Category: Links to interesting sites and discussion of them
I've been careful...knowing the ins and outs of proper archival research, knowing not to drop stacks of books on concrete floors in the basement of tax-payer funded buildings. But at what cost?
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Category: NatureLand: What They Used to Call the Environment
New book details the open-pit hard rock mining, its role in electrifying America, and its devastating environmental consequences.
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Category: NatureLand: What They Used to Call the Environment
Q: Is nature where we live and work or where we don't? (A: both) Q: Does Luther Vandross have anything to do with it? (A: not entirely) Q: Is Ronzoni Macaroni all that? (A: debatable)
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Category: The Art/Science (Non?)Divide Building
Alas, I have a book cover to share for Notes from the Ground! I'm pleased with it. I was even brought to use an exclamation point just there. It happens, I know it, it happens, people judge these things by...
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Category: Knoxville '82: Where Miscellany Thrive
Science Scout Twitter Feed Somebody recently tweeted the term "transmon qubit" to the Science Scout twitter account, and (for the life of me) I cannot wrap my head around what it is exactly (other than a piece of delicious...
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Category: The STS Compages
Basing utopian visions or economic predictions or public policies on an impoverished view of technology will always be wrong. Gladwell notes this about Chris Anderson's "Free."
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Category: The Art/Science (Non?)Divide Building
Deliberative processes cut short? We have a lot more information. But we don't know any more.
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