the Stinkhorn
"The naturalist Richard Mabey’s latest book shows how human beings best find health and pleasure not by looking within, but by immersing themselves in the world of which they are an integral part."
science  books  nature  humanism  evolutionarypsychology  romanticism  johngray  richardmabey  introspection  world  context  identity  health  pleasure  human  humans  environment  from delicious
may 2011 by robertogreco
Where Children Sleep by James Mollison
children  comparison  international  books  sleep  art  photography  world  global  via:cervus  jamesmollison  wealth  disparity  incomegap  poverty  from delicious
february 2011 by robertogreco
A revolution against neoliberalism? - Opinion - Al Jazeera English
"If rebellion results in a retrenchment of neoliberalism, millions will feel cheated."
egypt  neoliberalism  politics  revolution  capitalism  2011  us  policy  international  world  rebellion  aljazeera  rhetoric  reality  history  mubarak  from delicious
february 2011 by robertogreco
How Berlin Became the Coolest City on the Planet - The Hollywood Reporter
""New York in the '80s." "London at the height of Britpop." "Paris in the '30s."<br />
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Berlin now.<br />
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If you believe the hype, and you really should, Berlin is the coolest city on the planet."
berlin  hype  cities  trends  world  via:cervus  yearoff  germany  art  film  from delicious
february 2011 by robertogreco
olpcMAP Community Network
olpc  maps  mapping  education  world  networks  from delicious
december 2010 by robertogreco
WikiLeaks: the day cyber warfare broke out - as it happened | News | guardian.co.uk
"The day after Wikileaks' Julian Assange was refused bail the 'hacktivist' group Operation Payback began to flex their muscles, attacking websites including MasterCard and Visa. Our live blog recorded the day's events as they transpired"
wikileaks  internet  cablegate  politics  world  2010  julianassange  from delicious
december 2010 by robertogreco
Country Studies
"This website contains the on-line versions of books previously published in hard copy by the Federal Research Division of the Library of Congress as part of the Country Studies/Area Handbook Series sponsored by the U.S. Department of the Army between 1986 and 1998. Each study offers a comprehensive description and analysis of the country or region's historical setting, geography, society, economy, political system, and foreign policy."
database  demographics  economics  countries  culture  geography  books  reference  countrystudies  studies  international  world  government  history  education  statistics  data  from delicious
november 2010 by robertogreco
490 - Map of the World's Countries Rearranged by Population | Strange Maps | Big Think
"What if the world were rearranged so that the inhabitants of the country with the largest population would move to the country with the largest area? And the second-largest population would migrate to the second-largest country, and so on?<br />
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The result would be this disconcerting, disorienting map. In the world described by it, the differences in population density between countries would be less extreme than they are today. The world's most densely populated country currently is Monaco, with 43,830 inhabitants/mi² (16,923 per km²) (1). On the other end of the scale is Mongolia, which is less densely populated by a factor of almost exactly 10,000, with a mere 4.4 inhabitants/mi² (1.7 per km²)."
geography  visualization  population  maps  mapping  world  density  populationdensity  via:kottke  from delicious
november 2010 by robertogreco
Stereotypical Cartography Map World | someecards.com
Related: http://www.brainpickings.org/index.php/2010/09/27/yanko-tsvetkov-mapping-european-stereotypes/
maps  mapping  bigotry  humor  cartography  classideas  sanfrancisco  world  stereotypes  geography  from delicious
november 2010 by robertogreco
Flavorwire » Daily Dose Pick: Where Children Sleep
"Photographer James Mollison’s Where Children Sleep documents the personal spaces of kids around the world, from the middle-class and prosperous to the strikingly impoverished.<br />
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Over the course of four years, Mollison captured more than a hundred images of children and their bedrooms, with support from independent organization Save the Children. Born in Kenya and raised in England, the artist lives and works in Italy, with his own multicultural upbringing inspiring this moving collection of photos spanning countries as diverse as Senegal, Lesotho, Nepal, China, India, Brazil, and the United States.<br />
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Visit the Mollison’s website, read a review of Where Children Sleep, learn more about Save the Children, and buy a copy of the book."
children  culture  photography  photojournalism  world  international  poverty  wealth  comparison  from delicious
november 2010 by robertogreco
It’s Morning in India - NYTimes.com
"It looks, said Srivastava, as if “what is happening in America is a loss of self-confidence. We don’t want America to lose self-confidence. Who else is there to take over America’s moral leadership? American’s leadership was never because you had more arms. It was because of ideas, imagination, and meritocracy.” If America turns away from its core values, he added, “there is nobody else to take that leadership. Do we want China as the world’s moral leader? No. We desperately want America to succeed.”"
