final writing of the quarter.....wahhhhh

1. http://money.cnn.com/2010/03/15/technology/google_china/index.htm?hpt=T2

2. In looking over all of my writing for the whole term, my best writing of the quarter has been....

What is the difference between good writing and bad writing?

FINAL DRAFT CHECKLIST

BE SURE YOUR FINAL DRAFT MEETS ALL OF THE FOLLOWING REQUIREMENTS:

1. Meets the 8 page minimum;
2. Contains no spelling errors or other simple (and fatal) errors;
3. Has perfect spacing on the Works Cited page;
4. Meets the requirements for the MLA front page format;
5. Is heavily revised;
6. Is printed out in black ink with Times New Roman 12 point font, double spaced.
7. Is on time, turned in on Monday at the beginning of class...

Also remember, you will turn the essay into Turnitin by midnight on Monday night.

See you Monday!!!

A Gorilla on Mars...

Here's the source: http://www.abc.es/20100308/ciencia-tecnologia-espacio-sistema-solar/gorila-marte-201003081929.html

Do you know anyone in the service?

What is the matter with people?

How do you feel when you see this sort of thing?

The Future of Reading

https://www.nybooks.com/articles/14318

This article wonders what might happen if all books became digitized and then a virus or hacker wiped them all out...

CLARIFICATION REGARDING WEDNESDAY

1. DUE WEDNESDAY: ASSIGNMENT #5 HEAVILY REVISED
2. Also on Wednesday, we will write the second in class essay.
3. If you have not yet turned in ASSIGNMENT #4 TO TII, YOU MUST NOW DO SO. IT WILL REGISTER THAT YOU ARE SUBMITTING THE ASSIGNMENT LATE. YOU NOW HAVE UNTIL WEDNESDAY TO TURN THE ESSAY IN TO TURNITIN. YOUR ASSIGNMENT WILL BE ACCEPTED WITH THE GRADE YOU RECEIVED AS LONG AS YOU WRITE THE 1-2 PAGE RESPONSE TO THE QUOTE BELOW.

ANY QUESTIONS? EMAIL, BLOG, CALL, OR WHATEVER WORKS BEST!

SEE YOU WEDNESDAY,

DR. S

Interpret the following quote:

“Nobody ever did, or ever will, escape the consequences of his choices.”
Alfred Montapert

IF YOU DID NOT TURN YOUR ASSIGNMENT #4 INTO TURNITIN AS WAS REQUIRED, YOU WILL NOW BE ABLE TO DO SO, BUT IN ORDER FOR IT TO BE CONSIDERED, YOU MUST BRING A ONE TO TWO PAGE, TYPED, DOUBLE-SPACED RESPONSE TO THIS QUOTE ON WEDNESDAY AND TURN YOUR PAPER IN TO TURNITIN BY WEDNESDAY NIGHT AT MIDNIGHT.

Assignment #6: Complete Rough Draft Due

3/10 Assignment #6 Due
That means that on the 10th you must have the whole draft, typed, printed out, double-spaced, in MLA format.
How do we get from what you have now (Lit Review and Introduction)to that point?

Olympics?

Did you watch the olympics?

http://www.cnn.com/2010/LIVING/02/25/cnnheroes.soriano/index.html?hpt=C1

TALKING ABOUT TECHNOLOGY, IN SOME PLACES IT'S A BURRO AND A BOOK...
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Teaching kids to read from the back of a burro

Magdalena, Colombia (CNN) -- To the unaccustomed eye, a man toting 120 books while riding a stubborn donkey would seem nothing short of a circus spectacle. But for hundreds of children in the rural villages of Colombia, Luis Soriano is far from a clown. He is a man with a mission to save rural children from illiteracy.

"There was a time when many people thought that I was going crazy," said Soriano, a native of La Gloria, Colombia. "They'd yell, 'Carnival season is over.' ... Now I've overcome that."

Soriano, 38, is a primary school teacher who spends his free time operating a "biblioburro," a mobile library on donkeys that offers reading education for hundreds of children living in what he describes as "abandoned regions" in the Colombian state of Magdalena.

"In [rural] regions, a child must walk or ride a donkey for up to 40 minutes to reach the closest schools," Soriano said. "The children have very few opportunities to go to secondary school. ...There are [few] teachers that would like to teach in the countryside."

Do you know a hero? Nominations are open for 2010 CNN Heroes

At the start of his 17-year teaching career, Soriano realized that some students were having difficulty not just learning, but finishing their homework assignments. Most of the students falling behind lived in rural villages, where illiterate parents and lack of access to books prevented them from completing their studies.

To help bridge the learning gap, Soriano decided to personally bring books to the children.

"I saw two unemployed donkeys at home and had the idea [to use] them in my biblioburro project because they can carry a heavy load," Soriano said. "I put the books on their backs in saddles and they became my work tools."

Every Wednesday at dusk and every Saturday at dawn, Soriano leaves his wife and three young children to travel to select villages -- up to four hours each way -- aboard a donkey named Alfa. A second donkey, Beto, follows behind, toting additional books and a sitting blanket. They visit 15 villages on a rotating basis.

"It's not easy to travel through the valleys," Soriano said. "You sit on a donkey for five or eight hours, you get very tired. It's a satisfaction to arrive to your destination."

At each village, some 40-50 youngsters await their chance to get homework help, learn to read or listen to any variety of tall tales, adventure stories and geography lessons Soriano has prepared.

"You can just see that the kids are excited when they see the biblioburro coming this way. It makes them happy that he continues to come," said Dairo Holguin, 34, whose two children take part in the program. "For us, his program complements what the children learn in school. The books they do not have access to ... they get from the biblioburro."

More than 4,000 youngsters have benefited from Soriano's program since it began in 1990. Soriano says countless others have been helped, too; parents and other adult learners often participate in the lessons.

Soriano has spent nearly 4,000 hours riding his donkeys, and he's not traveled unscathed. In July 2008, he fractured his leg when he fell from one of the donkeys; in 2006, he was pounced on by bandits at a river crossing and tied to a tree when they found out he had no money. Despite these injuries, which left him with a limp, Soriano has no intention of slowing down.

In addition to the biblioburro program, he and his wife built the largest free library in Magdalena next to their home. The library has 4,200 books, most of which are donated -- some from as far away as New York City. They also run a small community restaurant.

Soriano's hope is that people will understand the power of reading and that communities can improve from being exposed to books and diverse ideas.

"For us teachers, it's an educational triumph, and for the parents [it's] a great satisfaction when a child learns how to read. That's how a community changes and the child becomes a good citizen and a useful person," Soriano said. "Literature is how we connect them with the world."

Want to get involved? E-mail Luis Soriano at eldoctosoriano@hotmail.com

Waters of March/Aguas de Marco: GREATEST SONG LYRICS EVER...WHAT LYRICS DO YOU NOMINATE?

