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Both scholars concluded that the proposed law could not pass muster under the U.S. Constitution. So you’d think that the new version of SOPA circulated this week would have resolved those concerns. You’d think wrong. While the revised SOPA briefly mentions the First Amendment, the substantive text makes clear that's just lip service. Here’s a selection of fundamental flaws that remain in both SOPA and PIPA: http://www.freeturbine.com/index.php/news/recent-politic/item/the-internet-blacklist-vs-the-constitutionBoth scholars concluded that the proposed law could not pass muster under the U.S.... more
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Students who head to college with humanities as their major find the field so stimulating because of its eclectic nature. A diverse selection of art, politics, philosophy, literature, science, history, linguistics and so much more all filters into this omni-disciplinary study. This list, though it compiles some of the most interesting blogs on the internet, only delivers but a sliver of the amazing intellectual gems to be found online.
LINK : http://oedb.org/library/features/50-best-blogs-for-humanities-scholarsStudents who head to college with humanities as their major find the field so... more
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More than 70 academics, mostly legal scholars, are urging President Barack Obama to open a proposed international intellectual-property agreement to public review before signing it.The likely route for that is bringing the ACTA agreement to the Senate for ratification.
link:http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2010/10/acta-treaty-or-accord/More than 70 academics, mostly legal scholars, are urging President Barack Obama to... more
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Did you know that in addition to search, Google has plenty of other tools that are useful for students and academic professionals? Here are 25 tools that you can use to enhance your scholarly work.
link :http://onlinephdinnursing.com/2010/25-little-known-google-tools-for-scholars-and-academics/Did you know that in addition to search, Google has plenty of other tools that are... more
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Yesterday I watched The Last American Virgin, at the suggestion of Eli Roth. Okay, he didn't personally suggest it, but he did say it was one his five favorite films on the Rotten Tomatoes Show. I liked the film. It starts as a madcap comedy, and then like an Apatow production, it turns into melodrama. Film scholars could write for hours about the liberal attitude towards drunk driving, the boner contest, or the bleakness of the ending, but I'm no film scholar.
The most striking thing to me about this film was in the depiction of nerds. I didn't pick up who was supposed to be the butt of jokes, because I didn't know that the nerds were nerds.
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Rose
It took me a while to realize that Victor & Rose were the token nerds. I had been applying 2009 standards to this 1982 film. Because in 2009 Victor & Rose look a lot more fashionable than resident cool dude, Rick.
The eighties nerd dresses a lot like the contemporary hipster.
In 2009 these guys hang out with Mark the Cobrasnake, but in 1982 these guys look like they'd be hanging out with Victor:
The only stylistic difference between the characterization of a nerd and a present-day hipster, is that the filmic interpretation tends to have braces. Though this gentleman could easily pass between both worlds (especially with that time-traveling app on that cellphone)
Think Rose's style is a little bit to ostentatious for contemporary hipsterdom? Think again. Not only has her nerdly fashion-sense hit the ironic dancefloors in Williamsburg and Hackney, it's become high fashion.
To further evidence this phenomenon, Thrift store fashion has contemporary hipsters literally wearing the clothes of people who lived in the nineteen-eighties, many of whom were actual nerds.
1980s jocks don't know what's coming for them.
(This is a picture of me looking like a 1980s nerd.)Yesterday I watched The Last American Virgin, at the suggestion of Eli Roth. Okay, he... more
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From words of wisdom on business, literature, science, technology, psychology, and more, you can hear what professors and experts from prestigious colleges and universities have to say. Take some time to check out these lectures in the quest to expand your knowledge.From words of wisdom on business, literature, science, technology, psychology, and... more
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These inspiring figures have accomplished a great deal with minimal or no formal education, becoming U.S. Presidents, well-known journalists, writers and scientists. Read on the list of 10 incredibly inspiring self-taught scholars.These inspiring figures have accomplished a great deal with minimal or no formal... more
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Muslims scholars from several countries representing both Sunni and Shiite sects of the religion, condemned the "radical self-declared Jihadists," and declared a Jihad against terrorism to reclaim Islam from the hands of the extremists.
The scholars, who were convened at the a joint seminar hosted by Fatimi International Organisation and Sahyog Cultural Society, declared the holy war against terrorism while at Hotel Taj, Mumbai, India - the very scene of the latest terrorists attacks against India.Muslims scholars from several countries representing both Sunni and Shiite sects of... more
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Who hasn’t heard those famous lines from Shakespeare’s play Hamlet? For all the Shakespearean Renaissance fans out there, presenting the top 50 best Web sites for modern-day bards and Shakespeare-a-holics.Who hasn’t heard those famous lines from Shakespeare’s play Hamlet? For... more
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"It’s time to pack the old Thoreau — austere, high-minded, solitary — in mothballs and break out the new. This new model, as advertised by Robert Sullivan in “The Thoreau You Don’t Know,” is a wisecracking, subversive, entrepreneurial party boy, as likely to dance a jig and break into song as preach at you, a man who heads into Concord not just to do laundry at Mom’s, but to attend dinner parties where he plays his flute before heading back late at night to his cabin. The cabin, and the woods around them, have also undergone substantial renovations: the shack is a parody of the vacation homes of the day, and the neighborhood, far from a pristine wilderness, is Concord’s main wood supply, the mid-19th-century equivalent of “an electric power plant or a gas station,” where “the sound of axes chopping was ubiquitous.”
In his bid to render his subject relevant, Sullivan, the author of the unconventional nature books “Rats” and “The Meadowlands,” can sometimes push a little hard, making too many comparisons to “modern” life. Thoreau, we are told, is like “an online blogger”; sheet-music ballads are “the MP3 downloads of their day”; Thoreau’s first book, “A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers,” is like “a reality TV show”; and finally, this doozy: “To put it in contemporary electronic terms, nature is your hard drive.”
Which raises the question of just whom this book is for. The author admits that the answer isn’t “scholars,” and if you already know Thoreau, you already know the Thoreau You Don’t Know.""It’s time to pack the old Thoreau — austere, high-minded, solitary... more
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Several local councils in the UK have banned their staff from using Latin phrases. It is said that Latin terms might confuse people and some local councils even say that using Latin is elitist and discriminatory.
Phrase like "vice versa", "pro rata" and "via" should not be used either in speech or in writing.
The ban has angered some Latin scholars.
Several local councils in the UK have banned their staff from using Latin phrases. It... more
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By Tom Heneghan, Religion Editor
VATICAN CITY (Reuters) - Muslim scholars due to meet Pope Benedict and Roman Catholic officials this week hope the Vatican will agree to joint crisis management plan to defuse tensions that flare up between Christianity and Islam.
Violent protests in the Islamic world after a Danish newspaper printed cartoons of the Prophet Mohammad might have been averted if Christians and Muslims had spoken out jointly against such unrest and the provocation behind it, they say.
This proposal is one of several ideas for better interfaith cooperation that the Common Word group, a broad coalition of Muslim leaders and scholars pursuing dialogue between the world's two largest religions, will present at the November- 4-6 talks.By Tom Heneghan, Religion Editor
VATICAN CITY (Reuters) - Muslim scholars due to... more
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