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Science Turned Upside Down: Carolyn Merchant’s Vision of Nature, 40 Years Later

Imani Radney — Fri, 22 Jan 2021 16:00:38 +0000

The Death of Nature wrote a new narrative of science that explored the costs of modernity for nature and humankind.[none-for-homepage]

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Anticipating Extinction in the Tales of Two Fish

Imani Radney — Wed, 13 Jan 2021 16:00:35 +0000

Deciding to not order the tuna or eel at a restaurant won’t save those dying species. But imagining a new kind of “multispecies thriving” might.

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Public Thinker: Shobita Parthasarathy on Why We Need to Diversify Expertise

Annie Galvin — Mon, 04 Jan 2021 16:00:25 +0000

“I'll say something controversial. Bioethics tends to not interrogate the details of science, let alone the more technical questions.”[none-for-homepage]

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The World Is a Factory Farm

Ben Platt — Thu, 26 Nov 2020 15:00:20 +0000

If factory farming is the source of pathogens like SARS-CoV-2, could smaller-scale farms and communities—even in China—be the safest alternative?

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What Birders Don’t See

Annie Galvin — Tue, 10 Nov 2020 13:00:03 +0000

Rather than studying birds—and birders—in isolation, the time has come to see both as linked to the crises of racism and climate change.

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Public Thinker: Donna M. Riley on Engineering, Ethics, and Social Justice

Annie Galvin — Mon, 24 Feb 2020 16:00:31 +0000

Donna Riley is a lifelong social activist and student of liberation theology who also happens to be a ... [none-for-homepage]

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Dead Cosmonauts, Space Cowboys

Imani Radney — Wed, 19 Feb 2020 16:00:07 +0000

Heroes are in the skies. This was true for the Greeks, who named constellations for great hunters and queens; for First Nations astronomers, who told stories ...

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Public Thinker: Chanda Prescod-Weinstein on Dark Matter and White Empiricism

Stephen Twilley — Tue, 17 Sep 2019 15:00:39 +0000

Dr. Chanda Prescod-Weinstein is one of fewer than a hundred Black American women ... [none-for-homepage]

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Building Utopia in Space

Stephen Twilley — Mon, 22 Jul 2019 14:00:32 +0000

Utopianism is having a moment. Everything from the box office success of big-budget science fiction films like Interstellar and The Martian to the groundswell of support for the Green New Deal ...

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More Nurture, Less Nature?

Imani Radney — Thu, 15 Nov 2018 16:00:23 +0000

What if genes weren’t the perfect blueprint we’ve been led to believe they are? What if your body was constantly being shaped by its environment? What if your children’s ...

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