July 24, 2024 Why History Lessons Are So Threatening to Those with Power Chana Teeger Erasure and denial of the past are not the only ways to suppress historical claims and reproduce privilege. Chana Teeger’s research in two racially diverse South African schools shows how the past can be recalled while its legacies are ignored.
July 17, 2024 Michiko Suzuki on Decentering the Western Humanitarian Movement: Japanese Indigenous Humanitarianism (Jindō) In this Q&A, Michiko Suzuki’s discusses Humanitarian Internationalism Under Empire. The book is the first English written research monograph about the history of the Japanese Red Cross movement.
July 10, 2024 An Impossible Friendship and the Possibilities of Friendship in Israel/Palestine Sonja Mejcher-Atassi An Impossible Friendship invites us to glimpse alternative possibilities within and alongside the fraught history of Israel/Palestine.
June 19, 2024 Technology and Vannevar Bush, Fifty Years Later G. Pascal Zachary On his death fifty years ago, Vannevar Bush was celebrated with a page one obituary in the New York Times. He died quietly in his home in the late hours of June 29, and his passing was met with the...
June 12, 2024 Beyond Repair: The Psychic Life of Reparation Carolyn Laubender Ten years ago, on June 15, 2014, Ta-Nishi Coates published his watershed Atlantic article, “The Case for Reparations.” An immediate cultural flashpoint, Coates’s piece sought to legitimize the demand for racial reparation in the contemporary United States by documenting how...
June 5, 2024 Five Scientists with Disabilities Whom You Should Know Skylar Bayer and Gabi Serrato Marks In 2018, we (Skylar and Gabi) got together and decided that we would create a book with a diversity of stories about disability and medical conditions in STEM, help contributors tell their stories in their own voices, and provide representation...
May 29, 2024 Eye of the Beholder: Perception of Art and the Brain Eric R. Kandel Art is not complete without the perceptual and emotional involvement of the viewer—that is, without our response to it. As a neuroscientist and a lover of art, I am fascinated by this response, which results from the interaction of two...
May 28, 2024 Hawai‘i’s Chinese and Cold War Politics Nancy E. Riley Hawai‘i has been in the orbit of the United States since at least the mid nineteenth century, but it was after World War II, as the United States engaged in Cold War with the USSR, that Hawai‘i became particularly important....
May 23, 2024 Rumi Yasutake on The Feminist Pacific Rumi Yasutake’s book, The Feminist Pacific: International Women’s Networks in Hawai’i, 1820–1940, conceptualizes the emergence of pan-Pacific feminism in the process of interacting historical forces and women’s activism in Hawai‘i from 1820 through the 1930s. When a mounting tide of...
May 22, 2024 The Rip Current Survival Guide Rob Brander The beach. There’s a lot wrapped up in those two words. To some, beaches are associated with the joys of a yearly vacation, but for others they can evoke a scary memory of being caught in a rip current. In...
May 15, 2024 Natalie Foley in Conversation with Robyn Massey on The Experimentation Field Book Organizations place great value on innovation. Yet to achieve innovation—whether via new products, services, or strategies—experimentation is key. Indeed, experimentation is the link between generating new ideas and putting them into practice. On the face of it, this sounds straightforward....
May 8, 2024 Benjamin C. Alamar on the second edition of Sports Analytics Data and analytics have the potential to provide sports organizations with competitive advantages both on and off the field. But how are organizations incorporating analytics into their decision-making process? What challenges do they encounter in the use of analytics, and...