The Ecology of Agro-Food Policy
Category: Industrial Agriculture
Is alternative ag. about reducing obesity in schools? Is it about pesticides on the farms? Can it be both?
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- David Ng is Director of the AMBL at the University of British Columbia - fancy speak for a science teacher.
- Benjamin Cohen teaches at the University of Virginia. He is the author of Notes from the Ground: Science, Soil and Society in the American Countryside (Yale, 2009). His interest is in those places where science, art, and environmental studies come together.
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Follow-up to the "Problems of the One Laptop Per Child Program"
Category: NatureLand: What They Used to Call the Environment
More about an exercise discussing the place of technology in global development efforts.
Posted by Benjamin Cohen at 11:45 AM • 1 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
January 16, 2009
Doris Kearns Goodwin: Learning from past presidents in moments of crisis
Category: Video links (archive.org samples, for example; Youtube.com; others...)
Beautifully done. I wish I could prepare lectures like this......
Posted by David Ng at 12:06 PM • 0 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Did you know Karl Popper? (or do you know someone who knew Karl Popper)
Category: The STS Compages
Just curious - the other day I gave a talk on the scientific method, and I was going over some of the icons that shaped the principles behind how science is done (like Francis Bacon, Thomas Hobbes, and good old...
Posted by David Ng at 12:02 PM • 9 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
January 12, 2009
Environment vs Economy vs Space Aliens
Category: The STS Compages
Here's a slide I recently made in a lecture on the scientific method, to illustrate how easy it is to produce very different hypotheses for a particular observation....
Posted by David Ng at 11:31 AM • 1 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
January 9, 2009
How Not to Write a Food Miles Column
Category: Industrial Agriculture
Comments about a disingenuous article that obscures and denigrates larger ag/energy issues.
Posted by Benjamin Cohen at 9:00 AM • 2 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
January 8, 2009
Meme (the spreading of ideas) as demonstrated via silly dancing.
Category: Video links (archive.org samples, for example; Youtube.com; others...)
For those of you at this year's Terry talks, you'll obviously be aware of our little YouTube experiment. In any event, I present to you the fruit of that labour below. If you weren't at the conference, here is the...
Posted by David Ng at 2:42 PM • 2 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Agro-environmental Films
Category: NatureLand: What They Used to Call the Environment
In search of, and for a compilation about, films on food, agriculture, and environment.
Posted by Benjamin Cohen at 2:30 PM • 2 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
January 7, 2009
I Dream in Malcolm Gladwell
Category: The Art/Science (Non?)Divide Building
New research shows links between marshmallow melting and pediatric nutrition.
Posted by Benjamin Cohen at 4:45 PM • 0 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
January 6, 2009
The Problems with One Laptop Per Child
Category: The STS Compages
They are cultural, philosophical, and political. Not even John Lennon can overcome the flaws, given their deep cultural basis. Nicholas Negroponte, co-founder and director of the MIT Media Laboratory, introduced the idea for the $100 laptop in 2005. The laptop...
Posted by Benjamin Cohen at 12:00 PM • 14 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
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