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Monthly Archives: August 2012

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  • 10 Aug 2012
    Robin R. Wang

    A More Sophisticated Understanding of Yinyang

    We think we know...Robin R. Wang has the full story on the meaning and use of "yinyang."

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  • 8 Aug 2012
    Kevin Noble Maillard

    Interracial Relationships in a Post-Racial World

    Why would an interracial relationship become a dangerous political liaison? For most people, sex and relationships are private actions, but for public figures, intimate life turns into news. Add race to the mix, and it raises eyebrows. Obama had a white girlfriend in college? Sarah Palin may or may not have dated a black athlete? There are European royals of black and Asian descent? (Lichtenstein and Denmark.) At minimum, such pairings are imaginatively interesting. But why does it matter?

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  • 6 Aug 2012
    Shirley Brice Heath

    WriteIT, ReadIT, PerformIT – What adolescents do!

    Author Shirley Brice Heath reveals how her linguistic study of teenagers in the 21st century shaped the conclusions in Words and Work and Play.

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  • 3 Aug 2012
    Joanne M. Ferraro

    Venice in Peril

    Joanne Ferraro discusses what the future holds as floods ravage the medieval city.

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  • 1 Aug 2012
    Daniel A. Beard

    Computational Biology of a Home Aquarium

    Daniel A. Beard (with the help of this video from the Virtual Physiological Rat Project) discusses how we can understand the way living systems function in the digital age.

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