North Carolina tries to vote away reality
This post is a little dated now, but still worth highlighting in my opinion. In a surprising turn of recent events, the North Carolina legislature voted July 3rd that history is not really...
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A Vagina By Any Other Name…
Vagina: noun (plural vaginas or vaginae /-nē, -nī/) the muscular tube leading from the external genitals to the cervix of the uterus in women and most female mammals. Just when you think...
Environmental Security and Global Warming
Back in 2007 the Carnegie Council held a symposium on environmental security, in which a number of academics working or thinking about this question had submitted related papers, with the featured piece...
The Biopolitics of Mexican Drug Cartels
While I’ve written about US-Mexican border politics before, I even did a Masters thesis on border politics, the state of affairs today in Northern Mexico is rapidly spiraling out of control. As...
It’s a Mad, Mad World!
“I do not believe that this legislation changes the scientific standards that are taught in our schools or the curriculum that is used by our teachers.” –TN Governor Bill Haslam on the...
A Contagion of Fear and An Education in Terrorism
“A contagion of fear has infected campus, and the successive, endless nature of bomb threat-related notifications and evacuations have amplified the hysteria, with the new security measures only lending credence to the fears…students...
