This post by Ann Pettifor is reposted from TNI, as part of their Longreads series, State of Power 2019.

CERG/RDLAC Silvertown Session

9th May 2019

Community Wealth Building,

Albert Road, North Woolwich E16 2J

This is a call for people interested in contributing to an economic, social and cultural development workshop happening in the Silvertown/North Woolwich area of the Docks on the evening of 9th May 2019.

The workshop is part of a series of funded events called The Silvertown Sessions organised in partnership by the Cultural Engine Research Group (CERG) and the Royal Docks Learning and Activity Centre (RDLAC).

Die junge Frauengeneration in Deutschland verfügt über eine besonders gute Schulbildung: Trotzdem entscheiden sich Mädchen im Rahmen ihrer Ausbildungs- und Studienwahl noch immer häufig für "typisch weibliche" Berufsfelder oder Studienfächer. Somit schöpfen sie ihre Berufsmöglichkeiten nicht voll aus, und das, obwohl die Aussichten für eine spätere berufliche Karriere in Berufen mit diesen Grundlagen gut sind.
MINT-Studiengänge an der HHU

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Nach dem Studium an der Freien Universität Berlin und der Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München, das sie 1987 mit dem Magister abschloss, promovierte Valeska von Rosen an der Freien Universität mit einer Arbeit über Mimesiskonzeptionen Tizians. Es folgten Stipendien an der Bibliotheca Hertziana in Rom (MPI), der Deutschen Forschungsgemeinschaft und der Gerda-Henkel-Stiftung sowie Gastprofessuren an den Universitäten Potsdam (2003) und Jena (2005). 2006 habilitierte sie sich an der Freien Universität („Caravaggio und die Grenzen des Darstellbaren.

Este cuerpo estable de la Casa de Bello será parte de este encuentro bajo la dirección del maestro venezolano Rodolfo Saglimbeni, quien tomará la batuta en los tres conciertos que ofrecerá la orquesta, el último de ellos junto al Coro Sinfónico de la Universidad de Chile, en el cierre de la versión N°51 del evento.

La TUI es el documento oficial que identifica a todos los miembros de la comunidad U. de Chile, y en particular ofrece a los estudiantes el acceso a préstamos de material bibliográfico, retiro de vales de becas y acceso a dependencias y salas en algunas Facultades, entre otros. Este año, el documento será entregado a 6.390 nuevos alumnos de la Casa de Bello.De manera segmentada en cada uno de los campus y facultades de nuestra Universidad se realizará la entrega de la Tarjeta Universitaria Inteligente (TUI) 2019.

El Ballet Nacional Chileno (BANCH) dará inicio a su temporada 2019 con un ciclo especial donde la compañía presentará una serie de obras creadas por siete bailarines que conforman su elenco.

Almost every time we use an Internet application, it starts with a DNS (Domain Name System) transaction to map a human-friendly domain name to a set of IP addresses that can be used to deliver packets over the Internet. DNS transactions can therefore be correlated to the applications we use, the websites we visit, and sometimes even the people we communicate with.

É comum para as mulheres escutar que não há muitas delas escrevendo ou estudando sobre temas de tecnologia, o que muitas vezes dificulta o destaque dos trabalhos executados, por elas, “entre os homens”. Esse texto tem o objetivo de apresentar o trabalho de três dessas mulheres na temática da Governança de Algoritmos, que, por sua vez, explora o estudo dos algoritmos que estão presentes no nosso cotidiano de forma multidisciplinar.
Armas de destruição matemática

For more than a decade, different organizations from civil society and the private sector have been involved in efforts to establish an Internet Exchange Point (IXP) in the Dominican Republic, with no success. Possible causes were either lack of interest at the time, the maturity level of the ICT sector, or even lack of financial support. The Internet Society Dominican Republic Chapter decided to discuss those outcomes with different stakeholders and promote an atmosphere to proceed when the moment was right.

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This blog post is based on a keynote I gave recently at the 2019 SSIR Data on Purpose event. Are you optimistic or pessimistic about data as a tool for good in the world? Over the last few years I’ve seen the shift in answers to this questions. People used to answer “optimistic”, but now most people indicate some mix of emotions. You’ve probably seen the Gartner hype cycle with its suggestion that a technology receives inflated […]

By Stefaan Verhulst, Andrew Young, and Andrew J. Zahuranec
The Circular City researchers (from left to right): Caroline McHeffey (Columbia University), Stefaan Verhulst (The GovLab), Andrew Young (The GovLab), Arnaud Sahuguet (Cornell Tech), and Nilda Mesa (Columbia University). Photography by Anna Anderson.

Zahlreiche Krebserkrankungen führen zu soliden, also festen Tumoren. In ihrem Inneren weisen diese Tumore große Unterschiede auf zellulärer und molekularbiologischer Ebene auf. Eine Komponente ist die Lokalisation und Aktivität von sogenannten Fresszellen (Makrophagen)*. Obgleich diese Zellen essentiell für ein gesundes Immunsystems sind, spielen sie auch eine entscheidende Rolle bei der Entwicklung von Tumoren. Mithilfe photosynthetischer Bakterien konnten nun neue optoakustische Methoden entwickelt werden, die aufzeigen, wo solche Fresszellen anwesend und aktiv sind.

This post by Betty Lim is republished from Medium.com

Check out this video to ponder whether this is the paradigm we are in.

As the challenges we face in the world become more complex and systemic than ever before, viewing business as regenerative instead of extractive could be the radical new approach we need.

The following article was written by Jenny Andersson and is reposted from the RSA’s Website.

Watershed Maps: Ecological Struggles in the Americas
With Brian Holmes

Amsterdam Alternative invites you to the 5th installment of its talk series which will revolve around questions regarding art and political mobilization in the Anthropocene.
From the organisation:

AFTER CHIMERICA
ART AND BIOREGIONALISM IN THE ANTHROPOCENE
27 MARCH | 17.00-19.00 incl. AFTERDRINKS | MASTER INSTITUTE OF VISUAL CULTURES

Parallelweg 21, Den Bosch
Free entrance!

Berlin, 13 March 2019 – The Alexander von Humboldt Institute for the Internet and Society (HIIG) and the ZBW – Leibniz Information Centre for Economics are starting to implement the joint project Innovative Open Access in the Small Sciences, which will be an exemplary extension of the Open Access journal Internet Policy Review. The project…