Since the notion of the Anthropocene entered the discourse of environmental humanities, it has prompted multiple conceptual innovations. This paper focuses on one such case: the term planetary and the adjacent
They do not, and will not during the term of this financial assistance award, operate any programs that advance or promote DEI, DEIA, or discriminatory equity ideology in violation of Federal anti-discrimination laws You know what DEI and DEIA mean. NIH is not trying to redefine these terms...
Lets go back then. Late in his second term, Bill Clinton was impeached for an improper relationship with an intern. I think the outrage went across the aisle on this situation and he was rightly tried. Now, we have a president elect who, by a court of law, by a jury of his peers ...
B. Its effects were limited to knocking out a power grid, depriving customers of power for a week. C. The window of opportunity for foresecing similar storms in the future is even smaller now. D. The next geomagnetic storm that occurs will be much worse.4. The author uses the term“...
It kind of feels like a long term investment for me. It’s the first time I’ve really had the opportunity to do it quite so fully. But I will eventually have to go back to work because I do need to pay my mortgage, [though] I’m hoping to open a new era of work. I have ...
In 2016, the Alaska Marine Highway System Reform Initiative was put into action as a means of ensuring the long term feasibility of the state's ferry operations. At the time, declining funding and ridership prompted the creation of a 12-member steering committee to find alternativ...
Whileonespeaker said that the high level of sovereign debt was caused by weak political systems in which borrowing against future and long-term public assetswasat odds withtheshort political cycle, resulting in intergenerational debt, the majority of speakers ...
But we lack appropriate terms to deal with such semi-realities: probability’ is far too weak a term, ‘potentiality’ is in every way preferable. Contemporary scientific parlance studiously avoids the concept of ‘potentiality’, so important for Aristotle, because of the dead weight of ...
But the question remains as to whether or not the utility of the term will be as an informal designation for the period of recent enhanced human activity, or whether it can be defined in a geological sense as formal time-stratigraphic unit of the GTS (Geological Time Scale). For the ...
This child was carried to term clandestinely, upon in vitro fertilization, in a bullfrog farm; thus, her service needs to be delivered in a circuitous, hidden way.11 At the beginning of her career I-narrator "Tad-pole" Wan Zu's aunt, who is the daughter of Norman Bethune's disciple, ...