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A deeply moving and mindexpanding collection of personal essays in the first ever work of nonfiction from 1 internationally bestselling author John GreenThe Anthropocene is the current geological age in which human activity has profoundly shaped the planet and its biodiversity In this remarkable symphony of essays adapted and expanded from his groundbreaking critically acclaimed podcast John Green reviews different facets of the humancentered planet from the QWERTY keyboard and Halleys Comet to Penguins of Madagascar on a fivestar scaleComplex and rich with detail the Anthropocenes reviews have been praised as observations that double as exercises in memoiristic empathy with over 10 million lifetime downloads John Greens gift for storytelling shines throughout this artfully curated collection about the shared human experience it includes beloved essays along with six allnew pieces exclusive to the book. Jay Lubomirski. How electronic essay graders evaluate writing samples . Comparing the electronic graders to the human graders. Gaming the system. Topics. Educational Testing Services (. ETS. ) is a non-profit test administration company. A Philo-politico-educational perspective. by David . Balosa. David . Balosa. :. Adjunct Professor of French, Portuguese, . Spanish, & Swahili at Delaware State . University. Department of English and Foreign Languages. the ‘Human Condition’ in the Anthropocene. The ‘Silence of the Limbs’ in Western Political Theory . Lack of analysis to vulnerability within western political theory, especially liberalism and orthodox economic thinking (exception, green and feminist thinking, Alastair MacIntyre). Authors: Anne F. Van Loon et al (Nature, Feb 2016). Kimberly Duong. March 1, . 2016. Background. This paper describes:. human influences on drought. potential feedbacks between drought and society. Land use changes by humans alter hydrologic processes (evapotranspiration, infiltration, surface runoff, . Adaptable Mountain Biking. Ian is on a 4 wheel adapted mountain bike about to make a jump on a dirt course. Adaptable Skiing. Ian is in the middle of a jump on the mountain. Looks to be about 10 feet off the white snow. . How do you keep your employees engaged, creative, innovative, and productive? Simple: Work human!From the pioneers of the management strategy that\'s transforming businesses worldwide, Making Work Human shows how to implement a culture of performance and gratitude in the workplace--and seize a competitive edge, increase profitability, and drive business momentum.Leaders of Workhuman, the world\'s fastest-growing social recognition and continuous performance management platform, Eric Mosley and Derek Irvine use game-changing data analytics to prove that when a workplace becomes more human--when it\'s fueled by a culture of gratitude--measurable business results follow. 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And Making Work Human provides everything you need to get there. How are human bodies affected by and responding to the Anthropocene context? . What are the consequences for health and wellbeing of ongoing environmental degradation, loss of biodiversity and climate change?. The first authoritative and comprehensive survey of the origins and current state of transhumanist thinking The rapid pace of emerging technologies is playing an increasingly important role in overcoming fundamental human limitations. Featuring core writings by seminal thinkers in the speculative possibilities of the posthuman condition, essays address key philosophical arguments for and against human enhancement, explore the inevitability of life extension, and consider possible solutions to the growing issues of social and ethical implications and concerns. Edited by the internationally acclaimed founders of the philosophy and social movement of transhumanism, The Transhumanist Reader is an indispensable guide to our current state of knowledge of the quest to expand the frontiers of human nature. Living on a damaged planet challenges who we are and where we live. This timely anthology calls on twenty eminent humanists and scientists to revitalize curiosity, observation, and transdisciplinary conversation about life on earth.As human-induced environmental change threatens multispecies livability, Arts of Living on a Damaged Planet puts forward a bold proposal: entangled histories, situated narratives, and thick descriptions offer urgent “arts of living.” Included are essays by scholars in anthropology, ecology, science studies, art, literature, and bioinformatics who posit critical and creative tools for collaborative survival in a more-than-human Anthropocene. The essays are organized around two key figures that also serve as the publication’s two openings: Ghosts, or landscapes haunted by the violences of modernity and Monsters, or interspecies and intraspecies sociality. Ghosts and Monsters are tentacular, windy, and arboreal arts that invite readers to encounter ants, lichen, rocks, electrons, flying foxes, salmon, chestnut trees, mud volcanoes, border zones, graves, radioactive waste—in short, the wonders and terrors of an unintended epoch.Contributors: Karen Barad, U of California, Santa Cruz Kate Brown, U of Maryland, Baltimore Carla Freccero, U of California, Santa Cruz Peter Funch, Aarhus U Scott F. Gilbert, Swarthmore College Deborah M. Gordon, Stanford U Donna J. Haraway, U of California, Santa Cruz Andreas Hejnol, U of Bergen, Norway Ursula K. Le Guin Marianne Elisabeth Lien, U of Oslo Andrew Mathews, U of California, Santa Cruz Margaret McFall-Ngai, U of Hawaii, Manoa Ingrid M. Parker, U of California, Santa Cruz Mary Louise Pratt, NYU Anne Pringle, U of Wisconsin, Madison Deborah Bird Rose, U of New South Wales, Sydney Dorion Sagan Lesley Stern, U of California, San Diego Jens-Christian Svenning, Aarhus U. “Beyond has the exhilaration of a fine thriller, but it is vividly embedded in the historic tensions of the Cold War, and peopled by men and women brought sympathetically, and sometimes tragically, to life.”