The Inconvenience of Truth

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The Inconvenience of Truth

• Mark Pescemark_at_markpesce.comblog.futurestreetcon
  sulting.comhyperpeople.livejournal.com

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Its not what you dont know. Its what you
know that aint so!Mark Twain
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What is the truth?becomesWho do you trust?
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• A kangaroo is a marsupial from the family
  Macropodidae. In common use the term is used to
  describe the largest species from this family,
  the Red Kangaroo, the Antilopine Kangaroo, and
  the Eastern and Western Grey Kangaroo of the
  Macropus genus

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• Less specifically, kangaroo refers to all 13
  species in the genus Macropus, some of which are
  called wallabies. In its broadest usage, kangaroo
  refers to any member of the family Macropodidae,
  which comprises about 54 species, including tree
  kangaroos and the quokka rat kangaroos belong to
  a sister family, Potoroidae... (Get full
  article with free trial)

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• There is no page titled "kangaroo". You can
  create this page.(There are only 1,590 articles
  on Citizendium. Wikipedia has a thousand times
  as many English-language articles.)

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• After the Flood, these kangaroos bred from the
  Ark passengers migrated to Australia. There is
  debate whether this migration happened over
  land5 with lower sea levels during the
  post-flood ice age, or before the supercontinent
  of Pangea broke apart6, or if they rafted on
  mats of vegetation torn up by the receding flood
  waters.5 The idea that God simply generated
  kangaroos into existence there is considered by
  most creation researchers to be contra-Biblical...

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• The kangaroo, or Animalia Chordata Mammalia
  Marsupialaia Diprotodontia Phalangerida
  Macropodidae Macropus giganteus for short, is a
  FRIGGIN' HUGE MOUSE with powerful hind legs, sad
  little arms, a pocket, boxing gloves, and great
  sharp teeth.

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All knowing is doing, and all doing is
knowing.Humberto Maturana Francisco Varela
The Tree of Knowledge (1987)
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Elites know that knowledge is power.Special
interests work to shape knowledge to suit their
aims.butCommunities are becoming aware of
the knowledge latent within them.
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Its war.
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What are the practical and philosophical
challenges for peer-produced knowledge-sharing
technology?
Daniel Ingvarson - Internet AustraliaMartyn Wild
- Nine LanternsDerek Whitehead -
SwinburneRodney Spark - e-WorksRandall Straw -
Multimedia VictoriaJames Farmer - The Age
EduBlogsSarah Philips - Student, Deakin
UniversityJimmy Wales - Wikipedia/Wikia
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Fireside Chat

• Jimmy Walesinterviewed by Mark Pesce