Tag: Studies

QDS is about experimentation, people, risk, discussion, and the essence of what art really is. Maybe 5 tiles get minted. Maybe thousands. However many, this project will be a success if it gets people talking, gets people questioning, makes people happy, makes people angry. Maybe it becomes ...

Last weekend, Thursday — Sunday, was the 2022 DSA Conference in Vancouver. I attended last year and in 2017, but, as an “independent scholar” unaffiliated with an academic program, my previous attendance was limited to the single days I was presenting, since the expense was coming ...

These new criminology and criminal justice studies were published recently by journals I monitor. 1. The guillotine: Shadow, spectacle and the terror, published in Crime, Media, Culture: An International Journal. 2. Intimate Partner Violence and Suicidality: Applicability of Gen...

Why is teaching native studies so important? These teachings make sure that all students from any background feel seen and represented within the educational system and have a chance to learn of their culture and history. All students deserve the ability to see themselves and their identities reflec...

Welcome to the second part of my meditation on Indigenous poetry. Remember from last week that August marks the Sealey Challenge! This year, I decided to forego the actual challenge — to read one book of poetry and one chapbook per day — and instead focus on one edited collection of poet...

Since the International Space Station’s inception in 1980, NASA launched the first biological experiment with Commercial Generic Bioprocessing Apparatus (CGBA) in 1996 to study microgravity’s effects on biological samples. In the latter half of the 20th century the field of microgravity ...

This thought experiment is inspired by three completely unrelated developments last year. The first was the stunning report out of Melbourne, Australia, that researchers at Cortical Labs developed a system they call Dishbrain, which is basically a slimy monolayer of cultured neurons growing in a Pet...

Since the International Space Station’s inception in 1980, NASA launched the first biological experiment with Commercial Generic Bioprocessing Apparatus (CGBA) in 1996 to study microgravity’s effects on biological samples. In the latter half of the 20th century the field of microgravity ...

There is growing divisiveness taking hold in US schools from restrictions on hairstyles targeting African American girls to the debates about what is woke. While there are differences in how this is occurring between states, what is universal is the misunderstandings that are creeping into our K-12 ...

The field of sociology has been instrumental in uncovering the nuanced and complex realities of women’s lives. Through a variety of lenses, sociologists have explored gender roles, feminism, work-life balance, and the intersectionality of race, class, and gender. Here, we delve deeper in...