North Carolina tries to vote away reality
This post is a little dated now, but still worth highlighting in my opinion. In a surprising turn of recent events, the North Carolina legislature voted July 3rd that history is not really...
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A Vagina By Any Other Name…
Vagina: noun (plural vaginas or vaginae /-nē, -nī/) the muscular tube leading from the external genitals to the cervix of the uterus in women and most female mammals. Just when you think...
Environmental Security and Global Warming
Back in 2007 the Carnegie Council held a symposium on environmental security, in which a number of academics working or thinking about this question had submitted related papers, with the featured piece...
The Biopolitics of Mexican Drug Cartels
While I’ve written about US-Mexican border politics before, I even did a Masters thesis on border politics, the state of affairs today in Northern Mexico is rapidly spiraling out of control. As...
Reflecting on May Day – Occupy Needs New Tactics
So after a day of marching, rallies, speakers and events here in NYC, what did the May 1 General Strike change? That’s the question that’s been on my mind since I went to...
Logistics, Surveillance and New Modalities of Visualization: From RFID to Google Earth
A Brave New World doesn’t really even begin to capture it all… There has been a slow but stead growth in the logistics of surveillance, whether that be of people or of objects....
