Persistent Rurality in Mexico and ‘the Right to Stay Home’
Opportunities for Integrating Electric and Gas Planning
Growing demand for electricity in buildings is creating new opportunities and challenges for electric and natural gas planning. To date, electric and gas planning processes have largely been siloed, and only a few jurisdictions have started to examine how these two processes could be linked together. The report explores the current state of electri...
Chichen Itza, Mayapan, Coba, Xkukikan - December 7th - 14th, 2024 Yucatan, Mexico
Our 5th team expedition to Yucatan, acquiring 103 new datasets through various means for integration into the archive and visualization atlas. This trip included data capture at Chichen Viejo, further capture in El Castillo sub-structures, an artifact scanning campaign within the new Chichen Itza Museum, along with trips to Mayapan, Coba, and Xkuki...
Consciousness, will, and cultural revolution in Gramsci and Mao
This article analyzes the remarkable congruence between the ideas of Antonio Gramsci and Mao Zedong regarding the role of consciousness, human will, and culture in socioeconomic change. These spiritual and humanistic concerns that are central to philosophical idealism were prominent in the young Marx’s writings, to which neither had access. Yet bot...
Farmer movement oversight of the Mexican Government’s scaled-up fertilizer program
Low-Income Suburban Residents in the San Francisco Bay Area Face Significant Housing and Transportation Issues
Growing poverty in America’s suburbs challenges their image as single-family residential communities for middle class, predominantly white families. Research shows that suburban areas now have the largest share of households under the poverty line. Since these areas have lower density development and lower levels of public transit service compared ...
Just Pain: Zine #1
A Case Report of Acute-on-Chronic Methemoglobinemia
Introduction: Methemoglobinemia is a rare hematologic disorder of hemoglobin, in which iron contained within the heme moiety becomes oxidized from ferrous iron to ferric iron at a concentration greater than 1% in the blood. This biochemical change reduces binding affinity for oxygen, leading to impaired oxygen deposition in tissues and subsequent h...
Urinary Catheter Causing Paracentesis-induced Circulatory Dysfunction
Case Presentation: A 78-year-old male was admitted to the hospital due to acute-on-chronic liver failure with spontaneous bacterial peritonitis. About six liters of a yellow, turbid fluid were collected via indwelling urinary catheter (UC) overnight. He subsequently developed neurological and cardiac dysfunctions. Imaging confirmed bladder perforat...
Moonlit night
This piece was inspired by a video of a Ukrainian violinist playing this Ukrainian folk melody in a bomb shelter.Nich yaka misyachna (The night is so moonlit) speaks of love and a beautiful starlit night. However, the melody is set here with dissonance, using a tone row to create tension between the beauty and comfort of the folk melody against the...
