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What shapes people with disabilities' scientific aspiration and capital? Reflexions on science capital and science museums
By ASPIRES Research, on 20 January 2023
Guest blog by Gabriela Heck
A Brazilian PhD student, Gabriela Heck, visited the ASPIRES team at UCL during her 6-month research exchange to the UK. In this blog she shares how the ASPIRES research helped inspired her own PhD project on inclusion in STEM for people with disabilities.
I first came across the ASPIRES project in 2021 and the findings helped inspire my own PhD research in Education, in Brazil. The ASPIRES findings show how various factors shape young people's science identities and aspirations and, in particular, how these are heavily influenced by social inequalities (such as social class, gender and ethnicity) which in turn influence whether a young person has opportunities to experience, do well in, feel connected with, be recognised in, and continue with STEM. However, when we look closer at these inequalities in STEM, there is another underrepresented group, whose exclusion, I believe, needs to be considered more in depth: people with disabilities.
The exclusion of people with disabilities from STEM is an issue that I feel passionately about. I became aware of the exclusion of the Brazilian Deaf community from science while studying towards my Biology undergraduate (2018). There was a lack of materials and resources adapted to sign language, which can deter this community from feeling included and stop them from engaging with science.
In my PhD, I hypothesise that a lack of representation and accessibility in science leads people with disabilities to feel that this field is not for them and creates unequal patterns in scientific literacy, scientific aspiration and science capital.
To challenge these inequalities and promote the inclusion of people with disabilities in the STEM field, together with supporting young people's science aspirations and science capital, my PhD proposes to look at how science museums can (better) support the science-related inclusion and aspirations of people with disabilities.
My research aims to identify both different accessibility features in science museums that can help people with disabilities to engage with science and also the forms of exclusion that are present in exhibitions and museum spaces. I will interview visitors with disabilities and understand their perspectives and experiences regarding science museum accessibility and their perceptions of how welcoming they feel that science museums are for visitors with disabilities. I also hope to explore how science museums can contribute to individuals' science capital.
Between August 2022 and January 2023, I undertook a small-scale research project at Newcastle University and in October 2022 I was pleased to visit UCL to talk with the STEM Participation & Social Justice group about my PhD project and other activities that I have developed in Brazil, related to Science Capital.
Professor Louise Archer (ASPIRES Project Director) with Gabriela Heck.
Since 2021, I have been translating and summarising materials produced by the research group into Portuguese, and have made them available on social media, with subtitles and with translation to Libras (Brazilian Sign Language). I worked with the STEM Participation & Social Justice group (which the ASPIRSES project is a part of) to translate the YESTEM Equity Compass into Portuguese, and helped translate the Primary Science Capital Teaching Approach too.
I believe that Science Capital is a useful concept for understanding inequalities in science participation and the factors that lead to the (dis)continuation of young people in scientific fields after compulsory education. When focusing on people with disabilities, it can help us to understand the causes of their exclusion and foreground the lack of accessibility and representation as well as helping us to consider measures to support their inclusion and wellbeing in STEM. Breaking down barriers so that more people can be inspired by and engage with science not only expands the number of people who can work in STEM jobs, diversity also benefits and enriches STEM, enhances innovation and can help create a fairer and more inclusive society.
ASPIRES 2 report (2020)
ASPIRES report (2013)
You can find Gabriela's Portuguese summary resources on Instagram, Twitter and YouTube.
Filed under Curriculum Changes, disabilities, Education Research, Inclusion Research, Research Impact, Science Capital, science communication, Science Education, Social Inequalities
Improving science participation: Five evidence-based recommendations for policy-makers and funders
By Rebekah Hayes, on 30 May 2018
This post was originally written for the IOE blog on behalf of our sister project Enterprising Science. You can find more information about Enterprising Science on the IOE website.
To continue with science post-16, young people must achieve certain levels of understanding and attainment. Crucially, they must also feel that science is a good 'fit' for them – that science is 'for me'.
Drawing on more than five years of research conducted by the Enterprising Science project in classrooms and out-of-school settings, the team have developed five key recommendations for policy-makers and funders who want to broaden and increase young people's engagement with science. These recommendations are set out in Improving Science Participation, a new publication launched earlier this month at the government's Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy (BEIS).
The recommendations focus on the concept of science capital. Research has shown that science capital can help explain variable rates of science engagement and participation across formal and informal settings. It can also help to frame interventions designed to support engagement.
The concept of science capital originally emerged from the ASPIRES project, a longitudinal study tracking young people's science and career aspirations. Analyses from ASPIRES show that the more science capital young people have, the more likely they are to aspire to study science in the future.
Young people with lower levels of science capital tend not to see themselves as 'sciencey' and are therefore less likely to want to continue with science. Students who do not see science as meaningful and relevant to them find it more difficult to engage with the subject.
With this in mind, Enterprising Science has published the following recommendations for improving science engagement and participation:
Ensure that, within your context, young people's encounters with science (in and beyond the classroom) are based on the science capital educational approach.
This approach links science with what matters to students, with their daily lives and what matters to them. It:
values activities outside school and connects science with the students' own community;
tweaks lesson plans to help students see how science relates to their everyday lives and how it is useful in any job they may aspire to.
Qualitative and quantitative data show that over the course of a year, teachers who used thescience capital approach recorded marked improvements in their students' attitudes to science, their aspirations for studying science at A-level, and a host of other benefits. While developed in secondary science classrooms, the principles underpinning the approach are applicable across a wide range of contexts, including primary schools as well as informal settings, such as science centres, museums and other organisations concerned with science engagement and communication.
Focus on changing institutional settings and systems – rather than young people.
