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Being a scientist has nothing to do with gender or race. Science is all about methodically seeking the truth. Take your curiosities and get your science on.
Watch this Science Rap and more on my YouTube Channel: Coma Niddy University.
Coma Niddy delivers some crucial truth. Happy we share PBS Digital Studios science lab space together.
(Source: comaniddy, via zomganthro)
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Protesting students at the Polytechnic University of Philippines created a bonfire of furniture to mourn a freshman who apparently committed suicide last week after she was forced to suspend her studies because of her inability to pay her tuition. According to the Philippine Daily Inquirer, classes were canceled on Monday to mourn 16-year-old Kristel Tejada and student organizations vowed to continue protests against school policies on tuition fees.
(via pinoy-culture)
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(Source: youtube.com, via biomedicalephemera)
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(Post-)Colonialism
Frantz Fanon as Democratic Thinker
Frantz Fanon and Black Conscousness in Azania
Frantz Fanon: The Marx of the Third World
Frantz Fanon and the African Political Class
Frantz Fanon and the African Revolution
Frantz Fanon and the Lumpenproletariat
Rescuing Fanon from his Critics
Some Aspects of the Political Philosophy of Frantz Fanon
Race Nation: Ideology in the Thought of Frantz Fanon
Machiavelli and Fanon: Ethics, Violence, and Action
Mapping the Unconscious: Racism and the Oedipal Family
Martin and Malcolm on Nonviolence and Violence
Ndebele, Fanon, Agency, and Irony
Negritude and Black Cultural Nationalism
Orientalism: A Black Perspective
Primitive Accumulation and Traditional Social Relations on the Nineteenth Century Gold Coast
The Evolution of the Attitude of Malcolm X Towards Whites
The Political Economy of Religious Commodities in Cairo
W.E.B. DuBois: A Perspective on the Basis of His Thought
Intersecting Oppressions (Patricia Hill Collins)
The Black Panther Party: Service to the People Programs (Foreward by Cornel West)
Seeing the Light: Visionary Feminism (bell hooks)
The Intimate Enemy: Loss and Recovery of Self Under Colonialism
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I heard people saying that if they had tests about Pokémon, they’d only get As, so I gave my students the opportunity to prove it. ;D
This is the most fun I had IN MY LIFE while preparing an exam!
I translated only parts of the exam, but if you understand Portuguese, you can check out the whole thing on this PDF.
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High ResolutionHere are some resources to help parents and caregivers speak with children about today’s events. (PDF): http://www.sesameworkshop.org/assets/1192/src/HereForEachOther_vEng2012Modified.pdf
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High ResolutionRecommended Archaeology Books for Young Readers
- Archaeologists Dig for Clues by Kate Duke, HarperCollins, 1997.
- America’s REAL First Thanksgiving by Robyn Gioia, Pineapple Press, 2007.
- Dave the Potter: Artist, Poet, Slave by Laban Carrick Hill, Little, Brown, 2010.
- The Timucua Indians: A Native American Detective Story by Kelley G. Weitzel, University Press of Florida, 2000.
- Fort Mose: Colonial America’s Black Fortress of Freedom by Kathleen Deagan and Darcie MacMahon, University Press of Florida, 1995.
- Journeys with Florida’s Indians by Kelley G. Weitzel, University Press of Florida, 2002.
- Motel of the Mysteries by David Macaulay, Houghton Mifflin Company, 1979.
- Shipwreck by Claire Aston and Peter Dennis, Fast Forward series by Barron’s, 2001.
- Archaeology for Kids: Uncovering the Mysteries of Our Past by Richard Panchyk, Chicago Review Press, 2001.
- The Magic School Bus Shows and Tells: A Book about Archaeology by Jack Posner, Scholastic Inc., 1997.
List compiled for Florida libraries as they begin to plan for the 2013 Summer Reading theme: Dig into Reading. Don’t see your favorite? Add a note!
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High ResolutionMill interior, 1911. Durham, NC
(Courtesy Duke Rare Book and Manuscript Collection. Scanned by Digital Durham)The Durham Textile Mill, located at 702-704 Fayetteville St had its place in history cemented by visits and commentary by both Booker T. Washington and W.E.B. DuBois.
After Julian Carr broke the taboo against employment of African-Americans as machine operators at Durham Hosiery Mill No. 2 in 1903, John Merrick was determined to show that similar success could be achieved with not only African-American mill workers, but African-American ownership as well.
By 1911, Merrick, along with C.C. Spaulding and Dr. Aaron Moore, established the Durham Knitting Mill (also called the Durham Textile Mill) at the southwest corner of South Elm and Fayetteville Sts.