Águas de Março
É pau, é pedra,
é o fim do caminho
É um resto de toco,
é um pouco sozinho

É um caco de vidro,
é a vida, é o sol
É a noite, é a morte,
é um laço, é o anzol

É peroba do campo,
é o nó da madeira
Caingá, candeia,
é o Matita Pereira

É madeira de vento,
tombo da ribanceira
É o mistério profundo,
é o queira ou não queira

É o vento ventando,
é o fim da ladeira
É a viga, é o vão,
festa da cumeeira

É a chuva chovendo,
é conversa ribeira
Das águas de março,
é o fim da canseira

É o pé, é o chão,
é a marcha estradeira
Passarinho na mão,
pedra de atiradeira

É uma ave no céu,
é uma ave no chão
É um regato, é uma fonte,
é um pedaço de pão

É o fundo do poço,
é o fim do caminho
No rosto o desgosto,
é um pouco sozinho

É um estrepe, é um prego,
é uma conta, é um conto
É uma ponta, é um ponto,
é um pingo pingando

É um peixe, é um gesto,
é uma prata brilhando
É a luz da manhã,
é o tijolo chegando

É a lenha, é o dia,
é o fim da picada
É a garrafa de cana,
o estilhaço na estrada

É o projeto da casa,
é o corpo na cama
É o carro enguiçado,
é a lama, é a lama

É um passo, é uma ponte,
é um sapo, é uma rã
É um resto de mato,
na luz da manhã

São as águas de março
fechando o verão
É a promessa de vida
no teu coração

É uma cobra, é um pau,
é João, é José
É um espinho na mão,
é um corte no pé

É um passo, é uma ponte,
é um sapo, é uma rã
É um belo horizonte,
é uma febre terçã

São as águas de março
fechando o verão
É a promessa de vida
no teu coração
Waters of March

A stick, a stone,
It's the end of the road,
It's the rest of a stump,
It's a little alone

It's a sliver of glass,
It is life, it's the sun,
It is night, it is death,
It's a trap, it's a gun

The oak when it blooms,
A fox in the brush,
A knot in the wood,
The song of a thrush

The wood of the wind,
A cliff, a fall,
A scratch, a lump,
It is nothing at all

It's the wind blowing free,
It's the end of the slope,
It's a beam, it's a void,
It's a hunch, it's a hope

And the river bank talks
of the waters of March,
It's the end of the strain,
The joy in your heart

The foot, the ground,
The flesh and the bone,
The beat of the road,
A slingshot's stone

A fish, a flash,
A silvery glow,
A fight, a bet,
The range of a bow

The bed of the well,
The end of the line,
The dismay in the face,
It's a loss, it's a find

A spear, a spike,
A point, a nail,
A drip, a drop,
The end of the tale

A truckload of bricks
in the soft morning light,
The shot of a gun
in the dead of the night

A mile, a must,
A thrust, a bump,
It's a girl, it's a rhyme,
It's a cold, it's the mumps

The plan of the house,
The body in bed,
And the car that got stuck,
It's the mud, it's the mud

Afloat, adrift,
A flight, a wing,
A hawk, a quail,
The promise of spring

And the riverbank talks
of the waters of March,
It's the promise of life
It's the joy in your heart

A stick, a stone,
It's the end of the road
It's the rest of a stump,
It's a little alone

A snake, a stick,
It is John, it is Joe,
It's a thorn in your hand
and a cut in your toe

A point, a grain,
A bee, a bite,
A blink, a buzzard,
A sudden stroke of night

A pin, a needle,
A sting, a pain,
A snail, a riddle,
A wasp, a stain

A pass in the mountains,
A horse and a mule,
In the distance the shelves
rode three shadows of blue

And the riverbank talks
of the waters of March,
It's the promise of life
in your heart, in your heart

A stick, a stone,
The end of the road,
The rest of a stump,
A lonesome road

A sliver of glass,
A life, the sun,
A knife, a death,
The end of the run

And the riverbank talks
of the waters of March,
It's the end of all strain,
It's the joy in your heart.

WHAT WILL CITIES OF THE FUTURE LOOK LIKE?

TECH AND FITNESS: Virtual meetups spark real fitnessBy Ashley Fantz

(CNN) -- Becki Coats was embarrassed, so embarrassed that she didn't want to show pictures of herself with her new grandchild.

"I couldn't stand thinking about people saying, 'Oh, my, what happened to you,'" she said. "Well, I'd become a fat, cuddly grandmother who cannot play with her own grandbaby, that's what."

Coats weighed 230 pounds. At 49, she was too heavy -- and sidelined with herniated disks and a bum knee -- to do her job as a firefighter, so her bosses gave her a desk job. But her physical pain was no match for the anguish to come when over the next year and a half her teenage son died in a car wreck, her mother died and she lost a friend to cancer.

"It was just constant bad news. I was told that if I didn't lose weight, I was going to lose my job entirely," she said.

Required to attend a work fitness program, Coats learned about Sparkpeople.com, a free fitness social networking site that, like Facebook, relies on its users to sustain it. They provide basic biographical information and weight loss goals and are automatically transferred to Spark Teams, small chat groups bound by similar shape-up goals.

The ad-supported site lets users build their own Sparkpages -- which can be linked to Facebook -- and have access to the lively written Sparkblog, which offers advice from certified trainers, the latest health articles and studies and recipes.

When Coats logged on she was connected with seven other women in a "40-something with 25 to 49 pounds to lose" message board. She quickly felt a kinship with these women she'd never met.

"They were talking about life -- jobs, husbands, their kids, traveling, getting to know each other like they were your girlfriends sitting at your kitchen table having coffee," she said. "It's not like you sign on and it's all about 'Drop that weight!'

"Here were women who are going to encourage me to get off my butt but weren't going to judge me if I didn't look like a swimsuit model in six months," she said.

Coats and several of the other women in her chat group met for the first time earlier this month to run the Surf City Marathon in Huntington Beach, California. Each ran a different distance, and they met at the finish line.

"It meant a lot to us to do this together, something that each of us never considered that we'd ever do," she said.

Spark was launched 10 years ago by a wealthy early eBay investor. It is among the best known secrets in the weight-loss world. According to Comscore, it's the most visited fitness site with 7 million users (162 million page views in January), but Spark has taken a low-key, word-of-mouth approach compared to its big bucks advertising competitors like Weight Watchers.

"Spark is built on a truth that people love feeling like they're needed on a team," said founder Chris Downie who, along with two business partners, sold his late 1990s online auction site to eBay for a reported $72 million and started Spark.

Downie spends much of his day in his Silicon Valley home messaging back and forth with Spark users or reading what people are talking about in the Sparkcafe. (On February 3, among the 798,784 cafe chatters, nearly 10,000 people were involved in a "Should you eat breakfast?" thread.)

"I always had shyness and anxiety as a kid, and I wanted to create something that would allow users to remain comfortably anonymous if they wanted but still connect," Downie said.

