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Joyce Carol Oates – Fiction in the Flesh
05/24/2013
Joyce Carol Oates has won two O. Henry Awards, a National Book Award, and the Stone Award for Literary Lifetime Achievement, just to name a few. She took interest in literature at an early age, thanks to her grandmother’s gift of “Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland.” She began writing at age 14 when her grandmother gave [...]
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Between Inventor and Invention
05/21/2013
Where do technology innovations come from? We associate revolutionary inventions like the light bulb with their inventors, attributing the solitary genius of people like Thomas Edison with the production of something that has changed society. Professor Andrew Hargadon of UC Davis challenges this view of innovation, in the hopes of demystifying the cumulative process of [...]
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Climate Justice: A Humanitarian Approach to Environmental Equality
05/21/2013
We have all heard about climate change, but did you know that there is a fight for justice within this claim? Climate justice is more than just a demand for the stop of wrongful damage to the environment. It goes deeper into the tangible effects of climate change and the way they are unequally effecting [...]
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