White Privilege

Hank Green on the importance of Maps

World Mapper

Ed 101

 FERRIS BUELLER's DAY OFF




PAY IT FORWARD


DEAD POET'S SOCIETY

Body (modifications, self-perception, expectations and limits)

Body Modifications around the world and throughout history.

Natural face and head modifications

 hairstyles, facial hair

fun with facial hair

Eye Brow Shaping

braided hair

Facial hair design

locked hair

designed "pigtails"

"mohawk"

extreme mullet

traditional Chinese queue

Child with shaved head

Cosmetics, wigs and Tattoos

Ancient Egyptian statue shows wigs were worn

hair dye

facial tattoo

hair dye

weave or wig?

Surgeries and modification

Teeth: shaping, coloring, decorating and reconstructing.

Ancient Mayan Teeth

Modern Mayan Teeth

Teeth Filing

Braces

Whitening

Lips: stretching, piercing, enlarging, coloring

Lip Plate

Cosmetic Lip Coloring

Lip Piercing

Lip Tattoo

Lip Enlargement

Nose: rhinoplasty, piercing, stretching

Nose Plugs (and tattooing)

Rhinoplasty

Nose piercings

Other face and head modifications
piercings, implants, cranial shaping, neck stretching, tongue modifications, scarification etc

facial piercings

facial scarification

Neck Rings/stretching

3d implants

Tongue Split, facial tattoos and 3d implants

 

Cranial Binding/Shaping

Other Body Modifications

tattoos, piercings, scarification, surgeries

navel piercing

tattoos

 Ritual Scarification becoming popular again

scarification art

Plastic Surgery 

in 2012 there were a total of 14,629,276 cosmetic procedures performed in the US. This is an increase of 98% since 2000.  Most procedures were considered "non-invasive"  (laser hair removal, botox etc).  About 1.5 million surgical procedures were performed (implants, liposuction etc).

Self Perception and Body

2011 study shows women perform worse when focusing on their looks.

Body language shaping personality


Body Image Test

Body Integrity Identity Disorder

Eating Disorders



Expectations of Body

Google Female Silhouette

Google Male Silhouette


What do we expect from our body to be like (size, shape, look)?

What do we expect our body to be able to do?

Fitness?
Are Sumo Wrestlers Fit? Intense training and physical demand prove sumo wrestling is more than fat guys in diapers

all of these people are Olympians

Beauty and Attraction?

What is the difference? What aspects of people are beautiful? What aspects of people are attractive?  

Why do standards of beauty vary so much from group to group?

Why do standards of attractiveness seem so individual? 

Some beauty ideals around the world

Functional Ability?

What types of functions do we look to the body to fulfill? Does it differ from culture to culture? Context to context?  What functions do you value about your own body? What functions do you take for granted? What happens when are bodies suddenly don't perform the way we expect them to? How well do you cope with being sick/healing? How do we talk about bodies when they don't meet our expectations?Are there times when we as a society value bodies, specifically because they are bodies and not because they are people?

Eve Ensler's Suddenly, My Body

Value of the body? 
Do we value our bodies based entirely on their function,  are there inherent qualities that we can respect?  Are there qualities that are not based on physical performance or look? Why do you think we put so much emphasis on personality, emotions, ideas (brain things) when often our brains are influenced by how our bodies are doing? 

Religious use of the body? 
 self-flagellation, Prayer, Ecstatic Dancing, Yoga, Kama Sutra, fasting/asceticism,
 

Limits of the body?

Ted Talk Physical Feats 

Guinness Book of World Records








Enhancement, hindrance and diminution

In what ways do humans choose to enhance their bodies natural abilities?

In what ways do we hinder our bodies abilities?

In what ways do we diminish them?

How closely related are these three things? In many examples we find that the three can be combined, for instance the use of anabolic steroids can cause muscles to grow on the outside - but cause liver damage on the inside. In men, they may create an outside appearance of being "more masculine"  however the effect on the brain and body causes male hormones to shut down and can cause shrinkage of the testes. 

Home variety, the way we live

What does the variety of living arrangements and styles mean about humans? 
What kinds of benefits do the various styles of living create?  
Are any of these situations better or worse than others?  
Do any of these challenge/change your ideas of how you plan to live? 
Why does it seem like living in the United States is so standardized? 
Have you been introduced to different ways to live in your life? 

What kinds of living situations do you think create a good community?
What kinds of living situations do you think provide creative motivation?
What kinds of living situations do you think provide for spiritual, mental or emotional wellbeing?
What kinds of living situations do you think would promote physical health?
What kinds of living situations do you think promote wealth or employment opportunities?

 List of types of houses

Apartments with green space

Cave Dwellings

Underground Cities Cappadocia

Lists of Underground cities   Second List 
Living Underground

Mud Brick Palace (houses, mud structures,)

watertower homes

Pictures of Hong Kong Apartment Skyscrapers

10 Palaces

Tree Houses,  Tree Dwellings

Tiny Houses

Dormitories , Hostels and  Hotels

Prison Living

On the water  
Living Under Water

Student Co-op

Grow your home  Grown tree houses

Greek Life (fraternities and sororities)

Hakka Walled Villages

Tepees, tents and yurts

Kitchens around the world

Crowded Hong Kong Apartments

Childrens' bedrooms

A look at life in the slums 

 "weird" cities

Sealand

12 ways to live rent free

life in an igloo


Things to look up or think about.
mobile homes, communes, kibbutz, sustainable communities, living in the wilderness, living in a submarine, living on a bus, living in a shelter, military barracks, orphanages, convents and monasteries, temples, living in a hospital, mental institution, nursing home, living as a nomad, living in an airport, boarding schools, living in space...   what else can you think of?