"The key to me is that I felt supported and not judged," said Jennifer Lang, an upstate New York psychotherapist who is part of the group. After having her fourth child at 41, Lang weighed 228 pounds.

"I had not exercised in 20 years," she said. "Really. In 20 years. It just wasn't a part of my life until it had to become my life or else."

She found Spark while surfing the Internet and joined other Spark groups, including the pointedly named "Mothers with 2-year-olds." She faithfully filled in her nutrition tracker every day, a function that not only automates calories but tells you when you type in "Dannon yogurt" what the heck's really in that container and whether it's really good for you. It also provides ideas for substitute meals. Spark's software won't allow someone to program a diet less than 1,200 calories a day.

A year later, Lang is 50 pounds lighter.

Stories like Lang's and Coats' are ubiquitous on Spark. CNN.com signed on to the site and messaged with several users who said they'd shed 5 to 100 pounds.

Many said they didn't even mind being sent the flurry of Spark e-mails they say didn't strike them as spam. A few examples: "Where to find the nearest running trail near your home" and "5 Ways to Avoid Hitting the Snooze." A hip and glute stretch video was short and direct, and another e-mail containing a low-cal recipe did not, like so many in its genre, produce food that tastes like cardboard.

As Lang got healthier, Tammy Rhones signed onto the women's chat group as "Marathon Mom," even though the 49-year-old's problems with weight and a clubbed foot sidelined her from most sports over the past few years.

"I never got past being that little girl who thought she couldn't run," she said, describing how she would watch Ironman competitions with amazement at the monster triathlon. A trainer told her about Sparkpeople.

Shortly after registering, Spark "woggers" (runners who walk) began sending her instant messages, motivating her to join a real-life running club to work on her foot. Months later, in a burst of extra motivation, Rhones completed a 2.4 mile ocean swimming competition and 150-mile bike ride. She also started competing in Spark's online 5K and 10K races where users post their real-life mileage. It might take a week, but in the virtual races, the first one to complete the total distance wins.

"I've always had a competitive side, but Spark has given me the chance to appreciate my successes as opposed to comparing myself to everyone else," Rhones said after running the half portion of the Surf City marathon. "I don't need to look at a magazine anymore and say, 'Oh I need to strive for that.' I'm a size 12, not a size 6, and I'm happy with that, that's OK."

MEDICAL TECH: Phones, paper 'chips' may fight diseaseBy John D. Sutter, CNN

(CNN) -- A chemistry professor at Harvard University is trying to shrink a medical laboratory onto a piece of paper that's the size of a fingerprint and costs about a penny.

George Whitesides has developed a prototype for paper "chip" technology that could be used in the developing world to cheaply diagnose deadly diseases such as HIV, malaria, tuberculosis, hepatitis and gastroenteritis.

The first products will be available in about a year, he said.

His efforts, which find their inspiration from the simple designs of comic books and computer chips, are surprisingly low-tech and cheap.

Patients put a drop of blood on one side of the slip of paper, and on the other appears a colorful pattern in the shape of a tree, which tells medical professionals whether the person is infected with certain diseases.

Water-repellent comic-book ink saturates several layers of paper, he said. The ink funnels a patient's blood into tree-like channels, where several layers of treated paper react with the blood to create diagnostic colors.

It's not entirely unlike a home pregnancy test, Whitesides said, but the chips are much smaller and cheaper, and they test for multiple diseases at once. They also show how severely a person is infected rather than producing only a positive-negative reading.


This pattern could tell medical professionals whether a person is infected with certain diseases.The paper chips are expected to be used in concert with mobile phones, which are exploding in popularity in the developing world.

Since people in remote parts of Africa and Asia often have to travel great distances by public transit or foot to reach a medical clinic, patients simply can take photos of the chips with cell phones and then send them to larger cities for diagnosis. And Whitesides said his group is also working with a cell phone maker to develop apps that would tell patients the results of their tests automatically if doctors aren't available.

"Doctors are as scarce a resource as money is," he said.

The tests may also be useful for highly contagious diseases such as hepatitis C, which require sick people to be quarantined to prevent further infection.

Watch Whitesides talk at the TED Conference

Whitesides' work, if successful, will bolster the argument that solutions to complicated problems often are found in simple, low-cost technologies.

From consumer electronics to medical equipment, a growing number of people seem to be searching for technologies that are cheap, reliable and even somewhat retro. Computer operating systems are being stripped of new features in favor of a simplified experience; basic devices such as the Flip cam seem more chic and popular than high-end video equipment.

The spiking costs of health care in the U.S. put pressure on doctors to perform expensive tests with high-end equipment only when necessary. And in the developing world, the medical community has realized there's not always electricity to power and doctors to manage high-tech medical clinics with rooms full of electronics and labs.

Cheap and reliable health care technologies are what the developing world and the Western world need, said Dr. Gaby Vercauteren, coordinator of diagnostics and laboratory technologies at the World Health Organization.

"Obviously smaller, easy to use, inexpensive technologies will find their way throughout the whole system and will provide better access to care to all those who need it," she said.

She said many medical diagnostic tests are too expensive for people in poorer areas of the world to afford. But they are the essential first step to health care.

"Today, many people don't get the necessary diagnosis that will lead to access to the right treatment because diagnostic tests and lab tests are, most of the time, out of pocket," she said. "People don't have the money to buy that. Therefore, often, diseases are not diagnosed or only diagnosed far too late."

Keith Herold, an associate professor of bioengineering at the University of Maryland, said Whitesides' ideas build on a branch of science that's trying to develop "lab-on-chip" technologies, which use credit-card size devices to perform laboratory analyses.

Whitesides' paper chips are much simpler than other lab-on-chip projects, many of which require intricate production methods and heavier materials such as glass and plastic. But simpler might be better in this case, he said.

"I think it's real. It can be very useful, but it's not the fanciest manifestation of lab on a chip by any means," he said. "If it works and it's cheap, it's good for everybody."

Still, Whitesides' paper tests could run into some pitfalls.

Vercauteren, of the WHO, said the paper may mold in humid, hot climates. And it's still important for people to get access to doctors so they know what to do about their diagnoses, she said.

She said its possible to conquer those challenges.

The first test, Whitesides said, will be designed to detect liver function, which is important for people with HIV and who are on some strong medications.

Class Notes from Wednesday

COMMON PROBLEMS WITH ASSIGNMENT #4

1. edit…sloppy editing is not tolerated.

2. possessive apostrophes

3. When you first mention an authority, use the first name at first mention and then only the last name after that.

4. plagiarism: the standard is simple:
3 words

The procedure for when you are caught plagiarizing.
Letter to Dean of Students, a hearing, possible dismissal from university.


5. commonly confused words: then/than effect/affect


Possessive Apostrophes:
The student’s performance suffered as a result of his incessant texting.
The new technology’s impact on surgery cannot be overstated.
The students ran to the library, their favorite place.
The library was the students’ favorite place.


Than
Than is a conjunction used in comparisons:
Louise is smarter than my cat.
English 110 is more important than you might think.
Is she taller than you?
Yes, she is taller than I.