thomasfriedman  india  us  culture  confidence  capitalism  socialism  imagination  meritocracy  global  china  values  world  from delicious
october 2010 by robertogreco
Ethan Zuckerman: Listening to global voices | Video on TED.com [script here: http://www.ethanzuckerman.com/blog/2010/07/14/a-wider-world-a-wider-web-my-tedglobal-2010-talk/]
"Sure, the web connects the globe, but most of us end up hearing mainly from people just like ourselves. Blogger and technologist Ethan Zuckerman wants to help share the stories of the whole wide world. He talks about clever strategies to open up your Twitter world and read the news in languages you don't even know."
infrastructure  bilingualism  blogging  blogs  globalization  global  ted  world  curation  ethanzuckerman  filterbubble  tcsnmy  classideas  toshare  topost  news  media  language  socialmedia  translation  internet  xenophily  xenophiles  perspective  globalvoices  languages  googlechrome  nicholasnegroponte  imaginarycosmipolitans  education  learning  understanding  flocks  GDPbias  gdp  newscoverage  tedglobal  brazil  technology  globalvillage  listening  globalism  communication  knowledge  twitter  collaboration 
july 2010 by robertogreco
…My heart’s in Accra » A wider world, a wider web: my TEDGlobal 2010 talk [video here: http://blog.ted.com/2010/07/listening_to_gl.php]
"world is much wider than we generally perceive it....Tools like twitter can trap us in...“filter bubbles”–internet is too big to understand, so we get picture of it that’s similar to what our friends see...wider world is click away, but we’re usually filtering it out...wasn’t how it was supposed to work...in 1970s, 35-40% of average nightly newscast focused on international stories...now 12-15%...same phenomenon in quality US newspapers...pays far closer attention to wealthy nations than poor ones...Most media show this GDP bias...internet isn’t flattening world as Nicholas Negroponte thought it would...making us “imaginary cosmopolitans”
infrastructure  bilingualism  blogging  blogs  globalization  global  ted  world  curation  ethanzuckerman  filterbubble  tcsnmy  classideas  toshare  topost  news  media  language  socialmedia  translation  internet  xenophily  xenophiles  perspective  globalvoices  languages  googlechrome  nicholasnegroponte  imaginarycosmipolitans  education  learning  understanding  flocks  GDPbias  gdp  newscoverage  tedglobal  brazil  technology  globalvillage  listening  globalism  communication  knowledge  twitter  collaboration 
july 2010 by robertogreco
Ian Bogost - There are no Blown Calls in Football
"issue is not that World Cup football suffers from blown calls. The issue is that in WC football blown calls do not exist as a concept in the game. Short of financial collusion or threat, refs' perspective on game is a part of the game, no different than quality of a cross or accuracy of a shot on goal. This is quite a different attitude than other sports take regarding officiating.
football  worldcup  ianbogost  2010  fairness  us  perspective  empathy  truth  control  randomness  humanexperience  experience  world  fate  coincidence  ambiguity  complexity  americahatesgray  sports 
july 2010 by robertogreco
New Visions of Home: Change Observer: Design Observer
"The world is tumbling over the precipice of a major demographic shift. By 2030, it is estimated that 25 percent of the developed world’s population will be over 65 — an unprecedented proportion in human history. A century ago, that number was a mere 3 percent. In the U.S., the population over 65 is expected to double to 71.5 million in the next 15 years. Investment firm T. Rowe Price now advises retirement savings until age 92. ...
aging  architecture  housing  europe  trends  us  design  retrofitting  cohousing  multigeneration  vertical  density  denmark  small  smallhomes  lifelonglearning  seniors  affordability  world  population  urban  urbanism  switzerland  portland  oregon  leed  designobserver  australia  uk 
july 2010 by robertogreco
Global Migration - A World Ever More on the Move - NYTimes.com
"At least one other trait amplifies the impact of modern migration: The expectation that governments will control it. In America for most of the 19th century, there was no legal barrier to entry. The issue was contentious, but the government attracted little blame. Now Western governments are expected to keep trade and tourism flowing and respect ethnic rights while sealing borders as vast as the Arizona desert and the Mediterranean Sea. Their failures — glaring if perhaps inevitable — weaken the broader faith in federal competence.
transnationalism  immigration  migration  people  tourism  trade  women  world  global  history  policy  politics  2010  research 
july 2010 by robertogreco
Along The Grand Trunk Road: Coming Of Age In India And Pakistan : NPR
"An ancient road spans South Asia, connecting the present and the past in a dynamic -- and sometimes dangerous -- part of the world. NPR journalists travel the route and tell the stories of young people living there, who make up the majority of the populations in India and Pakistan."
