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Week 12 Blog Post Assignment

We have finally arrived at my favorite week: Afrofuturism. There are so many readings and videos I haven’t included in this week’s…

2 min readNov 12, 2020

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Janelle Monáe’s face from the cover of her album Archandroid. She is wearing a crown or headdress resembling skyscrapers.

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Megan Halpern

Week 11 Blog Post Assignment

This week we’ll read about science fiction/speculative fiction, and we’ll read a short science fiction story that features physics…

1 min readNov 6, 2020

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Megan Halpern

Week 9 Blog Post Assignment

This week, we’re moving from the Space Race and Cold War into the late 19th and early 20th centuries. During this time, there was a push…

2 min readOct 23, 2020

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An image of space with a small dot of light

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Megan Halpern

Week 7 Blog Post Assignment

This week, we are exploring gender and race in science during the space race. We’ll be watching Hidden Figures, reading a brief article…

1 min readOct 8, 2020

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Megan Halpern

Week 5 Blog Assignment: Uncertainty and Matter

This week, you’ve got some thought provoking and challenging material. You’ll be reading Frayn’s Copenhagen, which provides several…

3 min readSep 24, 2020

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An image of Heisenberg and Bohr sitting and having tea

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Megan Halpern

LB 492: Blog Post Assignment Week 4

This is blog post, but we will now name them according to week so they will match the reading assignments in the syllabus.

2 min readSep 17, 2020

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Megan Halpern

LB 492 Blog Post 2 Assignment: Radioactive

Most of you have done a great job with your first blog posts! We hope Medium.com and the medium of blogging, are working for you. A few…

2 min readSep 10, 2020

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Homer Simpson lifting a glowing test tube saying , “Hmm Hmm.”

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Megan Halpern

LB 492: Blog Assignment 1

This week, we have given you several foundational readings. These selections are all fairly short and quite readable, but they cover a…

2 min readSep 2, 2020

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Megan Halpern

LB 492: The Weekly Blog Assignment

Welcome to your class blogs! In these blogs, we will share our initial impressions of the readings, videos, films, podcasts and other…

3 min readSep 1, 2020

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Amy Poehler as Lesile Knope giving a “thumbs up” and saying “You got this.”

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Megan Halpern

Megan Halpern

Associate Professor at MSU. I study art/science collaboration, design, and science in culture. @dr_halpern and at www.meganhalpern.com

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