This blog is part of a series on ‘the Politics of Food and Technology’, in collaboration with the SOAS Food Studies Centre.

Three weeks ago, I posted three colour photos of the “Ultrasaurus” excavation at the Dry Mesa Quarry, provided by Tyler Holmes from an old dinosaur encyclopedia. Here’s the third one again: I wrote: This can’t be right.

On November 12, 2025, the 18th European Public Health Conference hosted a symposium organized by the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies (IFRC). The session, “The heart of resilience: lessons from mental health support for children and young people affected by conflict in Ukraine,” explored the large-scale mental health and psychosocial support […]

.wrappingr { float: right; shape-margin: 50px; width: 40%; } .wrappingl { float: left; shape-margin: 50px; width: 40%; } #fig-structure > figure > figcaption { float: left; clear: both; } The Rise of Fentanyl We speak of the US opioid epidemic as if it is one single thing, but it is actually a rapidly shifting, regionally variable wave of different events.

I recently gave a talk about analyzing vowel formant trajectories using the Discrete Cosine Transform, and people have been asking me about when they could/should use a DCT based model versus a gamm. So, I’ll work through that question here!

Appalachian Figures Charles McElroy White grew up in the logging and rail hamlet of Hutton on the outskirts of Oakland, Maryland. He went on to lead one of the nation’s largest steelmakers during the most turbulent decades of American industrial history. His path ran from a mountain schoolhouse to the University of Maryland, from mill floors to boardrooms, and into the hearing rooms of Congress.

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Updated PolitikerInnen haben es schwer. In dem Wirrwarr aus künstlicher Intelligenz, Cloud Computing, Virtual Reality, dem globalen Markt und dem Tsunami von Desinformation müssen sie Prioritäten setzen. Da ist es nicht leicht, für das kleine, aber feine Fediverse einen Fuß in die Tür zu bekommen.