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Articles by Paolina Lu
The Low-Tech Side of Agri-Food Innovation
“Slats revolutionized the hog industry; we need to go there before we go robots,” Shelby Smith matter-of-factly informs the visitors. She’s the owner and operator of Gym-N-Eat Crickets, a business in central Iowa that raises, processes, and sells crickets for human consumption, and she’s talking to Nichole and Krissy, two members of a group called Iowa Young Professionals in Agriculture who are visiting the cricket barn on a field trip.
“An Extraordinarily Metal Way to Be”: Authorship and Medieval Women
Medieval English literature is a bit of a boys’ club. Sure, we have plenty of medieval books about women: dragon-fighting virgin saints who endure gruesome torture; ladies who fall tragically in love with knights; and wives who are too loose or too stubborn, only to be punished in due course. We have unruly women, like Chaucer’s infamous serial monogamist, the Wife of Bath of The Canterbury Tales, with her five marriages and gapped teeth. But books written by women? Women authors?
Why Seek Impossible Foods?
If you descend into the bowels of the subway station at 34th Street–Herald Square, you might find yourself inside a Burger King. On a Monday evening, it’s packed with people—on their way to or from somewhere else—grabbing a quick meal. And, so, the small, subterranean space smells like grilled meat—like Whopper®, to be exact.
Public Thinker: Virginia Eubanks on Digital Surveillance and People Power
Virginia Eubanks is a writer, organizer, and academic. She is the author of Automating Inequality: How High-Tech Tools Profile, Police, and Punish the Poor and Digital Dead End: Fighting for Social Justice in the Information Age and coeditor, with Alethia Jones, of Ain’t Gonna Let Nobody Turn Me Around: Forty Years of Movement Building with Barbara Smith. Eubanks has written about technology and social justice for Scientific American, The Nation, The Guardian, Harper’s, and Wired.
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