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Cambridge MA. History, policy, economic development, higher education. Red Sox fan.

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NorCallover, to histodons
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I'm looking for some new ideas. What are the best videos to show college students on the ?

What are the best videos for

If possible, please include URLs to the video.

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havhmayer,
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@cat_static @NorCallover @histodons Not what you’re looking for, but two movies that mesh well are Glory and Lincoln — particularly in tying up Black agency with White politics.

havhmayer,
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@peterbrown @cat_static @NorCallover @histodons Glory is about the 54th Massachusetts, a Black regiment; Lincoln is about enactment of the 13th amendment. The latter is particularly interesting because although the political figures are of course White, the Black presence is continually, uh, backgrounded.

Barros_heritage, to psychology
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THE ILLUSION OF MORAL DECLINE by Adam M. Mastroianni and Daniel T. Gilbert (Nature, 2023).

"In a series of studies using both archival and original data (n = 12,492,983), we show that people in at least 60 nations around the world believe that morality is declining, that they have believed this for at least 70 years and that they attribute this decline both to the decreasing morality of individuals as they age and to the decreasing morality of successive generations. Next, we show that people’s reports of the morality of their contemporaries have not declined over time, suggesting that the perception of moral decline is an illusion. Finally, we show how a simple mechanism based on two well-established psychological phenomena (biased exposure to information and biased memory for information) can produce an illusion of moral decline."

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https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-023-06137-x

havhmayer,
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@MHowell @ConnorMoran @Barros_heritage @academicchatter @histodons @psychology Nixon had more morals than Trump

pamelaoliver, to histodons
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I'm having trouble getting leads for a lit I know exists: Relation between activists working on local or specific issues and broader movement-building. I'm arguing there are tensions, not all local issues can become national, goal of fixing specific local problem not always congruent with building a bigger movement. Appreciate suggestions to academic or activist sources

havhmayer,
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@pamelaoliver @sociology @politicalscience @histodons not lit, but an example — if Occupy Wall Street (etc.) had had stronger central control, the inevitably local endgame could have been against Michael Bloomberg rather than Tom Menino and Jean Quan

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havhmayer,
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@bojacobs @histodons The Japanese government started a war of colonial expansion, and lost. That kind of thing tends to be hard on the citizenry. Should have surrendered sooner — after 100,000 US casualties taking Okinawa the end game was not going to be pretty.

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@luciedigitalni @bojacobs @histodons not a primary concern imo, though others disagree — actual war fighting tends to be focus of attention

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@Kerpob @DVM_vet @histodons my father got malaria with the Free French

lauraehall, to random
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Welcome to my Friday cabinet of curiosities, a roundup of stuff I enjoyed this week! Today’s links feature rebel birds, touchable cartography, human-sized 3D printers and more

A dancer spins around in a flowing dress. When she faces the camera, the lights go out and she tosses handfuls of sparkling confetti into the air

havhmayer,
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@loudfpv @lauraehall @histodons If the vests in those days were anything like the hats, it would have been easy

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