STEM
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Max Liboiron at #AnthropocenePHL
The opening keynote at the Anthropocene Campus Philadelphia was Prof. Max Liboiron: How We Do Science on Permanent Plastic Pollution. Max Liboiron is a feminist environmental scientist, science and technology studies (STS) scholar, and activist. As an Assistant Professor in Geography… Continue reading
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Robots, Robber Barons, & the Situation for Existential Innovation
A more full account from Paul Krugman on some of the topics I originally brought up yesterday. Still, can innovation and progress really hurt large numbers of workers, maybe even workers in general? I often encounter assertions that this can’t… Continue reading
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Innovating Existence: Human Capital in the Global Market
In the Society of Control, we have given up a few things that marked the closing decades of the Society of Discipline. Among these is the dominance of disciplinary enclosures. That dominance led to the University as we know it… Continue reading
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ARTSblog » Blog Archive » STEM Promotes Science Instruction at the Expense of Humanities
My good sister & colleague Kelli Barr responded to the ARTSblog piece to which I posted a link the other day. Besides a response here at Reason & Existenz, she also wrote a longer reaction at ARTSblog. She goes into… Continue reading
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“STEM without flowers is just a bare stem…”
…which sometimes can have some BIG thorns… We need more engineers and scientists. That has become the mantra of promoters of STEM (science, technology, engineering, and mathematics) in education. There is nothing wrong with such a rallying cry, except that… Continue reading
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