Ancient Americas

Norte Chico (Caral-Supe is one city)



 Chavin  



The Olmecs

Elections!

Ranked Choice Voting in Minneapolis


Why use Ranked Choice Voting?




Sample ballot

City Questions (Ballot Measures)

CITY QUESTION 1 (Minneapolis)

PROPOSAL TO AMEND THE MINNEAPOLIS CITY CHARTER

Shall the Minneapolis City Charter be amended in the form of a complete revision which (1) modernizes the Charter; (2) redrafts its provisions for brevity and in plain language; (3) reorganizes the Charter into nine articles, and groups related provisions together; (4) removes from the Charter certain provisions for possible enactment into ordinance; and (5) retains the current role and relationships of City boards and commissions? Must be passed by 51%

CITY QUESTION 2 (Minneapolis)

PROPOSAL TO AMEND THE MINNEAPOLIS CITY CHARTER LIQUOR-LICENSING PROVISIONS

Shall the Minneapolis City Charter provisions relating to the sale of liquor and wine be amended by reorganizing and rewriting in plain modern language?" Must be passed by 55%

Which offices are up for election?
What do these offices do?
Mayor
City Council
Board of Estimate and Taxation
Park and Recreation Commissioner

Candidates for Mayor

Greeks and Persians

Formal Amendment Process

English - The language

Lead up to the War for Independence

White Privilege

Hank Green on the importance of Maps

World Mapper

Crash Course US history

Full Playlist

Crash Course: Ancient History

Interactive Jamestown

Explore Jamestown


Explore Werowocomoco

Ed 101

 FERRIS BUELLER's DAY OFF




PAY IT FORWARD


DEAD POET'S SOCIETY

Games

Geography games:

World Geo Games

Globetrotter XL


GeoGuessr


Science:

Fold.It

Science Games

EyeWire (requires sign up)

Jefferson Lab

Math:


Number Munchers

Cradle to Cradle Design

3d Printing

RepRap
   

Organs  
Weapons?

Behind the Swoosh (sweatshops)

"The Internationale"

Sustainable Energy?

Power/Energy

University of Minnesota at Morris
Tough Stuff -Solar
Solar roadways
Peswiki (make your own power plant)
Zoetrope (do it yourself wind turbine)
Husk Powers
Wind Power through Kites
Energy and Saving Lives
Geothermal Energy
Tidal Wave Energy and Florida Ocean Energy

Bill Gross on New Energy
Jonothan Trent: Algae Pond Energy
Juan Enriquez: Using Biology to Rethink the Energy Challenge
Former Governor Jennifer Granholm on "A Clean Energy: Race to the Top"

Nuclear Energy Issues (Fukushima, Chernobyl, 3 Mile Island)

How Nuclear Plants work


   



Fukushima (Japan)

Fukushima What Happened?

Fukushima Two Years Later


Below: The tsunami that caused the accident
Written on 4.6.11

"The latest official death toll is 11,828, with more than 15,500 still missing.

A powerful 9.0-magnitude earthquake hit Japan on March 11 at 1446 local time (0546 GMT), unleashing massive tsunami waves that crashed into Japan's northeastern coast of Honshu, the largest and main island of Japan, resulting in widespread damage and destruction. According to the Government of Japan (GoJ), as of Friday (April 1), 11,734 people are confirmed dead and 16,375 people are reported to be missing. (Kyodo, Reuters, April 1) There are no new figures for the number of injured, but the UN reported last week that 2,766 people were injured. Casualty numbers are likely to increase as emergency teams continue to reach and assess affected areas. The earthquake sparked widespread tsunami warnings across the Pacific. According to the US Geological Survey (USGS), the shallow quake struck at a depth of six miles (10 km) (20 km deep according to Japan's Meteorological Agency), around 80 miles (125 km) off the eastern coast of Japan, and 240 miles (380 km) northeast of Tokyo. (from http://www.reliefweb.int/rw/rwb.nsf/db900SID/ADGO-8FJKXT?OpenDocument)

A Satellite image of the devastation caused by the earthquake and subsequent tsunami

  Satellite Images of the effects of the tsunami











 Chernobyl (Ukraine)


Chernobyl What Happened?

Chernobyl Exclusion zone

Chernobyl 25 years later

Fallout Clouds (radiation is dispersed in the air over Europe)

 



 3 Mile Island (United States)

                                                      3 Mile Island What Happened?

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. 

How do we get our energy?

 Issues with energy...


A) Is Natural Gas Cleaner? 

What is Fracking?

Radio program about Natural Gas

B) OIL Rigs (do I need to remind you?)

Not to mention the gulf is already sick (GULF DEAD ZONE)


C)  TAR SANDS 
Oilsands can be 'a curse' to Canada, Cameron says - CTV News

2013 Oil Pipeline Break

Keystone XL Pipeline

D)  Can Coal ever be clean? 

Dec 2008 

NY Times reports Coal Ash in America

Three coal ash spills in  4 months

Oct 2000

E) The Price of Gas!

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?

US DEBT

*click* National Debt *click*

Household Debt  (People who owe more money than their property worth).

Debt owed by Individuals, what kind of debt is it?

Current as of April 2013

U.S. household consumer debt profile:

• Average credit card debt: $15,204 (for more on credit card debt)
• Average mortgage debt: $148,818
• Average student loan debt: $33,005 (for more on student loan debt)

In total, American consumers owe:

• $11.28 trillion in debt
  • A decrease of 1.4% from last year
• $848. billion in credit card debt
• $7.93 trillion in mortgages
• $1,007.6 billion in student loans (More on National Student Debt)
  • An increase of 11.9% from last year

Student Loan Debt in MN

World War II

Japanese Expansion

German Expansion Before the War officially begins

Crash Course WW II

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