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Intersectional Identities of Asian Americans Living with Mental Health Conditions in Computer Science Education
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Review Of Resistance And Support: Contact Improvisation @ 50 Edited By A. Cooper
No full textCooper-Albright is a long-time practitioner and teacher of contact improvisation and Professor of Dance at Oberlin College (Ohio). A prolific dance scholar and author/editor of seven previous books, Albright also organized the twenty-fifth and fiftieth anniversary contact improvisation celebrations held at Oberlin College. Contact improvisation (CI) is a form of partner dancing begun in the US in 1972, originating in part, at Oberlin College. CI partners share weight via a moving point of contact and improvise in ways many view as progressive, egalitarian, and communal. This anthology gathers diverse perspectives from the global CI dancing community, some of whom participated in the fiftieth anniversary event. It is divided into three sections, entitled Productive Tensions, Responsive Touch, and Local Communities/Global Contexts. Each section is introduced/contextualized by Cooper-Albright. Twenty essays explore power dynamics, gender hierarchies, and ability differences in CI. Varying positions regarding racial, cultural, class, and sexual orientation in CI are also discussed. Writers include those with significant experience in CI and relative newcomers. Approaches range from interviews to practical guidelines and more historically, somatically, or theoretically-based contributions. Overall, a useful record and critique of CI fifty years after its founding. Photos, charts, bibliographies, and a comprehensive index enhance the text. Summing Up: Recommended. Lower-division undergraduates through professionals
Learning New Neopronouns Or Task Adaptation?
No full textEnglish neopronouns have been reported difficult to learn or use because of their low frequency, and because pronouns are a closed category, and are rated below ceiling in acceptability surveys. Hekanaho (2022) reports that metalinguistic commentary about neopronouns includes themes of prescriptivism, unfamiliarity, ‘weirdness,’ and confusion. In this study, we examine whether exposure to neopronouns during a survey increased acceptability ratings. Neopronouns were rated higher when seen later in the survey. We analyze metalinguistic comments from the survey in which participants report their experiences in the survey as educational or instructive, suggesting that some order effects may be reflective of actual learning
Carbonaceous Macrofossils From The Ediacaran–Cambrian Lower Shale Member Of The Soltanieh Formation, Northwestern Iran
No full textThe Ediacaran–lower Cambrian Soltanieh Formation exposed in the Soltanieh Mountains of northwestern Iran is a mixed siliciclastic-carbonate succession that hosts skeletal animals, metazoan trace fossils, and macroalgal compressions, in addition to a well-resolved C isotopic record. Here we attempt to clarify the systematic paleontology of carbonaceous compression macrofossils found at the base of the Lower Shale Member of this formation, close to the Ediacaran–Cambrian boundary, and discuss their implications for our understanding of the early evolution of complex multicellular organisms. We identified five distinct morphological groups: (1) small discoidal fossils (chuarids), (2) branching thalli (Eoholynia corumbensis), (3) large discoidal fossils (Doulia rara), (4) simple ribbon-like compressions, and (5) chuarid-like discoidal structures with an attached filament. These fossils display limited diversity but include representatives of the three groups that dominate Ediacaran–Cambrian macrophyte diversity globally. All are present at the stratigraphic level in which Cambrian animals and trace fossils first appear, providing broader biological context for understanding early animal diversification
Review Of Wrongs And Rights Come Apart By N. Cornell
No full textMany hold that rights and wrongs are symmetrical: that is, violations of rights are always wrong, and wrongs are always violations of rights. Cornell (law, Univ. of Michigan) challenges this widespread view, arguing that while rights and wrongs often overlap, they belong to distinct moral categories that diverge systematically across such contexts as illicit promises, mistreatment of animals, and economic exploitation. Examples: John makes an unethical promise to Jane, but the breaking of the promise could still be wrong; mistreating animals is wrong, but it doesn’t follow that we must conclude that animals have rights; and one might consent to work in a sweatshop out of necessity, but consent doesn\u27t negate the wrong. Drawing on examples from law, literature, and contemporary culture, Cornell argues that wrongs are retrospective and corrective, while rights are prospective promises. Further, Cornell maintains that potential wrongs don’t necessarily prescribe what one should do and that rights don’t always prescribe corrective action after being breached. That wrongs and rights come apart is important, he concludes, if we are to understand the richness and complexity of moral relationships and obligations. This book is rigorous yet accessible and sheds light on the diverse and complex web of moral life. Summing Up: Highly recommended. Advanced undergraduates through faculty
Aligning Climate-Energy Policies With Citizen Beliefs, Scientific Findings, Health And Economic Benefits, And Geopolitical Stability
No full textRecent and abrupt deviations in U.S. climate and energy policies are shifting the United States away from a more sustainable future toward greater fossil-fuel use that will accelerate global warming. These new priorities go against the wishes of the American people as measured by many nationally representative surveys, and they ignore the scientific consensus regarding climate change and its deleterious consequences. This new agenda will harm the physical and mental health of Americans, imperil the U.S. economy, weaken American leadership in science, and increase geopolitical instability. Despite the frightening nature of these unprecedented departures from past climate-energy policies, successfully combating the climate crisis is achievable and will improve well-being, grow the economy, enhance security, and promote independence. Insights derived from social psychology can motivate positive actions so that government policies represent the will of their people and benefit from the knowledge of climate scientists, social researchers, economists, and health experts
Cultural Transmission And The French Enlightenment: Repurposing The Past
No full textMany French Enlightenment thinkers sculpted their identity and projected their ideas into the future via reflection on the past, despite their rhetoric of rupture and rejection of tradition. Emphasizing the entangled nature of eighteenth-century thought and its reception, Cultural transmission and the French Enlightenment: repurposing the past asks where the past ends and its interpretation begins, illuminating the myriad material forms of knowledge and their circulation across geographical space and time. The contributing authors uncover and interrogate the cultural assumptions of both the French Enlightenment and its afterlife. Each essay examines this process of cultural transmission and the ramifications today of the continued sourcing of ideas generated during the Enlightenment. Bringing together perspectives ranging from literary studies, to history of science and theater studies, the authors of this volume interpret the Enlightenment through its continuity rather than as a set of fixed, universal values. Instead of accepting or contesting Western society and politics as the apogee of progress, and seeking an intellectual past by which to define the present, such approaches situate the Enlightenment in a longer chain of invention, repurposing, and reception