Stentor Danielson

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Environmental studies and geography prof, game designer, and kitten wrangler. They/them
For @newbooksnetwork.bsky.social I talked to Laura Zurowski, Charles Succop, and Matthew Jacob about "City Steps of Pittsburgh": https://newbooksnetwork.com/city-steps-of-pittsburgh
Laura Zurowski et al., "City Steps of Pittsburgh: A History & Guide" (History Press, 2024) - New Books Network

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For New Books in Geography I talked to Matthew Schneider-Mayerson, W.P. Malecki, and Frank Hakemulder about "Empirical Ecocriticism": https://newbooksnetwork.com/empirical-ecocriticism
For @[email protected] I talked to Yolanda Ariadne Collins about "Forests of Refuge": https://newbooksnetwork.com/forests-of-refuge
For @[email protected] I talked to Flora Lu and Emily Murai about "Critical Campus Sustainabilities": https://newbooksnetwork.com/critical-campus-sustainabilities
This is such a terrible idea that I'm sure administrators around the country can't wait to implement it. It's yet another step in turning education into the efficient generation of a product rather than than the fostering of a human relationship. Capitalism is literally de-humanizing us.
https://www.insidehighered.com/news/tech-innovation/teaching-learning/2024/02/27/facial-recognition-heads-class-will-students
Facial recognition heads to class. Will students benefit?

Innovators plow forward with this technology in a largely unregulated ecosystem. Ethicists and a new National Academies report urge caution.

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For @[email protected] I talked to Isabella Alexander about "Copyright and Cartography": https://newbooksnetwork.com/copyright-and-cartography
Podcast | Isabella Alexander, "Copyright and Cartography: History,…

Isabella Alexander, "Copyright and Cartography: History, Law, and the Circulation of Geographical Knowledge" (Bloomsbury, 2023)

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Just voted to keep our new department name simple as "Department of Social Sciences." Among the other candidates was the Department of Public Innovation & Social Sciences (PISS).
"There are known knowns; there are plums we know we have eaten. We also know there are known unknowns; that is to say we know there are some plums we do not know if we have eaten. But there are also unknown unknowns—the plums we don't know we don't know if we have eaten." -- William Carlos Rumsfeld
For @[email protected] I talked to Jared Margulies about "The Cactus Hunters: Desire and Extinction in the Illicit Succulent Trade" https://newbooksnetwork.com/the-cactus-hunters
Podcast | Jared D. Margulies, "The Cactus Hunters: Desire and…

Jared D. Margulies, "The Cactus Hunters: Desire and Extinction in the Illicit Succulent Trade" (U Minnesota Press, 2023)

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But they were all of them deceived, for another Up was made. And into this Up he poured all his cruelty, his malice and his high fructose corn syrup. One Up to rule them all.