To date, many attempts to increase engagement with science, whether in the classroom or the informal sector, have focused on the young person, trying to identify ways they need to be fixed or changed. Instead, the science capital approach focuses on changing settings, or what is termed, the 'field'. Field is a sociological concept that relates not only to a physical setting, but also encapsulates the range of social relations, expectations and opportunities in a given environment.
Take the long view: move from one-off to more sustained approaches.
Engaging more – and more diverse – young people with science is not an easy goal and requires more than a simple quick fix. Whether in schools, or informal settings, changing the field takes time and requires reflection.
Use science capital survey tools appropriately.
Over five years, the Enterprising Science project has developed a survey tool instrument to measure young people's science capital. The survey can be used to measure baselines or capture changes resulting from sustained, longer term interventions. Contact our team for copies of the student and/or adult science capital surveys and for advice on how to interpret the data: ioe.sciencecapital@ucl.ac.uk.
Improve connectivity: create pathways, progression and partnerships.
Evidence shows that young people with high science capital report engaging with science across a range of settings. This means science capital is generated across a range of experiences. Greater connectivity within and between settings should help to build science capital and support science engagement. Research also shows that when individuals can connect their experiences across settings, engagement can flourish. See the report for our recommended action points on how to improve connectivity.
To find out more about these recommendations and to understand the research behind them, download the Improving Science Participation report.
For hard copies of the report please contact ioe.sciencecapital@ucl.ac.uk.
Photo: O. Usher (UCL) via Creative Commons
Filed under Curriculum Changes, Education Research, Science Capital, Science Education
"It's kind of putting us in a difficult situation as students": Responses to this year's A Level Reforms
By qtnvacl, on 22 August 2017
Last week's A level results day marked a number of milestones. Notably, this was the first year that students in England sat linear (also referred to as 'tougher') A levels; students studying one of the already-reformed A level subjects sat courses with little, or in most cases no, coursework and a final exam testing their knowledge of both years of the course rather than only the final year. There was plenty of analysis surrounding this – the headlines informed us that the reforms may have played a part in boys overtaking girls in top grades and that there was a drop in attainment for those subjects which have already been reformed, which includes all three sciences.
Missing from much of this analysis was any student opinion of these reforms – what did the young people affected by these changes think of them? Last winter, as part of a data collection cycle for the ASPIRES 2 study[1], we interviewed 51 Year 13 students from around the country ahead of their A level exams. We asked these students, and some of their parents, about their schooling and future plans. Although the A level reforms were not a planned interview topic, 10 of these students, and a small number of their parents, shared their thoughts about the changes – mostly in response to a question about the challenges faced by young people today.
In this blogpost we share the emerging themes from these conversations, in order to shed light on student opinion of these part-introduced reforms. However, please note that due to the small sample size we recommend more in-depth research into this topic before drawing meaningful conclusions.
As the blog's title (a quote from one of our students) indicates, many students felt pressured by the new reforms. The impact of this pressure upon mental health was not unexpected by some education experts; the "hastily reformed curriculum… created unnecessary stress and concern for pupils and teachers alike" said Rosamund McNeil from the National Union of Teachers ahead of last week's results day.
The "memory game"
Some students disliked that the new linear courses required them to remember additional material for their A level exams. It's "almost a memory game" said one student, Victoria1[2] (studying A level Maths, Politics, Design & Technology), who said that it felt like students were now "expected to recite something word for word… From two years ago, rather than just learn it, do it, learn it and then it would like stay there." Worryingly, this was also cited as a reason to drop certain subjects, especially those seen as particularly content-based. For example, Louise (A level Psychology, Dance, Combined English) used the reforms as a justification for dropping Biology, her only STEM subject; "Um, I am pleased I dropped it, not necessarily because I didn't enjoy it… there was just so much, but it was more, the fact was like how A levels are now structured – so I did all my AS stuff, did my AS exams, but for this year I'd have to remember everything from last year and then a whole new set of stuff."
Another student added that this requirement to remember additional information may lead to decreased enthusiasm for, or interest in, some subjects; "I think because [the AS and A2 exams] have been stuck together, people are just losing focus over time… that's definitely an issue. Like I know it's definitely hard to stay motivated with what you're doing" said Neb (A level Physics, Maths, Further Maths).
No room for mistakes
The reforms also meant that some students felt pressure not to 'make a mistake' in choosing or taking their A level options, as many thought that the reforms made it more difficult to drop, change or retake options. Two students we spoke to raised concerns that the reforms limited their access to the possibility of retaking exams, which will now only be available once, instead of twice, a year; "I prefer the old system where we did the AS papers and they counted towards the A2 and you could retake them" said Preeti (A level Physics, Biology, Chemistry, Maths). "There's just so much stuff to remember, there's so much content and you just feel so pressured to remember everything, and you get stressed out… if [students] did want to like resit they'd have to redo the whole year, so it's a lot" said Celina1 (A level Psychology, Sociology, History), who was also worried that the A level changes meant that no suitable past papers were available to her.
Reforms come with uncertainty
Being the first cohort to experience these reforms was also something that played on the minds of the students and parents we spoke to; "changing the A Levels to being linear, it's kind of put my year group in a slightly difficult situation" said Bethany2 (A level English Literature, Sociology, Applied ICT). This was seen not only from the perspective of students but also teachers; "the teachers haven't really taught this type of course before" said Bethany2, something echoed by one student's parent who called the changes "disruptive" and thought this year's students had been put at a disadvantage as the first year group to experience the changes.
Strikingly, most students who raised the topic of the new A level curriculum with us expressed views that this year's reforms contributed to the exam pressure they were already under. Whether this is something which will lessen as the reforms continue to be rolled out over the coming years remains to be seen. In any case, insights from our research suggest that the government, schools and parents must be aware that young people are concerned that the new A level curriculum places unwelcome additional pressure on students.
