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Ep. #085 - Jason W. Moore
No full textThis recording and transcript form part of a collection of podcasts conducted by the Cultures of Energy at Rice University. Cultures of Energy brings writers, artists and scholars together to talk, think and feel their way into the Anthropocene. We cover serious issues like climate change, species extinction and energy transition. But we also try to confront seemingly huge and insurmountable problems with insight, creativity and laughter.Cymene and Dominic talk capital and Vanilla Isis and then (11:21) we welcome to the podcast the one and only Jason W. Moore from Binghamton University, author of Capitalism in the Web of Life (Verso, 2015) and Anthropocene or Capitalocene? (PM Press, 2016). We chat with Jason about his most recent work, co-authored with Raj Patel, A History of the World in Seven Cheap Things (U California Press, 2017), forthcoming this October. We talk about why he wanted to write a book for a broader audience, the problems with the “anthropocene” concept in the human sciences, how “capitalocene” can improve our thinking about world history, and how we can avoid vulgar materialism in critical environmental research and activism today. We cover the role that states and agriculture have played in shaping modern capitalism and Jason calls for a seriously engaged pluralism to tackle the urgent challenges of our era. We discuss the cheapening or thingification of life, capitalism as a gravitational field, the importance of frontiers, the violence of the Great Domestication, and why if green energy remains in the mode of “cheap fuel” nothing will change about capitalist accumulation. Jason explains why racial and gender domination are so often lacunae in critiques of petromodernity. Finally we ruminate on how to unmake the capitalist world-ecology and the key principles of the “reparation ecology” that Jason and his colleagues are calling for. Tired of the debate within the left about whether to prioritize jobs or the environment? Then you’ll want to listen on
Book Review: The Military Legacy of Alexander the Great: Lessons for the Information Age
No full textAuthor: Michael P. Ferguson and Ian Worthington
Reviewed by Jason W. Warren, PhD
The Military Legacy of Alexander the Great: Lessons for the Information Age focuses on three themes—inspirational physical presence, Alexander’s army’s professionalism, and the speed with which he campaigned. The reviewer notes there are many useful observations, overall, he sees the book as a “mixed bag.” For those newer to studies “on Alexander or lessons-learned methodology, Legacy may prove a useful primer.”https://press.armywarcollege.edu/parameters_bookshelf/1091/thumbnail.jp
An Interview with Cass R. Sunstein: Author of The World According to Star Wars
No full textThe guest editors of special issue 12, Jason W. Ellis and Sean Scanlan, interview Cass R. Sunstein, the Robert Walmsley University Professor at Harvard, where he is founder and director of the Program on Behavioral Economics and Public Policy. He is the author of many books, including the bestseller Nudge: Improving Decisions about Health, Wealth, and Happiness (with Richard H. Thaler). His 2016 book The World According to Star Wars attempts to understand the Star Wars universe in ten chapters through the lenses of Sunstein’s academic interests, namely: culture, sociology, psychology, behavioral science, and political science. The book is both personal and theoretical, practical and academic. It takes accurate measure of the genesis of the movies, the movies themselves, and briefly, but trenchantly, it examines concepts such as reputational cascades and speculates on what Star Wars can teach viewers about constitutional disputes
Correspondence, Jason Brown to Frank B. Sanborn, September 10, 1885
No full textA letter to Franklin B. Sanborn from Jason Brown, refusing a one hundred dollar check sent to him by William Lloyd Garrison. 1 page
Emotionality in the bloggers' language (on the example of Jason Hunt's texts)
No full textThe author discusses the language of Jason Hunt's blog, referring to current trends in Polish persuasive language. On the basis of lexical and metaphorical analysis of selected texts, the
distinguishing features of autopromotion are indicated. These are: Emotionality as a compositional dominant and emotional pact as a model of blogger-reader relationship.DIANA SANIEWSKA - doktor nauk humanistycznych w zakresie literaturoznawstwa, autorka rozprawy Choroba i terapia. List romantyczny w perspektywie nauk o emocjach (2015). Zawodowo zainteresowana intymistyką. Fascynatka zjawisk językowych, także patologii języka i mowy. Obecnie przygotowuje drugą rozprawę doktorską na pograniczu językoznawstwa, logopedii i antropologii. Pomysłodawczyni i organizatorka białostockich konferencji poświęconych emocjom.Uniwersytet w Białymstoku32534
Assessing the George W. Bush Presidency: A Tale of Two Terms
No full textIn one of the first volumes assessing the full two terms of the George W. Bush presidency, Wroe and Herbert have gathered the work of leading American and European scholars. In fifteen succinct and incisive chapters, authorities such as Jim Pfiffner, John Maltese, Graham Wilson and Alan Gitelson offer assessments of the Bush administration's successes and failures. Extensive attention is paid to Bush's foreign policy, including 'The War on Terror' but the focus is broadened to absorb not only the Bush Doctrine and its repercussions, but also his trade and homeland security policies. The president's domestic leadership in economics and social policy is investigated, as are his dealings as president with the other institutions of the U.S. political system. The result is a comprehensive guide to the Bush presidency and its legacy
