Below you will find blog posts from faculty members about their research and scholarly work as well as classes discussing online. Read and interact! Where appropriate, please post a comment or question and let us know your thoughts.
Marion Nestle - Food Politics (read all posts)
Marion Nestle blogs about her work in field of nutrition, dietetics, and food policy.
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Get your kids interested in farming: here’s how?
This appeared in my e-mail. I tried to find out where it came from, but no luck. Can anyone tell me its source?
Published: Tuesday, May 22nd 2012 08:34 AM -
Some comments on the progress of the farm bill
I haven’t said anything recently about the current status of the farm bill, mainly because it is too early in the political process to know what is going to happen. On April 26, the Senate Ag Committee voted to pass the Agriculture Reform, Food and Jobs Act of 2012. The bill still has a long [...]
Published: Monday, May 21st 2012 11:18 AM
Mark Crispin Miller - News From Underground (read all posts)
News From Underground is a daily e-news service run by Mark Crispin Miller
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In solidarity with Quebec student strikers, Free University to occupy Washington Square Park
ANNOUNCING THE FREE UNIVERSITY IN SOLIDARITY WITH QUEBEC STRIKE!! The Free University is hosting a pop-up occupation Tuesday, May 22nd in Washington Square Park at 5PM on the 100th day of the Quebec students’ unlimited strike, already one of the largest student mobilizations in recent history. During 100 days of strike, contempt, and resistance, students [...]
Published: Tuesday, May 22nd 2012 12:55 AM -
Fukushima 4 may cause “the worst nuclear storm the world has ever seen”
Fukushima Reactor 4 poses massive global risk Andy Johnson, CTVNews.ca Date: Saturday May. 19, 2012 8:20 PM ET More than a year after a devastating earthquake and tsunami triggered a massive nuclear disaster, experts are warning that Japan isn’t out of the woods yet and the worst nuclear storm the world has ever seen could [...]
Published: Tuesday, May 22nd 2012 12:24 AM
Carolyn Dimitri - sustainable food economics (read all posts)
An economist's thoughts about bringing sustainability into the food system
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more on the relative costs of healthy/unhealthy food – wonkish
I’ve had a chance to read the recent Economic Research Service report called “Are Healthy Foods Really More Expensive?”, written by Carlson and Frazao. The main finding of the research is that whether healthy foods are more expensive depends on … Continue reading
Published: Monday, May 21st 2012 03:19 PM -
is healthy food really more expensive? (wonkish)
Whew. Another semester is just about over (only 20 more papers to read!). But I am back! The Economic Research Service plans to release a report (later today, I think) on how to measure prices of healthy food, and I … Continue reading
Published: Wednesday, May 16th 2012 11:18 AM
Joe Salvatore - Musings on creativity, art, and culture (read all posts)
Posts on topics ranging from the creative process NYC performances to current events.
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Get over the s.o.
Ben Brantley of The New York Times did a great service last week when he called for an end to the automatic standing ovation on Broadway (the s.o.). I couldn’t agree more and highly recommend that we all work to end this very silly and now meaningless cultural phenomenon. Read Brantley’s take by clicking here. [...]
Published: Monday, May 21st 2012 08:37 AM -
Once on Broadway: Thank God, some people still understand how to make theatre
So let me be frank. I probably go to the theatre more than the average person because it’s what I do. I make theatre and I teach theatre; therefore, I also have to be a consumer of theatre. It’s how I stay current, and hopefully I see work that inspires me to create and teach [...]
Published: Sunday, May 6th 2012 06:37 PM
danah boyd - apophenia (read all posts)
Social media, social software, education, media social networks and other relevant topics.
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Microsoft Research opens New York City lab
I am giddy with pleasure to share Jennifer Chayes’ announcement that Microsoft Research is opening a new lab in New York City that will be filled with computational social science types. The New England lab that I call home combines qualitative social science, empirical economics, machine learning, and mathematics. We’ve long noted the need for [...]