By Emily MacLeod, Research Officer on the ASPIRES 2 Project
[1] This was the fifth round of interviews with this cohort. The ASPIRES teams first started speaking to these young people and their parents when they were 10. For more information about, and findings from, this longitudinal project please visit: ucl.ac.uk/ioe-aspires
[2] Pseudonyms are used throughout, to protect the identity of all interview participants.
Filed under Curriculum Changes, Education Research
ASPIRES is a longitudinal research project studying young people's science and career aspirations.
This project was first based at King's College London, having moved to the UCL Institute of Education in March 2017. It is funded by the Economic and Social Research Council.
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The Seven-Son-Flower (Heptacodium miconioides) is a large, fountain-shaped, multi-stemmed, deciduous shrub that typically grows 15-20′ at maturity with a 10′ spread. It may also be trained as a single-trunk tree. This sassy underused tree features attractive white flowers which appear in whorls at the end of each branched cluster in early summer. Each whorl contains 7 tiny flowers (hence the common name of seven-son flower). Flowers are followed in fall by an equally showy (if not showier) display: small, purplish-red fruits, which are almost always immediately consumed by birds; leaving the 'crown' of five very showy, sepal-like rose calyces which last into late fall. Tan bark exfoliates to reveal attractive brown inner bark, which provides good winter interest. Birds use this bark as nesting material and will even nest in the tree itself. Its leaves are narrow, shiny, ovate-oblong and medium-green with a beautiful fall color. This tree has been a personal favorite here at Windridge for a while and we are delighted to see it coming available in our local nurseries, it is definitely increasing in popularity as an ornamental tree. Cultivars such as 'Temple of Bloom' can now be found with ease due to the plant being grown locally. It is a good source of nectar for butterflies in the fall.


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Home Knowledge and Skills	Universities UK on developments in Hong Kong
In response to developments in Hong Kong, Universities UK is in conversation with institutions and offering support to staff and students.
A Universities UK spokesperson said: "Ensuring the safety and welfare of their students is a top priority for universities. UK universities have been monitoring the situation in Hong Kong as it unfolds and are in close contact with their students there. Universities UK is in conversation with institutions who have students studying in Hong Kong and there are arrangements in place for the safe return of affected students to the UK where necessary.
"Given recent developments on university campuses in Hong Kong, and the updated FCO advice, many universities are now escalating this action. We are also offering support to staff and students of Hong Kong origin who are planning on travelling home or concerned about the situation there.
"Universities will continue to follow FCO advice and to monitor the situation in country. With the situation in Hong Kong changing daily, individual universities are acting in the best interests of their students."
Universities have been closely monitoring the situation in Hong Kong for some time, although there has been an increased focus and level of activity this week because of the developing situation and increased incidents on university campuses in Hong Kong. Four universities in Hong Kong have cancelled classes for the rest of the semester. As a result, many universities have been encouraging students to return to the UK and making arrangements for them to do so. Some students will choose to stay in Hong Kong. Depending on the specific campuses affected, other universities may take a more directive approach.
Part of this ongoing monitoring process has included visits from UK institutional staff to Hong Kong.
We have been contacted by some staff who are in Hong Kong and making themselves available to support any students from UK universities (not just their own) who need advice/support over the coming days. UUK has spoken directly with more than 20 institutions to date and they are taking various approaches depending on how affected the areas where their students are is.
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"RACING CARS – The Art Dimension" er racerbiler som kunst – hvilket programmet også hedder. Det var en udstilling på ARoS. Kunst eller ikke kunst – netop det var hvad museets direktør, Jens Erik Sørensen, håbede folk vil diskutere, idet han havde som succeskriterium at skabe en debat om udstillingen. Denne udstilling tiltrak da sandsynligvis også besøgende, der normalt ikke kommer på kunstmuseum. Det var første gang i verden at Formel 1 racerbiler blev udstillet på et kunstmuseum.

Udstillingen var iscenesat af installationskunstneren Ingvar Cronhammar. Netop det, at det var en installationskunstner, der skabte udstillingen, gjorde, at man med rette kunne kalde selve udstillingen for kunst, idet man kunne betragte hele udstillingen som et kunstværk. Udstillingen bestod af 20 racerbiler, readymades, sat ind i to mørke udstillingslokaler med sorte vægge og lofter, gulvet var et blankt skridsikkert industrigulv af metal, hvilket podierne, hvorpå racerbiler stod, også var lavet af. På de sorte vægge er der videoprojektioner med racerløb, og væggene var desuden pyntet med næsten usynlige silhuetter af flere grandprix væddeløbsbaner. I udstillingslokalerne hørtes musik skabt af multikunstneren Martin Hall. Ingvar Cronhammar havde forsøgt at arbejde med vor fantasi. Han ville, som han selv sagde det:  Dette fremgik af Cronhammars store cirkulære loftsbelysninger, som skulle lede tanken hen på motorens stempelringe.

Museet havde med Thorkild Thyrrings mellemkomst formået at lave en anderledes udstilling, der skabte debat. Thorkild Thyrrings forbindelser til motorsportsverdenen havde gjort det muligt at samle 20 Formel 1- og Le Mans-racerbiler, hvoraf 15 kommer fra Tom Wheatcrofts The Donnington Grand Prix Collection i Derby i England.

Følgende racerbiler var på udstillingen

 Alfa Romeo Bimotore, 1936
 Auto Union D-Type, 1939
 Ferrari 500, 1952
 Jaguar D-Type, 1954
 Maserati 250F, 1955
 Vanwall Streamliner, 1957
 Lotus 18, 1961
 Porsche 804, 1962
 Lotus 25, 1963
 BRM P83, 1966
 Cosworth Ford 4WD, 1969
 McLaren M9A, 1969
 Ferrari 312B, 1970
 Tyrrell 006, 1973
 Lotus 72, 1973
 Panoz LMP Roadster S, 2000
 Audi R8, 2000
 Williams BMW FW23, 2001
 Ferrari F2002, 2002
 Jaguar R3, 2002

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Whether we're dieting or not, we sometimes feel an intense craving for a particular item. There is that sudden urge to eat for particular types of food just to sate our cravings. Sometimes, the culprit behind our craving is our sweet tooth. We've become too addicted to sugar that we feel light-headed when we don't consume it.
