The decarbonization of buildings has the potential of cutting greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions about 30 percent in the United States. At minimum, to...
Technical and Social Dimensions of Decarbonizing the Built Space
When the Chinese company Northwest Innovation Works (NWIW) showed up in 2014 to pitch their methanol refinery to the Port of Kalama, in Kalama, Washington, local resident Dianne Dick knew it was bad news: “We’re not fossil fuel people.” As...
Western documentaries tend to rely upon the dual tropes of white saviorism and white sympathy to offer single approaches to complex interconnected cultural issues. This results in two-dimensional solutions to problems like climate change...
On November 15, 2020, NASA and SpaceX partnered to launch a six-month science mission on the International Space Station. Despite the ravages of COVID-19, NASA's collaboration with this brainchild of Elon Musk, himself a product of an...
The third and final part of our interview with Donna Haraway, Distinguished Professor Emerita in the History of Consciousness Department at the University of California, Santa Cruz. During her prolific career she has written dozens of...
150 years ago, on March 18, 1871, the poor and working class of Paris — referred to dismissively by contemporary French officialdom as “the vile multitude” — rose in rebellion. They disarmed the existing national guard and armed the...
More than a year after COVID-19 was first reported to the World Health Organization, the decade-defining pandemic has revealed deep structural flaws in the policy-making, scientific communication, and economic resilience of many nations...
"Microbial Speculation of Our Gut Feelings" uses the gut’s microbes as a way of looking deeply into immigrant health and resisting processes of colonization. This multimedia installation illuminates the vibrant materiality of immigrant...
The role of race in public life has shifted with breakneck speed over the past decade, so it is hardly surprising that two recent books on race and science—Alondra Nelson’s The Social Life of DNA: Race, Reparations, and Reconciliation...
Along with genetics and genomics, the neurosciences currently share the dubious honor of being considered able to enlighten us on fundamental questions of human existence. One of these questions is the issue of sex/gender—in science, this...
The vast majority of food in markets today is produced through practices of industrial agriculture that rely heavily on mechanization, petrochemically derived inputs such as synthetic fertilizers and toxic pesticides, and genetic...
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