Karen Bakker

Oct 7, 2024 | publicseminar.org | Amy Rose Spiegel |Mette Kierstein |Karen Bakker |Jake Neuffer

Introducing “Gigachad” | Generated using EHStock / Getty Images Signature“Been gymmaxxing lately,” my friend quipped as he made a protein shake. “Proteinpilled too,” I said. My generation is speaking a new slang—new to us, anyway. Not quite ubiquitous, but familiar to that contingent of chronically online youth (and is that phrase not becoming a tautology?). These are phrases borrowed from incels, or “involuntary celibates,” an online community of radical misogynists.

Aug 9, 2024 | thereader.mitpress.mit.edu | Julia Lane |Karen Bakker |Michael Littman |Oliver Bown

BeeLine Reader uses subtle color gradients to help you read more efficiently. A few years ago, I argued that the U.S. is in desperate need of a National Data Service. As I wrote then, the Founding Fathers could not have foreseen the fragility of our national public measurement system, even if they did know that collecting data to determine representation was essential for the governed to have a voice in their government.

Jul 22, 2024 | thereader.mitpress.mit.edu | Kristen Haring |Adolfo Plasencia |Karen Bakker |John Downer

BeeLine Reader uses subtle color gradients to help you read more efficiently. Every night thousands of men retreat to radio stations elaborately outfitted in suburban basements or tucked into closets of city apartments to talk to local friends or to strangers on the other side of the world. They communicate by speaking into a microphone, tapping out Morse code on a telegraph key, or typing at the keyboard of a teletypewriter.

May 9, 2024 | bigthink.com | Karen Bakker

Dyhia Belhabib’s journey to becoming a marine scientist began with war funerals on TV. Her hometown, on the pine-forested slopes of the Atlas Mountains in northern Algeria, lies only 60 miles from the Mediterranean Sea. But a trip to the beach was dangerous. A bitter civil war raged across the mountains as she was growing up in the 1990s; the conflict was particularly brutal for Belhabib’s people, the Berbers, one of the Indigenous peoples of North Africa.

Apr 25, 2024 | savingseafood.org | Karen Bakker

April 25, 2024 — Dyhia Belhabib’s journey to becoming a marine scientist began with war funerals on TV. Her hometown, on the pine-forested slopes of the Atlas Mountains in northern Algeria, lies only 60 miles from the Mediterranean Sea. But a trip to the beach was dangerous. A bitter civil war raged across the mountains as she was growing up in the 1990s; the conflict was particularly brutal for Belhabib’s people, the Berbers, one of the Indigenous peoples of North Africa.