The most agonizing sections of the Crawford/Joler essay were those that dealt directly with the planet’s physical environment. From the Salar de Uyuni in Bolivia and its associated volcano myths and rapid lithium extraction for batteries to the extinction of the palaquium gutta tree for the use in…
The final visualization produced for the quantitative assignment was based on this dataset provided by the government of Canada, on surveyed radio format listening preferences defined by total percentage share of the listeners’ occupations. Based on the feedback received on the initial drafts last week, this was the data that…
Canadian Listening Habits:Vast Majority of Fisheries Workers Prefer Country Western;Skilled Service Workers Mostly Enjoy Adult Contemporarydata: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1RzUeIVko_TMIhQUC3AKBU3hM0zTsJcIVWwub7yO_qZY/edit?usp=sharingCanadian Radio Broadcasting Operating Expenses Doubled Between 1997 & 1999; Nearly Double Again Before 2009data: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/…
http://www.pagetutor.com/trillion/calculations.htmlThis is somewhat old and not that stimulating, but I think about it all the time!…
NPR vs Community Radio stations in 2019{ blogpost forthcoming }…
Chapter 7 -- Making Good Arguments: An OverviewIt’s helpful to consider the early suggestions and proposed process of thoughtfully planning or “assembling” an argument. It would likely otherwise be my approach to build each argument piecemeal along the way, as more data is gathered, rather than fill-in a predetermined…
Chapter 3 -- From Topics to Questions“Research topic” → Something that interests me enough that I could potentially become some level of expert on itA topic is probably too broad if it is stated in five words or less. Narrowing a topic is key. Do this by rephrasing a topic…
Wednesday: School lunch / Huesource: https://www.marketplace.org/2019/01/23/world/schools-worry-shutdown-will-affect-lunch-programsThursday: Science funding / Valuesources: http://policy.asbmb.org/2019/01/10/government-shutdown-update-tallying-the-impact-on-national-science-foundation/ & https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Funding_of_scienceFriday: Shutdown ends for now / Texturesource: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2018%E2%80%9319_United_States_federal_…