IDEAS of WORK

What is work, non-work, play?
Why do we value certain kinds of work over others?
Why do we work?   Why do we do hard work?
What personal motivators do we get from work?
What societal motivators do we get from work?
Do we need to work?  How much? 
What is the outcome of our work?  (personal? societal?)
Do we need the outcome of our work?
How should we be rewarded for our work?
Should we be rewarded for our play? 
Would we work the way we do, if we personally didn't have to (if someone else could, or technology could)? 
What would happen if we stopped working?
What would happen if we stopped doing work we didn't want to do, and started doing the work we wanted to do? 
What would happen if technology replaced our work? 
Should work be voluntary, conscripted, exchanged (voluntary exchange, regulated exchange?)
What kinds of work should be promoted for the benefits of indivuals? Society?
What kinds of things would need to change in order to promote that kind of work?



    


Doing Better Work

What Motivates Us At Work 
7 Points

Importance of Work/Life Balance
4 Points 

Dirty Jobs
What do we learn from doing different kinds of work (dirty jobs)?  
"Peripeteia"  is a change or reversal of circumstances, or turning point. 
Passion vs effectiveness? 
"We've declared war on (hard)work..." 

Tibetan Buddhism and Work
4 points  

Buddhism the Meaning of Work 

Slow Down

Alternative Structures

Time Banking

Venus Project (Use Technology)
see related
Were the Luddites Right?  (Technology replacing workers?)

30 Hour work week *Reading

Hunter Gatherer work/play  *Reading

 Cooperative Business

Education

Where Good Ideas Come From

The Independent Project

Build a School in the Cloud  
Changing Education Paradigms

Education Innovation


Flipped Classrooms

Independent Project Blog

Khan Academy 

Homelessness in MN

What are the causes of homelessness according to those being interviewed?

What does it mean to have a lack of opportunities?

What barriers come up in finding accessible and long term stable housing? 

What resources are needed to end homelessness in MN?

"Abnormal Psychology"

Go Here for the list of Psychological disorders
or Here 

 Day 2

Jill Bolte Taylor's Stroke of Insight 

Elyn Saks' "A Tale of Mental Illness"

Learning, Neural Networks and Resiliency

1) Review Multiple Intelligences

2) Learning

3) Read "Plasticity in Neural Networks"


4) Jane McGonigal  (CLICK HERE FOR A LARGER VIDEO)

Hans Rosling

Gladwell

TV about Stuff (On the Education channels only)

 Shows about getting a LOT of stuff

Storage Wars


Hoarders

Extreme Couponing


Stuff

Shows about how our stuff is made

How Stuff Works


Modern Marvels


Shows about the hobby of collecting stuff

Pawn Stars

American Pickers

Antiques Roadshow

Shows About the Job of getting/making our stuff

Dirty Jobs

Deadliest Catch

American Chopper

American Logger

Gold Rush Alaska

Myers Briggs

Mind Lab

Age Prejudice

A blog of experiments (some of the videos don't work).

BBC experiments

more psych links


In the News

Supplements for Depression

The Dangers of Insufficient Sleep

Bad Memory?

Cellphones and Brain Cells

Mental illness Stigma

1/3 of us are sleep deprived

Hans

Why Social Ants?

Why call a class "Social Ants."


Well the truth is I asked around and some friends came up with some ideas. For the most part they were just jokes but one recommended the idea of "Social Ants" most likely because of the combination of Sociology (social) and Anthropology (ants). The name struck me though because I was already considering a name having to do with "ants" because they are one of the most amazing creatures in the world (in my opinion). All summer I was thinking about and observing how humans sometimes act like ants without even knowing it. Have you ever noticed how when people are driving their cars they tend to give about the same distance between. Lines of cars then look like ants on the march. In my life I have been able to witness stacks of dirt made by ants that were taller than humans (7-10 feet tall) and the sheer amount of ants that would take amazed me. I also got to see army ants on the move, they build walls around the main highway with their bodies and if anything comes near they can stack themselves on top of each other to attack it.
Truly ants are pretty impressive, but why are humans and ants similar?
Well I guess despite the differences in the ways humans and ants relate to eachother, one of the things I am impressed by is the structures ants and humans create over and over again.

Watch this video to find out what I mean.


EMBED-Giant Ant Colony is a World Wonder - Watch more free videos

Did you see the highways? The rooms and storage areas? This massive city was built by ants and similarly humans have built massive cities all over the earth. Not only that but humans have these same patterns when it comes to social interaction. We create markets and school and places to worship. We break off into social units, clubs and teams, families and clans. We assign roles like worker and boss, student and teacher, or go further and say that if you are of a certain category you must act or dress or talk in a certain way.

When I think about these things, the idea of "Social Ants" seems really fitting.
What do you think?

Cities and Housing

Space Colonies



Smart Homes


The Venus Project




Venus Project: Housing

Venus Project: Cities

Venus Project: Cities in the Sea

Venus Project: Construction

Venus Project: Space




Masdar City

Future Transportation

Solar Sails (Space Flight)


FLYING CARS

Food in the Future

SPACE FOOD


THE FUTURE OF FOOD (documentary introduction)

World Religions Day 8

Research Day 3

Students spent their day finding facts about their religions.

Several students completed their packet and are ready to move on to planning their presentation.

******setbacks******

Several students have not been to class or have been unable to contribute to their group causing a few of the groups to be on a drastically different schedule for completion than others.

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Recent National Geographic Videos (cultural and religious rituals)

Entering adulthood (Papa New Guinea tribe)

Entering Adulthood (Amish)

Entering Adulthood (Mali tribe)

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Buddhism in Laos