Deb Chachra
Engineering professor. Infrastructure, nature, education, language, gender, intersections. She/her/hers. All enthusiasm is 100% genuine. I block mansplainers.
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How A Jewish Doctor Duped the Nazis
POLITICO Magazine 1052d 1 tweets
The astonishing, untold story of the Buchenwald vaccine scam.
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Deb Chachra TIL: A Jewish biologist in Buchenwald duped his captors, sending fake typhus vaccine to Nazi troops but giving real vaccine to his fellow inmates 1052d
How Black Panther Asks Us to Examine Who We Are To One Another
Longreads 1060d 8 tweets
Rahawa Haile considers how, by sliding between the real and unreal, Black Panther frees us to imagine the possibilities — and the limitations — of an Africa that does not yet exist.
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Deb Chachra ICYMI, the BLACK PANTHER piece I was waiting for: the brilliant on Africa, the US, the diaspora, more 1057d
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Deb Chachra If you haven't yet read it, I highly recommend this piece. 1057d
Quinn Norton Named to Editorial Board | The New York Times Company
Nytco.com 1069d 2 tweets
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Deb Chachra Please join me in congratulating the brilliant and ass-kicking on her appointment to the New York Freakin' Times' Editorial Board, as their "lead opinion writer on the power, culture and consequences of technology." 1069d
Anti-Slavery Manuscripts
Antislaverymanuscripts.org 1090d 10 tweets
Anti-Slavery Manuscripts invites volunteers to transcribe documents from the American abolitionist movement, working together with the Zooniverse community and the Boston Public Library.
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Deb Chachra Have a few minutes this weekend? is crowdsourcing the transcription of the 40,000 docs in their Anti-Slavery collection of abolitionist material. #blackhistorymonth 1079d
Ursula K. Le Guin: A Rant About "Technology"
Ursulakleguin.com 1090d 3 tweets
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Deb Chachra Among everything she's written, a personal favourite, and a touchstone—her definition of technology 1090d
LRB · Mary Beard · The Public Voice of Women
London Review of Books 1153d 6 tweets
I want to start very near the beginning of the tradition of Western literature, and its first recorded example of a man telling a woman to ‘shut up’; telling her that her voice was not to be heard in public. I’m thinking of a moment immortalised at...
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Deb Chachra And by “it’s 2017”, I mean of course that this dynamic has been happening for centuries cf. . 1130d
Geminid Meteor Shower Peaks Tonight—How to See It
National Geographic News 1131d 3 tweets
This year's peak will deliver dozens of shooting stars an hour—followed by a close flyby of the strange asteroid that created the sky show.
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Deb Chachra ✨The Geminid meteor shower peaks tomorrow night—if it's clear where you are, it'll be moonless and amazing.💫 1132d
Metafoundry 17: Twenty-Five Years Later
TinyLetter 1258d 2 tweets
*Note: A description of a violent event follows.*
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Deb Chachra I wrote about the events a few years ago, on the 25th anniversary 1138d
The Banality of White Nationalism
Yoni Appelbaum - The Atlantic 1148d 9 tweets
The existence of extremists like Tony Hovater doesn’t require extraordinary explanations—they stand in a long American tradition.
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Deb Chachra "The Banality of White Nationalism": for , on the historical context of the Nice Nazi. 1148d
The Nationalist's Delusion
The Atlantic 1154d 178 tweets
Donald Trump's supporters now have what they want: a president who embodies the rage they feel, while reassuring them that hatred is justifiable.
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Deb Chachra This analysis of racism in US politics actually *does* the work the Nice Nazi profile is pretending to 1149d
Raw power! Why we need a campaign for real cheese
the Guardian 1159d 1 tweets
The vast majority of cheese is mass-produced from milk pooled from mega-dairies. There is just one British producer of traditional farmhouse lancashire and a handful producing cheddar. Can the real deal make a comeback?
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Deb Chachra "Cheese is a spaceship for milk, allowing it to travel through time and space." 1159d
Sketch Model: Creative Residency | Olin College
Olin.edu 1187d 3 tweets
SKETCH MODEL: Olin College Creative ResidencyCall for Applications: 2018-19Summary:Olin College of Engineering is pleased to announce its creative residency program, an initiative that’s part of Sketch Model, supported by the Andrew W. Mellon...
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Deb Chachra Creative practitioners! Know how I love being at ? Join me for a year, via residency 1187d
Metafoundry 68: Specific Diseconomy
TinyLetter 1212d 1 tweets
*COORDINATES:* Well, so much for getting back in the swing of writing a newsletter—six weeks later I've finally carved out a quiet autumnal day at my laptop. I can see the sky from the windows that ...
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Deb Chachra Metafoundry 68: Specific Diseconomy, in which I mostly write about how I could only see London as a city of empire 1212d
The truth has got its boots on: what the evidence says about Mr. Damore’s Google memo
Erin Giglio - Medium 1247d 4 tweets
I’m saying, sir, that a lie can run round the world before the truth has got its boots on.
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Deb Chachra If you're interested in a full, science-based rebuttal of the Google memo, is magisterial 1244d
To reduce gender biases, acknowledge them
Nature News & Comment 1244d 17 tweets
A former Google engineer’s memo on diversity reveals psychological blind spots, not biological differences, says Debbie Chachra.
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Deb Chachra "To reduce gender biases, acknowledge them": my editorial in . 1244d
Quantum teleportation is even weirder than you think
Nature News & Comment 1277d 5 tweets
Don't let the catchy name distract you, says Philip Ball: the questions inspired by this arguably misnamed phenomenon go to the heart of quantum theory.
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Deb Chachra . gets past the breathless 'teleportation' headlines and into what quantum entanglement really means 1277d
A dazzling new piece of experimental fiction is being serialized on a sports news site
Thu-Huong Ha - Quartz 1286d 1 tweets
"17776" takes place 15,000 years into the future, after humans have stopped dying or giving birth.
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Deb Chachra Just a reminder that ' astonishing interactive science fiction story "17776" is mid-serialization now 1286d
Rooftop Solar Dims Under Pressure From Utility Lobbyists
Hiroko Tabuchi - Nytimes.com 1289d 23 tweets
A concerted effort is underway in dozens of states to roll back solar power incentives. One of its architects is now a top Energy Department official.
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Deb Chachra Utility companies (with the help of the Koch brothers) are pushing back hard against solar via legislation 1286d
The Epic Battle Behind the Apollo Spacesuit
WIRED 1298d 1 tweets
Spacesuit: Fashioning Apollo chronicles the uphill battle of a lingerie maker to design the history-making spacesuit.
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Deb Chachra Per , more on the secret role of Playtex seamstresses and NASA spacesuits: #eyeo2017 1298d
Beads made from meteorite reveal prehistoric culture's reach
Nature News & Comment 1338d 1 tweets
Objects unearthed at Native American burial site are remnants of an ancient space rock.
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Deb Chachra Beads from Hopewell site in Illinois, c. 150 CE, identified as coming from the Anoka meteorite, 700km away in Minn. 1338d