The Bulletin—June 26, 2012
...living in and intellectually engaging with the US South. The Army Corps of Engineers is planning to close a controversial freshwater diversion that appeared to be building new land at...
Laurel River, North Carolina
Men pouring footers for the columns of the new bridge over the Laurel River, Laurel River, NC, 2000. Photo courtesy of Rob Amberg. Nighttime pour of concrete on the bridge...
"Miking" Against Covid in Bangladesh
...insurance, and a large dependence (74%) on out-of-pocket payments. A project volunteer showing a Covid-19 info card, Bangladesh. Photograph courtesy of Abdullah Al Kafi. BRAC, founded in 1972, is the...
Open Access Week: The HathiTrust Ruling and Fair Use
...challenge to the access and preservation of library books on the blog as a part of our contribution to spreading awareness (and celebrating!) this week. On October 10, Harold Baer,...
Single Centers of Creation?
...origins in the Appalachians a powerful metaphor for origins of life. There are points of origin. Each branching on the tree is a point of origin and the beginning of...
Early Roller Coaster Patents
...stops on a level stretch of track, while the latter patent allows the car to stop on the final upgrade, where it is held by an anti-rollback pawl. The inclusion...
Race
Sometimes I think about Great-Uncle Paul who left Tuskegee, Alabama to become a forester in Oregon and in so doing became fundamentally white for the rest of his life, except...
The Suburban Wild: Coyotes in Druid Hills
...human spaces, enabling it to be released into the neighborhood, as opposed to euthanizing it according to state law. While the question resulted in laughter, it highlighted one of the...
Marginalization, Mobility, and Sunday Strolls on the Farm
...in the Atlanta metro area, analyzing the complex mobility politics of a southern urban center. A recent New York Times article highlights similar transportation issues plaguing rural communities in Texas....
The Bulletin—July 24, 2012
...depicting drought severity across the country, with almost all of Arkansas in severe or extreme drought. Another set of annual drought maps, from the New York Times, demonstrates the extent...