Margaret Mead

Teachers as Crap Detectors and the Morningside Center for Teaching Social Responsibility

Alan Singer | Posted 05.23.2012

Read More: Ernest Hemingway, Social Responsibility, Michael Bloomberg, Race to the Top, Mother Jones, Upton Sinclair, Bill Gates, Huck Finn, Barack Obama, New York City, Pearson Education, Margaret Mead, Rupert Murdoch, Teachers, Teaching, Frederick Douglass, Education News
Alan Singer

Tom Roderick, executive director of the Morningside Center for Teaching Social Responsibility, asked me to share my thoughts on teaching and crap detection. These are some of the things I learned from forty years as a teacher.

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What's Really Hot...

Elizabeth Debold | Posted 05.18.2012

Read More: Ken Wilber, Women, Hillary Clinton, Richard Tarnas, Margaret Mead, Eros, Hot, Women News
Elizabeth Debold

O.M.G.... Hillary Clinton in public without makeup. That this is news or newsworthy is bananas, and once again points to the bizarre obsession our society has with a woman's appearance.

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Finding The Wreckage Of Amelia Earhart's Plane Won't Change My Story

Mary Walker Baron | Posted 04.02.2012

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Mary Walker Baron

When I wrote But This Is Different, I was not unaware of the possibility that wreckage might someday be discovered. Did I worry about that while creating my novel? No. What I did try to do, though, was create a story capable of folding into history without disturbing it.

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But This Is Different: Why I Created a Fictitious Love Affair Between Amelia Earhart and Margaret Mead

Mary Walker Baron | Posted 02.07.2012

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Mary Walker Baron

History could hardly claim that either Earhart or Mead was without voice. The story's irony is that with public voices heard even now throughout the world, their private voices were as silent as those of any couple loving the love that even now struggles for a name.

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Be the Change: Inspiration and Advice from Activists and Celebrities

Marianne Schnall | Posted 09.07.2011

Read More: Natalie Portman, Activism, Advocacy, Gloria Steinem, Gandhi, Alice Walker, Margaret Mead, Melissa Etheridge, Eve Ensler, Women News
Marianne Schnall

Media and society in general no longer inspire us or appeal to our own individual power to improve the world. In fact, we have been conditioned to leave that messy business to our elected officials. But it doesn't have to be this way.

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Invest in Women to Improve the World

Emmie Twombly | Posted 09.05.2011

Read More: Vital Voices, Melanne Verveer, Democratic Republic of Congo, Chouchou Namegabe Nabintu, Margaret Mead, Wendi Murdoch, Tina Brown, Oscar-Nominated Documentary, She's the First, Hillary Clinton, Diane Von Furstenberg, Yael Melamede, Diane Sawyer, Impact News
Emmie Twombly

The women of Vital Voices show that you cannot let obstacles big or small keep you down. The women and their stories taught me that you cannot use your past or circumstance to hide behind.

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Neverisms: 11 Things You Should Never Do, Never Say, Never Forget (PHOTOS)

Dr. Mardy Grothe | Posted 07.11.2011

Read More: Slidepollajax, William Makepeace Thackeray, J.M. Barrie, Leroy "Satchel" Paige, Johnny Carson, Tyra Banks, Peter Pan, Millicent Finwick, Ernest Hemingway, Dylan Thomas, Margaret Mead, Neverisms, John Witherspoon, Books News
Dr. Mardy Grothe

And when it comes to words that command attention, nothing can beat those that are phrased according to the figure of speech known as dehortatio, which Willard R. Espy once crisply defined as "dissuasive advice given with authority."

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In Honor of Women's History Month: Travel as a Catalyst for Change

Leah Mayor | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Nurturing Minds, Global Health, The Wildlife Conservation Society, Susan Hannah, Women's History Month, Africa, Slow Travel, Sustainable Tourism, Slow Travel Is Taking Root, Impatient Optimist, Intrepid Museum Foundation, Bill and Melinda Gates, Margaret Mead, Ecotourism, Travel as a Catalyst for Change, Tanzania, CARE USA, Sega, Travel News
Leah Mayor

Travel is a strong catalyst for change. Sustainable tourism, at its best, "provides hard currency, jobs, and connects people to really understand the needs of a community."

