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The Drupal Association is pleased to announce that Julia Kranzthor (she/her) has joined the team as our new Director of Philanthropy as of July 2023! We are thrilled to bring Julia’s talent and experience in the Drupal Community to the team.
Julia enjoys connecting changemakers with resources to achieve community-centric philanthropy. With eight years of experience in the nonprofit sector, Julia seeks to undo the damage done by systemic inequity. Her most recent roles as Sr. Development Director at Healthy Futures of Texas and the Texas Campaign to Prevent Teen Pregnancy, focused on improving adolescent health and using storytelling to accurately portray challenges from the perspective of lived experience. Previously, she worked at the Workers Defense Project, building power for working families.
A thought experiment plumbs archaeology and geology to ask whether our own species will leave a trace.
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The winner of 2023’s Best Illusion of the Year contest on the nature of science and magic.
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On the day that Russia attacked Ukraine, 24 February 2022, I was with my friend and colleague Tuomas Forsberg (TF) at the gym swimming as we do every now and then. We discussed the war and, above all, whether it could have been avoided and how. Over the years, we have had countless similar conversations. Although we have many joint interests, our theoretical research orientations as well as general political orientations are somewhat different. One of our agreements concerns the relevance of the dialectical method. As we both consider that arguments have to be formed in relation to other, alternative interpretations, we thought that perhaps we could try writing a systematic analysis of the causes of the war following the dialogue format. This resulted in a book Debating the War in Ukraine. Counterfactual Histories and Possible Futures published in December 2022 (available open access). The book is now followed by a special forum of Globalizations, “War in Ukraine: Future Possibilities”, published in July 2023, which includes our “The shape of things to come: a further dialogue” (also available open access).
Sometimes the do-gooder/bleeding heart image can be an asset.
Surprising? Not really. It’s been one of Labor’s traditional selling points: voters perceive Labor as “caring” about fairness.
Using his mum as example, Prime Minister Anthony Albanese has gone to great lengths to highlight that.