Perspectives
Women and Energy
This volume of Perspectives offers a collection of largely untold stories that demonstrate women’s agency in energy transitions.
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Radical Animism: Reading for the End of the World
Excerpt from RCC fellow Jemma Deer’s monograph Radical Animism: Reading for the End of the World.
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Biotechnology
A few decades ago, breeding efforts were limited to combining the genetic materials of existing agricultural plants and farm animals. Today, biotechnicians are creating new types of plants and animal species in their labs.
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“A World Parliament of Rivers”
Rita Brara and María Valeria Berros argue for the importance of a legal recognition of rivers. “What we want for rivers now is an institution that can be entrusted with their environmental protection on a global scale.”
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The Misunderstanding: Waste
The Great Pacific Garbage Patch, an exceptional example of marine pollution, was discovered by Charles J. Moore in 1997 after returning from a sailing race.
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Altamira Cave
In 1879, eight-year-old Maria Justina discovered spectacular paintings in the Altamira cave in northern Spain.
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Telephone
In October 1861 Philipp Reis presented his “telephone” to the members of the physics association in Frankfurt.
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Apollo Mission
On his Apollo mission in 1968, astronaut Bill Anders shot one of the most well-known photographs of the Earth—“Earthrise.” It became a symbol for the fragility of the Earth and an icon for the environmental movement that soon followed.
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Zuse Z4
In 1935 Konrad Zuse began working for the Henschel Flugzeugwerke in Berlin-Schönefeld, where he developed the Z3 and Z4 electromechanical computers.
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Hertz: Electromagnetic Waves
On November 11, 1886, Heinrich Hertz, the pioneer of high-frequency and radio technology, for the first time observed the propagation of an electromagnetic wave with this setup.