pakistan  sms  world  npr  travel  grandtrunkroad  literacy  mobile  india  southasia  asia  history  culture 
may 2010 by robertogreco
Whitefield Brothers: A Dance Travelogue : NPR [see also: http://www.stonesthrow.com/product/show/id/4054 AND http://www.last.fm/music/Whitefield+Brothers/Earthology]
"Earthology is a world-music pastiche that took Whitefield Brothers 15 years to assemble. Featuring mostly German musicians, it adds a few samples, selected non-Western instruments & plenty of guests. Yet no matter what flute, malletophone, horn section or rapper is providing flavor up top, all 13 tracks are anchored by bass & drums. These songs may not always be funk as that genre is loosely defined, but they're definitely funky. On "Taisho," most of the flavor is provided by the national instrument of Japan, a koto played by Masaru Nishimoto.
whitefieldbrothers  earthology  drums  music  world  ethnomusicology  fusion 
april 2010 by robertogreco
Every Time Zone
timezones  via:adamgreenfield  time  visualization  travel  world 
april 2010 by robertogreco
Design For the First World
"We have been focus­ing our energy and resources on try­ing to solve our Devel­op­ing World prob­lems to become more like the First World. But per­haps it is time that we, the so called Third World minds, focused our energy and cre­ativ­ity on solv­ing some of the First World prob­lems. We will have a brighter future to look for­ward to, and per­haps this can help us rethink and approach our cur­rent prob­lems from a dif­fer­ent perspective."
development  activism  change  art  designthinking  problems  culture  design  innovation  competition  world  social  firstworld  thirdworld 
april 2010 by robertogreco
10 Facts on US Health Care « rtstrategy
"1. US is only industrialized nation not to have Universal Health Care 2. Three “third-world” countries currently implementing Universal Health Care: India, South Africa, Mexico 3. Approx 45.7 million US residents have no health insurance = population of Texas, Florida, Oklahoma combined 4. US DOES provide Universal Health Care in three states: Mass, Iraq, Afghanistan 5. World Health Organization ranks US health care system as worlds highest in cost per person 6. WHO ranks US health care system as worlds 2nd most expensive in terms of proportion of income spent on health care per person (#1 = East Timor, population 1.1 million, recovering from war of independence) 7. WHO ranks US health care system as 37th in overall performance 8. WHO ranks US as 72nd in overall level of health 9. 2009 Harvard study found 44,800 excess deaths annually in US due to Americans lacking health insurance 10. Over 62% of US personal bankruptcies are attributed, at least in part, to health care costs"
us  healthcare  health  comparison  policy  universalhealthcare  world  statistics 
march 2010 by robertogreco
This Week In Education: Thompson: The Equality Trust [via: http://www.downes.ca/cgi-bin/page.cgi?post=51768]
"Just as out-of-school effects trump schools' & teachers' contributions to learning, equality & inequality trumps economic wealth in creating livable society. Americans living in more equal states live around 4 years longer than those in more unequal states."
inequality  disparity  income  economics  well-being  education  comparison  us  statistics  world  international 
february 2010 by robertogreco
The WELL: Bruce Sterling: State of the World 2010
"you've treated your future as an "unpredictable lurching thing" & now you're all morose about that...your generation CREATED that situation! Ever heard of "disruptive innovation," "disintermediation," "offshoring," "small pieces loosely joined," "de-monetization," "plug & play," "the network as a platform"?...Guys w/ stacks of gold bars & working oil wells don't have stability! Much less guys like you...want some security? Demand government housing subsidies & guaranteed minimum income! They bailed out every broke mogul...might as well bail out civil population...You're Canadian always in Cali married to Briton always in Japan...you're not gonna "end up" anywhere. Forget about that...you have made your mobile bed...lie in it."..."coherent picture of your future."...imagine you're 3yo. You want to give your Dad, back in 1974, a coherent picture of 2010...something very actionable, lucid & practical...tell me what you oughta tell him about 2010, back in 1974. Use words of 1 syllable"
brucesterling  corydoctorow  2010  futurology  futurism  future  politics  business  media  environment  predictions  china  brasil  nomads  neo-nomads  technology  society  culture  commentary  google  world  life  intelligence  fear  pessimism  optimism  jonlebkowsky  jamaiscascio 
january 2010 by robertogreco
Brave New World Revisited (1958) by Aldous Huxley
"It is perfectly possible for a man to be out of prison, and yet not free -- to be under no physical constraint and yet to be a psychological captive, compelled to think, feel and act as the representatives of the national State, or of some private interest within the nation, want him to think, feel and act. ... The nature of psychological compulsion is such that those who act under constraint remain under the impression that they are acting on their own initiative. The vic­tim of mind-manipulation does not know that he is a victim. To him, the walls of his prison are invisible, and he believes himself to be free. That he is not free is apparent only to other people. His servitude is strictly objective. "
aldoushuxley  politics  world  culture  books  freedom  mind-manipulation  institutions  tcsnmy  lcproject  liberty  mind  tyranny  psychology 
december 2009 by robertogreco
Paul Halsall/Fordham University: Internet History Sourcebooks Project
"The Internet History Sourcebooks Project is a collection of public domain and copy-permitted historical texts presented cleanly (without advertising or excessive layout) for educational use."
