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Opinion: To an appreciable degree, the notoriety of these fossil fuels and their resulting anthropogenic gases, especially carbon dioxide, has received a fair amount of publicity.

RAPID CITY, S.D. (AP) — A western South Dakota inmate who walked away from a...

Khomeini and the clergy completely outmanoeuvred the left. But it need not have been that way. In his second and concluding article on the role of oil workers in the 1979 revolution, Peyman Jafari stresses the complex nature of ideology and class consciousness

Independent Day School graduates strong-willed class of 21 in Middlefield Press Staff FacebookTwitterEmail The Independent Day School class of 2021 gathered in Middlefield with family, teachers and administrators to celebrate their graduation recently.Contributed photo / Independent Day School MIDDLEFIELD — Eighth-graders at the Independent Day School gathered with family, teachers and administrators to celebrate their graduation June 11 at the Laurel Brook Road facility. The program began wi...

To enhance its educational and cultural offerings, AUC's Distinguished Visiting Professor program brings a number of eminent scholars, writers, and artists to campus for short-term lectureships or workshops. Leading scholars of religion, prominent historians, expert law professors, and world-renowned scientists are among the broad array of distinguished visiting professors who come to AUC each year to teach, conduct research and deliver public lectures. Through these visits, the University ...

Liam Campling and Alejandro Colás Beginning in the late 1860s, the decade that it took to construct the Suez Canal, photographs depicting its feats of engineering circulated across the world. Sold to travelers as souvenirs, featured in Le Monde, and later exhibited at the 1889 Paris world fair, they enshrined on paper the industrial monumentality of the dredgers that excavated earth into sea. The Ever Given provided a rare glimpse into global markets, whose workings are typically invisible—...

Bruno Latour and Peter Weibel, eds. Let’s take as a starting point that “the Earth is moving yet again.” It is shifting, unstable, reactive; it’s different one year, or minute, to the next. In an age of rising seas and mass extinctions, the point hardly needs proving. The quote comes from the introduction to  Critical Zones: The Science and Politics of Landing on Earth, a tome-sized catalog published in 2020 to accompany an exhibition at the Center for Art and Media in Karlsruhe, Germa...

The Real Cost of Putting Off Your Doctors Appointments During Covid Richard Laliberte At first they told us not to come. Early in the pandemic, health authorities steered us clear of doctors and hospitals to help flatten the curve and relieve ICUs. We may have listened too well. Emergency room visits for non-Covid reasons tanked by 42 percent between January and May 2020. And by the middle of the year, roughly 41 percent of U. S. adults had avoided some form of medical care, ac...

Faculty association files complaints against Medicine Hat College over contract talk tactics Poll Do you agree with police and health authorities shutting down, fencing off Grace Life Church near Edmonton? Yes The faculty association at Medicine Hat College has filed labour board complaints stating the institution’s board of governors is attempting to undermine its authority as the two sides discuss a new contract. The association filed seven complaints stating the employer had improper conve...

Fossil Fuel Companies Are Job Killers New analysis shows the number of workers required per project will soon fall by 20 to 30 percent, even without a transition to renewables. ROBYN BECK/AFP/Getty Images An oil industry consultant discusses the state of the oil fracking industry on the Bakken Shale Formation. As Joe Biden’s climate-scented infrastructure proposal kicks off, the fossil fuel industry has one tried and true message to fall back on: They stand for jobs, prosperity, and the worki...