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This Fact is Overdue #7

 

Reimagine Everything

Grace Lee Boggs: relating to philosophy through imagination

Grace sits before a “Welcome Friends” sign in her home.

References

Aguilar-San Juan, K. (2015. We are Extraordinarily Lucky to Be Living in These Times: A Conversation with Grace Lee Boggs. Frontiers: A Journal of Women Studies. 36(2), pp.92-123.

Barry, L. (2008) What it is. Montreal: Drawn and Quarterly.

Boggs, G. (1998) Living for Change. Minneapolis: University of Minnesot Press.

Boggs, G. (2006) Nothing Is More Important than Thinking Dialectically.  The New Centennial Review. 6(2), pp 1-6.

Boggs, G. (2011) The Next American Revolution. Berkeley: University of California Press.

Boggs, G. (2012) Reimagine Everything. Race, Poverty and the Environment. 19(2), pp. 44-45

REFERENCES

Aguilar-San Juan, K. (2015. We are Extraordinarily Lucky to Be Living in These Times: A Conversation with Grace Lee Boggs. Frontiers: A Journal of Women Studies. 36(2), pp.92-123.

Barry, L. (2008) What it is. Montreal: Drawn and Quarterly.

Boggs, G. (1998) Living for Change. Minneapolis: University of Minnesot Press.

Boggs, G. (2006) Nothing Is More Important than Thinking Dialectically.  The New Centennial Review. 6(2), pp 1-6.

Boggs, G. (2011) The Next American Revolution. Berkeley: University of California Press.

Boggs, G. (2012) Reimagine Everything. Race, Poverty and the Environment. 19(2), pp. 44-45

Dodson, B. (2007) Drawing with Imagination. Cincinnati, OH: North Light Books.

Gurney, J. (2009) Imaginative Realism: How to draw what doesn’t exist. Kansas City: Andrews McMeel Publishing.

Lee, G. (2013) American Revolutionary: The Evolution of Grace Lee Boggs. Center for Asian American Media.

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This Fact Is Overdue #6

 

This week I talk about Dr. Jessica Ware and her damselfly research. Listen here

References

Attard, D. (2017). The History of Drones: a wonderful, fascinating story over 235+ years
https://www.dronesbuy.net/history-of-drones/

Bybee, S. et al (2021) Phylogeny and classification of Odonata using targeted genomics. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 160 https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ympev.2021.107115.

Entomology Society of America (2015) Memoirs of Black Entomologists. Annapolis, MD: ESA

Gewin, V. (2012) Turning point: Jessica Ware. Nature 484, 133 . https://doi-org.proxy2.cl.msu.edu/10.1038/nj7392-133a

Kelly, B. (1996) Microcosmos [film review] https://variety.com/1996/film/reviews/microcosmos-1200445825/

Manolis, T. (2003) Dragonflies and Damselflies of California. Berkeley: University of California Press.

Nuridsanny, C. and M. Perennou. (1996) Microcosmos: The Invisible World of Insects. New York: Stewart, Tabori & Chang.

Srivastava, DS. et al. (2020) Habitat size threshholds for predators: Why damselflies only occur in large bromeliads. Biotropica 52, 1030-1040. https://doi.org/10.1111/btp.12734

Tseng, M., El-Sabaawi, R.W., Kantar, M.B. et al. (2020).Strategies and support for Black, Indigenous, and people of colour in ecology and evolutionary biology. Nat Ecol Evol 4, 1288–1290. https://doi-org.proxy2.cl.msu.edu/10.1038/s41559-020-1252-0

Ware, J. (2021) Odonata. Current Biology 31 R51-R66

Ware, J. (2020) Black in Nature Cell 183, 557

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This Fact Is Overdue #5

A look at the world's largest invasive species. Listen here

References

Castelblanco-Martínez, N. (2021) ”A hippo in the room: Predicting the persistence and dispersion of an invasive mega-vertebrate in Colombia, South America” Biological Conservation, 253 (108923) https://doi.org/10.1016/j.biocon.2020.108923

Castelblanco-Martínez, N. https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Nataly-Castelblanco-Martinez

 

Clark, L (2015) “1887 blizzard that changed the American Frontier Forever” Smithsonian Magazine https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/1887-blizzard-changed-american-frontier-forever-1-180953852/

 

Duarte, F. (2021) “Pablo Escobar: Why scientists want to kill Colombia's hippos” https://www.bbc.com/news/world-latin-america-56011594#:~:text=There%20have%20been%20no%20fatalities,a%20threat%20to%20local%20communities.

 

Gailey, S. (2018) American Hippo. New York: Tom Doherty Assoc.