education  art  teaching  online  database  primarysources  reference  literature  research  religion  resources  encyclopedia  search  documents  medieval  ancient  europe  history  ebooks  books  archives  world  socialstudies 
december 2009 by robertogreco
The demise of the dollar - Business News, Business - The Independent
"In the most profound financial change in recent Middle East history, Gulf Arabs are planning – along with China, Russia, Japan and France – to end dollar dealings for oil, moving instead to a basket of currencies including the Japanese yen and Chinese yuan, the euro, gold and a new, unified currency planned for nations in the Gulf Co-operation Council, including Saudi Arabia, Abu Dhabi, Kuwait and Qatar."
via:javierarbona  2009  china  middleeast  currency  japan  business  economics  politics  europe  recession  world  money  finance  iraq  crisis  energy  iran  russia  geopolitics  oil  gold  dollar  us 
october 2009 by robertogreco
Archival Sound Recordings
"Explore 44,500 selected recordings of music, spoken word, and human and natural environments: accents and dialects; arts, literature and performance; classical music; environment and nature; jazz and popular music; oral history; sound recording history; world and traditional music"
art  history  music  uk  britishlibrary  library  sounds  recordings  samples  ethnography  multimedia  database  free  audio  sound  online  world  jazz  classical  environment  nature  arts  literature  poetry  accents  spokenword  media  archives  repository  tcsnmy  libraries 
september 2009 by robertogreco
Fool's World Map | Fool's USA Map
"This is a project visualizing the world map which many fools in the world imagine.
maps  mapping  humor  geography  satire  culture  us  world  ignorance 
september 2009 by robertogreco
The positive energy of counterfactuals: a rejected essay for Howies « Magical Nihilism
"Instead of a space race, an earth race…
future  mattjones  geoengineering  environment  world  scifi  ecology  earth  creativity  politics  china  2009  webstock  technology  space  green  local  gamechanging  engineering  science  sciencefiction 
september 2009 by robertogreco
GESTIARIUM PROJECT [more here: http://www.gestiarium.blogspot.com/]
"La enciclopedia visual de todos los gestos del mundo"
argentina  italy  us  france  colombia  mexico  brasil  germany  gestures  glossary  dictionary  bodylanguage  language  communication  world  global  international 
september 2009 by robertogreco
What's For School Lunch?
"Various school lunches from around the world. School lunch doesn't really represent the best a country has to offer, but we still love it, because we grew up on it."
schools  food  blogs  photography  international  global  world 
august 2009 by robertogreco
CitySounds.fm - The music of cities
"Hello and welcome to CitySounds.fm! Here you can listen to the latest music from your favorite cities around the world.
via:preoccupations  music  cities  international  urban  ambient  streaming  sound  sounds  audio  world  aggregation  citysounds 
august 2009 by robertogreco
Amusing Ourselves to Death by Stuart McMillen - cartoon Recombinant Records
"Orwell feared the truth would be concealed from us. Huxley feared the truth would be drowned in a sea of irrelevance."
aldoushuxley  georgeorwell  technology  society  culture  future  art  philosophy  government  literature  comics  entertainment  dystopia  books  history  politics  us  tcsnmy  social  media  world  neilpostman  via:kottke 
august 2009 by robertogreco
The China Bubble's Coming -- But Not the One You Think | Foreign Policy
"All in all, this spells trouble -- a big, big Chinese bubble. Identifying such bubbles is a lot easier than timing their collapse. But as we've recently learned, you can defy the laws of financial gravity for only so long. Put simply, mean reversion is a bitch. And the longer excesses persist, the harder the financial gravity will bring China's economy back to Earth." [via: http://varnelis.net/microblog/reasons_to_be_wary]
china  economics  bubbles  finance  world  crisis  meltdown  recession 
august 2009 by robertogreco
Marco Werman on Bebe [.mp3]
See also: http://www.theworld.org/2009/08/10/bebe/
music  españa  spain  bebe  marcowerman  world  filetype:mp3  media:audio 
august 2009 by robertogreco
Global Hit: Guru | PRI's The World
"The World’s Emma Kwesiga Lydersen meets up with US hip-hop legend Guru. He’s been touring the world and bringing home some musical souvenirs."
music  hiphop  world  travel  culture 
august 2009 by robertogreco
Incan Empire Aided by Global Warming: Discovery News
"A 400-year warm spell helped the ancient Inca to build the largest empire ever to exist in the Americas, a new study has established.
