Science / Environment
World Bank Criticized on Environmental Efforts
By ANDREW C. REVKIN
Published: July 22, 2008
The World Bank and its partners need to do a far better job of considering the environmental effects of projects they finance in poor countries, its internal review group said. Read the full report here.

After watching the NBC-moderated Democratic debate in Nevada last night, I spent the morning perusing various blogs. I came across a blog I haven’t read before: News and Comment. Allan Nairn, an award-winning investigative journalist focused on U.S. foreign policy, writes the blog. I was so taken by this particular post on the politics of [...]

It feels oddly surreal (no pun intended) as I read Cesairé’s opening lines of Discourse on Colonialism (1955). Or, should I say apropos given our current political climate?
A civilization that proves incapable of solving the problems it creates is a decadent civilization. A civilization that chooses to close its eyes to its most crucial problems [...]

The other day I was reading the “live blogging” from the NYTimes of the latest Republican debate. Most of the blogging was done by economists. Typically, my siblings and I e-mail one another political texts from popular media that strike a chord; this was an excerpt that I passed along:
As usual, the Republicans can’t explain [...]

I love this quote from Adorno and Horkheimer:
“The unity of the manipulated collective consists in the negation of each individual and in the scorn poured on the type of society which could make people into individuals.”

This semester is going to be quite interesting.  In addition to the classes I am taking, I am teaching a course called Gender and Ethnicity and the Rhetoric of Science and Technology.  I have taught gender studies courses in the past at the University of Utah, but never from the standpoint/perspective of science and technology.  [...]