Then
Then has numerous meanings.
1. At a point in time
I wasn't ready then.
Will you be home at noon? I'll call you then.

2. Next, afterward
I went to the store, and then to the bank
Do your homework and then go to bed

3. In addition, also, on top of that
He told me he was leaving, and then that I owed him money
It cost $5,000, and then there's tax too

4. In that case, therefore (often with "if")
If you want to go, then you'll have to finish your homework.
I'm hungry!
Then you should eat.


Affect
To have an influence on or effect a change in: Inflation affects the buying power of the dollar.
1. To act on the emotions of; touch or move.
2. To attack or infect, as a disease: Rheumatic fever can affect the heart.

Effect
1. Something brought about by a cause or agent; a result.
2. The power to produce an outcome or achieve a result; influence: The drug had an immediate effect on the pain. The government's action had no effect on the trade imbalance.
3. A scientific law, hypothesis, or phenomenon: the photovoltaic effect. |
4. Advantage; avail: used her words to great effect in influencing the jury.
5. The condition of being in full force or execution: a new regulation that goes into effect tomorrow.
6. Something that produces a specific impression or supports a general design or intention: The lighting effects emphasized the harsh atmosphere of the drama.
7. A particular impression: large windows that gave an effect of spaciousness.
8. Production of a desired impression: spent lavishly on dinner just for effect.
9. The basic or general meaning; import: He said he was greatly worried, or words to that effect.


Assignment #5: THE INTRODUCTION
Due Monday

Do not cite any sources in this. It is all your writing.

In addition to what we already said, there are two keys to writing a good introduction:


1. catch the reader’s attention.

There are many ways that technology has changed in recent years.
Cell phones have impacted students in various ways.
Technology has advanced rapidly in recent years.



2. THESIS:
This may not be the exact thesis you end up with, but you should start to formulate your idea, your big argument that will guide your whole essay. It states what you will prove!
--your thesis must be arguable.
--your thesis is your interpretation based on the ample reading you have done.

Thesis Statement Examples
Example of an analytical thesis statement:
An analysis of the college admission process reveals one challenge facing counselors: accepting students with high test scores or students with strong extracurricular backgrounds.

The paper that follows should:
• explain the analysis of the college admission process
• explain the challenge facing admissions counselors


The Gulf War was caused by many different forces.
(can you disagree?)


Mark Twain's Huckleberry Finn is a great American novel.
(can you disagree?)

HERE’S A GOOD EXAMPLE:

In historian Arthur Schlesinger, Jr.'s essay “The Crisis of American Masculinity,” Schlesinger writes the following:
What has happened to the American male? For a long time, he seemed utterly confident in his manhood, sure of his masculine role in society, easy and definite in his sense of sexual identity. The frontiersmen of James Fenimore Cooper, for example, never had any concern about masculinity; they were men, and it did not occur to them to think twice about it. Even well into the twentieth century, the heroes of Dreiser, of Fitzgerald, of Hemingway remain men. But one begins to detect a new theme emerging in some of these authors, especially in Hemingway: the theme of the male hero increasingly preoccupied with proving his virility to himself. And by mid-century, the male role had plainly lost its rugged clarity of outline. Today men are more and more conscious of maleness not as a fact but as a problem. The ways by which American men affirm their masculinity are uncertain and obscure. There are multiplying signs, indeed, that something has gone badly wrong with the American male's conception of himself.




How do you get your thesis statement to such a place?



If you start with this,

Texting technology has impacted students negatively.

The next move might be to narrow and be more specific, like this:

Texting is addictive, and this addiction is especially harmful to high school students.

You might then move to this:

The addictive nature of texting, coupled with its negative impact on high school students, should inspire the U.S. government to set an age limit on texting. No one under 21 should be allowed to text.

Assignment #5

Due 3/1
As usual, No lates accepted. Post it to tii by midnight of the same day.
Length: intro length--umm, maybe a long paragraph or two.

How to write a good introduction...

TAKE A STANCE. DO YOU AGREE OR DISAGREE WITH THE FOLLOWING STATEMENT? (by the way, don't look it up)

Chokochoko mchokoe pweza, binadamu hutamweza.

WHAT'S THE POINT? WHAT HAPPENS TO YOUR BRAIN AND YOUR WORLD WHEN YOU ENCOUNTER CONFUSION? WHAT HAPPENS WHEN YOU DON'T KNOW THE LANGUAGE? NOW RESPOND TO THAT.

What is this?

Like the bike?

Here's something that'll make you think twice before your next bike purchase -- the geniuses (genii?) at Yale University have built a pretty rad spokeless bicycle, which was somehow inspired by the lack of "pictures of a real spokeless bicycle online." Sure, strictly speaking it's just a half-done product due to time (one semester) and budget restraints, but that rear wheel -- driven by the pedals on its geared inner rim -- alone should be enough to make you gasp. Practical hipsters might even be able to fit an electric motor or some sort of container inside the wheel, although we're pretty content with the futuristic hollowness. Either way, the Yale grad who posted these photos is now available for hire, so pay him well and you can have it your way.

http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/17/yale-students-build-spokeless-bicycle-in-one-semester-now-looki/

Travel anyone?

If you could travel anywhere in the world, where would you go?

MLA CITATION FORMAT INFORMATION FROM CLASS TODAY

http://www.liu.edu/CWIS/CWP/library/workshop/citmla.htm

http://www.library.cornell.edu/resrch/citmanage/mla

http://www.aresearchguide.com/sampleworks.html


BY THE WAY, IF YOU HAVE QUESTIONS ABOUT MLA, POST THEM HERE.

COMMENTS?

CLASS CANCELLED ON MONDAY

What are you going to do with your Presidents' Day?

Chinese New Year

Did you know that this year Valentine's Day is on the lunar, or Chinese New Year?

Wild ER nESS

What comes to mind when you see this photo?

China: Large hacker training Web site shut down

WHAT DO YOU THINK OF A SCHOOL FOR COMPUTER HACKERS? IS IT THE MORAL EQUIVALENT O A SCHOOL TO TRAIN FOR BANK ROBBING?
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Washington (CNN) -- Police in China shut down what officials think was the largest training Web site for computer hackers, local media said.
The Black Hawk Safety Net offered lessons on cyber attacks and sold Trojan software, which allows outside access to a computer when remotely installed, media reports said.
Police arrested three people who ran the Web site and charged 100 to 200 yuan ($14 to $29) for lessons, the China Daily newspaper said.
Established in 2005, the site had recruited more than 12,000 paid and 170,000 free members and collected more than 7 million yuan ($1.02 million) in membership fees, the reports said.
Authorities were tipped off to its existence while investigating a cyber attack in 2007. Some suspects arrested in that case were members of Black Hawk.
The suspects in the Black Hawk case were arrested under a law revised last year in response to cyber crimes.
China says hackers caused 7.6 billion yuan ($1.02 billion) in losses in the country last year.
Last month, online search giant Google threatened to pull out of China, saying Chinese hackers had penetrated some of its services in a politically motivated attempt at intelligence gathering.
China's information information technology ministry called the accusations of government involvement "groundless."
The Chinese government has said that the Google case is a business dispute and should not affect relations between Beijing and Washington.
Last month, foreign correspondents in at least two Chinese bureaus of news organizations had their Google e-mail accounts attacked, with e-mails forwarded to a mysterious address, according to the Foreign Correspondents' Club of China.

http://www.cnn.com/2010/TECH/02/08/china.hackers/index.html?hpt=Sbin

Technology has changed the way we date and the way we break up.

