Name: Robert K. Blechman
Dateline: New York, NY
Weblog: robertkblechman.blogspot.com
Articles: 40
First Published: Tuesday, April 24, 2007
Last Published: Tuesday, November 18, 2008
Currently listing articles 40-1:
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Television's "Good News"— University of Maryland study finds television causes unhappiness.
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Google Searches Can Also Track Intellectual Outbreaks— Simple steps to avoid an epidemic of cognitive activity.
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Claude Lévi-Strauss Celebrates his 100th Birthday This Month!— The father of structural anthropology approaches his centennial.
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Will The Real Martian Please Stand Up?— To our extra-terrestrial visitors: Had we but world enough, and time, this coyness, alien, were no crime.
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The Elementary Structures of Politics— In selecting Sarah Palin as his running mate, John McCain suggests that women are commodities for political exchange.
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Reel World Politics— Cinematic sub-texts shape campaigns of strategy vs. substance.
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What We Know About The Joker— Ruminations about the man behind the masque.
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George Carlin, Google, and Community Values— Taboos change as new communications media determine what is accessible and what is not.
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Beating Golf Clubs Into Swords — President Bush chooses war over golf.
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Education in the Age of Secondary Orality— We now can retrieve video, audio, text and photos at will – without resorting to memorization or physical texts.
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Something Wiki This Way Comes— Educating the Millennial Generation requires an understanding of the biases of previous media and how they impact our educational institutions.
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Randi Rhodes and The First Amendment— Air America Radio suspends Randi Rhodes for using the "W" word.
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This Just In: Women Are Dim— Sometimes, a woman is her gender's own worst advocate.
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Makeup Your Mind: Reflections On Cosmetics And Sports Illustrated's Swimsuit Issue— A level playing field may apply in sports, but not in gender relations.
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Performance Enhancing Drugs— The structure of television content determines what is acceptable drug use and what isn't.
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Spawn Of The Terminator— The Terminator franchise finds new worlds to conquer.
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The Missing White House Tapes— Claim of missing e-mails tapes flies in the face of professional data center practices.
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Satire: Intelligent Design— Whither goest thou today?
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On Paul Levinson and the FCC— A contrarian stance on media consolidation points out the failures of our Fourth Estate.
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Atrial Fibrillation: What Dick Cheney and I Have In Common— The metaphoric heart stands in for aspects of cognition that we resist assigning to the head.
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The Bionic Woman Meets James Joyce— Can the English literary canon withstand the onslaught of the Bionic Woman?
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Dan Rather: The Six Million Dollar Newsman— Rather's tilt at CBS windmills enforces the notion of newsman as hero.
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Humpty Dumpty at the New York Times— As the New York Times attempts to navigate the unfamiliar waters of the Internet, they risk "swimming with the fishes."
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Your Gut Feeling— Reliance on gut feelings betrays the re-emergence of ancient attitudes toward cognition.
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iPhone Unbound!— Recent iPhone/AT&T news suggests additional ways to liberate old technology.
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A Father/Son IM on Healthcare— Instant messages are too new to be considered an art form, but the time is near when we should begin to see additions to our
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Campus Technology 2007 Conference: Questioning Underlying Assumptions— Educators rush to adopt new technologies into their curricula. Shouldn't we ask what unintended consequences accompany new ways of communicating?
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The Problem With Myths
— The problem that continually arises when trying to properly interpret a culture's mythology is the definition of the word "myth."
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Culture vs. Nature: Women and Advertising in The New Media— As the new media liberate traditional advertising, women may want to reevaluate their roles.
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Time Flies Like a Socratic Dialogue: On Paul Levinson’s The Plot to Save Socrates— The literary convention of time travel has changed over time.
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Rise and Fall of a Constitutional Democracy: The United States— The United States can't be conquered by military invasion or technological devastation. It can be conquered by an idea.
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Rock, Paper, Video: Ray Bradbury Interprets Fahrenheit 451— An author is not always the best interpreter of his own work.
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On Jay Rosen's "A Blog Is A Little First Amendment Machine"— Main stream media journalists are about to be blogged to death.
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The Heart Of The Matter— If your heart is pounding, it may not be love.
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Bridging The Intellectual Property Divide— It is a mistake to use the term “property” with regard to creativity.
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Evolution Is Not A Theory For Superheroes— Our advantage over other apes is our ability to imagine the next steps in evolution and the amount of spandex that will be involved.
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Battle of the Bandwidths— Computers pro and con: Old school battles new school in a paradigmatic shift.
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Drawing From The Internet Memory Well— As Internet technologies provide access to media memories, everyone will have to watch what they say - over and over again.
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Satire: A Modest Proposal to Camille Paglia— When technology and poetry clash, there are no winners.
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Spiritual Laryngitis— One event took my voice. Another event helped me to recover it.
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