California Desert Communities: Community Science in the Salton Sea
This is a collection of community science in the Salton Sea in California Desert Communities.
Institutional and State-Sanctioned Risks
The United States has pride itself in their progressive turn to address racism, however, they have done so without directly addressing the root cause in fundamental issues of race, gender, and sexu
Found image: 50 shades of Latinx
The United States adopted the term Latino in the 2000 U.S. Census. The term Latino means Latin and was created to refer to people who are from Latin America.
Created Image Artifact: Foregrounding technologies of control in Schools
Police in Government (1974) sought to teach black youths how to behave under the façade of U.S.
Created Image Artifact: Lynching of Mexicans in California
This image is was taken from Los Angeles Star, the first newspaper in Los Angeles, that covered the lynching of Pancho Daniel.
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maryclare.crochiereRikers is not safe for inmates due to a varitey of factors, for example, the CO2 emissions, the extreme heat, flooding, the emissions from the landfill, the narrow road that doesn't always allow ambulances to pass. The stench is also disgusting. There are arguments for the closing of the jail and improvemements to how money is spent within society, as well as "efforts" to improve the condition of the jails.
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maryclare.crochiereThis policy applies to the U.S. healthcare system, all facilities that treat patients. It applies to the managers, staff, and patients at those locations, and those seeking treatment or evaluation, as it helps define the roles and expectations of a specific type of facility.
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maryclare.crochiereIt is an international program with the following member states/countries and the year that they joined:
"1957: Afghanistan, Albania, Argentina, Australia, Austria, Belarus, Brazil, Bulgaria, Canada, Cuba, Denmark, Dominican Republic, Egypt, El Salvador, Ethiopia, France, Germany, Greece, Guatemala, Haiti, Holy See, Hungary, Iceland, India, Indonesia, Israel, Italy, Japan, Republic of Korea, Monaco, Morocco, Myanmar, Netherlands, New Zealand, Norway, Pakistan, Paraguay, Peru, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Russian Federation, Socialist Federal Rep. of Yugoslavia, South Africa, Spain, Sri Lanka, Sweden, Switzerland, Thailand, Tunisia, Turkey, Ukraine, United Kingdom, United States, Venezuela, Viet Nam
- 1958: Belgium, Ecuador, Finland, Iran, Luxembourg, Mexico, Philippines, Sudan
- 1959: Iraq
- 1960: Chile, Colombia, Ghana, Senegal
- 1961: Lebanon, Mali, Democratic Republic of the Congo
- 1962: Liberia, Saudi Arabia
- 1963: Algeria, Bolivia, Côte d'Ivoire, Libya, Syria, Uruguay
- 1964: Cameroon, Gabon, Kuwait, Nigeria
- 1965: Costa Rica, Cyprus, Jamaica, Kenya, Madagascar
- 1966: Jordan, Panama
- 1967: Sierra Leone, Singapore, Uganda
- 1968: Liechtenstein
- 1969: Malaysia, Niger, Zambia
- 1970: Ireland
- 1972: Bangladesh
- 1973: Mongolia
- 1974: Mauritius
- 1976: Qatar, United Arab Emirates, Tanzania
- 1977: Nicaragua
- 1983: Namibia
- 1984: China
- 1986: Zimbabwe
- 1992: Estonia, Slovenia
- 1993: Armenia, Croatia, Czech Republic, Lithuania, Slovakia
- 1994: The former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia, Kazakhstan, Marshall Islands, Uzbekistan, Yemen
- 1995: Bosnia and Herzegovina
- 1996: Georgia
- 1997: Latvia, Malta, Moldova
- 1998: Burkina Faso
- 1999: Angola, Benin
- 2000: Tajikistan
- 2001: Azerbaijan, Central African Republic, Serbia
- 2002: Eritrea, Botswana
- 2003: Honduras, Seychelles, Kyrgyzstan
- 2004: Mauritania
- 2005: Chad
- 2006: Belize, Malawi, Montenegro, Mozambique
- 2007: Cabo Verde*
- 2008: Nepal, Palau
- 2009: Bahrain, Burundi, Cambodia, Congo, Lesotho, Oman
- 2011: Lao People's Democratic Republic, Tonga*
- 2012: Dominica, Fiji, Papua New Guinea, Rwanda, Togo, Trinidad and Tobago
- 2013: San Marino, Swaziland
- 2014: Bahamas, Brunei Darussalam, Comoros*
- 2015: Djibouti, Guyana, Vanuatu, Antigua and Barbuda, Barbados
- 2016: Saint Lucia*, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines*, The Gambia*, Turkmenistan"
Events on the calendar are located in a number of different countries from the above list. The headquarters is in Vienna, Austria.
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maryclare.crochiereThe Turkish culture associates "epillepsy" with mental retardation, so they usually refer to seizures as 'fainting". This can cause confusion when in a medical setting, as fainting and seizures are two different issues. The stories usually falled into one of five plot categories. The conditions were typically caused by a frightful experience, a childhood fever or injury, no apparent reason, chronic suffering, or an evil eye. These classifications help see trends and learn where improvements can be made.
A series of visualizations of the concept of "fast disasters."