HAS TECHNOLOGY CHANGED YOUR HABITS OF FRIENDSHIP OR DATING?

This is a radio story from NPR: http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=123501060





Gigi Quintana is a veteran of breaking hearts in the age of social networking. She recently parted ways with a girlfriend after dating for several months, and admits that putting an end to their online connection was just as difficult as the breakup itself.
Her Facebook status said "in a relationship," so she deleted it. But she didn't stop there.
More On Breakups

"I blocked her sister, I blocked everyone that knew her," Quintana says while on a smoke break from her coffee-shop job at Tryst in Washington, D.C. "And she is still friends with my friends, so I had to go to the extent of blocking her."
The cafe where Quintana works is full of people surfing the Web, and quite a few had an opinion about what it's like to break up when you're virtually tied to your ex by Twitter, Tumblr, LinkedIn, Delicious, MySpace, Flickr, Foursquare and Facebook.
Paul Monday, a blogger and avid social networker, says that if you stay socially networked to an ex, it's "basically like stabbing yourself in the heart again every four hours or something."
Monday has an ex-wife, an ex-fiancee and a 9-year-old son — and they're all on Facebook. But they're not all Facebook friends.
"It is sort of like getting hit with a bat to have an ex-fiancee and an ex-wife [and] myself all in this forum centered around my son," Monday says. "[It] was just, I think, too overwhelming for me."
Lee Rainie, the director of Pew's Internet and American Life Project, studies the way the Internet affects how people live and relate to one another.
"The absolutely tricky part about this is that it's very hard to unspool these relationships once they have begun without absolutely destroying the digital person that you have become," Rainie says.
Relationship advice guru Judith Martin, better known as Miss Manners, cautions people to think twice before they post online: "Don't go public with your so-called private life."
Martin says her daughter told her: "'You know George Orwell's 1984 has come about, but it's not them doing it to us, it's us doing it to ourselves. We're watching ourselves every minute and posting everything out there.' Change your password, folks, and don't go snooping around the Internet on purpose."
Kella Vangsness is trying to follow Miss Manners' old-school advice.
The 21-year-old college student recently broke up with her guy and decided to quit Facebook and Twitter altogether to speed up the healing process.
"I mean, I can't imagine life without it, but I've been off it for almost a week, and I'm doing fine," Vangsness says.
Long gone are the days when you could throw the ex's toothbrush in the trash and burn the shoebox of photo evidence of your once-happy coupledom.

ETHOS, PATHOS, LOGOS

Assignment 4: ethos logos

1 paragraph: typed
How will thinking about the three types of reasoning influence my final project?

The goal of argumentative writing is to persuade your audience that your ideas are valid, or more valid than someone else's. The Greek philosopher Aristotle divided the means of persuasion, appeals, into three categories: Ethos, Pathos, and Logos. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E9_amg-Aos4 hawaii chair
Ethos (Credibility), or ethical appeal, means convincing by the character of the author. We tend to believe people whom we respect. One of the central problems of argumentation is to project an impression to the reader that you are someone worth listening to, in other words making yourself as author into an authority on the subject of the paper, as well as someone who is likable and worthy of respect. Ethos is related to our word ethics or ethical, but a more accurate modern translation might be "image." Aristotle uses ethos to refer to the speaker's character as it appears to the audience.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MDUQW8LUMs8&NR=1
Pathos (Emotional) means persuading by appealing to the reader's emotions. We can look at texts ranging from classic essays to contemporary advertisements to see how pathos, emotional appeals, are used to persuade. Language choice affects the audience's emotional response, and emotional appeal can effectively be used to enhance an argument.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OKs-bTL-pRg
Logos (Logical) means persuading by the use of reasoning. This will be the most important technique we will study, and Aristotle's favorite. We'll look at deductive and inductive reasoning, and discuss what makes an effective, persuasive reason to back up your claims. Giving reasons is the heart of argumentation, and cannot be emphasized enough. We'll study the types of support you can use to substantiate your thesis, and look at some of the common logical fallacies, in order to avoid them in your writing. 1. Are they arguments based on definition? In other words, does the arguer make claims about the nature of things, about what terms mean, what features things have? 2. Does the arguer make analogies or comparisons? Does he or she cite parallel cases? 3. Are there appeals to cause and consequences? 4. Does the arguer rely on testimony or authority by citing the received opinions of experts?


My Dear Fellow Clergymen:
While confined here in Birmingham city jail, I came across your recent statement calling my present activities "unwise and untimely."...Since I feel that you are men of genuine good will and that your criticisms are sincerely set forth, I want to try to answer your statement in what I hope will be patient and reasonable in terms.
I think I should indicate why I am here in Birmingham, since you have been influenced by the view which argues against "outsiders coming in."...I, along with several members of my staff, am here because I was invited here. I am here because I have organizational ties here.
But more basically, I am in Birmingham because injustice is here. Just as the prophets of the eighth century B.C. left their villages and carried their "thus saith the Lord" far beyond the boundaries of their home towns, and just as the Apostle Paul left his village of Tarsus and carried the gospel of Jesus Christ to the far corners of the Greco-Roman world, so am I compelled to carry the gospel of freedom beyond my own home town. Like Paul, I must constantly respond to the Macedonian call for aid.
Martin Luther King, Jr. "Letter from Birmingham Jail"


For me, commentary on war zones at home and abroad begins and ends with personal reflections. A few years ago, while watching the news in Chicago, a local news story made a personal connection with me. The report concerned a teenager who had been shot because he had angered a group of his male peers. This act of violence caused me to recapture a memory from my own adolescence because of an instructive parallel in my own life with this boy who had been shot. When I was a teenager some thirty-five years ago in the New York metropolitan area, I wrote a regular column for my high school newspaper. One week, I wrote a column in which I made fun of the fraternities in my high school. As a result, I elicited the anger of some of the most aggressive teenagers in my high school. A couple of nights later, a car pulled up in front of my house, and the angry teenagers in the car dumped garbage on the lawn of my house as an act of revenge and intimidation.
James Garbarino "Children in a Violent World: A Metaphysical Perspective"



Let us begin with a simple proposition: What democracy requires is public debate, not information. Of course it needs information too, but the kind of information it needs can be generated only by vigorous popular debate. We do not know what we need to know until we ask the right questions, and we can identify the right questions only by subjecting our ideas about the world to the test of public controversy. Information, usually seen as the precondition of debate, is beter understood as its by product. When we get into arguments that focus and fully engage our attention, we become avid seekers of relevant information. Otherwise, we take in information passively--if we take it in at all.
Christopher Lasch, "The Lost Art of Political Argument"

WEBCAMS CAN SAVE LIVES!!!!

