Citizen Science Tabor Tree Project: Field Report No. 2

by Candace GossenFeatured Posts, Interesting, Ronin ScholarshipPosted on One Comment

By Ronin Research Scholar Candace Gossen See the first Tabor Tree Project post.  “NASA’s citizen science projects are collaborations between scientists and interested members of the public. Through these collaborations, volunteers (known as citizen scientists) have helped make thousands of important scientific discoveries.” — NASA In January 2021, using the GLOBE Observer app, the Mt. …

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Throwing a line to tomorrow

by John LaRoccoInterestingPosted on No Comments

By Ronin Research Scholar John LaRocco Technology is eventually legislated by those unfamiliar with it. This is often used to protect the status quo, at the price of social openness. Relevant examples include cryptography, drones, martial arts gear, and even general-purpose computing. As political pressure builds to support censorship around the world, this will increasingly …

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Reflections on 2020: COVID, research, career and prospects

by Keith Tse Lit Hum Oxon Balliol Ling UoM UoY MCIL CLAcademia, COVID-19, InterestingPosted on 2 Comments

By Ronin Research Scholar Keith Tse 2020 has been a year like no other, and for obvious reasons. It came as no surprise that the word chosen as Word of the Year for 2020 by the American Dialect Society was COVID, since this has been and still is plaguing (literally) our global community since the …

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Excellent and Important Data Visualization on White Supremacist Violence

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The website https://plaintalkhistory.com/monroeandflorencework/explore/ has some really great data visualization for lynchings in the United States between 1835 and 1964. The interactive map and timeline show the locations and dates of lynchings, and many of the thousands of markers link to additional information about the crimes and victims. There is also a ton of historical information about …

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Risk it ALL!

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Hey, here’s a cool video. It’s a sort of advice column from designer James Victore. The advice is obviously framed in a way that is specific to design (and probably art /achitecture as well), but it’s amazing how much of it carries over to, well, everything. It’s something that all you scholars out there should …

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