Rants, Raves, and Rhetoric v4

Tag: culture

  • links for 2007-10-20

    Melungeon – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (tags: culture wikipedia history)

  • links for 2007-07-30

    Edge: A HISTORY OF VIOLENCE By Steven Pinker “If the wars of the twentieth century had killed the same proportion of the population that die in the wars of a typical tribal society, there would have been two billion deaths, not 100 million.” (tags: philosophy history science.psychology science culture politics statistics community) The Evolutionary Psychology…

  • links for 2007-07-26

    Alter: How Superficial Has Our Culture Become? – Newsweek Between the Lines – MSNBC.com (tags: economics life news) About RAND | History | Paul Baran and the Origins of the Internet (tags: history network)

  • Transracial Adoption

    NPR : Mother and Son Offer Transracial Adoption Insights: Morning Edition, July 23, 2007 · When Judy Stigger and her husband decided to adopt, they chose children who very obviously didn’t look like them. “If you’re a very private person, this is probably very hard to do because people are curious and do ask how…

  • links for 2007-07-09

    MFA Boston: Home (tags: local.boston culture museum art) Chichen Itza – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (tags: 7wonders architecture archeology science.anthropology science.archaeology visit) Christ the Redeemer (statue) – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (tags: 7wonders architecture science.anthropology) Great Wall of China – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (tags: 7wonders architecture archeology science.anthropology science.archaeology visit) Machu Picchu – Wikipedia,…

  • Company Culture

    In this article, Rands describes the building of a company culture in getting a software product to 1.0. Company culture has become a topic of interest to me lately. In taking a new job in a place with a very different mindset, I want to better understand my component in this machine. Thoughts in my…