BERLIN – Watch the sunset, save a life.

A woman admiring the sunset on a tourist webcam in northern Germany spotted a man who was lost on the frozen North Sea and probably saved his life by alerting authorities, police said Wednesday.

The man had climbed over pack ice off the coast to photograph a sunset near the town of St. Peter-Ording, then became disoriented on the ice, Husum police spokeswoman Kristin Stielow said.

Unable to locate the beach, the man began using his camera to flash for help. That got the attention of a woman hundreds of miles (kilometers) away in southern Germany who was watching the sunset over the sea on her computer.

The woman contacted police, who located the man's signals and guided him into shore by flashing their car lights. Officers then lectured him on the dangers of trekking on the ice.

Police would not identify the man or the woman who spotted him. Stielow said he was a German tourist in his forties.

She said locals are well aware of the risk of disorientation as darkness falls and the beach becomes hard to identify, but vivid sunsets over frozen landscapes often draw people away from the shore.

At the time the man lost his bearings, the air temperature was below freezing. He could have frozen to death or fallen through the ice, Stielow added.

St. Peter-Ording is popular tourist destination known for its beaches and sailing, and the local tourism board runs a Web site with a webcam. The board, however, said images from the webcam are routinely erased and the dramatic flashes from the man's camera were not saved before the story came to light.

Technology and Bulletproof Fabric?

Check out this link...

http://www.cnn.com/2010/WORLD/americas/02/01/bogota.bulletproof.tailor/index.html?hpt=C1

Gilbert Arenas and Gun Culture

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Gilbert Arenas: Learning to be a better role model
By Gilbert Arenas
Tuesday, February 2, 2010; A17
The Post suggested on Dec. 31 that I send a message to young fans "about guns being neither glamorous nor desirable." I am grateful for the opportunity to do something good in the face of the very bad situation I created.
I have done a number of things wrong recently. I violated D.C. gun laws and the NBA's ban on firearms on league property, and I damaged the image of the NBA and its players. I reacted badly to the aftermath and made fun of inaccurate media reports, which looked as though I was making light of a serious situation. And I gave Commissioner David Stern good reason to suspend me from the game, which put my teammates in a tough position and let down our fans and Mrs. Irene Pollin, the widow of longtime Wizards owner Abe Pollin.
I understand the importance of teaching nonviolence to kids in today's world. Guns and violence are serious problems, not joking matters -- a lesson that's been brought home to me over the past few weeks. I thought about this when I pleaded guilty as charged in court and when I accepted my NBA suspension without challenge.
That message of nonviolence will be front and center as I try to rebuild my relationship with young people in the D.C. area. I know that won't happen overnight, and that it will happen only if I show through my actions that I am truly sorry and have learned from my mistakes. If I do that, then hopefully youngsters will learn from the serious mistakes I made with guns and not make any of their own.
I am trying hard to right my wrongs. The one that will be hardest to make right is the effect my actions have had on kids who see NBA players as role models. Professional athletes have a duty to act responsibly and to understand the influence we have on all those kids who look up to us. I failed to live up to that responsibility when I broke the law and set such a bad example. Washington's children, parents and fans all deserve better from me, especially after all the kindness they've shown me over the years.
While I regret a lot about this incident, letting the kids down is my biggest regret. I love the time I spend with the kids here in the District, and it means a lot to me whenever I can help lift their spirits or inspire them, especially kids who have difficult lives.
Last Tuesday, I wrote a letter to students in D.C. schools that was also about owning up to my mistakes. I said that I lost sight of the lesson I learned from Abe Pollin about how the responsibility to be a good role model comes along with the opportunity he gave me. I reiterate now the pledge I made to those students: that this is a responsibility I am not going to walk away from, that I will choose more wisely in the future and do my best to help guide children into brighter futures.
There have been few bright spots for me these past few weeks. But one came the night I played my last game this season at Verizon Center. I saw young fans were still showing up wearing my jersey. That meant more to me than I can say.
The relationship I have with young fans is very important to me. I realize now how easily I can damage it. I have to earn that respect and work to deserve it each and every day. I plan to do that work by partnering with public officials and community groups to teach kids to avoid trouble and learn from their mistakes, to strive for success by working hard and persevering, and to try to make the right choices.
Some people may not forgive me for what I've done. But if I help steer even just one young person away from violence and trouble, then I'll once again feel that I'm living up to Abe Pollin's legacy and to the responsibility I owe the kids of the District.

The writer, a guard for the Washington Wizards, was suspended last month without pay for the rest of the season.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/02/01/AR2010020102795_pf.html

HOMEWORK READING!

AS YOU READ, HAVE AN OPINION...SHOULD WE GO BACK TO THE MOON OR NOT?

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(CNN) -- American astronauts will not return to the moon as planned if Congress passes President Obama's proposed budget.
Obama's budget -- which aims to tighten the nation's purse strings in certain areas while increasing money used to create jobs -- would cancel NASA's Constellation Program, which had sought to send astronauts back to the moon by 2020.
Constellation alsointended to study the idea of establishing a moon colony. The program was set to follow the U.S. space agency's shuttle missions, which are due to end in September.
On its Web site, the White House Budget Office says the program to send astronauts to the moon is behind schedule, over budget and overall less important than other space investments.
"Using a broad range of criteria, an independent review panel determined that even if fully funded, NASA's program to repeat many of the achievements of the Apollo era, 50 years later, was the least attractive approach to space exploration as compared to potential alternatives," the site says.
"Furthermore, NASA's attempts to pursue its moon goals, while inadequate to that task, had drawn funding away from other NASA programs, including robotic space exploration, science, and Earth observations."
Overall, Obama's proposed budget increases the National Aeronautics and Space Administration's budget by $6 billion over the next five years. The president's budget would give NASA a $19 billion budget in 2011, compared to its $18.3 billion budget this year.

