[p2p-research] Slashdot | What's Wrong With the American University System

[Michel Bauwens]

thanks Paul, I will check the links and material ...

what's the best way to 'consume' vitamin D apart from the sunshine?
On Sat, Jul 31, 2010 at 6:34 AM, Paul D. Fernhout <
pdfernhout at kurtz-fernhout.com> wrote:

> FYI.
>
>
> http://news.slashdot.org/story/10/07/30/1825203/Whats-Wrong-With-the-American-University-System
> "The Atlantic has an excellent interview with Andrew Hacker — co-author
> with
> Claudia Dreifus of a book titled Higher Education? — covering everything
> that's wrong with the American university system. The discussion ranges
> from
> entrenched tenured professors more concerned with publishing and parking
> spaces than quality teaching; to 22-year-old students with unrealistic
> expectations that some company will put them in a management position after
> graduating with six-figures of debt; to football teams siphoning money away
> from academic programs so that student tuitions must increase to
> compensate.
> It really lays out the farce of university culture and reminds me of
> everything I absolutely despised about my college life. Dreifus is active
> in
> the comments section of the article as well, lending to a fantastic
> discussion on the subject."
>
> http://www.theatlantic.com/culture/archive/2010/07/whats-wrong-with-the-american-university-system/60458/
>
> I've posted a bunch of comments to the slashdot article, mostly referencing
> parts of three posts I made to the p2presearch list.
> "[p2p-research] College Daze links (was Re: : FlossedBk, "Free/Libre and
> Open Source Solutions for Education")"
>
> http://listcultures.org/pipermail/p2presearch_listcultures.org/2009-October/005379.html
> "[p2p-research] The Higher Educational Bubble Continues to Grow"
>
> http://listcultures.org/pipermail/p2presearch_listcultures.org/2009-November/005584.html
> "[p2p-research] Rebutting Communiqué from an Absent Future (was Re:
> Information on student protests)"
>
> http://listcultures.org/pipermail/p2presearch_listcultures.org/2009-November/006005.html
>
> And a few to the Atlantic article.
>
> ==
>
> By the way, Ryan, vitamin D just gets bigger and bigger; thanks for
> seconding it as the real deal. Recent examples:
>  "What Do You Lack? Probably Vitamin D"
> http://www.nytimes.com/2010/07/27/health/27brod.html
>  "A Vitamin D Test Is More Important Than A Cholesterol Test"
>
> http://blog.peertrainer.com/tip_of_the_day/2010/03/a-vitamin-d-test-is-more-important-than-a-cholesterol-test-dr-furhman-explains-why-even-people-who-g.html
>
> I've been trying to eat a more Fuhrman-inspired diet after my fast:
> "Eat For Health - Joel Fuhrman, M.D. "
> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wPiR9VcuVWw
> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=46_GInjBeQU
> http://www.drfuhrman.com/
> Summarized here:
> http://www.alternativeratreatments.com/eat-to-live.html
>
> I've lost about 40 pounds in total following advice like his on fasting (in
> an earlier book) and during that fasting time discovering Fuhrman's later
> work like "Eat to Live" and "Eat for Health", and I am now hovering at the
> high end of my "ideal" weight. I could probably still stand to lose another
> 20 lbs of fat and put on 10+ lbs of muscle through exercise. :-)
>
> I found out I was just eating way too much starch and not enough veggies,
> fruit, beans, and also needed a little nuts and seeds.
>
> Dr. Fuhrman also has somethings to say about prostate health and nutrition,
> too:
> http://www.google.com/#hl=en&q=site%3Awww.drfuhrman.com+prostate
>
> ===
>
> While I'm writing to you guys, you might find of interest to contrast
> propaganda this primary school video on economics stating the party line
> decades ago in a catchy way:
>
>  "Barter" from Schoolhouse Rock
>  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J7hNOt2Y0J8
>
> with this recent peer video saying a barter economy simply never existed:
>
>  "Gift Economy: Refuting the Market Logic "
>  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jy4hFVcl6Vo
>
> I watched the first with my kid, and then my kid was singing the song, and
> then I found the second several days later, but not so catchy...
>
> All the best to you guys. Thanks for linking to that knol on moving beyond
> a jobless recovery. I added a bunch of related embedded YouTube videos to it
> a while back to make it more colorful and break up a wall of text: :-)
> http://knol.google.com/k/paul-d-fernhout/beyond-a-jobless-recovery
>
> (I found out I didn't need the funny numbers at the end of the URL to link
> to it; not sure if they are version related?)
>
> --Paul Fernhout
> http://www.pdfernhout.net/
> http://twitter.com/pdfernhout
> http://www.youtube.com/user/pdfernhout
> ====
> The biggest challenge of the 21st century is the irony of technologies of
> abundance in the hands of those thinking in terms of scarcity.
>



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