“What if we had storytelling mechanisms that said it’s important that you know abt the well-being of wildlife in your neighborhood? That that’s newsworthy? This beautiful gift of attention that we human beings have is being hijacked to pay attention to products + someone else’s political agenda. Whereas if we can reclaim our attention + pay attn to things that really matter, there a revolution starts”
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2023/01/30/magazine/robin-wall-kimmerer-interview.html
The US government’s main indicator of inflation, the consumer price index, is compiled by looking at the changes in price that urban Americans pay for a set basket of goods.
Those living in rural America are not surveyed and they are harder hit by increases in prices for gas, used cars, groceries and health care.
@transmediale is streaming over the next three days! So many fantastic programs! (I’m talking about redaction tomorrow at 13:00 CET)
Open call for British Academy International Fellowships ... these fund early career researchers to come to the UK for 3 years to conduct high quality research in the humanities & social sciences.
Happy to be contacted by eligible candidates working in areas of #HistoricalSociology & #Colonialism #Empire
Please share widely!
@sociology
@histodons
@politicalscience
https://www.thebritishacademy.ac.uk/funding/international-fellowships/
For #BlackHistoryMonth, let's remember Bayard Rustin.
The civil rights leader, when he is remembered at all these days, is remembered for brilliantly organizing the 1963 March on Washington.
Not everyone appreciated his pioneering approach to intersectionality - and as a gay man, he was sometimes seen as a liability.
His biographer makes a case for Rustin as the signature radical voice during the 20th century
https://theconversation.com/meet-bayard-rustin-often-forgotten-civil-rights-activist-gay-rights-advocate-union-organizer-pacifist-and-man-of-compassion-for-all-in-trouble-197250
#BlackMastodon #LGBTHistory #GayRights #histodons
Bayard Rustin led a long and complicated life dedicated to the fight for equal rights. Targeted by the FBI, Rustin became a close adviser to Martin Luther King Jr.
While battery innovations get a lot of attention, there’s a simple, proven long-term storage technique that’s been used in the U.S. since the 1920s.
It’s called pumped hydro energy storage. Here’s how it works
A team of researchers found 35,000 pairs of existing reservoirs, lakes and old mines in the US that could be turned into long-term energy storage – and they don’t need dams on rivers.