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Lujain Al-Saleh
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Sep 16, 2021

rereading Joan Didion in 2021

rereading Joan Didion in 2021 As Joan Didion wrote in her 1968 ‘Slouching Towards Bethlehem,’ “keepers of private notebooks are a different breed altogether, lonely and resistant rearranges of things, anxious malcontents, children afflicted apparently at birth with some presentiment of loss.” At the age of seven, I started to write my many thoughts down…

Joan Didion

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rereading Joan Didion in 2021
rereading Joan Didion in 2021
Joan Didion

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Sep 1, 2021

Beyond Science: Speaking Truth to Power

Science has always been politicized. Whether it comes to research funding or classroom curriculum, political values and agendas continuously shape the scientific endeavor and its development. However, under the current political climate, science is being directly threatened and outspokenly admonished. From the deletion of White House pages on climate change…

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Beyond Science: Speaking Truth to Power
Beyond Science: Speaking Truth to Power

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Jul 31, 2021

patience & planes

there is no kind of patience like sitting in a plane in the sky waiting to land i’ve been waiting to land for a while

Patience

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patience & planes
patience & planes
Patience

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Sep 1, 2017

change and uncertainty

Change and uncertainty Two things I incessantly avoid Stability and security Two things I incessantly want Head first it hits me The uncertainty of change The change of uncertainty I remain uncertain about change I change as I remain uncertain I am told that only time will tell Then what will it tell? Please tell… Preoccupied by what I cannot control I drive myself down a tunnel of whimsy Deep down into the abyss of smoke

Uncertainty

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change and uncertainty
change and uncertainty
Uncertainty

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Sep 10, 2015

The Great Research Duo: Meet Eliska and Jenise

For over ten years, Eliska Rejmánková, a professor of Wetland Ecology at UC Davis and the faculty leader for the Summer Abroad Guatemala, “Ecological and Social Issues” program, has been researching Lake Atitlán, the deepest lake in Central America. …

Climate Change

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The Great Research Duo: Meet Eliska and Jenise
The Great Research Duo: Meet Eliska and Jenise
Climate Change

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Sep 10, 2015

The Coffee Country

Roughly the size Ohio, Guatemala is one of the world’s largest coffee producers and “has the highest percentage of its crop classified as high quality.” Some of the nation’s best coffee is actually produced within its western highlands near the well-known Lake Atitlán. Although the demand of Guatemalan coffee has…

Coffee

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The Coffee Country
The Coffee Country
Coffee

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Sep 9, 2015

Globalization, Neoliberalism, and Environmental Degradation

Globalization. Neoliberalism. Corporate power. Political corruption. Environmental degradation. These forces are not mutually exclusive systems as they depend upon each other to maintain an endless, perpetuating cycle that reinforces the distinction between the oppressor and the oppressed. As scholar Heather Eaton stated, “globalization refers to processes of global economic restructuring…

Environment

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Globalization, Neoliberalism, and Environmental Degradation
Globalization, Neoliberalism, and Environmental Degradation
Environment

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Sep 9, 2015

Keep Lake Atitlán Blue

As writer and philosopher Aldous Huxley once stated in his 1934 travel book Beyond the Mexique Bay, “Lake Como, it seems to me, touches on the limit of permissibly picturesque, but Atitlán is Como with additional embellishments of several immense volcanoes. It really is too much of a good thing.”‪ …

Climate Change

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Keep Lake Atitlán Blue
Keep Lake Atitlán Blue
Climate Change

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