"There is no end of craving. Hence contentment alone is the best way to happiness. Therefore, acquire contentment." – Swami Sivananda
How do we prevent indulging in these bittersweet cravings? Here are our top 5 tips to help you beat your sugar cravings
Reduce Caffeine
It may seem counter-intuitive, but cutting caffeine can significantly lift up your mood throughout the day. Why? It's because we're so used to drinking 3-in-1 coffee. The moment we start our day, we're indulged in coffee and sugar consumption. This combination is lethal enough. Sugar can make you feel lethargic due to sugar crash. Moreover, it increases your blood sugar, which may cause diabetes.
The coffee, on the other hand, kills your metabolism. What do you feel whenever you miss a cup of coffee? We bet you'll feel an intense headache coming. This is because caffeine is addictive. Sugar and coffee are primary killers of metabolism. So if you want to lose weight and reduce your sugar craving, skip drinking this beverage.
If your body contains enough water, the chances are that nutrients are distributed and transported evenly. You will not even feel any craving as your body is balanced and well-nourished. However, if your body is dehydrated, your body won't be able to distribute nutrients properly. This will signal your brain that you need to eat something to fill that nutritional gap.
That's the time you'll feel incredibly hungry. Your brain is actually asking for something, anything, just to sate your craving. And because we're light-headed enough, we find ourselves not caring about the types of food we eat. We're inclined to get sugary foods because our brain needs sugar to convert it into nutrients.
To avoid this, ensure you stay hydrated. Drink at least eight glasses of water every day, and you'll be surprised at how much your health will be restored.
Avoid Eating Processed Foods
The problem with processed foods is that they are bombarded with chemicals, artificials, and preservatives. Our bodies do not need these. Processed foods alter our hormones, often leading to sugar craving. Processed foods are also full of sugar. Beware of these sneaky forms of sugar:
glucose/glucose syrup
barley malt
evaporated cane juice (crystals)
Instead of eating processed foods, switch your preference to raw, unprocessed, and whole-grain foods. These type of foods give you the proper nutrients you need. Furthermore, they also contain fiber that is responsible for making you feel full for longer.
Eat More Fiber-rich foods
Fiber is good for your health because it helps promote digestion, metabolism, and hunger management. The reason behind it is because fibers foods are digested slowly, making you feel fuller for longer.
You might argue that eating too much fiber can increase your blood sugar. After all, these fruits are high in sugar, right? However, the truth is it will not spike up your sugar. Again, because of the fiber, the sugars will be absorbed into the bloodstream slowly. Moreover, eating fruits is the best and natural way to satisfy your cravings without worrying about your health.
Eat in Moderation
Of course, we're not depriving you of eating any sweet foods you like for a lifetime. It's okay to indulge yourself in them occasionally. However, you should practice some moderation. We think a piece or two of your favorite sweets are enough for your indulgence without a guilty conscience.
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> W3C Web Cryptography Working Group.  Wouldn't you think so?
I guess that depends on what you define as the actual topic, right?
to be achieved standard are necessary.
deploy their proprietary DLLs and EXEs and thus be "Windows compatible".
the menu but the provisioning has been left to vendors to cater for.
topic in a public forum.  Are you actually even allowed to do that?
essentially forced switching to Open Security Hardware for my project.
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>>> and OAuth WG as part of IETF83 in Paris.
>>> future work in Web authentication.
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Anonymous: an anarchist analysis
Over at The Guardian, Jana Herwig gets all theoretical on Anonymous. It's probably the most lucid attempt to tease out what Anonymous means in the context of the wider world that I've seen in any major publication. There's also a glorious degree of cognitive dissonance to be had from reading about such an irreverent and vernacular entity in the high diction of academe:
This collective identity belongs to no one in particular, but is at the disposal of anyone who knows its rules and knows how to apply them. Anonymous, the collective identity, is older than Anonymous, the hacktvist group – more to the point, I propose that the hacktivist group can be understood as an application of Anonymous, the collective identity.
This identity originated on imageboard 4chan.org, as a byproduct of a user interface policy called forced anonymity, also known for short as "forced anon".
Forced anon made it impossible for users to type in their name when they published a forum post. Instead, "Anonymous" would invariably appear as the default author name for any post. As a result, and in particular for the uninitiated, discussions on 4chan would seem like an absurd soliloquy, with "Anonymous" posting a message and "Anonymous" and "Anonymous" responding.
What this interface policy prevented was the creation of a hierarchy among users, which is known to quickly establish itself in online forums, with older forum members dominating and "newbies" having little weight in the discussion. Anonymous's (the group's) present dismissal of hierarchies and leadership has its roots in this practice. The uncertainty about who is talking (or probably just talking to him or herself, feigning conversation) is characteristic of the "forced anon" experience.
Herwig's piece is in part a response to the recent schism within Anonymous; within any "normal" hierarchical group, such a schism would probably spell its imminent demise, but I suspect the very nature of Anonymous will ensure its survival, even if it mutates and undergoes a sort of metastasis. The choice of the V For Vendetta masks as part of their iconography is quite telling; the point Moore was making in the book about emergent resistance to hierarchy and fascistic control is echoed in the unpredictability of their target choices. Dissent cannot be bridled or steered; that is its power, and its self-limiting principle.
