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Summarizing “Hamlet’s BlackBerry: Building a Good Life in the Digital Age” (part 1)

At the end of my October 9th, 2012, post on the growing trend of “going it alone,” I mentioned William Powers’ 2010 book Hamlet’s BlackBerry: Building a Good Life in the Digital Age, and suggested that Powers’ book contained good information on how to appropriately approach the growing analog–digital divide. Simply, face-to-face relationships would be on […]

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GRANT UPDATE: Lakota: The Revitalization of Language and the Persistence of Spirit

Lakota: The Revitalization of Language and the Persistence of Spirit. Monday, 08 October 2012By Jason Coppola, Truthout | News Analysis Back in July, 2012, our Foundation made a $5,000 grant to the Lakota Language Consortium. The Consortium is centrally about preserving and promoting the Lakota Language. I just ran across the above article by Jason Coppola […]

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COMMENT: Living Alone: The Rise of Capitalism and the Decline of Families

Living Alone: The Rise of Capitalism and the Decline of Families. Wednesday, 03 October 2012 By Harriet Fraad, Truthout | Book Review In this blog post I’d like to comment on Harriet Fraad’s Truthout.org article Living Alone: The Rise of Capitalism and the Decline of Families. Fraad’s article is actually a summary article in which she […]

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TRUER WORDS: Evolution Is Blind But Fiercely Focused

As I have written and blogged about many times, our Foundation was (and continues to be) greatly influenced by an article that appeared in the Winter 2004 issue of the Stanford Social Innovation Review (SSIR). The article is entitled Leading Boldly: Foundations Can Move Past Traditional Approaches To Create Social Change Through Imaginative—And Even Controversial—Leadership. […]

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COMMENT: Mystery of How Social Isolation Messes with Brain Solved | LiveScience

Mystery of How Social Isolation Messes with Brain Solved | LiveScience. by Stephanie Pappas – LiveScience Senior Writer – September 13, 2012 Just a few comments and observations on the above LiveScience article by Stephanie Pappas. I found this article interesting because in many ways it describes research that is, in effect, replicating the controversial […]

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