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Rebecca Bliege Bird tested a conventional hypothesis of cooperative hunting – that working together will yield higher returns than working alone – among female hunters of the Martu Aboriginal communities in Western Australia. She found that cooperation only provides increased returns to poorer hunters while disadvantaging better hunters. Rebecca tests a signaling model of benefit, which proposes that better hunters share a greater proportion of their catch than poorer hunters as a way to signal a commitment to public goods provisioning and egalitarianism through their ‘pecuniary disinterest’.
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March 8th, 2010
Rebecca Bliege Bird tested a conventional hypothesis of cooperative hunting – that working together will yield higher returns than working alone – among female hunters of the Martu Aboriginal communities in Western Australia. She found that cooperation only provides increased returns to poorer hunters while disadvantaging better hunters. Rebecca tests a signaling model of benefit, which proposes that better hunters share a greater proportion of their catch than poorer hunters as a way to signal a commitment to public goods provisioning and egalitarianism through their ‘pecuniary disinterest’.
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March 8th, 2010
Transparency challenges the very existence of the Rule of Law.
That is the very provocative thesis of today’s guest, who suggests that there is a tragedy behind the web’s powerful lubricative effect on the flow of information. Data about your address, purchases, academic performance, travel itineraries, likes and dislikes are all quite simple to track down these days at little or no cost. We often give up this information voluntarily, in the interests of cultural participation, or obliviously when we simply skip a privacy notice.
And where it once took teams of archivists and researchers to dig up and collate dirt on people and institutions, today’s powerful automated online databases wield personal data over their subjects almost tyrannically, voiding the engineered obscurity of the past, and rendering anonymity obsolete.
Joel Reidenberg is the academic director of the Center on Law and Information Policy at Fordham University. We sat down with him to ask how we could re-engineer the web to fight transparency’s most dangerous effects.
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Reference Section:
Joel Reidenberg’s recent talk on this topic
John Palfrey’s notes from the talk
Adventures in Anonymity, Part I
CC Music this week:
Stefsax: “I Like it Like That (s.thaens)”
State Shirt: “Computer”
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March 4th, 2010
One’s Facebook friend list may include their college professor, their grandmother, and an acquaintance from the dentist’s office. How can we infer a sense of relationships and relationship strength through social media? Karrie Karahalios, Berkman Fellow and Assistant Professor of Computer Science at the University of Illinois discusses how we relate to one another on the web.
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March 2nd, 2010
One’s Facebook friend list may include their college professor, their grandmother, and an acquaintance from the dentist’s office. How can we infer a sense of relationships and relationship strength through social media? Karrie Karahalios, Berkman Fellow and Assistant Professor of Computer Science at the University of Illinois discusses how we relate to one another on the web.
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March 2nd, 2010
Schnapp maps the overall contours of the “augmented” or digitalized museum by exploring The Tunnels experiment. The Tunnels is a 7000 square meter installation in Trento, Italy, where an abandoned industrial site has been repurposed as an experimental history museum with an island in Second Life serving as a support and learning space.
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February 23rd, 2010
Schnapp maps the overall contours of the “augmented” or digitalized museum by exploring The Tunnels experiment. The Tunnels is a 7000 square meter installation in Trento, Italy, where an abandoned industrial site has been repurposed as an experimental history museum with an island in Second Life serving as a support and learning space.
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February 23rd, 2010
Governance
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Zittrain presents the commercial side of cloud computing in this talk hosted in partner with the Harvard Alumni Association. Hear why cloud computing is not just for computing anymore and how a new range of projects is making the application of human brainpower as purchasable and fungible as additional server rackspace.
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February 22nd, 2010
Whither blind justice? Although we value ‘blind justice,’ judges and juries are not blind to the physical appearance of defendants. Moreover, research shows that peoples’ facial appearance influences impressions of their honesty and judgments of their culpability, effects that have been shown to bias decisions in the courtroom. Leslie Zebrowitz of Brandeis University discusses research that documents these effects, placing them into a theoretical framework.
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February 22nd, 2010
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