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18.05.2025 02:58
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Excerpt from "Demon-Haunted World": I have a foreboding of an America in my children's or grandchildren's time -- when the United States is a service and information economy; when nearly all the manufacturing industries have slipped away to other countries; when awesome technological powers are in the hands of a very few, and no one representing the public interest can even grasp the issues; when the people have lost the ability to set their own agendas or knowledgeably question those in authority; when, clutching our crystals and nervously consulting our horoscopes, our critical faculties in decline, unable to distinguish between what feels good and what's true, we slide, almost without noticing, back into superstition and darkness... The dumbing down of American is most evident in the slow decay of substantive content in the enormously influential media, the 30 second sound bites (now down to 10 seconds or less), lowest common denominator programming, credulous presentations on pseudoscience and superstition, but especially a kind of celebration of ignorance”
Carl warned us 30 years ago:
Now here's a cool #ClimHist visualization, nice work @hausfath.bsky.social and @thirstygecko.bsky.social!
In a new interdisciplinary Nature Climate Change Perspective paper, led by me, @lisgilmore and Rachael Shwom, we offer a critical perspective on #climate and social “tipping points.” 🎁: rdcu.be/d2gBC 🧵
I teach these two stories whenever I have the opportunity to do independent studies of Classical Chinese here!
An exciting edited volume on visual representations of plants and animals in early modern China and Japan has just been published with Amsterdam University Press. Includes studies of frogs, elephants, camels, and fish! 🐘🐫🐸🐟
www.aup.nl/en/book/9789...
How cool is this: A whole cart full of my books!
#millscollege #northeasternuniversity
Climate Chronicles, hosted by Dagomar Degroot, Episode 4: The Precarious Pleistocene. Inset: Artist's rendering of an extinct two-horned large mammal, similar to a rhinocerous. Inset: Host Dagomar Degroot with a red and blue variegated background representing the temperature changes of years over time.
In the third episode of The Climate Chronicles' first season, Becoming Human, Professor @dagomardegroot.bsky.social touches on everything from Noah’s Flood to nuclear submarines in telling the strange, three-century-long history of the discovery of the Ice Age. 🧪
Listen here: buff.ly/Uw4YPel
I just signed the book contract for _Revolutionary Natures: Grassroots Environmental Histories of China's Mao Era_, a collection of fascinating essays by a great group of scholars that will be published by University of Washington Press next year.