Life of Alan

• "Obama - The WorldBeat Album" [Calabash]
  One of the most exciting and progressive aspects of Senator Barack Obama's candidacy is the incredibly wide range of people he continues to energize and inspire. He has become a true world figure now. One way this can be seen is in the music Obama is inspiring globally. Here is a sampling of some of the tastiest worldbeat music currently being produced as tributes to the hope Barack Obama is bringing to people everywhere.
  (tags: 2008_Candidates)
• "A Simple Plan to ID Every Creature on Earth" [Wired]
  (tags: Biology)
• "Winners Don't Punish" [Nature]
  (tags: Sociology)
• Evolution and Theology of Cooperation Project
  The ‘Evolution and Theology of Cooperation’ research project at Harvard University is a three-year interdisciplinary undertaking formed to discuss the implications of the evolutionary phenomenon of ‘cooperation’ for the understanding of the relation of the evolutionary processes and classic theism(s). Given that ‘cooperation’ is now seen to be a ‘natural’ phenomenon, how does this fact cause us to rethink the basic metaphors of Darwinian theory, and how does it relate to the emergence, in cultural evolution, of various theories of ethical normativity, including those that appeal to ‘divine command’? How are traditional arguments for the existence of God to be re-thought in the light of game theory’s explication of the emergence of ‘cooperation’? And how is ‘cooperation’ to be defined analytically, and distinguished from closely-related terms such as ‘altruism’, ‘love’, and ‘self-sacrifice’? Can all these phenomena be regarded as ‘evolutionary’ developments, and if so in what sense?
  (tags: Management)
• "All the President's Spies: Private-Public Intelligence Partnerships in the War" [California Law Review]
  Commentators who have examined the Executive's post-9/11 practice of persuading corporations to enter into informal and, at times, unlawful intelligence-gathering partnerships have largely viewed the participating firms as co-conspirators, unwitting pawns, or coerced captives of the Executive-and understandably so. After all, participating corporations have been instrumental in enabling US intelligence officials to conduct domestic surveillance and intelligence activities outside of the congressionally imposed framework of court orders and subpoenas, and also outside of the ambit of inter-branch oversight. Yet despite their track record as enablers, corporations are uniquely positioned to help rein in the currently unregulated practices. This Article analyzes corporate-government agreements and provides the rationale and blueprint for shifting the principal locus of compliance with existing laws (and oversight obligations) from the intelligence officials to the corporations.
  (tags: Intelligence)
• BPM Database
  (tags: Music)
• Quinnipiac University Polling Institute
  (tags: Public_Opinion)
• Princeton Survey Research Center
  (tags: Public_Opinion)
• Institute of Public Opinion [Muhlenburg College]
  (tags: Public_Opinion)
• "If Elected … - Rivals’ Visions Differ on Unleashing Innovation" [New York Times]
  (tags: Innovation)
• "Its Native Tongue Facing Extinction, Arapaho Tribe Teaches the Young" [New York Times]
  (tags: Native_America)
• Almost Live Training Film Number 7: How to Hold a Garage Sale [YouTube]
  (tags: Almost_Live)
• WSU Orientation [YouTube]
  This year, WSU is a dry campus. Are there any questions? Of course there are, and Pat Cashman is here to help answer them!
  (tags: Almost_Live)
• "Expresso Mail" [YouTube]
  (tags: Almost_Live)

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