Congress has to approve the federal budget, and a final ruling may not happen for months.
The budget changes will not prevent NASA from returning astronauts to the moon and exploring the rest of the solar system, NASA Administrator Charlie Bolden said in a conference call with reporters on Monday.
"Imagine trips to Mars that take weeks instead of nearly a year; people fanning out across the inner solar system, exploring the Moon, asteroids and Mars nearly simultaneously in a steady stream of firsts ... That is what the president's plan for NASA will enable, once we develop the new capabilities to make it a reality," Bolden said.
The NASA administrator emphasized the fact that the president's budget would increase NASA funding overall and said the Constellation program was behind schedule and over-budget anyway.
"The truth is we were not on a sustainable path to get back to the moon's surface, and as we focused most of our efforts and funding on getting back to the moon we were neglecting investment in key technologies to get us beyond," he said.
Sen. Bill Nelson, a Democrat from Florida, criticized the president for slashing NASA's moon-mission program from his suggested budget.
The move could cause the U.S. to fall behind other countries in space exploration, he said.
"If they don't push hard now for research and development of the new big rocket that'll take us out of low-Earth orbit and let us explore the heavens, then we are going to be falling behind China and Russia, and that's something I don't think will sit well with the American people," he said in an interview with CNN.
Louis Friedman, executive director of The Planetary Society, called that assertion "ridiculous," and said he's hopeful the end of Constellation would lead to the U.S. returning to the moon more quickly.
Friedman believes that Constellation is a flawed and bloated program, which should be replaced with a new program that would get the U.S. back to the moon more efficiently.
Constellation was behind schedule, and a new program offers a fresh start and puts needed emphasis on space exploration beyond the moon, he said.
"I think the Constellation program probably fell on its own weight as opposed to any major policy change," he said.
Others questioned what will happen to the money NASA has already spent on its program to return to the moon.
"I think that some of the things they're working on could be used regardless of what the program is," said John Pike, director of GlobalSecurity.org and a space policy expert. "Some of it however, I think is just going to end up on the cutting room floor."
About $250 million in federal stimulus money has paid for investments in the Constellation Program, according to a CNN report. NASA's current budget gives Constellation $3.47 billion in funding, according to the White House Budget Office.
NASA says the Constellation research and technology would be useful in other space endeavors.
NASA first sent astronauts to the moon in 1969, and the space agency's Apollo program sent astronauts to the moon at total of six times.

CNN's John Couwels and John Zarrella contributed to this report.
http://www.cnn.com/2010/TECH/space/02/01/nasa.budget.moon/index.html

What words come to mind when you see these two photos? Do you think of the second picture differently because of the seal?

And here's the second image...

...repeat after me, fish are friends, not food...name that movie...

LITERATURE REVIEW:

10% Due 2/19

3-4 pages, double spaced

8 Sources is the minimum for this essay. There should be a variety of sources, but the exact types of sources will be determined by your essay topic.

You must cite this paper in proper MLA format. We will go over this format in class.

This will also be turned into turnitin.com.

WHAT IS A LITERATURE REVIEW?
It is a summary and synthesis of the arguments within a particular field. The purpose of this assignment is to inform the reader of what has already been written in a field and to assess that writing. The literature review both describes and evaluates the available research in a given field. You will need to discuss the key literature in the field you are researching.
A key component of this exercise is the critique of the sources you are considering. Be sure to judge the worth of the source. This will be easier once you have read more in the field. You should begin noticing that some of the sources you consider seem more valid than others. You should start to see the better arguments and better evidence rise to the top.

HOW WILL THIS ESSAY BE ORGANIZED?
This essay will have an introduction that contains your research question.
This essay will then be broken into paragraphs based on the themes you find while researching.
One key to doing well on this assignment is to find a focus for your literature review rather than just turning it into a list. If it is a list, it will fail. As you read in your field, begin to make categories, not by type of literature (book, govt. document, magazine) but by the themes that you are reading about.
The conclusion to your literature review SHOULD make a summary of where the research in this field has been so far and MUST make clear where your research and thesis fit into the field as a whole.

Who's your pick? The Saints of the Other Team(just kidding, the Colts)?

What's your caption for these photos?

MAJOR NEWSFLASH!!! CLASSROOM CHANGE!!!

Henceforth, our Mon and Wed classes will meet in Classroom Building Room 105.
See you there on Friday!

Text and Comics

If you see other comic strips about tech issues, email them to me and I'll add them here.

Hmmm, makes you wonder, yes?

The scientist Richard Dawkins says we must "shake off the anesthetic of familiarity." What on earth could that mean?

READING FOR IN CLASS ESSAY: Doggie Cam

Let's admit it, our dogs are our children with less backtalk. Our own personal canines are always glad to see us, we don't have to worry about their friends or more importantly who they marry, unless of course we're breeders, then we care a lot.
That being said watching your dog on the web while you're at work seems like a no brainer for entertainment. After all if parents installed nanny cam to make sure the babysitter wasn't ignoring or worse, beating up on the kids, then why wouldn't any caring pet owner want to make sure Fido or Fifi is safe and sound at the doggie day care center.
This brings me to a recent encounter with dog owner Alfonso Quirzo. He reluctantly leaves Bruno, a 9-month-old Brussels Griffon at The Paw Stop each day before work in lower Manhattan. Believe me, this is no dive; there is air-conditioning, a doggie play set, even a television in the communal room. And there are two of those, one for little bitty dogs and another for the big ones.
What makes this place special, though not as special as a few years ago when there were fewer of them with a web cam set up, is the internet connection allowing pet owners to view their little dears.
Staffer Michelle Areton says clients really like to log on to the store's website and watch the doggie doin's during the day. "They come in to pick up their dogs at the end of the day and may remark, 'I couldn't see him or her on the camera. I guess he was out of range,'" quips Michelle. Blake Wallizer, President of Denver based onlinedoggie.com says use of such cameras and online streaming are becoming a necessity for pet care providers rather than a luxury feature. Wallizer's company supplies and services such doggie cam owners. "People want to know that their canine incarcerated at a care center for most of the day is actually enjoying a healthy experience," he says.
Of course, the dogs don't know they're on camera and their beloved owner can peek in at any time. The four-footed woofers just go about the business of acting like dogs. When Alfonso remarked that he learned a lot about Bruno that he didn't know before because of watching on the web cam, I only wondered how much do you really need to know about a dog? After all, your best friend doesn't have to declare a major, write a job description, or even fill a sale quota. The critter just has to lick your face when you come home and not remind you of all the things you screwed up for the day.
What owners like Alonso really seems to want is a connection with that little creature that warms your heart, makes you smile and feel loved and valued. "I got to see the lady dog he was focused on," says Alonso. If he wasn't able to observe over the web, he might never have known Bruno had a crush. It may seem kind of silly to a non-pet owner, but it's doggone powerful stuff when it's your dog and you're away from it a lot.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/roseanne-colletti/doggie-cam_b_299180.html

Padded Poles

Did you know there were 16,000 trips to the emergency room last year from people who ran into something while texting?

Communally Written Restaurant Reviews

Post your reviews here:

Calif. man shoots his way out of sinking SUV

NOTICE WHAT CAUSES THIS ACCIDENT?


ROSEVILLE, Calif. – A driver whose SUV plunged into a Northern California creek after he was startled by his hands-free cell phone device escaped the sinking vehicle by blasting out the window with a handgun. The 28-year-old man, whose name wasn't immediately available, is an armed security guard at Thunder Valley Casino, north of Sacramento. He sustained minor injuries in Sunday's accident.
A spokesman for the Roseville Fire Department said the man was traveling northbound on Industrial Avenue in Roseville when the cell phone device activated. The driver was startled and veered off the road through the guardrail. The SUV landed in Pleasant Grove Creek.
He used his gun to shoot himself out, then flagged down a passerby.

