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It was a pleasure working with @adelinekpiercy.bsky.social! This is such a spectacular addition to the series. So freakin’ cool!

“Indoors or…. What is indoors?” Unsettling Settlements in Fallout 4 Fallout 4 explores blurred boundaries between inside and outside through player-built settlements, artificial environments, and survival mechanics shaped by radiation and shelter.

In the latest piece for our Playing Inside: Board Games, Video Games, and the Indoors series, edited by @theliftline.bsky.social, @callmarkkent.bsky.social examines "'Indoors or…. What is indoors?' Unsettling Settlements in Fallout 4."

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#envhum #videogames #fallout

Controlling Catastrophe: Indoor Gameplay to Support Sensory Dysfunction Adeline K. Piercy's video essay examines the unanticipated ways Frostpunk serves as a coping mechanism for neurodivergent players with sensory dysfunctions — particularly those who struggle with the h...

Today we have "Controlling Catastrophe: Indoor Gameplay to Support Sensory Dysfunction" by @adelinekpiercy.bsky.social

This is the seventh article in the Playing Inside: Board Games, Video Games, and the Indoors series, edited by @theliftline.bsky.social

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Friends! Come join me at GCSU!

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The Brudi Brothers - Me More Cowboy Than You (Demo) Listen to Me More Cowboy Than You (Demo) on TIDAL

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SIGN THE ALUMNI PETITION: Tell your school to reject the federal government’s “Compact” The federal government is trying to extort your school by coercing American universities into joining its so-called "Compact”. This is a time for courage, not capitulation. Sign this alumni petition n...

The federal government is trying to extort U Texas by coercing American universities into joining its so-called "Compact”. Sign this alumni petition now to tell your school to reject the "Compact" and stand up for campus freedom. alumni.standforcampusfreedom.org/petitions/si...

Board Appeal: Curating Environmental Game Collections for the Public Environmental board games from the 1970s onward reflect shifting ecological concerns; curating them at SHI revealed their educational, historical, and interactive museum value.

Today we have "Board Appeal: Curating Environmental Game Collections for the Public" by Sherri Sheu

This is the fourth article in the Playing Inside: Board Games, Video Games, and the Indoors series, edited by @theliftline.bsky.social

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The 1966 Motorific Alcan Highway Torture Track Amid wildfire smoke, assembling a vintage toy racetrack evokes reflections on U.S. militarism, consumer culture, and the erasure of northern Canadian histories.

Check out "The 1966 Motorific Alcan Highway Torture Track" by Desiree Valadares

The latest article in our Playing Inside: Board Games, Video Games, and the Indoors series, edited by @theliftline.bsky.social

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#envhist #cdnhist #ushistory

Pre-Flight Safety Briefing: Researching the Environment in the U.S. without Being Detained at the Border It is a turbulent time to be an international scholar in the United States: So before you embark on your next trip to the U.S., let’s make sure you are ready for take-off.

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A woman who was shot multiple times by U.S. Customs and Border Protection agents did not ram them with her car and had her weapon stored in her purse at the time of the incident, according to her lawyer, contradicting accounts by the Department of Homeland Security.

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Diverse Environments Rules: A Card Game about Diversity in Environmentally-Themed Board Games In Diverse Environments, you will work to create a diverse selection of eight games for your syllabus. You’ve got colleagues working on the same thing, though, and you don’t want to duplicate their ef...

Check out this game that @scoutblum.bsky.social designed for our Playing Inside: Board Games, Video Games, and the Indoors series, edited by @theliftline.bsky.social!!

Diverse Environments Rules: A Card Game about Diversity in Environmentally-Themed Board Games

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Many American Jews sharply critical of Israel on Gaza, Post poll finds Most Jews say Israel is committing war crimes — and 39 percent say genocide — while often distinguishing between the country and its leadership.

Many American Jews sharply disapprove of Israel’s conduct of the war in Gaza, with 61 percent saying Israel has committed war crimes and about 4 in 10 saying the country is guilty of genocide against the Palestinians, according to a Washington Post poll.

