PROSTHETICS UNDER TRIALS OF WAR
According to Katherine Ott, curator in the Science, Medicine, and Society Division of the National Museum of American History, Smithsonian Institution, “[t]he material and social tales of prosthetics provide a more intimate and compelling history of embodied technology than any postmodern cyborg can account for: from the ivory, leather [...]
WHAT SOVIET NAVAL HISTORY CAN TELL US ABOUT CHINA'S NEW CARRIER
The Soviet Navy struggled for decades to attain aircraft carriers comparable to those fielded by their American adversaries. While political indifference and chronic funding conflicts prevented the Red Navy from producing supercarriers on the American model, by the 1980s the USSR was able to attain a carrier force. The compromises inherent in these designs have been inherited by China's new pioneering aircraft carrier -- which is based on a Soviet design -- and the USSR's struggles to field a carrier fleet may provide insights to the future of China's naval ambitions.
WHAT SOVIET NAVAL HISTORY CAN TELL US ABOUT CHINA'S NEW CARRIER
The Soviet Navy struggled for decades to attain aircraft carriers comparable to those fielded by their American adversaries. While political indifference and chronic funding conflicts prevented the Red Navy from producing supercarriers on the American model, by the 1980s the USSR was able to attain a carrier force. The compromises inherent in these designs have been inherited by China's new pioneering aircraft carrier -- which is based on a Soviet design -- and the USSR's struggles to field a carrier fleet may provide insights to the future of China's naval ambitions.
BEYOND POLITICAL UPHEAVAL: YEMEN'S LOOMING ECONOMIC AND DEMOGRAPHIC PROBLEMS
By Joseph NatividadStaff WriterAs Yemen teeters on the brink of state failure, the political chaos it has experienced in recent months coincides with its looming economic and demographic challenges. Despite questions over the future of President Ali Abdullah Saleh’s rule as he recuperates outside [...]
BEYOND POLITICAL UPHEAVAL: YEMEN'S LOOMING ECONOMIC AND DEMOGRAPHIC PROBLEMS
By Joseph NatividadStaff WriterAs Yemen teeters on the brink of state failure, the political chaos it has experienced in recent months coincides with its looming economic and demographic challenges. Despite questions over the future of President Ali Abdullah Saleh’s rule as he recuperates outside [...]
LANGUAGE SHIFT AND REVITALIZATION IN CENTRAL AND SOUTH AMERICA
By Brendan O'ConnellContributing WriterThe Spanish language, though offering general unity among the 400 million speakers, has led to the death and endangerment of hundreds of indigenous languages, particularly Nahuatl, Quichua, and Mayan in Latin America. Upon the conquest of Mexico, Spanish influence was woven into the strands of the indigenous roots of “New Spain.” Although [...]