by Elizabeth Thomsen | Jun 23, 2008 | The Public Humanist
On the web, history, like everything else, is a participatory activity. It’s not about visiting an online exhibit, it’s about engaging in an ongoing conversation. What do you see? Who is in this picture? Where and when was it taken? What is the story here?...
by Joanne Riley | Jun 25, 2008 | The Public Humanist
Whither Digital Natives? Rumor has it that the nature of human thinking is changing. As Nicholas Carr puts it in Is Google Making Us Stupid? What the Internet is Doing to Our Brains, "Over the past few years I’ve had an uncomfortable sense that someone, or...
by Phillip Martin | Jun 26, 2008 | The Public Humanist
Traveling on an air-conditioned bus along Malaysia’s North-South Highway to Kuala Lumpur several months ago could not sensibly be compared to the freedom ride from Selma to Montgomery. But for the dark-skinned man seated near me, it could well have been a...
by Wen-ti Tsen | Jun 30, 2008 | The Public Humanist
From Asian American Comic Book by Wen-ti Tsen, AARW, pg. 63 My last blog post ended with us suspended on the ledge of a 3rd-story window of an old Chinatown building. Cleaning up, after finishing a mural on the building’s side depicting the coming of Asians to...
by Frank Dodge | Jun 3, 2008 | The Dodge Report
I think it has something to do w/ molecules. What happend is i and jake had a contest to see how many balloons we cld fill up in one minute only jake cheated and did not blow his all the way up. Me, i was blowing mine up all the way to where they were abt to explode....