This talk examines why South Sudan’s 2011 referendum on self-determination, a process intended to resolve Sudan’s racial conflict, ultimately intensified racialization for South Sudanese who remained in Sudan’s capital. The talk argues that independence functioned less as a resolution of racial injustice than as a reorganization of it, inscribing racial ...
In Apocalyptic Authoritarianism: Climate Crisis, Media, and Power (Oxford University Press, 2025), climate media scholar Hanna E. Morris (University of Toronto) reveals how national anxieties following the presidential election of Donald Trump in 2016 have shaped American journalistic and political interpretations of climate change in ways that severely limit how ...
Editor's Note: Bruce Macintosh, the original speaker scheduled to talk on "Pictures of Distant Worlds", has been called out of town. This talk will be given instead.Our Universe has provided many surprises to astronomers. One hundred years ago, Edwin Hubble showed it is expanding. In the 1990s, we found that the ...
Where: Los Altos HillsCost: Free
Fusion Energy: The Hope, the Hype, and What Comes Next - SOLD OUTHumanity has tamed fire, wind, steam and even the atom to fuel civilization. Now we’re reaching for the next leap: fusion.Fusion means creating the heat and pressure needed to force atoms to merge and release energy - essentially, building a tiny star on Earth. Long considered out of reach, that changed in December ...
Where: San FranciscoCost: $25
Virtual Skeptics in the PubThis is a casual night of socializing with fellow science-forward skeptics and with others inhabiting our oblate spheroidal planet.Please join us! This is a free event brought to you by Bay Area Skeptics. All are welcome.Click here to join
OneTaste hoped orgasm would change the world. Emerging in the midst of the late-aughts for-profit wellness boom, the company was unwavering in its faith in orgasmic meditation, or OM, a fifteen-minute practice featuring a woman being clitorally stimulated by a clothed, usually male partner. Nicole Daedone, the group’s magnetic and ...
