In its focus on genetics and race, global newspaper coverage of athletics is far from “post-racial”

With the years of racially segregated sports now long behind us, many would consider that sports coverage is color-blind and post-racial. In new research which examines newspaper coverage of race, sport and genetics from 2003 to 2014, Matthew W. Hughey and Devon R. Goss find that this is not the case. They write that the media persistently reinforces the notions that African American’s athletic success is based on biology, while whites’ comes from hard work and intelligence. They also debunk the ideas often seen in the media that race has a biological reality which can be defined by genes, and that the historic process of slavery somehow eliminated ‘weaker genes’ from the African American population, making them a more athletic race

Batteries on the battlefield : developing a methodology to estimate the fully burdened cost of batteries in the Department of Defense

L), have developed methodologies to calculate the fully burdened cost of fuel as delivered energy in defense systems. Whereas these previous studies did not consider other energy sources such as batteries, this thesis contributes to the DoD area of knowledge in estimating life cycle costs of systems by developing a methodology to estimate the fully burdened cost of batteries.http://archive.org/details/batteriesonbattl109455278Outstanding ThesisUS Army (USA) authorsApproved for public release; distribution is unlimited

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