To unpack that last statement: self-identifying as a member of Anonymous is a lot like self-identifying as an anarchist, in that anyone can slip on the mask at any time, and the non-hierarchical nature of the collective means that there is no authority with the power to deny your validity. This has its downsides, in that it makes for easy pillorying and demonisation of the collective identity (such as the way that a few self-identifying anarchists bricking windows on protest marches are conveniently assumed to be representative of all anarchists), allowing a convenient way to obscure the genuine problems of hierarchy by focussing on the more foolhardy and socially unacceptable attacks made upon it.
But there are upsides, too, in that the more nihilistic wearers-of-the-badge tend to perform acts that are self-limiting in the long term; because the collective is headless, it cannot be destroyed, so the hierarchical world has to content itself with the sort of decapitations that symbolically represent the defeat of a system or group in their own narrative, while all they're doing is trimming the wilder edge-growths of the rhizome and preventing it from becoming a hierarchy itself.
All of which is to say that I think Anonymous – and anarchism-as-philosophy – aren't going anywhere soon; in fact, I'm beginning to think they're an inevitable product of a global networked culture, a counterweight to the structure of society that increases in mass in proportion to the rigidity of the systems it opposes. Neither are an end-point or a goal; those that join in the hope that they are will soon leave, disappointed, because the individual reward they subconsciously seek for their actions are incompatible with the anonymity under which they are obliged to operate.
Of course, you may think I'm blowing pretentious smoke out of my own arse here; it wouldn't be completely out of character, after all. So why not tell me why I'm wrong in the comments, eh? 🙂
Tags: activism, anarchism, anonymous, counterweight, hierarchy, politics
On optimism
My good buddy Jeremy Tolbert has a searching and honest post about optimism, both within the context of science fiction storytelling and the wider context of the world itself:
… I used to believe in the power of science to make the world better. And I've spent my entire life watching people in power reduce the public's opinion of science to the point where more people in the U.S. question evolution than believe in it, which to me is basically on par with disbelieving gravity. The wealthy have attacked the public's faith in science because it would have cost them money for us to believe that the planet's climate is being changed by their industries. An entire political arm of this country distrusts the notion of experts. The only science they care about is that which allows them to wring more money from the world.
Where's my optimism? Where's my ability to write science fiction like "The Kansas Jayhawk vs. The Midwest Monster Squad?" Where did I leave it? And would it be delusional of me to even try and adopt it again? That's the thing, isn't it? If you're a pessimist and your pessimism doesn't come true, you get to be happy along with the optimists. But if you're an optimist whose predictions prove false, then there's little to be happy about. The pessimist at least gets the grim satisfaction of being right. Even if they're no happier about the outcome than the optimist.
Jeremy mentions a video (clipped from a rather good documentary on stats from the BBC which I watched late last year) which was linked to in the comments thread of another post by Mike Brotherton; it covers (in a flamboyant data visualisation style) the sort of points I try to make a point of repeating to myself like a mantra on a regular basis: yes, on a day-to-day level, life seems pretty tough and the world looks to be high-tailing it to hell in the proverbial handbasket, but when you look at the aggregate experience of the human species over a comparatively short span of time, things have consistently improved, and show every sign of continuing to do so (paradigm-breaking Outside Context Problems or existential risk events notwithstanding). Indeed, sometimes I think our capacity to worry about the future is the strongest indicator that the here-and-now isn't anywhere near as bad as it could be.
[ To pre-empt the rejoinder that life hasn't improved for everyone to the same degree, and that there are still places that progress – however defined – has yet to make much of a showing, and that we in the Anglophone West have by far the best deal of them all: this I understand, and I'm not trying to downplay the suffering of others. On the contrary, I'm trying to show why we should push forwards with hope and aspirations of a better life for everyone. ]
These things are observable, measurable. Why, then, as Jeremy asks, is it such a struggle to be optimistic? Is it as difficult for everyone? (As shocking as regular readers may find it, my peacenik globalist optimism is something I have to work at rather hard, and sits very much at odds with a lengthy history of depression; I know other people who seem to just bubble over with optimism, but I have no idea what effort – if any – they expend to achieve such a state.)
And the more I think about it, the more I become convinced that optimism isn't just hard work, it's scary: it invites disillusionment, it openly courts the up-ending and down-throwing of one's conceptions of the world. To maintain optimism, one must keep picking oneself up after the arrival of a disappointment, rebuild a new theory of the world, adjust and amend it as new data comes to light. By comparison, pessimism is easy: sit back, shake your head stoically as you predict bad things to come, and then just open a newspaper or web-browser and pick out the evidence to prove you were right. People are a lot like electricity, in that we tend to follow the path of least resistance. Pessimism has a nice fat copper cable strapped straight to the psychological earth-point; the gratification of being proved right, gained with minimum emotional expenditure.
As a result of that, pessimism seems to be the more popular stance, at least at present; it therefore follows that optimism is unfashionable, not to mention easily undermined by pointing to all the short-term badness in the world. Hence optimism becomes harder still to maintain: you're flying in the face of popular opinion, and that's rarely a fast route to popularity and choruses of agreement.
Furthermore, I think optimism contains a component of agency – a feeling that things can be changed, and changed for the better, by doing stuff. Pessimism is predominantly fatalist, as the responses to my post about the Giffords shooting demonstrate very clearly: thinking that we can change the tone of political discourse is naive and condescending! The corporations and politicos have got it all sewn up, and there's nothing we can do but ride it out and hope the powers that be fix it so we come out a bit better than Those People Over There (whether Over There is the next neighbourhood along, North Korea, or any other strawman enemy-of-the-moment; doesn't matter, really, so long as there's some way to make it look like you deserve better than they do).
