Month: August 2019

  • The El Paso Shooting and Video Games as a Partisan Issue – The Atlantic

    Ferguson insisted that the debate about video-game violence will live on as long as there are video games to play and researchers to study them. “But the evidence is very clear that there’s not a relationship between violent video games and violence in society. There’s not evidence of a correlation, let alone a causation,” he…

  • Violent video game engagement is not associated with adolescents’ aggressive behaviour: evidence from a registered report | Royal Society Open Science

    Abstract In this study, we investigated the extent to which adolescents who spend time playing violent video games exhibit higher levels of aggressive behaviour when compared with those who do not. A large sample of British adolescent participants (n= 1004) aged 14 and 15 years and an equal number of their carers were interviewed. Young…

  • Play

    Co-housing facilitates the interaction among neighbors, providing social, practical, economic and environmental benefits. Co-housing communities build social capital – and encourages more sustainable and fun behaviors. The simple act of eating together on a regular basis is a strong catalyst: As architect and founder of the Seattle Schemata Cohousing Project, Grace Kim says: (FastCompany, 2017):…

  • How to run a small social network site for your friends

    Since August 2018 I have run a social network site called Friend Camp for about 50 of my friends. I think Friend Camp is a really nice place, and my friends seem to agree that it has enriched our lives. I’d like to see more places like Friend Camp on the internet, and this document…

  • ¿El Museo de Arte del Tolima cerrará sus puertas? | El Nuevo Día

    La gente quiere el Museo, pero la empresa privada tampoco apoya con recursos, patrocinio de salas, o como amigo del Museo. Aunque artistas, galeristas, curadores y visitantes se impresionan gratamente por sus instalaciones, después de dieciséis años de trabajo, el Museo aún no tiene un presupuesto fijo, como sí lo tiene el Panóptico. Source: ¿El…

  • Immigrant Freedom Fund Helps Aurora Facility Detainees Bond Out | Westword

    “Our assumption was that by bonding out one person at a time, we could make a difference in each person’s life,” says Liefert. “Soon we realized that we were making a difference not only in the lives of each person that we bonded out, but in the lives of their families and communities.” Source: Immigrant…

  • Intergenerational Trauma Animation – YouTube

    This video on Intergenerational Trauma was shared with me by a former student upon seeing my post on FB about feeling wrecked by the news of the mass shooting at El Paso Texas yesterday, 2019 08 03. It’s a lovely bit of story telling and it points a direction towards healing. My partner has noted…

  • Deaths by Border Patrol – Southern Border Communities Coalition

    Source: Deaths by Border Patrol – Southern Border Communities Coalition I’m placing this here so that I can track it later. It relates to our games, Crosser and La Migra.

  • BORDERWALL AS ARCHITECTURE

    Source: BORDERWALL AS ARCHITECTURE The book and its drawings date from circa 2016. The actualization of the teeter-totter occurred in late July of 2019. The subsequent photos and videos documenting the action/intervention in ANAPRA, near Ciudad Juarez / El Paso, have gone viral. The author, Ronald Rael, is a professor of architecture at UC Berkeley.…

  • Why Growing Food is The Single Most Impactful Thing You Can Do in a Corrupt Political System

    -Undermines Monsanto and the agro-chemical industry that is polluting our world and killing bees -Highlights issues of political control by pitting homeowners and gardeners against government and ordinance makers -Builds and heals community by providing a place and activity worth coming together over Source: Why Growing Food is The Single Most Impactful Thing You Can…