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TED Talk Subtitles and Transcript: Today, a single email can launch a worldwide movement. But as sociologist Zeynep Tufekci suggests, even though online activism is easy to grow, it often doesn't last. Why? She compares modern movements -- Gezi, Ukraine, Hong Kong -- to the civil rights movement of the 1960s, and uncovers a surprising benefit of organizing protest movements the way it happened before Twitter.

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Late on the evening of January 6, nine women and one trans individual met at a union space in Northeast Portland to call out a well-known local activist for being, in their consideration, a wolf in sheep's clothing. They were about to share with four dozen strangers highly personal stories of sexual and emotional abuse that inspired shame and rage. Some had seen each other at activist rallies or on Bike Swarm trips around Portland, though only a few had formally met beforehand. Despite this, they had a common denominator: The same self-proclaimed male feminist had abused them, and they wanted to make sure it wouldn't happen to anyone else.

Are we educating each other or just scoring points from our swivel chairs?

If a handful of time-travelling activists from our own era were somehow transported into a leftist political meeting in 1970, would they even be able to make themselves understood? They might begin...

Part 3 Call outs and claiming easy victories

Pull up a chair. I have a story to tell. A former colleague of mine posts this on Facebook. Makes you wanna give it an eyeroll or two, right? There is nothing in this critique that one can use to o...

I have had the opportunity to meet a lot of engineers in my days here at an engineering school. A couple years back, a friend of mine who is also an academic was visiting from her institution. (I h...

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Jeffrey Travers; Stanley Milgram 1969

In this page we try to intuitively understand the concepts of limits and continuity. The basic ideas presented here form the foundation of a deep understanding of calculus.

I do like the contrast between my salon article and the monte-cristo sandwich though.

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