ScienceChanges

Intercultural Center for Research in Education (INCRE) is a 501 (c) (3) non-profit organization dedicated to research, development and technical assistance with the purpose of promoting quality and equity of education in the United States and internationally through projects that integrate humanistic education, science, technology and education for the preservation of life on our planet.

Sciences Knowledge Domain Links

An allied project (albeit on a larger scale) in Canada. "Reports on and live blogs of conferences, workshops, etc. in the various disciplines engaged in the humanistic and social study of science and technology."

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Interesting snapshots of data visualization created by famous authors including Kerouac, Heller, Bronte, Auden, Faulkner and others.

A key figure in the shift from public health of communicable diseases to lifestyle-related life expectancy, but with a socialist commitment.

NY Times article. "These days, the comments section of any engaging article is almost as necessary a read as the piece itself - if you want to know how insider experts received the article and how those outsiders processed the news"

an initiative to build an international infrastructure, open to public as well as researchers. mimics what it studies.

a review of books by a biologist, a sociologist, a lawyer "Understanding race as a producer of health outcomes, but not a result of genetic programming, doesn't suggest that we abandon biomedical research as it relates to race, but it does suggest that looking for race-oriented genetic precursors of disease is a fruitless labor."

"I don't like raising problems when I cannot see a solution. But..."

Disease isn't synonymous with its etiological agent or the map of its victims, whether or not either is placed within a... context that acknowledges the functional ecologies humans, livestock and wildlife share. [This] misses the structural factors underlying pathogen emergence and by virtue of that omission the pathogens' likely reemergence. Every one of the new potentially human-specific influenzas, for instance, have evolved out of industrial poultry and livestock. "

"Institutional events, individuals, firms, politics, ecology, families are all different meaningful context which we can study applying the systemic paradigm"

series of webinars & forums in Sept. '12

"Innovative thinking: Can you be taught?: Roberta B. Ness" (using examples from her field of epidemiology & health)

"Female professors were just as biased against women students as their male colleagues, and biology professors just as biased as physics professors - even though more than half of biology majors are women, whereas men far outnumber women in physics. "

"Periodically I find myself confused about my online presence and contributions. Am I using wikis, blogs, twitter, social networks, and email effectively? Effective by what criteria? Indeed, who am I trying to influence? My explorations of what others say about this recently has led me to a position-albeit a provisional one... The social, not the medium (or technology), should be the primary consideration. The criterion we need to apply in designing our online presence and contributions could be something like: "Am I welcoming and cultivating apprentices who are getting prepared to go on and cultivate the kinds of interaction in virtual and physical space that support their own work?" "