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"Contact" - source change

Thu, 17 Sep 2009 00:56:41 +0000

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"Images" - file action

Mon, 21 Apr 2008 06:15:46 +0000

Page: Images (images)
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Change comments: Uploaded file "lateintheevening.mp3".
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The url for images attached to this page is: http://nicksights.wikidot.com/local--files/images/filename

"Home" - source change

Mon, 17 Mar 2008 06:05:59 +0000

Page: Home (start)
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Hello, and welcome to the world of Nicksights. Well, they're mostly culled from the work of others, but you know what they say about great artists… This site is really meant to organize my...

"Chapter 8: The Martyrs: Sacrifice as Rational Choice" - source change

Thu, 14 Feb 2008 07:23:45 +0000

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Propositions Religious compensators Perceived value of compensator Collectivity creates value Credible evidence for compensators Credibility for religious leaders Martyrs are credible Religion...

"Chapter 8: The Martyrs: Sacrifice as Rational Choice" - metadata changed

Thu, 14 Feb 2008 07:19:20 +0000

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Propositions Religious compensators Perceived value of compensator Collectivity creates value Credible evidence for compensators Credibility for religious leaders Martyrs are credible Religion...

"Chapter 8: The Martyrs: Sacrifice as Rational Choice" - new page

Thu, 14 Feb 2008 07:19:04 +0000

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Propositions Religious compensators Perceived value of compensator Collectivity creates value Credible evidence for compensators Credibility for religious leaders Martyrs are credible Religion...

"Environmental Regulation" - metadata changed

Fri, 08 Feb 2008 04:29:18 +0000

Page: Environmental Regulation (environmental-regulation)
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Natural Property In order to regulate the environment, the government usually converts the environment into property and commodities. What exactly is property? It is usually something rival (only...

"Environmental Regulation" - new page

Fri, 08 Feb 2008 04:28:53 +0000

Page: Environmental Regulation (environmental-regulation)
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Natural Property In order to regulate the environment, the government usually converts the environment into property and commodities. What exactly is property? It is usually something rival (only...

"Overpopulation Gets The Rap" - metadata changed

Fri, 08 Feb 2008 03:56:11 +0000

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A graph of world population shows an exponentially rising curve. We can graph world population against world economy, and will find that growth in the economy is outpacing population growth....

"Overpopulation Gets The Rap" - new page

Fri, 08 Feb 2008 03:53:52 +0000

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A graph of world population shows an exponentially rising curve. We can graph world population against world economy, and will find that growth in the economy is outpacing population growth....

"Sociology and Demography" - source change, title change

Fri, 08 Feb 2008 03:50:07 +0000

Page: Sociology and Demography (sociology-and-demography)
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I came into UC Davis as an Economics major, and picked up International Relations (which was mostly Political Science), but I soon found that each left out important parts of the way people...

"Sociology and Demography" - page move/rename

Fri, 08 Feb 2008 03:49:35 +0000

Page: Sociology and Demography (sociology-and-demography)
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I came into UC Davis as an Economics major, and picked up International Relations (which was mostly Political Science), but I soon found that each left out important parts of the way people...

"Chapter 7: Urban Chaos and Crisis: The Case of Antioch" - metadata changed

Fri, 08 Feb 2008 03:46:07 +0000

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Christianity was an urban movement, so we must understand cities of the time. Stark focuses on Antioch in this chapter. Cities were packed Greco-Roman cities were small in terms of area and...

"Chapter 7: Urban Chaos and Crisis: The Case of Antioch" - new page

Fri, 08 Feb 2008 03:45:09 +0000

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Christianity was an urban movement, so we must understand cities of the time. Stark focuses on Antioch in this chapter. Cities were packed Greco-Roman cities were small in terms of area and...

"Follow The Dots" - new page

Thu, 31 Jan 2008 04:48:14 +0000

Page: Follow The Dots (follow-the-dots)
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Paper stuff "Follow the dots" sign "Take one" sign for codeword Code word cards "Look Behind You" sign "Take one of each" sign "For more shenanigans…" sign Our calling cards "Make Mischief" for...

"Pascal's Wager" - source change

Wed, 30 Jan 2008 06:33:53 +0000

Page: Pascal's Wager (pascal-s-wager)
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When there is an equal risk of winning and of losing, if you had only two lives to win, you might still wager; but if there were three lives to win, you would still have to play (since you are...