inca  history  peru  climate  climatechange  science  environment  world  spanish  archaeology  spain  perú 
july 2009 by robertogreco
Senior City-zens: The World's 10 Oldest Still-Inhabited Cities | WebUrbanist
"Urban society may seem a modern phenomenon but cities have been around for a lot longer than one might think. Indeed, once nomadic tribes began to settle in one location, they saw that it was good, became fruitful, and multiplied. Decades, centuries and millennia passed while war, climate change and human migration all took their toll. Relatively few ancient cities have managed to survive the test of time. Here are 10 that have not only survived, but continue to thrive."
culture  architecture  history  archaeology  asia  civilization  cities  urban  ancient  geography  world  travel 
july 2009 by robertogreco
Can China buck the dollar? | csmonitor.com
"Despite America's debt woes, the US dollar is still being used in the vast majority of international trade deals. Until China's leaders stop acting like emperors over their own people, the dollar will be the emperor of world currencies for some time to come."
dollar  us  currency  world  global  international  economics  china 
july 2009 by robertogreco
11 Most Bizarre Border Crossings Around The World
"For many, crossing a border conjures images of border personnel with stern expressions and gun belts, paperwork, questions, long lines and maybe sweaty palms. But borders can also be green, beautiful, informative and friendly – unusual, to say the least. It is also truly amazing where one can find border crossings, so follow us on a tour of astounding checkpoints around the mountains, deserts, seas and cities of the world."
borders  international  world  us  mexico  sandiego  tijuana 
july 2009 by robertogreco
Think Again: Asia's Rise - By Minxin Pei | Foreign Policy
"Asia is pouring money into higher ed...But Asian unis will not become world's leading centers of learning & research anytime soon. None of world's top 10 unis is in Asia, only U of Tokyo...[in] top 20. In last 30 years, only 8 Asians (7 Japanese) have won Nobel Prize in sciences...region's hierarchical culture, centralized bureaucracy, weak private unis & emphasis on rote learning & test-taking will continue to hobble its efforts to clone US finest research institutions...even Asia's much-touted numerical advantage is < it seems. China supposedly graduates 600,000 engineering majors /year, India... 350,000,...US...70,000 engineering...suggest an Asian edge in generating brainpower...[but] misleading. 1/2 of China's engineering grads & 2/3 of India's have assoc degrees. Once quality is factored in, Asia's lead disappears...human resource managers in multinational companies consider only 10% of Chinese & 25% of Indian engineers even "employable," compared w/ 81% of American engineers."
asia  china  india  economics  future  power  world  global  us  policy  japan  education  engineering  innovation  creativity  testing  assessment  rotelearning  geopolitics  politics  globalism  korea  universities  colleges  schools  competition  hierarchy  quality  bureaucracy 
june 2009 by robertogreco
China and the end of westernisation | John Gray | Comment is free | guardian.co.uk
"the Chinese version of modernisation is no more universally applicable than the American model. Rather, from now on there will be modern societies of quite different kinds, interpenetrating in many ways but not becoming progressively more alike.
us  future  modernity  culture  society  trends  books  world  china  global  international 
june 2009 by robertogreco
EyeWitness to History - history through the eyes of those who lived it
"Your ringside seat to history - from the Ancient World to the present. History through the eyes of those who lived it, presented by Ibis Communications, Inc. a digital publisher of educational programming."
history  reference  education  socialstudies  world  ancient  middleages  medieval  renaissance  us  europe  asia  tcsnmy 
june 2009 by robertogreco
Marketplace from American Public Media | Marketplace and Homelands Productions | Working
"Working. It's what most of us do for half our waking lives. It's how we feed and clothe ourselves and how we support our families. It shapes our sense of who we are, and of where we fit in the scheme of things.
economics  business  work  world  capitalism  global  international  labor  audio  production  radio 
june 2009 by robertogreco
Marketplace from American Public Media | Marketplace and Homelands Productions | Working - Ismael 'Babu' Hussein, Shipbreaking Worker
""Did anybody ever tell you," I asked the child worker sitting on the cement floor, "'You're only 13, you shouldn't have to work like this'?"
bangladesh  shipbreakers  shipbreaking  recycling  childlabor  children  world  labor  safety  work 
june 2009 by robertogreco
Wanderlust: GOOD traces the most famous trips in history
"When Spain commissioned Ferdinand Magellan to find a westward route to the Spice Islands in 1519, the explorer commanded five ships and 240 men. Six years later, nearly every member of the expedition, including its commander, was dead. When the American writer Jack Kerouac tried in 1951 to find the words to convey his wayward journey through the United States and Mexico, he commanded a typewriter and a massive stash of Benzedrine. After a few weeks, the first draft of On the Road was completed. These are just two of the journeys that have left indelible marks on our collective maps, and are endless sources of fascination. Here is compilation of some of the most famous jaunts of all time—both factual and fictional—that show us how far we’ve come, and where we might go next."
