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- The Meanings Behind the Symbols: Family Crests, Blazons, Coat of Arms, Personalized Crests – Please note that the following descriptions and meanings are gleaned from a variety of sources, some of which disagree on those meanings. The most commonly accepted meanings are given, but scholars vary in the their opinions concerning the reliability of any "commonly held" historic meanings for coats of arms and crests.
- Is Transformers 2 Racist? – UGO – If you snoop around movie sites today, you’ll find references to Mudflap and Skids, twin Autobots from Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen who bear more than a passing resemblance to minstrel show depictions of African Americans. CHUD.com aptly dubbed them Little Black Sambots. The wider story is that Mudflap and Skids are just the tip of the insensitive iceberg in Bay’s newest film. Here is a list of what you can expect when you go to see the Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen.
- Sociomapping – Sociomap.com – We are introducing a new revolutionary tool for visualization and analysis of data. Sociomaps (a result of Sociomapping analysis) are complex graphs that resemble a landscape. Your abilities to move in space, for which you are trained from early childhood, will help you to interpret the complex relationships encoded in Sociomap. Sociomap enables to visualize, explore and analyze the structure and dynamics of a system and to present it in a way, which is easy to understand, especially for the public and non-scientific audience.
- Ryan Sager – Neuroworld – Founding Thinkers – True/Slant – Metacognition is the act of thinking about thinking — understanding one’s own mind, so as to be its master instead of its slave. Madison, along with the other founders, didn’t have the luxury of designing a government that others would operate. He and his contemporaries would be wielding this government’s power (Madison himself would go on to be the nation’s fourth president), and in writing its founding documents, he and the others were designing constraints on their own future power. They had to admit basic facts about their own human nature — that they were no angels, that they were subject to “passions” as much as any other mortal — and they had to act wisely in accordance with those facts. They had to engage in metacognition in the most consequential circumstance imaginable; and they succeeded.
- The Fourth of July: Throughout the Decades | The Saturday Evening Post –
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