But just look at history: we have changed the tone of politics, many many times over, and we will do so again. And those who change it will be the ones who didn't just sit back and sigh, imagining the inevitable dystopia just around the corner. This is not a partisan point, either: activism works. But it's also work. I'm reminded of the apocryphal slogan of Generation X (the source of which escapes me): "Can't win, so why try?" Maybe that's why being optimistic is a struggle; perhaps it's just generationally out of fashion.
Of course, this is all easily portrayed as conjecture and hypothesis on my part, mixed with a generous handful of self-justification… and maybe that's what it is. Perhaps pessimism really is the more rationally valid and sustainable attitude: after all, the universe is a machine for creating entropy. But I'm going to struggle on being optimistic as best I can, regardless: for one thing, my mind needs the exercise.
And for another, I've never been one for following the herd. 🙂
Tags: activism, futurism, optimism, pessimism, politics, psychology
Jaron Lanier on Wikileaks
The Wikileaks story just keeps on rolling, but in defiance of the cliché it's picking up a fair bit of moss as it goes. At the risk of repeating arguments made, well, pretty much everywhere (and to reiterate a point I made before), it's quite possible to be supportive or generally approving of Wikileaks as a principle and as an organisation at the same time as thinking Julian Assange to be a serious douchebag who's responding to the limelight like weeds to the springtime sun… though the caveat there is that most of what we're hearing of Assange's public statements is being filtered through other news organisations whose fondness for Wikileaks is less than complete. The truth remains obscure, in other words.
That said, it's been interesting – and heartening – to watch the results of genuine grassroots action as regards the #MooreAndMe rape apologism campaigns; it's a horrible way for it to have happened (and a horrible that it should even be necessary), but I can't help but feel that there's a good side to the way that discussion and criticism of mainstream cultural attitudes to rape have been brought out from the marginalised sidelines of feminism into highly visible layers of public discourse. Granted, it's been rather like overturning a rotten log in a gloomy forest, but that's the price of progress, I suppose; a societal problem can't be fixed until society becomes conscious of it. Sunlight, disinfectant, you know the drill.
So to the tireless folk behind the #MooreAndMe hashtag, my utmost respect. As hard as it might be to believe for a regular reader of this site, there are times when I realise that the most helpful thing I can do is shut up and let people who really know what they're talking about do their thing. Perhaps stepping back from the fight isn't as useful as pitching in, but personal experience dictates that the greatest of harm can result from the best of intentions, and that one learns much more from listening than flapping one's own uninformed lips.
But there's one commentary link-out that needs to be made, and it's to Jaron Lanier's Wikileaks piece at The Atlantic. I'm by no means in complete agreement with it on a number of points, and there's a slightly patronising "yeah, I was once naive enough to believe all that stuff, too, but I done growed up" undertone to it that grates somewhat… but of all the negative responses to Wikileaks I've read so far, it's by far the most cognisant of the playing field it discusses, and the first that has really made me think hard about my own stance on the matter. It's a long one, and not easy to yank quotes from while maintaining context, so just go read the whole thing… whether you're for or against.
Tags: #MooreAndMe, activism, democracy, digital culture, grassroots, hierarchy, Jaron Lanier, secrecy, social media, structure, Wikileaks
The Net interprets censorship as damage…
… and routes around it. So runs Gilmore's old theory, anyhow, and it looks like we get to witness a full testing of it as the Wikiwars roll on. Too much happening for me to be able to do any sort of coherent commentary on it, really; I suspect we'll still be picking apart the fag-end of 2010 a decade from now. So instead, a bunch of links:
Targetting Wikileaks itself is to miss the point of Wikileaks; it's a protocol that rides on the internet, and can be reproduced by pretty much anyone. The first high-profile alternative/equivalent to emerge is OpenLeaks, formed by the splinter group that hived off from Wikileaks in protest at Assange's mercurial leadership tactics. [via TechDirt]. Judean People's Front?
EasyDNS, an ISP mistakenly blamed for taking down the Wikileaks domain (it woz EveryDNS wot dun it!) has decided to help Wikileaks out rather than hide from public opprobrium. "We've already done the time, we might as well do the crime," says their CEO.
Given that ICANN is planning to allow a proliferation of top-level domains (and is known for being very hands-off with respect to state-level censorship), what would happen is someone started a .leaks TLD? [also via TechDirt]
And hey, why bother about having a central source site anyhow? As plenty of people have pointed out in response to tech-illiterate government figures and other blustering authoritarians, nuking Wikileaks would achieve nothing, because the leaks could just as easily have been dumped straight on BitTorrent. How timely, then, is the first BitTorrent client software which locates torrents directly from peer nodes rather than a central tracker?
Shifting our attention momentarily to the maelstrom of pro-Wikileaks agitation, reports (or at least intimations) are coming in that, after yesterday's decidedly hypocritical threats from (something or someone that may possibly have been a part of) Anonymous to DDoS the Electronic Frontier Foundation simply for not condoning their other DDoS attacks, the Legion is changing tack and changing tactics from window-smashing to agit-prop: Operation Leakspin begins. Or maybe it doesn't… you never know what Anonymous is gonna do, really, even if you *are* Anonymous. All bets are off when it's LULZ all the way down.
Interesting times ahead…
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Tags: activism, anonymous, censorship, decentralisation, distributed systems, hacktivism, secrecy, Wikileaks
Wikileaks and Anonymous
There are a few things worth noting about the latest Wikileaks document-dump, the first and most obvious being how utterly unsurprising (though still deeply saddening) the contents were; for me at least (and I suspect for many others) it's more of a confirmation of long-held suspicions than anything else.
The second is the reaction from the US and UK governments, which have focussed on the supposed risk to military personnel that the leaks will create; we heard that warning last time, too, and it turned out to be hollow. But it's proving a very effective distraction to career journalists and their readers, most of whom have overlooked one very telling fact – namely that the aforementioned governments have made no attempt to claim the leaked documents are false. "OK, so we lied… but we were doing it to protect you!" Oh. That has worked out well, hasn't it?