maps  mapping  history  adventure  exporation  roadtrips  travel  visualization  geography  world  literature  education  cartography  socialstudies  interactive  writing  infographics  tcsnmy 
june 2009 by robertogreco
Systemic Flaws In the Reported World View - Chris Anderson
"In fact, most meta-level reporting of trends show a world that is getting better. We live longer, in cleaner environments, are healthier, and have access to goods and experiences that kings of old could never have dreamed of. If that doesn't make us happier, we really have no one to blame except ourselves. Oh, and the media lackeys who continue to feed us the litany of woes that we subconsciously crave."
chrisanderson  optimism  politics  history  analysis  future  culture  news  stateoftheworld  violence  philosophy  ideas  progress  edge  media  world  pessimism 
may 2009 by robertogreco
Time Spent Alone
"Time spent alone is a series of projects conceptually linked through their being conceived in solitude and intended for display in the isolated social space of the internet. They are daydreams, worries and solitary trips.
art  books  maps  mapping  travel  world  google  data  googlemaps  experimental  emotion  coding  desire  via:foe 
may 2009 by robertogreco
…My heart’s in Accra » The importance of being a dork
"my blanket prescription for making friends in other countries: Your best chances to connect with people in other cultures...eating, drinking, playing music, dancing, playing football (soccer)...“play with kids”...Are plane tickets the first ingredient in these equations? Do they need to be? I live just north of Pittsfield, MA, a city of fewer than 50,000 people. For years, the city has held an annual Ethnic Fair...My guess is that there’s an opportunity for me to learn something about Brazilian culture beyond enjoying the two Brazilian restaurants that have opened in town. I suspect it involves losing fifty pounds and playing soccer in a local league. Or putting on my best clubbing clothes and hanging out at Latin Night on Saturday at the Ecuadorian restaurant and dance club. I haven’t done either, and I find myself wondering if part of the equation is that I’m more comfortable looking like a dork in Dakar than in Pittsfield."
learning  culture  travel  ethanzuckerman  society  internet  psychology  music  communication  world  glvo  cv  local  immigration  inhibition  myexperience  sports  food  dance  children  immersion 
may 2009 by robertogreco
The World's New Numbers
"By midcentury, sub-Saharan Africa is likely to be the demographic center of Islam, home to as many Muslims as Asia & to far more than inhabit the Middle East. Christianity will also feel the effects of Africa’s growth. By 2025, there will be as many Christians in sub- Saharan Africa— some 640 million— as in South America. By 2050, it is almost certain that most of the world’s Christians will live in Africa. ... At the turn of this century, the conventional wisdom among demographers was that the population of Europe was in precipitous decline, the Islamic world was in the grip of a population explosion & Africa’s population faced devastation by HIV/AIDS. Only a handful of scholars questioned the idea that the Chinese would outnumber all other groups for decades or even centuries to come. In fact, however, the latest UN projections suggest that China’s population, now 1.3 billion, will increase slowly through 2030 but may then be reduced to half that number by the end of the century."
population  trends  world  demographics  africa  china  us  europe  religion 
may 2009 by robertogreco
Children Not in School on Flickr - Photo Sharing!
school  schooling  education  unschooling  homeschool  world  maps  mapping  learning  us  international  children  demographics 
may 2009 by robertogreco
World Digital Library
"The World Digital Library (WDL) makes available on the Internet, free of charge and in multilingual format, significant primary materials from countries and cultures around the world.
education  art  culture  online  history  books  research  media  maps  information  visualization  reference  world  international  archives  libraries  unesco  resources  digitization  images  classideas  latinamerica  middleeast  asia  europe  us  northamerica  caribbean  africa  timelines  timeline  primarysources  mapping 
april 2009 by robertogreco
Exotic Enemies Remain Married | Beyond the Beyond from Wired.com
"We're a global couple in a world of nations, so we don't expect that our private situation will ever be permanently resolved. It is our duty to bear the consequences of being who we are, and to offer solidarity to those who share our mode of being in the world.
brucesterling  borders  nationality  globalcitizens  global  world  internations  life  cv  glvo  politics  bureaucracy  immigration  migration  identity 
april 2009 by robertogreco
The Global Game
"The Global Game’s primary mission is this website: a source for news, in English, about cultural aspects of world soccer. Through reporting, translation, online interaction and other exchanges we aim to enhance, with soccer as vehicle, cultural learning and connection among peoples separated by language, lifeways or social systems.
society  politics  blogs  world  global  football  futbol  soccer  sports  sociology 
april 2009 by robertogreco
362 - Greek To Me: Mapping Mutual Incomprehension « Strange Maps
"“When an English speaker doesn’t understand a word of what someone says, he or she states that it’s ‘Greek to me’. When a Hebrew speaker encounters this difficulty, it ’sounds like Chinese’. I’ve been told the Korean equivalent is ’sounds like Hebrew’,” says Yuval Pinter (here on the excellent Languagelog).
languages  maps  visualization  linguistics  communication  humor  greek  mapping  sociology  incomprehension  culture  language  world  chinese 
march 2009 by robertogreco
Laurent Haug’s blog » Crisis or transition?