Only an administration intent on committing war crimes in the present and future would stoop to calling Wounded Knee a "battle" rather than what it truly was: a massacre of over 250 Lakotas, mainly women, children, and the elderly. 1/

I love watching documentaries from the early 2000s about peak oil… and every time I hear someone tell me about peak emissions I can’t help but want to point this out to them

History on the Tabletop: A Brief Guide for Evaluating Historical Board Games Historical board game Land Run: 1893 explores settler colonialism, Indigenous dispossession, and environmental degradation, balancing historical accuracy with player agency.

Today we have "History on the Tabletop: A Brief Guide for Evaluating Historical Board Games" by @jacobleetom.bsky.social

This is the second article in the Playing Inside: Board Games, Video Games, and the Indoors series edited by @theliftline.bsky.social

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Green Gentrification: Race and Class Exclusion in an Urban National Park This post is part of an ongoing series called “Whose Nature? Race and Canadian Environmental History.” This series examines the intersections of race and environment in Canada’s past and asks how huma...

"Quebec did not have a comprehensive system of formal segregation such as the 'white’s only' signage in the southern United States, but it did have a history of slavery and pervasive anti-Black racism." - @stevenhigh.bsky.social

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#envhist #cdnhist #parkhistory

The NYT opinion supporting geoengineering isn’t helping 🤦‍♂️

Defense Department Delays Cleanup of ‘Forever Chemicals’ Nationwide

It all makes sense now! If we leave PFAS and don’t use tylenol & vaccines, all illness will disappear! I’ve just been so confused thinking vaccines help people and forever chemicals wreck our environment and bodies… It’s good to feel informed again.

Review of Fair, Improving Upper Canada Ross Fair’s Improving Upper Canada examines agricultural improvement’s role in state formation, political conflict, and environmental governance in nineteenth-century Upper Canada.

In our latest book review, @jakebreadman.bsky.social examines @rossfair.bsky.social's Improving Upper Canada: Agricultural Societies and State Formation, 1791-1852 ( @uoftpress.bsky.social 2024)

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Opinion | A Responsible Way to Cool the Planet

These people need to take an intro level environmental history class. There I’ll learn unintended consequences are the rule, not the exception. This is argonaut, idiotic, antidemocratic, and disgraceful. They should be ashamed.

Considering Site C The Peace River in northern British Columbia is currently being considered for a major hydro-electric project at Site C, near Fort St. John. The river has already been dammed twice. Another dam raises...

In 2009, we asked:
How does the environmental & social history of the river inform the current debate?
What environmental changes will a dam introduce?
What are the possible social and economic effects?
Are there alternatives to secure BC’s future electricity needs?

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I never realized how useful 10 key texting in the early days was to my note taking until I had Gen Z students turn in a notes assignment. So many fewer activations, so many more words, so many questions when I recommend “text-like” writing

As always, great work on NiCHE!

Codfish drying on the Newfoundland waterfront, pre-1892.

"Slavery combined with cheap fish made for cheap labour, which in turn made for cheap sugar. Some of this sugar returned to the Northeast and became rum in New England distilleries." - Sandy Hunter

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#envhist #coastalhistory #labourhistory

YouTube video by ZANTHERA LEGO Island OST Restored - Brick By Brick

If "Brick By Brick" is the Flyers' new slogan, can this be their new theme song?
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Everyone who writes books on how to write seem to have remarkable memories… I need a writing book by someone with lots of concussions, who understands me!!!! 🙃

Opinion | Democrats Cannot Just Buy Back the Working Class

A spectacular example pf building an argument about today through an exasperatingly weak understanding of the past. Apparently race, gender, and education are “social identities” but income is instead “social class…”

Asking the difference will be my next trick quiz question for students.

First article in my series on playing inside and the environment—and @jkdahl.bsky.social piece about building a digital version of a historical board game is spectacular!!!

The professor has been fired and senior administrators removed from their post. No mention of this in the New York Times, The Free Press, The Atlantic or other outlets who drove the campus speech moral panic.