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May 9th, 2017 by: Svetlana Usenyuk-KravchukNikolai Garin
Technology’s Stories vol. 5, no. 2 – doi:10.15763/JOU.TS.2017.5.9.01 PDF: Usenyuk-Kravchuk_Arctic Enhancement Introduction Arctic indigenous peoples are widely recognized as living examples of successful adaptation to severe environmental conditions. However, ethnographic and anthropological studies tend to focus mainly on immaterial “traditional knowledge,” while tangible artifacts and practices, related skills and technologies that still constitute the very…
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May 2nd, 2017 by: Hanna Vikström
Technology’s Stories vol. 5, no. 2 – doi:10.15763/JOU.TS.2017.5.2.01 PDF: Vikstrom_Rush for Greenlandic Metals Never before has the demand for metals been as high as it is now. Products and technologies we use every day, including smart phones, electric cars, wind turbines, cutlery and light bulbs are all constituted by metals, and demand is soaring. In…
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May 2nd, 2017 by: Tess LanzarottaJeremy Greene
Technology’s Stories vol. 5, no. 2 – doi: 10.15763/JOU.TS.2017.5.2.02 PDF: LanzarottaGreene_Communications Technologies In May 1975, high above the earth’s surface, a structure resembling a large mushroom with two snow shovels attached to its dome released itself from stable geosynchronous orbit and drifted to a new station over Lake Victoria in Central Africa. The passage of…
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May 2nd, 2017 by: Blair Stein
Technology’s Stories vol 5, no. 2 – doi: 10.15763/JOU.TS.2017.5.2.03 PDF: Stein_From Snow Eagle In late 1952 or early 1953, a man from California travelled between Edmonton and Vancouver with Trans Canada Air Lines, now Air Canada. He had such a miserable time that he left a comment card behind after his flight, complaining: “Today’s flight…
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December 12th, 2016 by: Jordan Bimm
Technology’s Stories vol. 5, no. 1 – doi: 10.15763/JOU.TS.2017.4.1.04 PDF: Bimm_Notes From the Field Aliens have invaded Roswell. Whether or not you believe a UFO really crashed here in the summer of 1947, what’s readily apparent is that the image of the almond-eyed extraterrestrial is everywhere. Restaurants, motels, liquor stores, gift shops, car dealerships, and…
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December 11th, 2016 by: Donna Drucker
Technology’s Stories vol. 5, no. 1 – DOI: 10.15763/JOU.TS.2017.4.1.01 PDF: Drucker_Materializing Gender This essay focuses on the intersection of gender, sexuality, and technology in the use of barrier methods (diaphragms and cervical caps) along with spermicides as contraceptive technologies in the 1930s and 1940s United States. Documents on contraceptive technologies in this era favor doctors’…
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