37 days ago by T. Edwin Perry

The name of this post is the margin between the Winner of the Iowa Caucuses, Mitt Romney, and the First Runner Up, Rick Santorum: EIGHT VOTES. It doesn’t get much closer than that, folks, and with a margin of only 8 votes, the knee-jerk reaction is assume that the Momentum of the Santorum Campaign m ...

38 days ago by Diana Wynne

I love calendars. Even though I do all my scheduling digitally, I still print out month calendars for planning and sketch calendars on index cards to figure out everything from workouts to projects. So I was delighted to pick up this calendar from the San Francisco Environment Department (formerly k ...

38 days ago by Henry Jenkins

From time to time, I have show-cased here the work of my Civic Paths Research Team. This is a group of more than a dozen USC graduate students, faculty, staff, and post-docs, who meet each week to research the intersection between participatory culture and political participation. You can check out ...

38 days ago by Matthew David Segall

Here is a link to my partner Becca’s recent essay on the ecological significance of participatory theory. She offers a great summary of and reflection upon a chapter by Jacob Sherman in The Participatory Turn (2008): Full of Gods: Divine Participation for an Ecological Era

38 days ago by Noel Tripp

While the FLSA governs the payment of minimum wage and overtime, it does not by its statutory language regulate the receipt of gratuities. However, Section 3(m) of the FLSA (29 U.S.C. § 203(m)) requires that employees paid pursuant to the “tip credit” provision (i.e., paid less than the standard min ...

40 days ago by Cal Skinner

Don’t worry. They don’t come from me, but from Charles Krauthammer’s column that’s in the Chicago Tribune January 2, 2012. He’s writing about the probability that there are other worlds were intelligent life exists…or existed. He contemplates that maybe any other intelligent live has destroyed itsel ...

40 days ago by Craig Rosa

Do you have a unique voice that sets you apart from the crowd? Contribute your stories to QUEST! KQED QUEST is looking to add new voices to our blog, which already offers commentary from our producers, reporters, and local writers from our partner institutions at Chabot Space & Science Center and Th ...

40 days ago by Nevin E. Adams, JD

While the headlines out of our nation’s capital are driven by talk of the looming budget crisis, concerns about the sluggish economy, and the impending 2012 elections, discussions about retirement, retirement savings, and ways to improve retirement savings have been the order of the day here in Wash ...

40 days ago by GoodIdea

Das neue Jahr beginnt gleich mit einem Shopping-Highlight! Vom 2. bis zum 21. Januar ist in Luxemburg Winterschlussverkauf. Bei den “Solden” locken alle Geschäfte des Landes mit speziellen Angeboten und hohen Rabatten!

40 days ago by GoodIdea

Wantersolden zu Lëtzebuerg! Profitéiert vun haut bis den 21. Januar vun exzeptionellen Offeren an speziell Präisser an all Geschäfter am Land!