"crisis or transition? The numbers that make news...are pretty bad, but...the whole picture? Yes, the banks are under attack & deservedly so. Their model is based on world that does not exist anymore. Like music industry before, banks have been refusing innovation, sitting on their assets without noticing that society was changing faster than ever. Customers have changed..., employees have changed, needs have evolved... There is a price for arrogance (it cuts you from your clients), lack of agility (you can’t follow change), heritage (having an history can be bad for you. ... I understand we all have a partial view of the world...I am no exception...these are weak signals, not backed by scientific numbers, which might not weight much in the face of reimbursing 1000s of billions of screw ups. But I am asking a question: is this really the sub primes, or are we facing a peak of inadequacy between large companies & the world they live in? Is this a crisis, or a transition to a new world?"
laurenthaug  change  crisis  transition  2009  banking  finance  world  gamechanging  opportunity  optimism  pessimism  switzerland  swiss  taxes 
february 2009 by robertogreco
A special report on the new middle classes in emerging markets: Burgeoning bourgeoisie | The Economist
"In practice, emerging markets may be said to have two middle classes. One consists of those who are middle class by any standard—ie, with an income between the average Brazilian and Italian. This group has the makings of a global class whose members have as much in common with each other as with the poor in their own countries. It is growing fast, but still makes up only a tenth of the developing world. You could call it the global middle class.
via:cityofsound  class  economics  trends  world  demographics  global  middleglass  emergineconomies  emerging 
february 2009 by robertogreco
Tate Britain | Current Exhibitions | Altermodern - Altermodern Manifesto POSTMODERNISM IS DEAD [via: http://blog.wired.com/sterling/2009/02/so-long-post-we.html]
"A new modernity is emerging, reconfigured to an age of globalisation – understood in its economic, political and cultural aspects: an altermodern culture *Increased communication, travel & migration are affecting the way we live *Our daily lives consist of journeys in a chaotic and teeming universe *Multiculturalism and identity is being overtaken by creolisation: Artists are now starting from a globalised state of culture *This new universalism is based on translations, subtitling and generalised dubbing *Today’s art explores the bonds that text and image, time and space, weave between themselves *Artists are responding to a new globalised perception. They traverse a cultural landscape saturated with signs and create new pathways between multiple formats of expression and communication. The Tate Triennial 2009 at Tate Britain presents a collective discussion around this premise that postmodernism is coming to an end, and we are experiencing the emergence of a global altermodernity."
altermodern  postmodernism  change  uk  art  tate  multiculturalism  globalization  migration  creolization  travel  london  modernity  global  world  trends  culture  society  glvo  universalism  translation  subtitling  dubbing  time  space  expression  communication  nicolasbourriaud  2009  networks  exhibitions  gamechanging  progress 
february 2009 by robertogreco
Seed: 2009 Will Be a Year of Panic: From the fevered mind of Bruce Sterling and his alter-ego, Bruno Argento, a consideration of things ahead.
"So 2009 will be a squalid year, a planetary hostage situation surpassing any mere financial crisis, where the invisible hand of the market, a good servant turned a homicidal master, periodically wanders through a miserable set of hand-tied, blindfolded, feebly struggling institutions, corporations, bureaucracies, professions, and academies, and briskly blows one's brains out for no sane reason."
brucesterling  brunoargento  future  2009  currency  disaster  predictions  business  environment  world  seed  panic  climate  copyright  futurism  economics  politics  money  collapse  crisis  insurance  science  intellectualproperty  culture 
january 2009 by robertogreco
The Biggest Ponzi Scheme of Them All - O'Reilly Radar
"it's increasingly looking like we're going to be stuck here with only one world's resources to draw on ... most reasonable people are aware that we're using up much of our children's inheritance, and handing them debt in exchange, I don't think as a society we've really come to grips with the consequence of that knowledge ... It's clear that getting to a steady-state economy will be hard, perhaps even impossible (although it's worth noting that living systems have accomplished that feat.) But what a challenge! How do we keep the dynamism of modern capitalist economies without borrowing from the future? What does it mean to keep the real costs of what we consume on the balance sheet? Will the economy of the future be built on aesthetic value exchange (the whuffie of Cory Doctorow's imagination), with renewable energy in harness and physical materials seamlessly recycled. Great questions, great opportunities for us to invent the answers!"