Effective medium theory and Rosseland mean opacity
No full textThesis (M.S.)--Wichita State University, College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, Dept. of Physics."December 2005."As a gas cools the mean opacity becomes dominated by the opacity of molecules and at low temperatures solid dust grains. Accurately computing the opacity is necessary to accurately compute the transfer of radiation through a gas. An attempt is made to refine the calculation of opacity within the stellar atmosphere modeling program PHOENIX through the addition of new optical constants, including those of the mineral species enstatite, forsterite, and fayalite. A general search for laboratory measurements of the optical constants of these minerals was performed, as well as a comparative study of the various data sets found. A study is also made investigating the importance of effective medium theory in the calculation of mean opacities within PHOENIX. Effective medium theory details the study of complex porous grains and the way in which they interact with electromagnetic radiation. The results of applying effective medium theory to modify the optical constants already within the bounds of this study are then compared to the current processes within PHOENIX. This study concludes that adding optical constants for forsterite and fayalite, and substituting a new data set for enstatite will help to improve the accuracy of PHOENIX models. Effective medium theory was found to not be a significant contributor to the calculations of the mean opacity
Effect of low-temperature opacities on stellar evolution
No full textThesis (M.S.)-- Wichita State University, College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, Dept. of Mathematics, Statistics, and PhysicsStellar evolution is studied through computational models of stars since any
perceived change in the stars can take thousands if not millions of years. One of the
physical quantities that defines the evolution of a star is known as the opacity. Opacity of
a material determines how much electromagnetic radiation passes through the material.
Scattering and absorption processes in the radiative region of the star determine the
opacity of that region and regulate radiative energy flow in the star. The mean opacity
which is averaged over all wavelengths depends on the temperature, density, and the
composition of the material in the star. Currently, tables of mean opacities are used in
stellar modeling. These opacities are given as functions of temperature and density and the
tables are made for several compositions which changes with evolution of the star. At low
temperatures, formation of molecules and dust grains can affect the mean opacity. In this
study, low-temperature opacity tables are made with opacity codes ATOP and PHOENIX
and stellar models produced with these opacity tables with the stellar evolution code MESA
are compared. In addition, the effect of initial elemental abundance sets and molecular
data sources on stellar evolution is studied. Finally, the impact of low-temperature
opacities on the pace of stellar evolution is analyzed with stellar isochrones. The results
show that there is negligible difference between stellar models produced with ATOP and
PHOENIX and with different molecular data sources. However, changing the initial
elemental abundance set generated significant changes in stellar evolution
Monochromatic molecular absorption coefficients for use in calculations of stellar opacity
No full textPresented to the 14th Annual Symposium on Graduate Research and Scholarly Projects (GRASP) held at the Rhatigan Student Center, Wichita State University, April 27, 2018.Research completed in the Department of Mathematics, Statistics and Physics, Fairmount College of Liberal Arts and SciencesIn order to fully understand stellar structure, it is necessary to know the opacity, as it influences the behavior of radiative transfer within the stellar interior. Opacity plays an important role in the onset of convection as well as driving stellar winds in cool stars. Opacity is the interaction of light with the surrounding medium, with major contributors being atoms, molecules and grains. Tables of average opacity values are highly dependent on the composition and if any values are altered, a completely new set of tables must be recalculated.
Using molecular line lists, a computer program was written to calculate the bound-bound transition cross-section absorption coefficients for eight different molecular species, including C2, CH, CN, CO, C2H2, HCN, H2O and TiO. Molecular line lists, like H2O, consist of hundreds of millions of lines of data that slow down the process of calculation. Since the frequency specific opacity is dependent on temperature, the molecular absorption coefficients must be
calculated for each and every temperature. This project computed cross-sections computed for a range of temperatures, log T = 2.8 - 4.0. Molecules were examined thoroughly at log T = 3.0. This research allows for an update in mean opacity tables based upon each molecular species and
its abundance. This would provide necessary improvements in the computation of mean opacity tables used in stellar interior models.Graduate School, Academic Affairs, University Librarie
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