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‘The virtues of not knowing’: how ‘unknowingness’ in pedagogical partnership prepares student partners to navigate complexity, uncertainty, and change in pursuit of equity
No full textWe live in a time of complexity, uncertainty, and change that can exacerbate inequities. Student–faculty pedagogical partnership that embraces ‘unknowingness’ can prepare student partners both to navigate complexity, uncertainty, and change and to work toward equity within and beyond higher education. After noting several current conditions of complexity, uncertainty, change, and inequity in the United States and beyond, this article introduces the concept of unknowingness, defines pedagogical partnership, and describes a longstanding, US-based pedagogical partnership program that embraces unknowingness. Using thematic analysis, the article draws on published essays and anonymous student-partner feedback to illustrate three stages through which student partners learn to work against hierarchies, re-understand complexity, uncertainty, and change, and develop the capacity to navigate the world with an equity orientation. The first stage is the uncertainty student partners feel when they enter into a pedagogical partnership, which reflects the dominant orientation in US higher education to have or seek the right answer. In the second stage, student partners build confidence and capacity through learning to trust unknowingness. Third is embracing unknowingness as a mindset student partners carry with them to navigate with an equity orientation the challenges and opportunities presented by a complex, unpredictable, and increasingly undemocratic and inequitable world
Translating Male-Male Desire in Greek and Latin Literature: Jack Lindsay and his Illustrators
No full textThis article explores the verbal and visual representation of male homoerotic desire and same-sex relations in Jack Lindsay’s translations of Petronius, Theocritus, Catullus, and Apuleius, published in limited editions - both as unexpurgated versions and as examples of fine bookmaking - between 1927 and 1932, with illustrations by Norman Lindsay, Lionel Ellis, and Percival Goodman. It investigates the modes of ambivalence, evasion, and suggestion that qualify the translations’ ostensible acceptance of homoeroticism and it considers the role of illustration both as a paratext that accompanies the text and affects its reception, and as a visual translation that can variously perform, supplement, revise, or compete with the verbal translation
The Simons Observatory: science goals and forecasts for the enhanced Large Aperture Telescope
No full textWe describe updated scientific goals for the wide-field, millimeter-wave survey that will be produced by the Simons Observatory (SO). Significant upgrades to the 6-meter SO Large Aperture Telescope (LAT) are expected to be complete by 2028, and will include a doubled mapping speed with 30,000 new detectors and an automated data reduction pipeline. In addition, a new photovoltaic array will supply most of the observatory\u27s power. The LAT survey will cover about 60% of the sky at a regular observing cadence, with five times the angular resolution and ten times the map depth of the Planck satellite. The science goals are to: (1) determine the physical conditions in the early universe and constrain the existence of new light particles; (2) measure the integrated distribution of mass, electron pressure, and electron momentum in the late-time universe, and, in combination with optical surveys, determine the neutrino mass and the effects of dark energy via tomographic measurements of the growth of structure at redshifts z ≲ 3; (3) measure the distribution of electron density and pressure around galaxy groups and clusters, and calibrate the effects of energy input from galaxy formation on the surrounding environment; (4) produce a sample of more than 30,000 galaxy clusters, and more than 100,000 extragalactic millimeter sources, including regularly sampled AGN light-curves, to study these sources and their emission physics; (5) measure the polarized emission from magnetically aligned dust grains in our Galaxy, to study the properties of dust and the role of magnetic fields in star formation; (6) constrain asteroid regoliths, search for Trans-Neptunian Objects, and either detect or eliminate large portions of the phase space in the search for Planet 9; and (7) provide a powerful new window into the transient universe on time scales of minutes to years, concurrent with observations from the Vera C. Rubin Observatory of overlapping sky
Illness as Narrative [book review]
No full textIllness as Narrative By Ann Jurecic University of Pittsbugh Press: 2012, 192 Page
Drought intensity and duration interact to magnify losses in primary productivity
No full textAs droughts become longer and more intense, impacts on terrestrial primary productivity are expected to increase progressively. Yet, some ecosystems appear to acclimate to multiyear drought, with constant or diminishing reductions in productivity as drought duration increases. We quantified the combined effects of drought duration and intensity on aboveground productivity in 74 grasslands and shrublands distributed globally. Ecosystem acclimation with multiyear drought was observed overall, except when droughts were extreme (i.e., ≤1-in-100-year likelihood of occurrence). Productivity losses after four consecutive years of extreme drought increased by ~2.5-fold compared with those of the first year. These results portend a foundational shift in ecosystem behavior if drought duration and intensity increase, from maintenance of reduced functioning over time to progressive and profound losses of productivity when droughts are extreme