The Durham Textile Mill is described by Booker T. Washington in 1911:
“I was ready to go home, but they wanted to show me one more successful Negro plant. This was the plant known as the Durham Textile Mill, the only hosiery mill in the world entirely owned and operated by Negroes. Regularly incorporated, they operate eighteen knitting machines of the latest pattern, working regularly twelve women and two men and turning out seventy-five dozen pairs of hose each day. The goods so far are standing the test in the market, being equal in every way to other hose of the same price. They are sold mainly by white salesmen, who travel mostly in North Carolina, New York, Indiana, Georgia, South Carolina, and Alabama…”(via educationforliberation)
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"Education became miseducation because it began to de-Filipinize the youth, taught them to regard American culture as superior to any other, and American society as the model par excellence for Philippine society."
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“…our schooling has not been so much the great redeemer of prejudices as the tireless chronicler of what divides us. Education is no small player in giving meaning to these differences. We are schooled in differences great and small, in borderlines and boundaries, in historical struggles and exotic practices, all of which extend the meaning of difference. We are taught to discriminate in both the most innocent and fateful ways so that we can appreciate the differences between civilized and primitive, West and East, first and third worlds. We become adept at identifying the distinguishing features of this country, that culture, those people. We are educated in what we take to be the true nature of difference.”
- John Willinsky (1998) Learning to Divide the World: Education at Empire’s End
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High ResolutionCaricature showing Uncle Sam lecturing four children labelled Philippines, Hawaii, Porto Rico and Cuba in front of children holding books labelled with various U.S. states.
The caption reads: “School Begins. Uncle Sam (to his new class in Civilization): Now, children, you’ve got to learn these lessons whether you want to or not! But just take a look at the class ahead of you, and remember that, in a little while, you will feel as glad to be here as they are!”
(via collectivehistory)
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Ewing wheels out his ignorance
Mark Ewing, a candidate for State House in the Mat-Su Valley, made his position on whether or not every child should be provided an education very unclear last week in a debate. During the debate with his opponent Lynn Gattis he said:
“We are spending millions and millions of dollars educating children that have a hard time making their wheelchair move and, I’m sorry, but you’ve got to say, ‘no’ somewhere. We need to educate our children, but there are certain individuals that are just not going to benefit from an education.”
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Theoretical *language* is not the problem in academia
Of course theoretical language should be “accessible” to everyone but attacking the language of theory for being dense is a categorical mistake. Sure, in many cases there’s purposefully obfuscated language. But by what sort of benchmark do we go about determining criteria for this? Theoretical language becomes jargony for reasons analogous to why other disciplines use jargony terminology; and this isn’t because the terminology is essentially bourgeois/academic language (although it can be, contingently). This kind of emphasis treads the line of essentializing the roles theory and philosophy play in institutions as bourgeois and “for the privileged.” It’s a tacit claim about language being a force that separates and creates rifts between classes of people, and is in this case, very beside the point.
The emphasis should instead be on how the bureaucratic apparatuses servicing academia in our current society are materially exclusionary of POC/working class people who would otherwise thrive in more pluralized institutions. In other words, the issue isn’t essentially about language. Not when ~25% of people attend and actually obtain a BA in the U.S. and can’t partake in the ways in which we formally rupture and reshape how we think about language.
The reason there’s white privileged male academics is the same reason why there’s white privileged male employers everywhere. That doesn’t mean every resource hitherto produced by white privileged males can’t or shouldn’t be reappropriated or that it is an essential barrier to marginalized people.
Concentrating on creating these regulatory frameworks for how writing, in general, should be conducted, sort of ignores the reason why poor people and POC are excluded in the first place.
(via le-kif-kif)
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Mr Wizard’s a Dick
hilarious to the final second.
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The Rosetta Disk
Long Now Foundation’s Rosetta Project have created a miniature archive featuring all of the world languages laser etched onto a small disc that can fit in your hand:
The Rosetta Disk is intended to be a durable archive of human languages, as well as an aesthetic object that suggests a journey of the imagination across culture and history. We have attempted to create a unique physical artifact which evokes the great diversity of human experience as well as the incredible variety of symbolic systems we have constructed to understand and communicate that experience.
The Disk surface shown here, meant to be a guide to the contents, is etched with a central image of the earth and a message written in eight major world languages: “Languages of the World: This is an archive of over 1,500 human languages assembled in the year 02008 C.E. Magnify 1,000 times to find over 13,000 pages of language documentation.” The text begins at eye-readable scale and spirals down to nano-scale. This tapered ring of languages is intended to maximize the number of people that will be able to read something immediately upon picking up the Disk, as well as implying the directions for using it—‘get a magnifier and there is more.’
… The pages are microscopically etched and then electroformed in solid nickel, a process that raises the text very slightly - about 100 nanometers - off of the surface of the disk. Each page is only 400 microns across - about the width of 5 human hairs - and can be read through a microscope at 650X as clearly as you would from print in a book. Individual pages are visible at a much lower magnification of 100X. The outer ring of text reads “Languages of the World” in eight major world languages.
Here is a video by Scott Oller about the Rosetta Project:
Rosetta from Scott Oller on Vimeo.
You can find out more about the project here
(via jangojips)
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