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A Small Group of People Meet in Harlem

Alan Singer | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Harlem, Racism, African-Burial-Ground, American History, Margaret Mead, Slavery, Civil War, Documentary, Film, New York City, Cemetery, Mta, New York News
Alan Singer

Tait's film is a powerful depiction of the history of race in New York City. It's great strength is that it shows Blacks as historical actors battling for freedom and rights rather than as just victims of savage injustices.

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To Mayor Bloomberg: Stop the Bullying

Carol Smaldino | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Reality TV, Teachers, Mayor Bloomberg, Zero Tolerance, Margaret Mead, Bullying, Education, Teachers Union, American Dream, Inconvenient Truth, Albert Einstein, Education News
Carol Smaldino

We are right to rally our compassion for the victims, but the inconvenient truth is that the solution to this problem is rooted in recognizing and listening to the bullies, most of whom are and/or were victims.

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Margaret Mead Film & Video Festival At Museum Of Natural History

Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Margaret Mead Film and Video Festival, Margaret Mead, NY Events, American Museum of Natural History, New York News

The American Museum of Natural History is hosting the 34th Annual Margaret Mead Film & Video Festival November 11th through the 14th. The festival ...

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Babies are People!

Alexandra Juhasz | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Documentary, Babies, Animals, Margaret Mead, Movies, Ethnograpic Film, Marlo Thomas, Media News
Alexandra Juhasz

"Mommies are people. People with children. When mommies were little they used to be kids, like some of you, but then they grew, and now mommies are wo...

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Drop Top Gorgeous: Mazda Miata Turning Heads for 20 Years

Michael Rose | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Tsutomu Matano, Porsche Boxster, Diana Riggs, Mazda, Tom Matano, Miata, Ken Gross, BMW Z3, Bob Hall, Automobiles, Triumph, Cars, Austin Healey, Mg, The Avengers, Art Center College of Design, Mark Jordan, Margaret Mead, Sports Cars, Audi TT, Michael Rose, Emma Peel, mx5, Los Angeles News
Michael Rose

How did Mazda reinvent the classic British sports car? They listened to a group of Southern California dreamers who lamented the loss of the "everyman" British sports cars.

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Jean Houston and Deepak Chopra on Good Luck

Deepak Chopra | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Good Luck, Margaret Mead, Synchronicity, Home News
Deepak Chopra

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NYC's 'Skinniest' House Sells For $2.1M

AP | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: 75 1/2 Bedford Street, Skinniest House New York, Margaret Mead, Greenwich Village, New York Real Estate, Bedford Street, Narrowest House New York, Edna St. Vincent Millay, New York News, Poll, Skinniest House, New York News

NEW YORK (Associated Press) - A town house dubbed New York City's skinniest house has sold for $2.1 million. The red, 9 1/2 foot wide, 42 foot long br...

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Giving Thanks for Action

Bob McKinnon | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Actions Speak Loudest, Bill Clinton, Do Something, Children, Politics, Thanksgiving, change.org, Martha Graham, Action, Climate Change, Childhood Obesity, Volunteer Match, Mike Huckabee, Margaret Mead, Henry David Thoreau, All for Good, Carbon Rally, Health Care, Books, Policy, Do Good, Distraction, Politics News
Bob McKinnon

When habitual distractions trump deliberate actions we focus on politics instead of policy, the selfish vs. the selfless, and the "urgent" vs. the important. We much change the action-distraction equation.

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A Memory of Claude Lévi-Strauss

Scott Atran | Posted 11.17.2011

Read More: Noam Chomsky, Anthropology, Jean Piaget, Macques Monod, Columbia University, Claude-Levi-Strauss, Margaret Mead, Healthy Living News
Scott Atran

In 1974, when I was a graduate student in anthropology at Columbia University, I wanted to organize a discussion of universals. At the time, I was working for Margaret Mead as one of her assistants.

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"Skinniest" House In New York Costs A Fat $2.7M

AP | Posted 05.25.2011

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NEW YORK — It's 9 1/2 feet wide and 42 feet long and is billed as the narrowest house in New York City. But there's nothing small about its aski...

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Words Of Wisdom: Which Quotes Inspire You?

Julia Moulden | Posted 11.17.2011

Read More: Charlotte Joko Beck, Quotes, Wendell Berry, Ralph Waldo Emerson, George Carlin, Wisdom, Apple, Margaret Mead, Peter Drucker, New Radicals, Eartha Kitt, Julia Child, Careers, Julia Moulden, Healthy Living News
Julia Moulden

For years, I've been collecting great quotes. They're words to live by. And they're invaluable to a speechwriter like me.

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