Thirdly is an observation from Mike Masnick of TechDirt, who compares Wikileaks with everyone's favourite internet-prankster boogiepersons, Anonymous. The common themes are that they're both products of our newly-networked era, and that they're both being underestimated by the very powers that they most threaten.
I'd argue that the time to take the concept of Anonymous seriously came quite some time ago, actually. Even as people dismiss the group as often immature and naive (at times, quite true), what's impressive about it is that Anonymous is a perfect example of truly distributed, totally anonymous, ad hoc organizations. When the group puts out statements, they're grandiose and silly, but there's a real point buried deep within them. What the internet allows is for groups to form and do stuff in a totally anonymous and distributed manner, and there really isn't any way to prevent that — whether you agree with the activity or not.
Some think that "a few arrests" of folks behind Anonymous would scare off others, but I doubt it. I would imagine that it would just embolden the temporary gathering of folks involved even more. Going back to the beginning of the post, if the US government really was effective in "stopping" Julian Assange, how long do you think it would take for an even more distributed group to pick up the slack? It could be Anonymous itself, who continues on the tradition of Wikileaks, or it could be some other random group of folks who believe in the importance of enabling whistleblowing.
And yes, there's a smattering of self-aggrandisement on my part here, because I made a similar suggestion back in July:
It'll never be a big-bucks business, I'd guess, but the accrued counter-authority power and kudos will appeal to a lot of people with axes to grind. But what if they manage to make it an open-source process, so that the same work could be done by anyone even if Wikileaks sank or blew up? An amorphous and perpetual revolving-door flashmob, like Anonymous without the LOLcats and V masks? It's essentially just a protocol, albeit one that runs on human and electronic networks in parallel.
Nowadays I flinch from making bold statements about profound change, but I find it very hard not to look at distributed post-geographical movements like Wikileaks and Anonymous and not see something without historical precedent. Whether it will last (let alone succeed in toppling the old hierarchies) is an open question that I'd not want to gamble on just yet, but what's pretty much undeniable is that the nation-state is under attack by a virus for which its immune system has no prepared response.
Tags: activism, anonymous, distributed, nation-states, open-source, politics, post-geography, secrecy, transparency, Wikileaks


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DVD Review: Toolbox Murders 2 (2013)
A bland disc for a boring, awful movie.
Horror master Tobe Hooper's 2004, erm, 're-tooling' of '70s exploitation fav The Toolbox Murders (1978) was a victim of poor timing. Not only was Hooper's striking carve-'em-up lost amidst the early '00s remake shuffle, its limited release overshadowed by bigger boys like Zak Snyder's Dawn of the Dead (2004) and Platinum Dunes' 2003 overhaul of the Texas Chain Saw king's own terror landmark, it was also a touch too early to capitalise on the torture porn explosion that occurred post Saw II (2005). It would have seamlessly fit alongside that wave of grisly shock as well, with Hooper's accents on slaughter and grungy production design a neat but unacknowledged footnote in the subgenre's evolution. And with Hostel (2005) et al setting a new standard for the type of full-frontal gore acceptable in mainstream(ish) fright fare, the slightly trimmed Toolbox Murders would have easily sailed through the MPAA completely unscathed, instead of having its moments of juicy splatter pruned right back, unexpurgated only in the deleted scenes section of its US DVD.
The irony, then, is that it's the explicit grue of Dean Jones' TOOLBOX MURDERS 2 that makes this dud follow-up feel as similarly mistimed; completely antiquated, in fact, now that gorno has fallen by the wayside. Of course, it being left on the shelf for over two years hasn't done it any favours (litigation between Jones and the film's producers saw Toolbox 2 stagnate officially, with the FX man-cum-director resorting to sneaking out his unauthorised alternative cut, 'Coffin Baby', on disc across Europe). But even compared to torture porn's dying embers (think Scott Spiegel's tepid Hostel: Part III (2011) or Marcus Dunston's hokey The Collection (2012)), Jones' sequel is a stinker. It calls to mind Roland Joffe's utterly horrific Captivity (2007) more than anything, in content and in tedium.
Admittedly slickly made, just how boring Toolbox Murders 2 is is the biggest surprise. Whereas Hooper's 'original' – a barnstorming blend of Hollywood ghost story and giallo-esque murder mystery – entertains and enthralls, Jones' slog is lethargy personified, with confusion and ramble exacerbating an already substantially below par screenplay. Narratively, Toolbox 2 never kicks out of a befuddling first gear, even with the scenes of limb lopping and body bisection (naturally, the gore is provided by Jones' own American Makeup FX crew). It's a simple, tried n' true concept that's muddied too: part serial killer thriller, part hostage drama, and part police procedural as twentysomething Samantha's (an ineffective Chauntal Lewis) crusade to bring her sister's murderer to justice soon finds her shackled in some subterranean cesspit, experiencing the maniac's bloodlust first hand.
However, with only a few illogical connections to its predecessor (chiefly, Bruce Dern's groaningly named Vance Henrickson, who occupies the same supernatural space as Rance Howard's character in Hooper's o.g.), it's Toolbox Murders 2's condensing of the funhouse-esque Lusman Arms apartment complex, full of hidden passages and secret corridors, into a single location that sucks the most. Here, the seemingly endless amount of time spent in the still cool-looking villain Coffin Baby's (a returning Chris Doyle) stereotypical lair quickly grows tiresome; Jones lacks the sense of claustrophobia needed to pull off such single set-based shtick convincingly or, indeed, competently. It's a shame, really, as when Jones does briefly open things out, the sun-soaked sparseness he conjures is actually quite impressive, him styling modern L.A. as a surreal, anonymous hellhole.
