organization:michigan state university

World Diabetes Day: The Food System and Human Health – Food Tank
▻https://foodtank.com/news/2018/11/world-diabetes-day-the-food-system-and-human-health

The World Health Organization estimates the direct costs of diabetes at more than US$827 billion per year, globally. Sugary foods are aggressively marketed throughout the world, especially to children. And multiple studies find that these marketing efforts are especially likely to reach children of color and low-income kids. Food policies impact global sugar consumption, as well, particularly in the younger generation.

“If we start with global dietary patterns, we know they are shifting towards the U.S. model of high meat and high calorie consumption, coupled with low fruit and vegetable consumption. With this shift, we are seeing increasing obesity and chronic diseases on the human side, and increased land and water degradation on the natural systems side,” says Dr. Michael Hamm, Founding Director of the Michigan State University Center for Regional Food Systems.

#modèle #etats-unis #sucre #graisses_animale #diabete_sucré #maladies #sols #eau #santé

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#cartographie_historique #cartographie #visualisation #histoire #démographie #USA #Etats-Unis #migrations #immigration
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Comment enseigner les faits survenus autour du Dakota Access Pipeline ?

Dear Critters: I hope you’re all well. I’ve received lots of requests asking about ways to teach the Dakota Access Pipeline (DAPL) issues. I’m very encouraged by all the engagement with the NoDAPL movement - and given the space/place dimensions of the Standing Rock Tribe’s struggles against the pipeline, the member of this list are in a great position to educate students, as I’ve been a follower of this list for awhile now and benefited greatly from it. Lots of scholars in Indigenous Studies and beyond have worked to create materials for teaching Dakota Access Pipeline issues. I added a page to my website that includes as many of these scholarly resources as I know of (including the excellent Standing Rock Syllabus and this special collection), a few of my pieces on NoDAPL, and a bunch of online essays and documents associated with the issues: ►http://kylewhyte.cal.msu.edu/nodapl

–-> reçu via la mailing-list « crit-geog-forum »

#standing_rock #pipeline #North_Dakota #résistance #enseignement #ressources_pédagogiques #peuples_autochtones
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Quelques sites évoqués dans le mail :
#StandingRockSyllabus

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Standing Rock, #NoDAPL, and Mni Wiconi

Thousands of Water Protectors from more than three hundred Native nations, as well as allied supporters from a range of social movements, gathered at the Standing Rock Sioux Indian Reservation in Cannon Ball, North Dakota during 2016 to halt the construction of the Dakota Access Pipeline (DAPL). The DAPL threatens to cross under the Mni Sose (the Missouri River), which is the fresh-water supply for millions of humans and countless nonhuman relations. By blocking settler access to capital through direct action, the enactment of political counterclaims to the land and river through ceremony and legal challenges in U.S. courts, #NoDAPL front-line protectors are directly challenging the fossil-fuel industry’s centrality in colonial accumulation and demonstrating that climate change is indelibly linked to historic and ongoing colonialism and Indigenous erasure and elimination. Contributors to this Hot Spots series consider the social, historical, cultural, and political significance of the #NoDAPL movement, situating it within Oceti Sakowin (Great Sioux Nation) history, leadership strategies and direct action/organizing, Indigenous anticolonial resistance across Turtle Island, and conditions of ongoing state violence against Indigenous bodies and lands.

▻https://culanth.org/fieldsights/1010-standing-rock-nodapl-and-mni-wiconi

Syllabus Materials for Teaching #NoDAPL in Ethics and Other Courses
►http://kylewhyte.cal.msu.edu/nodapl

La personne qui a écrit le message est aussi sur twitter :
▻https://twitter.com/kylepowyswhyte
Et enseigne à la Michigan state university :
▻http://kylewhyte.cal.msu.edu

How ZIP codes nearly masked the lead problem in Flint - Richard Casey Sadler (Michigan State University)
►https://theconversation.com/how-zip-codes-nearly-masked-the-lead-problem-in-flint-65626

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#cartographie #statistique #santé_publique #plomb #méthodologie

Can Life Ever Be Perfectly Adapted to Its Environment? - Facts So Romantic
▻http://nautil.us/blog/can-life-ever-be-perfectly-adapted-to-its-environment

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Can an organism ever become perfectly evolved? In Richard Lenski’s lab at Michigan State University, scientists are trying to see if that’s possible. The idea grew out of the lab’s Long-Term Evolution Experiment, started in 1988, with Escherichia coli; in 2010, they celebrated 50,000 generations (500 occur every 75 days). The lab has 12 populations of the bacteria inhabiting their own climate-controlled flasks of swirling nutrient solution, each like a finch-less Galapagos—an experiment in evolution by natural selection, but one that has been stripped to its bare essentials. For the past 28 years, there has been essentially no change in the bacteria’s environment, and the only competition they face is with each other over scarce glucose. If there were ever a setting where a living organism (...)

Solar energy that doesn’t block the view | MSUToday | Michigan State University
▻http://msutoday.msu.edu/news/2014/solar-energy-that-doesnt-block-the-view

A team of researchers at Michigan State University has developed a new type of solar concentrator that when placed over a window creates solar energy while allowing people to actually see through the window.

It is called a transparent luminescent solar concentrator and can be used on buildings, cell phones and any other device that has a clear surface.

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#technologie #solaire #énergie

Meludia révolutionne l’apprentissage musical à l’oreille, PME
▻http://www.lesechos.fr/journal20140627/lec2_pme_et_regions/0203588229718-meludia-revolutionne-lapprentissage-musical-a-loreille-101861

« Nous voulons révolutionner l’apprentissage de la musique dans le monde », ambitionne Bastien Sannac, diplômé de Télécom Ecole de Management et de la Michigan State University, qui préside Meludia. Cette start-up parisienne propose une nouvelle façon d’apprendre les fondamentaux de la théorie et de la pratique musicales. « Elle est basée sur le travail de l’oreille, ce qui permet de mettre en avant le développement du plaisir musical », explique-t-il.

#actuweb

Bacteria Produces 24-Karat Gold From Toxic Chemicals (PHOTOS)
►http://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/2012/10/04/bacteria-produces-24-karat-gold_n_1938457.html#slide=1600017

Scientists have developed a bug which produces pure gold.

The team at Michigan State University say that they found the bacteria Cupriavidus metallidurans is able to take so-called liquid gold (gold chloride, a toxic chemical found in nature) and turn it into 24-karat gold.

The process has been named microbial alchemy - and that’s exactly what it appears to be.

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