This is from yahoo news.

Body Scanners: Ethical or Not?

How much individual freedom or comfort would you give up to be safe from terrorists?

TECHNOLOGY IDEAS

How about this? What impact has gps had on people's ability to find addresses or other places? What impact has the address book in our cellphones had on our memory of numbers? Before cell phones, I used to remember many more telephone numbers.
How have new technologies impacted giving and relief? With the Haiti earthquake, you can text a number that will automatically make a donation to the Red Cross.
With all of this, are people more connected to each other, more sympathetic and closer together, or are the devices and so called advances having another effect on who we are?
Do you have questions or ideas about the impact of technology? Have you ever been lost because you used Mapquest and it sent you the wrong way? Do you think people have less knowledge of directions because of such locational devices?
Is there too much information now? What does information overload do to the human mind and to social relations?
Do you use Skype? Has it brought families closer?
The role of computers in movies: there's often a villain now who is a thinking computer...think about Terminator or the Matrix. On that same note, look at how different Star Wars is from current CGI films.
How has DNA changed criminology?

Assignment #3

3. ASSIGNMENT #3We now get to begin thinking about the final project for this course. Assignment 3 is the research proposal, another short assignment, around two pages, in which you state what you will study, and why you are interested in that. Hence, you should start to search for a topic within that greater framework of the course that interests you. To that end, begin reading the selections I have posted on the blog under “Good Readings on technology” The big theme you need to begin to consider for a larger, 8 to 10 page paper is this: What is the overall impact of modern technologies on human society?

Assignment #2

A. 2 pages, double-spaced, typed
B. Due Wednesday: start of class, typed,
C. submit to turnitin by Wednesday night
WHAT IS THE ASSIGNMENT? Your assignment is to analyze the data. Make these lifeless numbers meaningful.

Look at the results from the experiments conducted by you or your classmates. You may use an individual experiment, two experiments, or all of the experiments. That is up to you. What is crucial is that you understand very clearly right now, you must do very little description. The whole point of this assignment is to test your analytical abilities. How well can you take facts and say what they mean? Make an argument! Find meaning!

RAW DATA

EXPERIMENT 1=TOGO'S VS. RUNNER CAFE

39 CHOSE RUNNER CAFE DUE TO VARIETY

21 CHOSE TOGOS DUE TO FOOD

(MANY SAID TOGO'S HEALTHIER)

EXPERIMENT 2=PREFERABLE STUDY FLOOR

3RD FLOOR=11 SAID 1ST FLOOR WITH STUDY ROOMS

6 SAID COMPANY, MORE PEOPLE ON 3RD FLOOR

3 SAID NO IDEA

4TH FLOOR=14 SAID QUIETER

4 SAID LIKED THE VIEW

2 SAID STUDY ROOMS FULL

EXPERIMENT 3=RAMP VS. STAIRS

STAIRS=16  8 MEN 8 WOMEN

LOCATION OF STAIRS DETERMINED CHOICE

RAMP=25   16 MALES 9 FEMALES

LOCATION DETERMINED CHOICE

EXPERIMENT 4=DOUBLE SURVEY STUDY

"WOULD YOU TAKE THIS SURVEY?"

REC CENTER, RUNNER CAFE, PARKING LOT, DDH

26 PEOPLE SAID YES   10 MEN 16 FEMALE

MAJORITY: BECAUSE ASKED POLITELY AND HAD TIME

14 SAID NO   9 MEN 5 WOMEN

MAJORITY: NO TIME, LATE FOR CLASS

EXPERIMENT 5=DRESS PREFERENCE

24 SAID DRESS FOR STYLE

16 COMFORT, ESPECIALLY IN WINTER BECAUSE IT'S COLDER

MAY BE DETERMINED BY SEASON BECAUSE OF COLD

EXPERIMENT 6=ON OR OFF CAMPUS (STUDYING)

40 STUDY ON CAMPUS DUE TO CONVENIENCE, FEWER DISTRACTIONS

38 OFF CAMPUS

CONVENIENCE (FRIDGE EFFECT)

READINGS ON TECHNOLOGY

I've started a list of readings that will surely spark some thoughts and get you to consider the ways that tech impacts human behavior.

http://www.wired.com/science/discoveries/news/2000/03/34526 This article is about "Fiddling With Human Behavior."

http://searchengineland.com/the-impact-of-the-internet-on-human-behavior-20921 This article is about the impact of the internet on human behavior.

http://www.theatlantic.com/doc/200807/google
Is Google making us stupid? Great article!

http://www.unh.edu/news/docs/UNHsocialmedia.pdf
SOCIAL NETWORKING USAGE AND GRADES AMONG COLLEGE STUDENTS: A Study to Determine the Correlation Of Social Media Usage and Grades

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/northamerica/usa/6070486/US-doctor-offers-British-couples-chance-to-choose-sex-of-child.html
US doctor offers British couples chance to choose sex of child

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/23600001/ns/technology_and_science-wireless/
"Lose cell phone, get cast away from societyIn wireless world, living without a mobile like living on a desert island."

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/education/schools/dont-knock-blogging-ndash-its-the-answer-to-our-literacy-problems-1832593.html
"Don't knock blogging – it's the answer to our literacy problems"

http://pewresearch.org/pubs/216/cell-phone-society
"Cell Phone Society: Many Americans now can't live without them - but sometimes they can't live with them."

http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2005/03/28/earlyshow/living/main683377.shtml
Cell Phone Saturation

http://www.associatedcontent.com/article/117976/cell_phone_use_in_polite_society.html
"A Psychological Revelation About What Happens when You Use Your Cell Phone."

http://www.computerworld.com/s/article/338079/Texting_Rules_
Opinion: The business benefits of texting

http://www.emissourian.com/site/news.cfm?newsid=20399730&BRD=1409&PAG=461&dept_id=616938&rfi=6
Study: Texting Could Benefit Language Skills

http://www.thefutureoffood.com/
Food engineering.

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748704538404574539910412824756.html
"Chicago's Camera Network Is Everywhere:
Extensive Surveillance System Integrates Nonpolice Video, Raises Concerns About Possible Privacy Abuses."

http://voices.washingtonpost.com/behind-the-numbers/2007/07/surveillance_cameras_fighting_1.html
"Surveillance Cameras: Fighting Crime or Invading Privacy?"

http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=4851765
NPR story about Drones being flown over Afghanistan remotely, by pilots who are in rooms outside of Las Vegas, at Nellis AF Base.

http://www.macobserver.com/tmo/article/Wired_News_How_Does_The_iPod_Affect_Society/
Wired News: How Does The iPod Affect Society?

http://healthcare.change.org/blog/view/top_medical_breakthroughs_to_start_2010
"Top Medical Breakthroughs to Start 2010"