Extras free (well, trailer aside), TriCoast UK's DVD offers the supposed director and producer approved 'final cut' of Toolbox 2. Presented uncut in a pleasing 1.78:1 transfer, it's supported by a pair of serviceable audio tracks in either 2.0 stereo or 5.1. If you must pick it up, it's at least a mite cheaper than the majority of the overpriced Blu-ray sets.
TOOLBOX MURDERS 2 is out now on UK DVD
October 13, 2015 May 16, 2020 Matty BudrewiczReviews2013, Chris Doyle, Coffin Baby, Dean Jones, Horror, Toolbox Murders 2, TriCoast UK
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Chinese Government Luring 'Sea Turtles' Home To Launch Startups
Jordyn Dahl
I write about science and technology in China.
Beijing native Lisa Zhao presents her company Lyrobotix, which manufactures drones, at a 2015 TEDx... [+] Beijing conference. Zhao is one of the Chinese 'sea turtles' - those educated abroad - who has come back to mainland China to launch a company. Photo courtesy of Lisa Zhao.
Since 2013, when the Chinese central government launched new rhetoric encouraging innovation and would-be entrepreneurs, the country has been gripped by a startup craze that is now reaching across borders and oceans to lure back Chinese who went overseas to study and work – Chinese more colloquially known as "sea turtles".
The change in rhetoric and a rush of funding are some of the tools the government is using to try and reverse the country's brain drain, or massive outflow of turtles to the West.
Lipeng Lai - hailing from Chongqing, an inland port city in southwest China - is one such entrepreneur successfully enticed to come home. He and three classmates from MIT returned to China in 2015 to create XtalPi, a pharmaceutical company that uses algorithms to predict the crystalized form a drug will take. The data allows XtalPi to work with other pharmaceutical companies to develop new drugs and create new patents.
The company received 2 million RMB ($309,000) in angel funding from Chinese social network Renren in October of 2015 and 24 million RMB ($3.7 million) in series A funding in December of 2015 from Tencent Holdings , one of China's internet giants, Lai said. Creating a startup wasn't always his plan, though. Reading about the rise in startups in 2014 peaked Lai's interest and spurred him into looking at what opportunities may exist.
"We thought there was probably something we could do with everything we have learned," he said. "I saw there was an opportunity because there were so many startups."
Lai and his cofounders represent just the type of sea turtle the Chinese government is trying to entice back to China: educated and wanting to innovate.
The country has been trying to combat its 'brain drain' problem for years. Chinese have flocked to the West since the 1970s when the country's top students were sent to Western universities following the end of the Cultural Revolution. About 524,000 Chinese students pursued an overseas higher education in 2015, a 13.9 percent year-over-year increase, according to a recent Ministry of Education report.
Many of those who have gone abroad chose to stay and build a life in their host countries rather than return home. In 2013, People's Daily – the Communist Party's flagship mouthpiece – said China is experiencing "the world's worst brain drain". The paper quoted an unnamed Party official who estimated that 87 percent of the mainland's top specialists in science and engineering who went abroad for work or study did not plan to return.
"If the market is good, the entrepreneurs will come back. But the academics and scientists are more concerned about the research climate and the research environment," said David Zweig, a professor at the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, who studies returning scholars.
The government is pulling out all the stops to reverse the trend and convince its sea turtles it is time to return and put down roots in their native land. This is not a new phenomenon – the country has for years created incentives to lure back its overseas talent. But over the past couple of years, it has started providing free funding for those who return and establish their own companies.
The Chaoyang District government in Beijing launched the Chaoyang Overseas Talent Center's Phoenix Plan in 2010, which provides 50,000 to 500,000 RMB ($7,700-$ 77 ,000) to foreigners and Chinese living overseas if they launch a startup in the district. Chaoyang is home to Beijing's embassies and more than 60 percent of foreign companies operating in the capital are headquartered in the district.
Lisa Zhao received her check from the Phoenix Plan for 100,000 RMB ($15,450) at the beginning of March to help fund her company, Lyrobotix. The 25-year-old Beijing native put her studies at Columbia Law School on hold to create the company with several of her Chinese undergraduate classmates from the University of Southern California. Lyrobotix manufactures drones with an indoor positioning system that can take photos.
"My logic is simple. I can take a leave and that doesn't hurt anything," she said. "A lot of the investors are coming to China, and I feel like China is where you have more of the opportunities to go big because the market is not as mature and there are more opportunities than in the U.S."
Zhao plans on using the money to push her company's drone into the market. But she warns that companies that plan on using government funding should apply well in advance. It took close to 9 months to get the funding from the time Lyrobotix applied, she said.
The 1,000 Talents Plan is yet another lure. Established in 2008, it is mostly directed at recruiting scientists and academics overseas to return to the mainland by providing large subsidies and research funds.
But HKU's Zweig said the entrepreneur branch of the program has been more effective. While most of the researchers are back on a part-time basis to keep their overseas and more lucrative positions at universities in the West, the entrepreneurs involved in the program have mostly made the move permanent, he said.
The Ministry of Education's recent report said 409,100 Chinese returned to the mainland in 2015. But just 3.2 percent of the returnees reported plans to start a company, making these investment schemes for returning innovators imperative for future gains.
The potential opportunities in the Chinese market are part of what made Lai's move home permanent. He said coming back to China was always on the cards for him after getting his doctorate in physics, in part because he felt obligated to return to care for his ailing parents. But his family and friends worried he would be unable to adjust to doing business in China after living abroad for eight years. More specifically, they worried he wouldn't have contacts or know how to conduct himself in business meetings in China, which are substantially different from those in the U.S.
So far, he said, it hasn't been a problem. "The good thing is that things are changing in China," he said. "People are looking for not just a good relationship, but if you can actually do something."
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