timoreilly  sustainability  green  environment  economics  future  bernardmadoff  growth  recession  consumption  2009  bailout  anxiety  capitalism  money  development  ponzischemes  resources  crisis  energy  finance  us  world  global  society  change  gamechanging 
january 2009 by robertogreco
Center of population - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
"In demographics, the center of population of a region is the geographical point nearest to all the inhabitants of that region, on average." See also the heat map image contained in the article. Via: http://www.kottke.org/09/01/where-we-are-and-where-were-going
maps  geography  demographics  wikipedia  population  world  global 
january 2009 by robertogreco
Haim Harari - At Last: Technology Will Change Education - Edge World Question Center 2009
"How come the richest person on the globe is not someone who had a brilliant idea about using technology for bringing education to the billions of school children of the world? I do not know the complete answer to this question. A possible guess is that in other fields you can have "quickies" but not in education. The time scale of education is decades, not quarters. Another possible guess is that, in education, you must mix the energy and creativity of the young with the wisdom and experience of the older, while in other areas, the young can do it fast and without the baggage of the earlier generations." ... "So, my game-changing hope and prediction is that, finally, something significant will change on this front. The time is ripe. A few novel ideas, aided by technologies that did not exist until recently, and based on humanistic values, on compassion and on true desire to extend help to the uneducated majority of the earth population, can do the trick."
education  technology  future  change  2009  edge  gamechanging  predictions  edtech  world  lcproject  tcsnmy 
january 2009 by robertogreco
Next American City » Magazine » The Digital Divide
"“Broadband is important. You can’t survive in a digital economy and be useful. We haven’t made it the priority that we need to,” warns Meinrath. “When you have a global economy, people don’t understand what the detriments that people without Internet will be in. Even if the U.S. fails to do so, other countries will not.”"
digitaldivide  broadband  internet  policy  government  economics  us  world 
december 2008 by robertogreco
Crisis [.pdf]
via: http://brianholmes.wordpress.com/2007/04/28/remember-the-present/ via: http://kashklash.dreamhosters.com/currency-evolution-and-crisis/ via: http://liftlab.com/think/nova/2008/12/03/mobilisable-at-arts-deco-in-paris/
argentina  crisis  visualization  infographics  2001  world  credit  finance  history  mexico  japan  us  savingsandloan  economics  worldcom  enron  socialcurrency  currency  complementarycurrency  grameenbank  colombia  chile  uruguay  community  communitycurrency  prosumers  thailand  brasil  asia  realestate  bubbles  indonesia  philippines  malaysia  localcurrency  activism  filetype:pdf  media:document 
december 2008 by robertogreco
Dark Roasted Blend: The Most Remote Place on Earth
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tristandacunha  isolation  geography  world  islands  tcsnmy  culture  society  nostalgia 
december 2008 by robertogreco
Financial crisis may worsen food crunch it eclipsed | csmonitor.com
"Although commodity prices for a wide range of crops have fallen by as much as 50 percent from record highs in June, the financial crisis is expected to make food shortages dramatically worse."
finance  food  crisis  2008  commodities  world  global  economics 
december 2008 by robertogreco
Immanuel Wallerstein: “The Depression: A Long-Term View” | Creative-i
"We can assert with confidence that the present system cannot survive. What we cannot predict is which new order will be chosen to replace it, because it will be the result of an infinity of individual pressures. But sooner or later, a new system will be installed. This will not be a capitalist system but it may be far worse (even more polarizing and hierarchical) or much better (relatively democratic and relatively egalitarian) than such a system. The choice of a new system is the major worldwide political struggle of our times."
greatdepression  economics  future  policy  capitalism  change  reform  us  world  government  gamechanging 
november 2008 by robertogreco
The New Trough: The Wall Street bailout looks a lot like Iraq — a "free-fraud zone" where private contractors cash in on the mess they helped create [also at: http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/story/24012700/the_new_trough/print]
"There is a better way to fix a broken financial system. Treasury's plan to buy up the toxic debts never made sense and should be immediately scrapped - a move that would also handily get rid of most of the crony contractors. As for purchasing equity in banks, the next round of deals - and there will be more - has to start from the premise that the banks are bankrupt and will therefore accept whatever terms we choose to impose, including real regulatory oversight. The possibilities of what could be done if a chunk of the banking system were genuinely under public control - from a moratorium on home foreclosures to mandatory investment in green community redevelopment - are limitless.
world  capitalism  bailout  naomiklein  us  crisis  2008  banking  finance  wallstreet  corruption  money  henrypaulson  iraq 
november 2008 by robertogreco
Is Obama truly world-wide? (Scripting News)
"Permalink to this paragraph
us  future  police  world  leadership  policy  barackobama  presidency  worldleadership  bailout  crisis  economics  population  overpopulation  globalwarming  energy  peakoil  sustainability  via:preoccupations 
november 2008 by robertogreco
SHOW®/WORLD - A New Way To Look At The World
"SELECT a subject from the top menu and watch the countries on the map change their size. Instead of land mass, the size of each country will represent the data for that subject --both its share of the total and absolute value."
maps  mapping  interactive  demographics  visualization  geography  statistics  world  health  population  data  gis  politics  economics  history  culture  us 
november 2008 by robertogreco
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