30 DEC 2016 by ideonexus
Whole Earth Catalog Purpose
We are as gods and might as well get good at it. So far, remotely done power and glory—as via government, big business, formal education, church—has succeeded to the point where gross defects obscure actual gains. In response to this dilemma and to these gains a realm of intimate, personal power is developing—power of the individual to conduct his own education, find his own inspiration, shape his own environment, and share his adventure with whoever is interested. Tools that aid this p... 1 
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notes29 NOV 2016 by ideonexus
The Destiny of Earthseed
The Destiny of EarthseedIs to take root among the stars.It is to live and to thriveOn new earths.It is to become new beingsAnd to consider new questions.It is to leap into the heavensAgain and again.It is to explore the vastnessOf heaven.It is to explore the vastnessOf ourselves.
We are Earthseed.We are flesh—self aware, questing, problem-solving flesh.We are that aspect of Earthlife best able to shape God knowingly.We are Earthlife maturing,Earthlife preparing to fall away from the pare...
1 15 JUN 2016 by ideonexus
Metaphysical Knowledge is Passive, Science Proactive
What science actually does is to show that any natural object we please may be treated in terms of relations upon which its occurrence depends, or as an event, and that by so treating it we are enabled to get behind, as it were, the immediate qualities the object of direct experience presents, and to regulate their happening, instead of having to wait for conditions beyond our control to bring it about. Reduction of experienced objects to the form of relations, which are neutral as respects q... 1 notes
notes01 MAR 2016 by ideonexus
Internet-Literate Student Skills
An understanding of what the Internet is. "I found it on the Internet" is not an accurate statement. You found it on a computer connected to the World Wide Web.
Ways to formulate queries. Typing "childhood obesity" into a search engine is not the best way to discover what health problems are associated with being overweight. Students need to know about Boolean searches, adding prefixes such as SITE and FILETYPE, and more. For example, "site:.edu childhood obesity" will yield search results fr... 1 notes
notes21 JUN 2014 by ideonexus
Characteristics of a Game
When you strip away the genre differences and the technological complexities,
all games share four defining traits: a goal, rules, a feedback system, and
voluntary participation.
The goal is the specific outcome that players will work to achieve. It focuses
their attention and continually orients their participation throughout the
game. The goal provides players with a sense of purpose.
The rules place limitations on how players can achieve the goal. By removing
or limiting the obvious ways...Folksonomies: gamification
Folksonomies: gamification
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notes16 NOV 2013 by ideonexus
Classes in the Game "Real Life"
In the early game, there are no clearly defined classes until you begin school and recieve the class of "Student". From there, you have a wide selection of sub-classes you can choose from, such as Nerd, Loner, Jock, or Cool Kid, though you usually just fall into one that fits your character. It can be difficult to change sub-classes since other players may still see you as the sub-class which has been previously established.
Upon completion of 13 levels of school you have the option to chan...Insightful. If there is a purpose to the game, this is it.
15 NOV 2013 by ideonexus
The World is a Black Box
The world with its quarks and chromosomes, its distant lands and spiral nebulae, is like a vast computer in a black box, forever sealed except for its input and output registers. These we directly observe, and in the light of them we speculate on the structure of the machine, the universe. Thus it is that we think up the quarks and chromosomes, the distant lands and the nebulae; they would account for the observable data. When an observation turns out unexpectedly, we may try modifying our th...Folksonomies: scientific method empiricism
Folksonomies: scientific method empiricism
1 We don't know how it works, we only see the inputs and outputs and must extrapolate hypotheses from what we see.
08 NOV 2013 by ideonexus
We are Ultimately Responsible for Our Fate
Thus it is that (to ensure feeding and breeding), "Nature" during the aeons of experimentation which we call "Evolution" has developed a variety of fixed preservative instincts, traits, and characteristics in the animal world. From the animal world, we as animals have inherited such of these instincts, traits, and characteristics as were necessary or most favorable to Man's survival and present dominance.
"Gifts": Peculiarly Human.
In addition to these, man lias acquired, attained, or bee... 1 notes
notesIf we choose to interfere with evolution and nature, then we are responsible for the consequences, but if we choose not to, then we are also responsible for the consequences.
20 JUN 2013 by ideonexus
1991 Definition of Primary and Secondary Information Sources
Information may be categorized into primary and secondary material. If information is new and has never been published before it
research, new legislation and survey results, like government
is termed primary. It includes original statistics. Primary
information is always up-to-date, detailed, accurate and specialized. Consequently, fewer people want to use it and it tends to be expensive.
Information produced when scientists re-work primary material for a special purpose, like writing a ski...Folksonomies: information sources
Folksonomies: information sources
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notesInteresting to observe that WWW is still mostly working with Secondary sources, news coverage and articles about the primary information, instead of going to the mostly readily-available primary sources.
23 JUN 2012 by ideonexus
The Purpose of Sleeping
If sleeping and dreaming do not perform vital biological functions, then they must represent nature's most stupid blunder and most colossal waste of time. 1 notes
notesThere must be a purpose, or evolution really blundered.