—Colin Thubron, author of Shadow of the Silk Road09.07 am. April 12, 1961. A top secret rocket site in the USSR. A young Russian sits inside a tiny capsule on top of the Soviet Union’s most powerful intercontinental ballistic missile—originally designed to carry a nuclear warhead—and blasts into the skies. His name is Yuri Gagarin. And he is about to make history. Travelling at almost 18,000 miles per hour—ten times faster than a rifle bullet—Gagarin circles the globe in just 106 minutes. From his windows he sees the earth as nobody has before, crossing a sunset and a sunrise, crossing oceans and continents, witnessing its beauty and its fragility. While his launch begins in total secrecy, within hours of his landing he has become a world celebrity – the first human to leave the planet. Beyond tells the thrilling story behind that epic flight on its 60th anniversary. It happened at the height of the Cold War as the US and USSR confronted each other across an Iron Curtain. Both superpowers took enormous risks to get a man into space first, the Americans in the full glare of the media, the Soviets under deep cover. Both trained their teams of astronauts to the edges of the endurable. In the end the race between them would come down to the wire.Drawing on extensive original research and the vivid testimony of eyewitnesses, many of whom have never spoken before, Stephen Walker unpacks secrets that were hidden for decades and takes the reader into the drama of one of humanity’s greatest adventures – to the scientists, engineers and political leaders on both sides, and above all to the American astronauts and their Soviet rivals battling for supremacy in the heavens.  The Envisionment and Discovery Collaboratory (EDC) is a long-term research platform exploring immersive socio-technical environments in which stakeholders can collaboratively frame and solve problems and discuss and make decisions in a variety of application domains and different disciplines. The knowledge to understand frame and solve these problems does not already exist but is constructed and evolves in ongoing interactions and collaborations among stakeholders coming from different disciplines providing a unique and challenging environment to study foster and support human-centered informatics design creativity and learning. At the social level the EDC is focused on the collaborative construction of artifacts rather than the sharing of individually constructed items. It brings individuals together in face-to-face meetings encouraging and supporting them to engage individually and collectively in action and reflection. At the technological level the EDC integrates tabletop computing environments tangible objects sketching support geographic information systems visualization software and an envisioned virtual implementation. This book is based on 20 years of research and development activities that brought together interdisciplinary teams of researchers educators designers and practitioners from different backgrounds. The EDC originated with the merging of two research paradigms from disparate disciplines to build on the strengths approaches and perspectives of each. This book describes the artifacts and scenarios that were developed with the goal of providing inspiration for human-centered informatics not focused on technologies in search of a purpose but on the development of systems supporting stakeholders to explore personally meaningful problems. These developments have inspired numerous research and teaching activities. The challenges prototypical systems and lessons learned represent important milestones in the development and evolution of the EDC that are relevant for future research activities and practices in human-centered informatics. Computing education is in enormous demand. Many students (both children and adult) are realizing that they will need programming in the future. This book presents the argument that they are not all going to use programming in the same way and for the same purposes. What do we mean when we talk about teaching everyone to program? When we target a broad audience should we have the same goals as computer science education for professional software developers? How do we design computing education that works for everyone? This book proposes use of a learner-centered design approach to create computing education for a broad audience. It considers several reasons for teaching computing to everyone and how the different reasons lead to different choices about learning goals and teaching methods. The book reviews the history of the idea that programming isn\'t just for the professional software developer. It uses research studies on teaching computing in liberal arts programs to graphic designers to high school teachers in order to explore the idea that computer science for everyone requires us to re-think how we teach and what we teach. The conclusion describes how we might create computing education for everyone. Source: . Andrzej Krauze. 2. Inquiry Question. When did the Anthropocene begin?. Anthropocene.... a human-dominated geological epoch.. Popularized by the Dutch atmospheric chemist Paul . Crutzen. in 2000. why does it matter?. Contents. Slides 3, 4 & 5: . Introduction to the Anthropocene . Slide 6:. . People and the planet: Wildlife Photographer of the Year video. Slide 7:. . Plants Under Pressure video.