The Texas Towers were a series of platforms installed off the U.S. East coast in the 1950’s to support early warning radar facilities. Texas Tower No. 4 (TT4) was installed in a water depth of 185 feet in 1957. At this time, TT4 was heralded as an ‘engineering marvel’, a major innovative ocean engineering accomplishment. However, problems in the structural integrity of the platform developed af...

When conceptualizing “The Unexpected Caribbean” special issue for the journal of Women, Gender, and Families Color, we, as editors, sought to contest many stereotypical visualizations Caribbean its diasporas highlight some unexpected counternarratives innovations in representation that appear literature, arts, society. Focusing on women, gender, families allowed us consider how women—typically ...

Antibiotic effectiveness is a common pool resource that can be prematurely depleted through resistance. Some experts warn that we may face a global ecological collapse in antibiotic effectiveness. Conventional wisdom argues for more intellectual property rights to speed the creation of new antibiotics. Recent theoretical literature suggests that conservation-based approaches may yield superior ...

The human rights arguments that underpinned the fight against HIV over the last three decades were poised, but ultimately failed, to provide a similar foundation for success against multidrug-resistant TB (MDR-TB) and other diseases of the poor. With more than 1.5 million deaths since 2000 attributed to strains of MDR-TB, and with half a million new, and mostly untreated, MDR-TB cases in the wo...

This paper considers some methodological problems in representing interactions between young children, technology and practitioners. It is based on work for an ESRC TLRP-funded project Interplay: Play, Learning and ICT in Pre-School Settings, the purpose of which is to identify ways of enhancing young children’s learning with a range of technologies. Sociocultural theory underpins the research ...