Harry Potter, retired Auror, is also a budding magical theorist who likes a quiet life. When he discovers what seems to be a possible reason that so many pure-blood families are losing their magic and having Squib children, he keeps it quiet, because he knows it would only cause a storm of controversy. But an equally budding acquaintance with Draco Malfoy might change his mind.

(Bis Kapitel 11 gelesen. So good!)

All your questions about 9/11 answered in a single 5 minute video clip #OWS #Revolution #WakeUp #NotoNato #endwar

Maschinen werden besser als Menschen, in allen Branchen. Eine Revolution bahnt sich an. Doch wir können die Folgen steuern: Wenn uns Roboter und Algorithmen in der Arbeitswelt ersetzen, sollten sie auch unseren Platz als Steuerzahler einnehmen.

Jared Diamond reviews *Why Nations Fail*, from Marginal Revolution http://marginalrevolution.com

President Lee Myung-bak didn’t attend the commemoration event in Gwangju, a city that is a stronghold of the political opposition to Mr. Lee and his conservative political party.

Thousands of people gathered in Gwangju on Friday to mark the 32nd anniversary of the one of the most tragic and disgraceful episodes in South Korean history – the suppression of democracy protesters by the South Korean military.

Several hundred people in the southwestern city died at the hands of South Korean soldiers during three days of violence that began on May 18, 1980.

The official death count is 240, but Gwangju residents say the number of casualties of the military violence was far higher. All agree the days of uprising and suppression in 1980 created the highest casualty count since the Korean War of the 1950s.

At a ceremony attended by 2,500 people, Prime Minister Kim Hwang-sik said, “We need to inherit the spirit of the May 18th uprising and establish higher level of democracy through communication and compromise instead of conflicts and opposition.”

An Essential Resource for Building and Managing an Online Community [NEW BOOK], from The Content Marketing Revolution http://blog.junta42.com

Hatherley's review of Harvey's 'Rebel Cities'

summary review of harvey's 'Rebel Cities'

This is of course not what Kuhn intended us to learn. Kuhn wanted to free us from the illusion that knowledge is independent of history and of the sociality that marks us as humans, but he did not think that all beliefs that our history and sociality put before us are equally worthy. Indeed, he quickly moved away from the "shift happens" conception of paradigms as bundles of beliefs, emphasizing instead that they're examples of good scientific practice that researchers apply in their daily work.

3 Ways to Extract Brand Stories from Inside the Company, from The Content Marketing Revolution http://blog.junta42.com

"Canvas’s curriculum, designed to be taken anywhere and adapted to any situation, shows how much planning goes into revolution. 'We’re constantly updating, building on lessons learned.' He breaks off to describe a workshop. 'One night back in 2006, we were on the beach in Sri Lanka, working long sessions with Maldivian activists. Instead of using flipcharts we were writing in the sand—only to discover that the sand was populated by newly hatching turtles. We had to help them find their way to the sea or they’d have followed the streetlights instead of the moon and been killed on the road. The session turned into a Discovery Channel type of ‘saving baby turtles’ experience—the craziest thing that has ever happened to a workshop.'"