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Abstract. This article examines the Atlantropa Project of the German architect Herman Sörgel as a window onto the interconnected histories of environmental anxi

NSFs mission is to advance the progress of science, a mission accomplished by funding proposals for research and education made by scientists, engineers, and educators from across the country.

Introduction A strange battle is waiting to unfold at the center of the Sino-Tibetan conflict: the fight over the Dalai Lama’s reincarnation. As the 86-year-old Tibetan leader, who has spent most of his life in exile, advances further in age, there is growing uncertainty about where, or whether, his reincarnation might appear. In a 2011 statement, he laid out several …

The movement toward ESG reporting certainly highlights important issues, such as climate change and the treatment of workers, and it is welcome that corporations want to engage in the debate. But the belief that companies can solve such pressing issues—through pursuing ESG standards or otherwise—is deeply flawed.

A history and analysis of the ways schooling harms children and our country - if only it were just a conspiracy theory.

Expertise is of limited utility without public trust, and American society is in the throes of a terrible and growing crisis of trust.

In his classic allegory, the Leviathan,the English political philosopher Thomas Hobbes depicts a state of nature where there are “No arts; no letters; no

How Different is Digitised Learning, Really? The repute of degree and institutions are not lost because of a shift in the mode of learning-teaching mode, they are lost because of poor teaching, irrespective of the mode employed. Neeta Dhuri, a teacher for hearing impaired students, takes an online speech therapy session of parents and students during the COVID-19 lockdown in Mumbai. Photo: PTI Education6 hours ago For over a year, the battle for effective pedagogies online has raged, and opinio...

Rik Farrow I recently spent some time trying to write a set of general guidelines for what to monitor in a software system. I came up with this list: Latency distribution and successful/unsuccessful request counts (plus error types) for all RPCs served. Latency distribution and success rate for all other services depended on, as well as circuit breakers tripping. Monitor the last success time for anything that’s supposed to happen periodically. Percentage utilisation for resources (quotas, ra...

Tom Loveless has published a definitive autopsy of the failed policy initiative, and the Biden administration would do well to consult the educational coroner’s report before launching their next big education initiative.