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Radical Cartography by William Rankin
- How can the colours of a map reinforce our biases? - What does a postcolonial map of the world look like? - How do indigenous communities use maps to argue for self-determination? A stunning, thought-provoking exploration of how maps shape our understanding of the world - featuring over 150 beautiful full-colour maps. 'This striking study . . . lavishly illustrated . . . stuns' - Publishers Weekly ‘A true genius of cartography . . .
Combinations of Bacteriophage Are Efficacious against Multidrug-Resistant Pseudomonas aeruginosa and Enhance Sensitivity to Carbapenem Antibiotics
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Race and the Territorial Imaginary: Reckoning with the Demographic Cartography of the United States
In the middle of George W. Bush's second term, as Republican proposals for immigration reform sparked protests across the country—including in downtown Los Angeles, above—I went to Wikipedia with a rather basic question: Where were so-called minorities, in fact, the majority?Footnote 1 But the articles I found online used official maps from the U.S. government that did not include a data break at 50 percent.
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I thought I'd gather my thoughts on paperback publishing through KDP. Just some lessons learned, in the event it's helpful. So, in no particular order, I'll go over my thoughts with, perhaps, some photos. Overall, The Complete Carnacki Casebook is 99% of what I wanted it to be. I enjoyed the process inasmuch as I had complete control over the print version. For both cover and content, you upload PDFs sized appropriately to the desired paperback dimensions. In this case, 5x8 inches.
Learning Supremacy
Adapted from an image of beheaded statues at the confederate memorial in Portsmouth, VA. Original photo by Kristen Zeis, The Virginian-Pilot. If you want to build a diverse, just, and equitable society, you cannot do it with the current educational system. That may sound harsh, but there’s no use pretending otherwise. Consider for a moment not what happens on the surface of most schooling — not the math, history, chemistry, or civics….
Learning online
Yesterday I took a picture of a carpenter bee with some gooey stuff stuck to its face. The bee did not look well. It was moving slowly and trying very hard to dislodge the stuff which seemed to be keeping it from feeding properly. I looked online for what might have been wrong with the bee, and then I reached out to the one person I knew about who worked at the intersection of insects and fungi. It is important to say I don’t really know Dr. Matt Kasson. I know of his work, but we’ve never met.
The Witch's Heart
The Witch's Heart Case No. 07: A short story published May 2020, and consisting of about 9,000 words. Finding himself in need of a holiday, Arkright travels to Somerset to fish the Whitley River with his childhood friend, Gavin Turner. But, he arrives to find that Turner has gone missing, having taken a boat down the river to scout ahead. Arkright follows, and finds that something strange is happening on the Whitley—someone of unknown intent has placed straw men along the bank.
RE: Designing Learning
With instructionist education throwing up its hands in the face of the pandemic and the ‘education industrial complex’ peddling the same old information-centric instructionalism that drives home-bound teens to sedition and insurgency, lots of us are asking “what should we build instead?” Unfortunately, despite the itch to make something new, even our well intentioned first instincts are likely to point us in the wrong direction.
Education is over…
Adapted from a photo by Yves Alarie on Unsplash Education is over. An edifice systematically built on the foundation of F.W. Taylor’s “scientific management,” the misguided application of standardization, and the emphasis on testing and human ‘data’ originally developed during the Second World War has come crashing down under the weight of something so small you can’t even see it: a virus.
Education is over…
Adapted from a photo by Yves Alarie on Unsplash [la versión en español está en este enlace] Education is over. An edifice systematically built on the foundation of F.W. Taylor’s “scientific management,” the misguided application of standardization, and the emphasis on testing and human ‘data’ originally developed during the Second World War has come crashing down under the weight of something so small you can’t even see it: a virus.
Social Studies of Science
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Decoder: The Slave Insurance Market
Recent portrayals of American slavery — from 12 Years a Slave and Django Unchained to Walter Johnson’s River of Dark Dreams and Sven Beckert’s Empire of Cotton — have emphasized the brutal violence on cotton plantations in the years preceding the Civil War. What they miss is that during the same period, slaves that were engaged in other enterprises developed skills that placed them at the heart of industrial capitalism.
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