A land ethic is a philosophy or theoretical framework about how, ethically, humans should regard the land. The term was coined by Aldo Leopold (1887–1948) in his A Sand County Almanac (1949), a classic text of the environmental movement. There he argues that there is a critical need for a "new ethic", an "ethic dealing with human's relation to land and to the animals and plants which grow upon it" https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Land_ethic

The public trust doctrine is the principle that the sovereign holds in trust for public use some resources such as shoreline between the high and low tide lines, regardless of private property ownership.[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Public_trust_doctrine

Participatory economics, often abbreviated ParEcon, is an economic system based on participatory decision making as the primary economic mechanism for allocation in society. In the system, the say in decision-making is proportional to the impact on a person or group of people. Participatory economics is a form of socialist decentralized planned economy involving the common ownership of the means of production. It is a proposed alternative to contemporary capitalism and centralized planning. This economic model is primarily associated with political theorist Michael Albert and economist Robin Hahnel, who describe participatory economics as an anarchist economic vision.[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Participatory_economics

The Paris Agreement (French: l'accord de Paris)[3] is an agreement within the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC), dealing with greenhouse-gas-emissions mitigation, adaptation, and finance, signed in 2016. The agreement's language was negotiated by representatives of 196 state parties at the 21st Conference of the Parties of the UNFCCC in Le Bourget, near Paris, France, and adopted by consensus on 12 December 2015.[4][5] As of February 2020, all 196 members of the UNFCCC have signed the agreement and 189 have become party to it.[1] Of the seven countries which are not party to the law, the only significant emitters are Iran and Turkey. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paris_Agreement

Kerala (/ˈkɛrələ/ (About this soundlisten)) is a state on the southwestern Malabar Coast of India. It was formed on 1 November 1956, following the passage of the States Reorganisation Act, by combining Malayalam-speaking regions of the erstwhile states of Travancore-Cochin and Madras. Spread over 38,863 km2 (15,005 sq mi), Kerala is the twenty-first largest Indian state by area. It is bordered by Karnataka to the north and northeast, Tamil Nadu to the east and south, and the Lakshadweep Sea[13] to the west. With 33,387,677 inhabitants as per the 2011 Census, Kerala is the thirteenth-largest Indian state by population. It is divided into 14 districts with the capital being Thiruvananthapuram. Malayalam is the most widely spoken language and is also the official language of the state. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kerala

Emilia-Romagna (pronounced [eˈmiːlja roˈmaɲɲa], Emilian: Emélia-Rumâgna, Romagnol: Emélia-Rumâgna) is an administrative Region of Northern Italy, comprising the historical regions of Emilia and Romagna. Its capital is Bologna. It has an area of 22,446 km2 (8,666 sq mi), and about 4.4 million inhabitants. Emilia-Romagna is one of the wealthiest and most developed regions in Europe, with the third highest GDP per capita in Italy.[3] Bologna, its capital, has one of Italy's highest quality of life indices[4] and advanced social services. Emilia-Romagna is also a cultural and tourist centre, being the home of the University of Bologna, the oldest university in the world,[5] containing Romanesque and Renaissance cities (such as Modena, Parma and Ferrara), being a centre for food and automobile production (home of automotive companies such as Ferrari, Lamborghini, Maserati, Pagani, De Tomaso and Ducati) and having popular coastal resorts such as Rimini and Riccione. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emilia-Romagna

Dave Pollard writes a Persona describing the life of a Teenager in 2015 (born 2002). Independent Study (Educating Kids), CoOp project (One Man Show), PKM, Collaboration Ware. It's 2015. Thirteen-year-old Kari Ross just got a PTV for her birthday, the much-anticipated PC/TV convergence product. How To Raise Reality Hackers

The Clash of Civilizations is a thesis that people's cultural and religious identities will be the primary source of conflict in the post-Cold War world. The American political scientist Samuel Huntington argued that future wars would be fought not between countries, but between cultures. It was proposed in a 1992 lecture at the American Enterprise Institute, which was then developed in a 1993 Foreign Affairs article titled "The Clash of Civilizations?",[1] in response to his former student Francis Fukuyama's 1992 book, The End of History and the Last Man. Huntington later expanded his thesis in a 1996 book The Clash of Civilizations and the Remaking of World Order. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clash_of_Civilizations aka Culture War?

Samuel Huntington on "the Hispanic Challenge". The persistent inflow of Hispanic immigrants threatens to divide the United States into two peoples, two cultures, and two languages. Unlike past immigrant groups, Mexicans and other Latinos have not assimilated into mainstream U.S. culture, forming instead their own political and linguistic enclaves - from Los Angeles to Miami - and rejecting the Anglo-Protestant values that built the American dream. The United States ignores this challenge at its peril.

Information integration theory was proposed by Norman H. Anderson to describe and model how a person integrates information from a number of sources in order to make an overall judgment (cognitive science). The theory proposes three functions. The valuation function is an empirically derived mapping of stimuli to an interval scale. It is unique up to an interval exchange transformation. The integration function is an algebraic function combining the subjective values of the information. "Cognitive algebra" refers to the class of functions that are used to model the integration process. They may be adding, averaging, weighted averaging, multiplying, etc. The response production function is the process by which the internal impression is translated into an overt response. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Information_integration_theory

Jack Park deck on federated Knowledge Gardening. (cf Digital Garden). Nice example of two people's unrelated posts about a shared subject ("Free Radicals") get connected (by a human) by both referring to that Tag (WikiWordAsTag, Shared Vocabulary). (more)

Starseed: the neuro era. A brand new Robert Anton Wilson book is now available... takes you straight back, 45 years, to the barbarous incarceration of Dr Tim Leary. The Starseed Signals. (more)

Ben Hunt: Many People Say. (more)

Rusty Guinn: The Mountain and the Molehill. (more)

Ben Hunt: Why Am I Reading This Now? Game of Thrones’ creators David Benioff and D.B. Weiss are set to adapt the hit book Three Body Problem trilogy for Netflix. The Senators’ accuse the streamer of “normalizing” China’s extra-judicial detention of over one million Muslims in Xinjiang, referencing past comments from the books’ author Liu Cixin supporting the program. (more)

Ben Hunt: Hollow Men, Hollow Markets, Hollow World. I don’t think it’s possible to organize mass society (BigWorld) in a non-hollow fashion without doing something about the “mass” part. (more)

Tiago Forte: Knowledge Building Blocks: The New Meaning of Notes. Now that our notes are digital, they can become durable. They can last for the long term, supporting our long-term goals and ambitions without relying on our fragile memory. (more)

Ben Hunt: Oh No, Here It Comes Again, That Funny Feeling. Three weeks ago, I didn’t see a narrative path for Donald Trump to win a turnout-based election hinging on four or five swing states. Today I do. (more)

Anne-Laure LeCunff Interview: on Collective intelligence with SciHub's Alexandra Elbakyan. Sci-Hub, a website that provides free access to millions of research papers and books/ (more)

Ben Hunt: Scapegoating the Zeitgeist. Shale Companies Had Lousy Returns. Their CEOs Got Paid Anyway. (Wall Street Journal) (more)