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Volume Three of The History of Cartography Now Online
May 30, 2013

Volume Three, Cartography in the European Renaissance, was made available to the public on the University of Chicago Press web site on May 20, 2013. Earlier volumes in the series have been online since July 2011. The Press has converted all parts of each book—not only the chapters but also the prefaces, indexes, illustrations, captions, and cumulative bibliographies—into PDF files that can be read online or downloaded at no charge. A search function allows the user to search individual files or across all files at once for specified keywords.

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Pour ls autres volumes, voir ici --->

http://www.press.uchicago.edu/books/hoc/index.html

#cartographie #cartographie_historique

De la nécessité d’articuler #Féminisme et anti-racisme - intersectionnalité
http://www.alsacelibertaire.net/spip/spip.php?article108

Ce sont les militantes du courant Black Feminism, puis du féminisme chicano, qui ont fait émerger cette problématique en remettant en cause la domination blanche sur le mouvement des femmes. En effet, les années 60 aux Etats-Unis ont été le théâtre de mouvements de femmes chicanas et noires, qui ont dénoncé les tendances racistes dans le mouvement féministe et l’invisibilisation de revendications spécifiques des femmes non-blanches. Elles ont mis en avant des différences entre le vécu des femmes (...) (...)

#Analyses #Intersectionnalité #Antifa #Autocritique #islamophobie
http://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_feminism
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kimberl%C3%A9_Williams_Crenshaw
http://www.cairn.info/revue-cahiers-du-genre-2005-2-page-51.htm
►http://lmsi.net/Antisexisme-ou-antiracisme-Un-faux
http://www.cairn.info/de-la-question-sociale-a-la-question-raciale--9782707158512-page-230.htm
http://remi.revues.org/2359
http://www.cairn.info/revue-cahiers-du-genre-2005-2-page-83.htm

Predicting Collapse
http://news.sciencemag.org/sciencenow/2013/04/predicting-collapse.html?ref=hp

Now, physicists studying laboratory yeast have found a new way to tell when such a collapse is imminent. The researchers hope their warning signal can help fishery and wildlife managers act in time to save stressed populations.

The team’s work is “a really nice paper” that “could potentially lead to some new insights,” says Stephen Carpenter, an ecologist at the University of Wisconsin. Madison, who has studied similar early warning signals in lakes.

The key to preventing a population collapse is spotting early signs of trouble. One recognized warning signal is that unhealthy systems often take longer than healthy ones to recover from a disturbance. Scientists call this “critical slowing down.”

#environnement #écologie

Want a global economic boom ? Repeal all immigration laws, in every single country, right now - http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/ezra-klein/wp/2012/08/20/want-a-global-economic-boom-open-the-borders

Publication of flu study reveals full nature of threat - New Scientist
http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn21958-publication-of-flu-study-reveals-full-nature-of-threat.html

Nine months after it was first presented at a conference, research showing that just five mutations lead to a deadly H5N1 bird flu which transmits through the air between mammals has finally been published. Estimates published with it show that nature might well produce this virus too

#santé #recherche #h5n1 #censure

Here’s What College Education Costs Students Around The World - Business Insider
http://www.businessinsider.com/tuition-costs-by-country-college-higher-education-2012-6

Outstanding student debt in America has hit $1 trillion, students are on the streets of Quebec, demanding no rises in tuition fees, and French professors are bemoaning the rising costs and “Harvardization” of higher education.

But how much do students actually pay around the world?

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WHO meeting calls for mutant-flu research to be published ‘in full.’
http://blogs.nature.com/news/2012/02/who-meeting-calls-for-mutant-flu-research-to-be-published-in-full.html

A two-day meeting of 22 experts convened in Geneva by the World Health Organization (WHO) has concluded that two controversial flu studies should be published in full. The research — in which ferret-transmissible strains of avian H5N1 flu virus were created — will be published after a delay of probably a few months, which the experts argue is needed to explain better the public-health benefits of the research and allay public concerns over the safety of the work

papier du NYT
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/02/18/health/details-of-bird-flu-research-will-be-released.html

une video du débat
http://blogs.nature.com/news/2012/02/video-debating-h5n1-and-dual-use-research.html

calculs des taux de fatalité
http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=h5n1-bird-flu-case-fatality-calculations

#h5n1 #recherche #censure #santé #bioarmement

Flu Season - by Laurie Garrett | Foreign Policy
http://www.foreignpolicy.com/articles/2012/01/05/flu_season?page=full

When flu scientist Ron Fouchier of Erasmus University in Rotterdam announced in September that he had made a highly contagious, supervirulent form of the bird-flu virus, a long chain of political events unfolded, mostly out of the public eye.

#h5n1 #grippe #bioterrorisme #armement #biologique

’Firefly’ and Anti-Fascism Posters Get Professor Threatened with Criminal Charges on University of Wisconsin Campus
http://thefire.mobify.me/article/13595.html

On September 12, 2011, Professor Miller posted on his office door an image of Nathan Fillion in Firefly and a line from an episode: “You don’t know me, son, so let me explain this to you once: If I ever kill you, you’ll be awake. You’ll be facing me. And you’ll be armed.” On September 16, UWS Chief of Police Lisa A. Walter emailed Miller, notifying him that she had removed the poster and that “it is unacceptable to have postings such as this that refer to killing.”

Amazed that UWS could be so shockingly heavy-handed, Miller replied by email, “Respect liberty and respect my first amendment rights.” Walter responded that “the poster can be interpreted as a threat by others and/or could cause those that view it to believe that you are willing/able to carry out actions similar to what is listed.” Walter also threatened Miller with criminal charges: “If you choose to repost the article or something similar to it, it will be removed and you could face charges of disorderly conduct.”

Later on September 16, Miller placed a new poster on his office door in response to Walter’s censorship. The poster read “Warning: Fascism” and included a cartoon image of a silhouetted police officer striking a civilian. The poster mocked, “Fascism can cause blunt head trauma and/or violent death. Keep fascism away from children and pets.”

Astoundingly, Walter escalated the absurdity. On September 20, Walter emailed Miller again, stating that her office had removed the poster because it “depicts violence and mentions violence and death.” She added that UWS’s “threat assessment team,” in consultation with the university general counsel’s office, had decided to have the poster removed, and that this poster was reasonably expected to “cause a material and/or substantial disruption of school activities and/or be constituted as a threat.” College of Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences Interim Dean Raymond Hayes has scheduled a meeting with Miller about “the concerns raised by the campus threat assessment team” for this Friday.

Conservative Crusade to Discredit Labor Experts Spreads to MI | Mother Jones
http://motherjones.com/mojo/2011/03/mackinac-maddow-conservative-koch-prince

On March 24, William Cronon, an acclaimed history professor at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, offered a startling revelation on his personal blog: The Wisconsin Republican Party had filed a Freedom of Information Act request demanding all emails sent or received via Cronon’s UW email account mentioning certain labor unions, labor leaders, the words “recall” and “collective bargaining,” and the names of a host of state Republican lawmakers, including Governor Scott Walker. The request was clearly aimed at intimidating and discrediting Cronon, a prominent academic who has criticized #Wisconsin Republicans, especially Walker, on his blog and in the pages of the New York Times.