Published: Thursday, May 3rd 2012 12:09 AM -
Reflections on Fear in a Networked Society
I’ve been trying to work through some ideas on how fear operates in a networked society. At Webstock in New Zealand, I gave a talk called “Culture of Fear + Attention Economy = ?!?!” Building on this, I gave a talk at SXSW called “The Power of Fear in Networked Publics.” While my thinking in [...]
Published: Monday, March 26th 2012 09:41 AM
Perry N. Halkitis - The Huffington Post (read all posts)
Perry Halkitis examines the intersection between the HIV, drug abuse, and mental health.
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Gay and Gray: What We Need to Know About Aging Gay Men
It imperative that the delivery of health care to older gay men focus on the totality of our existence and consider our life experiences, including how the AIDS crisis and a lifetime of bigotry have compromised and shaped our health. Yet we have little data on the health of older gay men.
Published: Wednesday, April 18th 2012 05:12 AM -
Re-Centering Science in the Fight Against AIDS
Despite many significant biomedical advances, we now enter the fourth decade of AIDS with a largely unabated crisis still on our hands.
Published: Wednesday, July 27th 2011 05:12 AM
Gabriella Coleman - Interprete (read all posts)
Gabriella Coleman researches the role of new media technologies in sustaining new forms of collaboration and patient activism.
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Montreal, first impressions
When I told people of my plans to move to Montreal, it usually prompted one of two reactions: one was some version of joyful envy, many people exclaiming breathlessly “Montreal is one of my favorite cities,” one person once even clutching my arm and told me as he looked me straight in the eye: “you [...]
Published: Saturday, February 18th 2012 04:49 PM -
The Best of NYC
Now that the semester is done and now that I have compiled my crazy paperwork for Canada (wow, it is a lot), I will be heading in six days to the wonderful city of Montreal to settle down, at least for a few years. I am ready to leave but it is not an easy move, [...]
Published: Thursday, December 22nd 2011 05:37 PM
Niobe Way - The Huffington Post (read all posts)
Niobe Way researches how schools, families, and peers as well as larger political and economic contexts influence developmental trajectories
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Penn State and the Crisis of Masculinity
It's time we understand that being human and being a man should be one and the same; that the reason why we have survived for so long as a species is because we, men and women, care about others and respond when others are in danger and need our help.
Published: Saturday, January 14th 2012 05:12 AM -
Standing by Our Boys
One reason for the popularity of Rob Reiner's coming-of-age classic "Stand by Me," as suggested by studies of boys, is that the film's depiction of friendships during adolescence is hauntingly familiar.
Published: Sunday, November 20th 2011 05:12 AM
Nick Mirzoeff - For the Right to Look. New approaches to visuality (read all posts)
Can convergent digital technologies offer qualitative as well as quantitative means for such a convergence?
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Occupy Climate Change!
Occupy climate change! Why? Because the transformations that Occupy seeks in social and economic life are the same as those needed to sustain conditions suitable for human and non-human life on our planet. So the phrase “occupy climate change” is correctly understood to mean “the political economy of sustaining the biosphere and the cultural imaginary.” [...]
Published: Wednesday, December 21st 2011 12:33 PM -
The Force of Law #OWS
For the past few days, Occupy locations have reverberated to the sound of the force of law. I mean this literally. I was awakened at 3.30am on November 15 by the sound of what I think were helicopters above lower Manhattan. The combination of police barricades and the closure of the subways meant that no [...]
Published: Wednesday, November 16th 2011 04:41 PM
Gary Anderson - The Huffington Post (read all posts)
Gary Anderson blogs for the Huffington Post about Educational Policy.
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Chilean Students Show the Way
Chilean students are experimenting with new forms of protest, such as marathon runs around congress, kiss-ins, and a 3,000-student performance of Michael Jackson's "Thriller" to imply that the education system in Chile has become a zombie.
Published: Monday, October 31st 2011 05:12 AM -
Egypt and Wisconsin: Democracy is Alive and Well
It is time for educators of all stripes to organize to defend to defend rights like collective bargaining.
Published: Wednesday, May 25th 2011 06:35 PM