Sublime

Historically, the internalized assumptions of science have led to the denial of equal interior depth or intrinsic value to women, people of color, and indigenous societies and peoples. They thought differently (i.e., less) and, as a result, they were assigned less value and it was assumed that their interior worlds were less deep (much as a rock’s

About a mile away from the Orleans Ballroom, on St. Charles Avenue, stands the old headquarters of the United Fruit Company. There they traded in bananas, shaped the history of Central America, and provided the template for the modern multinational corporation. The heyday of United Fruit can be traced to Samuel Zemurray. In 1877, he was born to a

the private sector is becoming greatly centralized through mergers and acquisitions into a global oligopoly dominated by five firms that are also major marketers of pesticides (Monsanto, Dupont-Pioneer, Syngenta, Bayer, BASF).

Much closer to realization is an effort to bring back the American chestnut tree. The tree, once common in the eastern United States, was all but wiped out by chestnut blight. (The blight, a fungal pathogen introduced in the early twentieth century, killed off nearly every chestnut in North America—an estimated four billion trees.) Researchers at

On a quarter acre, he will reap twenty-two bushels of rice and twenty-two bushels of winter grains. That’s enough to feed five to ten people, yet it takes only one or two people a few days of work to hand-sow and harvest the crop.