B. Ricardo Brown, PhD

@NODE801
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Professor of Social Science & Cultural Studies
Pratt Institute

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#Sociology & #HistSTM #CriticalTheory #FrankfurtSchool #EnvironmentalStudies #CharlesDarwin #KarlMarx #Epicurus #Materialism #soundscapes #soundstudies #music #chess #RightToRepair #DIY #NYC #WaHI #SouthCarolina
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Until Darwin bloghttps://until-darwin.blogspot.com/
Ruins bloghttps://node801.blogspot.com/
Workhttps://pratt.academia.edu/BRicardoBrown
Twitter @UntilDarwinhttps://twitter.com/UntilDarwin
B. Ricardo Brown, PhDMay 25, 2023
Moving to a new server, so, soon to be found at @NODE801 but will keep this one going for at least a while.
B. Ricardo Brown, PhDMay 9, 2023
The greatest bird artist you’ve never heard of
"Brasher sought a more naturalistic treatment, without Audubon’s operatic drama. Although he hunted and collected birds as a young man, he gave up that approach later, preferring close observation to specimen hunting. His paintings have a lightness and transparency wholly different from Audubon’s heightened atmosphere."
#EnvHist #HistSTM #NatHist #Birds #Audubon
WPost Gift link: https://wapo.st/3VM2SlO
The greatest bird artist you’ve never heard of

Rex Brasher painted more birds than Audubon, and he never owned slaves.

The Washington Post
B. Ricardo Brown, PhDMay 9, 2023
"For decades, famed professor Tim White used a vast collection of human remains... to teach his anthropology students at the University of California, Berkeley.
White, a world-renowned expert on human evolution, said the collection was passed down through generations of #anthropology professors before he started teaching with it in the late 1970s. It came with no records, he said. Most were not labeled at all or said only “lab.”
#HistSTM #HistSci
https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/uc-berkeley-native-american-remains-rcna72748
A UC Berkeley professor taught with human remains, angering Native American tribes

Famed UC Berkeley professor Tim White taught with a vast collection of human remains. University officials now suspect many of them were Native American.

NBC News
B. Ricardo Brown, PhDMay 9, 2023
"The segregation based mainly and specifically on race and color which the United States Government carries on is despicable, illogical and uncivilized … To perpetuate it in the case of the Gold Star mothers who are visiting great cemeteries where the putrid remains of their dead sons were buried very largely by Negro soldiers, is the last word in this national disgrace.”
#Sociology #WWI #DuBois #BlackHistory
https://lithub.com/on-w-e-b-du-bois-and-the-disgraceful-treatment-of-gold-star-mothers/
On W.E.B. Du Bois and the Disgraceful Treatment of Gold Star Mothers

Along with the question of war guilt, another controversy in the spring and summer of 1930 offered W.E.B. Du Bois a reminder of the First World War’s bitter legacy. In early 1929, after years of pr…

Literary Hub
B. Ricardo Brown, PhDApr 18, 2023

Morgan Freeman says the terms ‘Black History Month’ and ‘African American’ are insults....
objected to “African American” because it was inaccurate....
you say Africa as if it’s a country when it’s a continent, like Europe.”
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As for Black History Month, he said he objected to the ghettoisation implicit in devoting February to this topic.

“Black history is American history; they’re completely intertwined.”

#BlackHistory #BlackMastodon #CivilRights

https://www.theguardian.com/film/2023/apr/18/morgan-freeman-says-the-terms-black-history-month-and-african-american-are-insults

Morgan Freeman says the terms ‘Black History Month’ and ‘African American’ are insults

The actor objected in a UK interview to both, saying ‘You’re going to relegate my history to a month?’ and that the latter phrase is inaccurate

The Guardian
B. Ricardo Brown, PhDApr 17, 2023

Look up, listen, and be very concerned. Birds are vanishing – and their crisis is our crisis
Mark Cocker

The UK has lost 40m birds since 1970 and Europe as a whole has lost 600m birds since 1980...long been the worst of any country in the region. The North American continent, meanwhile, but especially the US, has seen avian populations fall by almost a third since 1970, losing a cumulative 3bn birds. #Climate_Change #Biodiversity #Birds #extinction
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2023/apr/17/birds-vanishing-crisis-40m-birds

Look up, listen, and be very concerned. Birds are vanishing – and their crisis is our crisis

More than 40m birds have disappeared from UK’s skies since 1970: a trend that imperils the network that gives us life, says naturalist Mark Cocker

The Guardian
Show threadB. Ricardo Brown, PhDApr 11, 2023
@futurebird Same here in Washington Heights except near the parks, and those are worse every passing year. I have noticed these contributors: too much salt, esp. near parks like Ft. Tryon; an almost casual or even recreational use of Roundup by both Parks and road crews; constantly cutting back plant growth before flowering and/or seeding; removing leaf litter and tree stumps even in the parks. There are more reasons, though, I am sure.
B. Ricardo Brown, PhDApr 11, 2023
Bold Jumping Spider (Phidippus audax)
Observer: arman_
#FtTryonParkNYCbiodiversity #NYC #WaHi
https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/153723661
via Fort Tryon Park: Biodiversity and Ecology #iNaturalist
https://www.inaturalist.org/projects/fort-tryon-park-biodiversity-and-ecology
Bold Jumping Spider (Phidippus audax)

Bold Jumping Spider from Fort Tryon Park, New York, NY, US on April 06, 2023 at 03:44 PM by Arman

iNaturalist
B. Ricardo Brown, PhDApr 11, 2023
Piebald white-tailed deer
NatureNotes
By Rudy Mancke
from South Carolina Public Radio
#NatHist #SouthCarolina #NaturalHistory
https://www.southcarolinapublicradio.org/show/naturenotes/2023-03-31/piebald-white-tailed-deer
Piebald white-tailed deer

Often confused with an albino, a piebald deer is slightly more common and is also a genetic mutation. Piebald deer can have varying amounts of white hair.

S CAROLINA
B. Ricardo Brown, PhDMar 30, 2023
Charles Darwin on the atrocity of slavery and the origin of inequality
#Slavery #HistSTM #HistSci #CharlesDarwin
https://economicsociology.org/2023/03/25/charles-darwin-on-the-atrocity-of-slavery-and-the-origin-of-inequality/
Charles Darwin on the atrocity of slavery and the origin of inequality

Economic Sociology & Political Economy