There have been many ideas and descriptions of the recent financial crisis, but Harvey presents an alternative point of view: as Marx would. That is, instead of blaming bad decision making or bad forecasting, Harvey suggests that it is the nature Capitalism to simply move issues around without ever addressing them. Harvey suggests that instead of sticking dogmatically to capitalism, we should consider a financial revolution.
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Barbara Ehrenreich: Smile or Die
While it is a common to say that your problems and issues, Ehrenreich firms states that it is wrong and cruel to insist that bad things only happen to those who mentally focus on bad things and thus we need to think positively. Instead, she suggests, that we think realistically, hoping for the best but being prepared for the worst.
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Keith Barry: Brain magic
Barry is a mentalist at work. Some elementary extraction of concepts but mostly good brain stopping fun.
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Sherry Turkle: Alone Together
Addressing new issues of information proliferation. Turkle comments that we used to have gatherings, say a fifteen year old birthday party, which we often did not want to go to, but we went to anyway and we would grow and expand because “we did this hard thing.” Today, we see people mentally checking out by pursuing their virtual world; this makes it hard to emotionally progress because we no longer do “this hard thing.” In essence, if we are not careful, we will be alone even when we are together.
Professor Sherry Turkle – Alone Together (RSA)
Sherry Turkle: Connected, but alone? (TED) -
Dan Meyer: Math class needs a makeover
Meyer advocates a makeover of way we teach math. He identifies several areas in which we can improve our teaching methods, including some simple realignment of the curriculum. Meyer suggests that instead of training people to extract data from a problem (that only has the relevant information) and plugging them into a formula; we should train students to sift through information to find the relevant information, figure out what the answer they want and discuss through how they can get that answer from the available information.