Category: Physical & Natural Sciences
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Review: The Atlas of AI
This volume sets out to explore how artificial intelligence is produced, winding its way through the various historical, cultural, economic, and political forces that inform and shape this process.
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Gendered Language in Biology: A Response to Emily Martin’s “The Egg and the Sperm”
Emily Martin’s “The Egg and the Sperm” analyzes the ways in which sexism and misogyny permeate through aspects of culture and into biology. Martin states that the main goal of the article is to “shine a bright light on the gender stereotypes hidden within the scientific language of biology” in order to […]
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DML Final Report
Who were you addressing with your design objective? Our design objective addresses after-school youth ages 10 to 16 living in Parramore, a historically black neighborhood near Downtown Orlando. What are the three essential questions the field needs to answer to move learning playlist design and implementation forward? How might we enable learners to show and […]
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NCSU STS 214 Citizen Science Project: Secchi Disk
Secchi Disk Citizen Science Project We decided to adapt the Minnesota Pollution Control Agency (MPCA) Citizen Water Monitoring Program from https://scistarter.com/project/11021-MPCA-Citizen-Water-Monitoring-Program. This citizen science project focused on the monitoring of water quality and pollutants and is sponsored by the MPCA. The project calls for participants to use either a secchi disk, for use in lakes or […]
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Citizen Science Project: Invasive Mosquitoes
The project our group chose to adapt was the Invasive Mosquito Project, created on scistarter.com. The project called for participants to collect mosquito larva, eggs, and pupae from surrounding wetlands around the world and report the findings to the project organisers. The findings will be reported to public-health representatives to benefit community outreach programs […]
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Bad Kids Save the World
Playground City has had three main focuses during the last three months: 1) Develop a suite of playlists that engage youth in their local food environment; 2) Connect with our learners where they are, and understand their learning identities by asking questions; and 3) Begin to address structural unemployment; i.e., understand employers’ hiring identities by […]