 

Hyacinth Woes: from a gift to a curse https://fishbio.com/field-notes/the-fish-report/hyacinth-woes-gift-curse

 

Kaplan, S. (2021) “Invasion of the hippos: Colombia is running out of time to tackle Pablo Escobar’s wildest legacy“ Washington Post. https://www.washingtonpost.com/climate-environment/2021/01/11/invasive-hippos-escobar-colombia-castrate/

 

MacCash, D. (2014) “Water hyacinths, a killed Colombian cocaine tycoon and out-of-place hippos” Times-Picayune https://www.nola.com/entertainment_life/arts/article_c1afb09c-7154-556b-9477-cad98a0ef744.html

 

Mason, C.F. (2009) in Encyclopedia of Inland Waters, https://animaldiversity.org/accounts/Hippopotamus_amphibius/

 

Moollem, J. American Hippopotamus https://magazine.atavist.com/american-hippopotamus

Swoboda, Lois. (2015) Water hyacinth a beautiful dilemma Apalachicola Times; Apalachicola, Fla.

Romero, S. (2009) “Colombia Confronts Drug Lord’s Legacy: Hippos” New York Times. https://www.nytimes.com/2009/09/11/world/americas/11hippo.html

Scott, M (2014) “Louisiana's bizarre hippo history to be recounted in movie 'American Hippopotamus'” Times-Picayune https://www.nola.com/entertainment_life/movies_tv/article_081cdb91-ce3d-5a0d-9b5b-08192b8e0ce8.html

Tikkanen, A. (2020) Pablo Escobar https://www.britannica.com/biography/Pablo-Escobar

 

Wootsen, C. (2018) “Kenyan officials did little when a hippo killed a local, critics say. Then a foreigner was mauled.” Washington Post.  https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/animalia/wp/2018/08/13/kenyan-officials-did-little-when-a-hippo-killed-a-local-critics-say-then-a-foreigner-was-mauled/

 

Zielinski, S. (2016) “Capybaras may be poised to be Florida’s next invasive rodent” Science News https://www.sciencenews.org/blog/wild-things/capybaras-may-be-poised-be-floridas-next-invasive-rodent

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This Fact Is Overdue #4

Dr. Gladys B. West is an American mathematician whose geodesic models for the shape of the earth underpin modern GPS usage. Cameo by Dr. Sylvia A. Earle!

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Dr. Gladys B. West is an American mathematician whose geodesic models for the shape of the earth underpin modern GPS usage. Cameo by Dr. Sylvia A. Earle!
References

ESRI Press (2019) Women and GIS. Redlands, CA: ESRI Press. ppg 62-71

Johnson, K. (2020) GLADYS MAE WEST (1930- ) 

https://www.blackpast.org/african-american-history/people-african-american-history/gladys-mae-west-1930/

Khadjavi, L. et al (2021) "Navigating an Uncharted Path: The Life and Legacy of Dr. Gladys B. West." Notices of the American Mathematical Society. Vol68(3).

Mohdin, A. (2020) "Gladys West: the hidden figure who helped invent GPS" The Guardian
https://www.theguardian.com/society/2020/nov/19/gladys-west-the-hidden-figure-who-helped-invent-gps

NASA (2006) GEOSAT https://science.nasa.gov/missions/geosat

Ogbogu, S. (2021) Black History: Meet Dr. Gladys West, The Black Woman Behind GPS Technology

https://afrotech.com/black-history-dr-gladys-west-gps-technology

Reynolds, L. (2019) Meet Dr. Gladys West, the hidden figure behind your phone’s GPS. 
https://massivesci.com/articles/science-heroes-gps-hidden-figures-scientist-women-physics-math/

West, G. (1979) "Smoothing of Geos 3 Satellite Radar Altimeter Data." Journal of Geophysical Research Vol 84 (B8), ppg 4055-4060.

West, G. (1982) "Mean Earth Ellipsoid Determined from SEASAT 1 Altimetric Observations." Journal of Geophysical Research. Vol 87 (B7) ppg 5538-5540.

West, G. (2020) It Began With a Dream. King George, VA: IGWest Publishing. 

Wikipedia article. Gladys West https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gladys_West

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I went camping. It was lovely to unplug.

 

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This Fact Is Overdue #3

What is the connection between the World's Columbian Exposition and Weird Al Yankovich? Listen to this week's episode to find out!

References

Bridge, F. and J. Tibbetts (1991) The Well-Tooled Kitchen. New York: Hearst Books.

Jones, J. (2019) ANNA M. MANGIN: INVENTED THE PASTRY FORK IN 1891
https://blackthen.com/anna-m-mangin-invented-the-pastry-fork-in-1891/

Larson, E. (2003) The Devil in the White City. New York: Crown Publishers. 

Mangin, A. (1892) US Patent 470,005 Pastry Fork http://www.google.com/patents/US470005

Wasserstrom (2018) The Spatula: The Original Kitchen Weapon
 https://www.wasserstrom.com/blog/2018/10/23/spatula-history/

Weimann, J. (1981) The Fair Women. Chicago: Academy Chicago Publishers

Zuckerman, C. (2015) 5 Things You Didn’t Know About Spatulas 
https://www.nationalgeographic.com/culture/article/tools-5-things-you-didnt-know-about-spatulas

 

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