"Marx Brothers to the Warner Bros" - source change

Wed, 30 Jan 2008 06:33:00 +0000

Page: Marx Brothers to the Warner Bros (marx-brothers-to-the-warner-bros)
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Letter to Warner Bros: A Night in Casablanca While preparing to film a movie entitled A Night in Casablanca, the Marx brothers received a letter from Warner Bros. threatening legal action if they...

"Fall Of The Berlin Wall" - source change

Wed, 30 Jan 2008 05:57:45 +0000

Page: Fall Of The Berlin Wall (fall-of-the-berlin-wall)
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Massive outbreaks of cooperation precipitated the collapse of communism. In city after city, huge crowds assembled in nonviolent street demonstrations, despite decades of well-founded fear of...

"Don't Talk on Your Phone" - source change

Wed, 30 Jan 2008 05:57:40 +0000

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In Italy, the United Kingdom, and Germany, “over half of those surveyed had some form of negative reaction to mobile phone use in public.” Sadie Plant quoted Goffman by way of explaining the...

"The 800th Lifetime" - source change

Wed, 30 Jan 2008 05:57:36 +0000

Page: The 800th Lifetime (800th-lifetime)
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One of the most striking statements of this theme has come from Kenneth Boulding, an eminent economist and imaginative social thinker. In justifying his view that the present moment represents a...

"Common Pool Resources" - source change

Wed, 30 Jan 2008 05:57:01 +0000

Page: Common Pool Resources (common-pool-resources)
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In 1990, sociologist Elinor Ostrom argued that external authorities might not be necessary in governing what she called common pool resources (CPRs). Ostrom studied the ways that people shared...

"Smart Mobs (book fragments)" - source change

Wed, 30 Jan 2008 05:56:49 +0000

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This page is a category page for fragments from the book Smart Mobs by Howard Rheingold. Smart Mobs fragments Fragments from the book Tragedy of the Commons Hardin, author of “The Tragedy of...

"Tactics Of Thought Reform" - source change

Wed, 30 Jan 2008 05:56:22 +0000

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Tactics of reform fall generally into three categories: Destabilize a person’s sense of self Get the person to drastically reinterpret his or her life’s history and radically alter his or her...

"Differences From Other Groups" - source change

Wed, 30 Jan 2008 05:56:07 +0000

Page: Differences From Other Groups (difference-from-aa-jesuits-and-usmc)
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From page 97-99: From time to time I will…hear someone compare cults to an organization like Alcoholics Anonymous (AA) or to some other group with a charismatic leader…AA does not recruit...

"Cults Vs. the US Marine Corps" - source change

Wed, 30 Jan 2008 05:55:57 +0000

Page: Cults Vs. the US Marine Corps (cults-vs-usmc)
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How the United States Marine Corps Differs from Cults The Marine recruit clearly knows what the organization is that he or she is joining. What will be expected of him or her and what will...

"Characteristics Of Cults" - source change

Wed, 30 Jan 2008 05:55:49 +0000

Page: Characteristics Of Cults (characteristics-of-cults)
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A cult is usually founded by one person, who is the ultimate leader. He (it is almost always a male) makes all the decisions. They are “self-appointed, persuasive persons who claim to have a...

"Brainwashing And Thought Reform" - source change

Wed, 30 Jan 2008 05:55:40 +0000

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Types of Influence and Persuasion Education Advertising Propaganda Indoctrination Thought Reform Focus of body of knowledge Many bodies of knowledge, based on scientific findings in...

"Cults In Our Midst (book fragments)" - source change

Wed, 30 Jan 2008 05:54:59 +0000

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This page is a category page for fragments from the book Cults in our Midst by Margaret Thaler Singer. Categories: book fragments

"Mr. Belloc Objects" - source change

Wed, 30 Jan 2008 05:54:46 +0000

Page: Mr. Belloc Objects (mr-belloc-objects)
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This is a response by H. G. Wells to Hilaire Belloc. Belloc objects to evolution. Says Martin Gardner in Fads and Fallacies in the Name of Science, “Where is one to place the dozens of...

"Illusion Of The Unified Self" - source change

Wed, 30 Jan 2008 05:54:32 +0000

Page: Illusion Of The Unified Self (illusion-of-the-unified-self)
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One of the most dramatic demonstrations of the illusion of the unified self comes from the neuroscientists Michael Gazzaniga and Roger Sperry, who showed that when surgeons cut the corpus callosum...