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“It may be hard to feel hope under these circumstances, but in Webb’s work to preserve the ‘lungs of the earth’ through rejecting colonial patterns in favor of deep listening, it is possible to see where her hope comes from, tenuous though it may be.”
Check out the newest review of Kinari Webb’s book, , published in Reed Magazine!
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: Learn about the avant-garde adventures of artist and socialite Xenia Kashevaroff Cage ’35 in this Reed Magazine piece by John Sheehy ’82.
Xenia was photographed by Edward Weston in 1931. This portrait is now in the collection of New York’s Metropolitan Museum of Art.
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Have we ever had such a dry spring, you may be asking yourself? As Fast Company reported recently, "NOAA shared the latest new normal U.S. weather map, which it presented alongside the last 120 years of old normals. Our entire nation is a lot hotter than it used to be, even a few decades ago."
Cate Mingoya ’08 has studied how climate change is implicated in systemic racism, and she has ideas on how to fix that using satellite technology to create interactive maps highlighting temperature, tree cover, and other factors. Learn more in Reed Magazine about applications of these tools in cities grappling with race and redlining.
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The horrific events of Tulsa’s 1921 race massacre were purposefully obscured for decades. As Josh Cox ’18 shows in Reed Magazine, "The Ground Breaking: An American City and Its Search for Justice" by Scott Ellsworth ’76 is a testament to how easily history can be suppressed, altered, erased, or forgotten.
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Scott's previous book, "Death in a Promised Land: The Tulsa Race Riot of 1921," was a landmark study that began as his senior thesis at Reed.
Climate change denialism has its roots in the phenomenon known to psychologists as "the blamelessness of unintentional action." Check out these strategies for dealing with it, written by social psychologist Cameron Brick ’04.
From the green issue of Reed Magazine. Happy Earth Day! 🌏
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Happy Earth Day! 🌍 The latest issue of Reed Magazine looks at the climate crisis through an interdisciplinary lens and how Reedies are helping the planet. Meet the microbes that eat plastic. Find out how to make paper from straw. See how racism fuels urban heat islands. Celebrate the 10th anniversary of our environmental-studies program.
Peruse the green issue:
http://ow.ly/f1kv50EvnxK
: In her time, she was ridiculed. She was snubbed. She was often the only woman in her science classes. But chemist Marilyn Olmstead ’65 defied the sexist obstacles strewn in her path and became a world leader in crystallography, delving into the bizarre, mind-bending geometry of fullerines—allotropes of carbon that display heart-stopping symmetries at the molecular level. Learn more in Reed Magazine:
http://ow.ly/IFh350EpBXV
We are so pleased that Dr. Ali Nouri ’97 will present the commencement address to the class of 2021! Nouri plays a key role in President Biden’s response to the global climate crisis in the department of energy as the Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary and Acting Assistant Secretary for Congressional and Intergovernmental Affairs.
Learn about his path from science to politics in Reed Magazine:
http://ow.ly/YNIh50EoC5L
What does imperial history look like when it includes the experiences and perspectives of colonial subjects? In a spring installment of the Reed Magazine series "Courses We'd Love to Take," we look at History 315: Defining and Defying Difference: Race, Ethnicity, and Empire with Prof. Radhika Natarajan. Focusing on the interrelation of racism, capitalism, and gender and sexuality, this course explores the power dynamics between Britons and colonial subjects—and how imperial rule relied on creating and maintaining them.
Learn more and see selections from the syllabus:
http://ow.ly/hyfp50EmJWP
Here's your annual reminder that Larry Shaw ’61 created Pi Day! 🥧 Enjoy this evergreen feature by Reed Magazine celebrating how "the unknowable depth of pi is an apt metaphor for Larry Shaw, physicist, artist, educator, and inventor of Pi Day."
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