Loss of Epistemic Self-Determination in the Anthropocene

One serious harm facing communities in the Anthropocene is epistemic loss. This is increasingly recognized as a harm in international policy discourses around adaptation to climate change. Epistemic loss is typically conceived of as the loss of a corpus of knowledge, or less commonly, as the further loss of epistemic methodologies. In what follows, I argue that epistemic loss also can involve the loss of epistemic self-determination, and that this framework can help to usefully examine adaptation policies

Food Sovereignty, Health Sovereignty, and Self-Organized Community Viability

Food Sovereignty is a vibrant discourse in academic and activist circles, yet despite the many shared characteristics between issues surrounding food and public health, the two are often analysed in separate frameworks and the insights from Food Sovereignty are not sufficiently brought to bear on the problems in the public health discourse. In this paper, I will introduce the concept of 'self-organised community viability' as a way to link food and health, and to argue that what I call the 'Health Security' paradigm requires a 'Health Sovereignty' response modelled on Food Sovereignty

Worry as Coping: The Roles of Worry Beliefs, Anxiety, and Emotion Regulation

High-anxious individuals may be particularly vulnerable to emotion dysregulation and overreliance on maladaptive coping strategies such as worry (e.g., Mennin et al., 2005). The existence of contradictory theories regarding the role of worry in anxious individuals’ emotion regulation raises questions about what beliefs may undergird the use of worry. I collected data via an online survey of college students to examine associations between beliefs about worry and worry behavior, as well as associations among trait anxiety, contrast avoidance, and beliefs about worry. I found that affective beliefs predicted worry behavior over and above more-commonly studied instrumental beliefs. I also found a main effect of contrast avoidance on affective beliefs about worry. The association between trait anxiety and worry was not significant. These findings highlight the importance of affective beliefs and contrast avoidance in developing a more complete conceptualization of beliefs about worry. Implications for treatments and future research are discussed

In-space Manufacturing: Pioneering a Sustainable Path to Mars

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NASA's In-Space Manufacturing (ISM) Overview

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In-Space Manufacturing: Pioneering a Sustainable Path to Mars

ISM is responsible for developing the on-demand manufacturing capabilities that will be required for affordable, sustainable operations during Exploration Missions (in-transit and on-surface) to destinations such as Mars. This includes advancing the needed technologies, as well as establishing the skills & processes (such as certification and characterization) that will enable the technologies to go from novel to institutionalized. These technologies are evolving rapidly due to terrestrial markets. ISM is leveraging this commercial development to develop these capabilities within a realistic timeframe and budget. ISM utilizes the International Space Station (ISS) as a test-bed to adapt these technologies for microgravity operations and evolve the current operations mindset from earth-reliant to earth-independent

In-Space Manufacturing (ISM): Pioneering Space Exploration

ISM Objective: Develop and enable the manufacturing technologies and processes required to provide on-demand, sustainable operations for Exploration Missions. This includes development of the desired capabilities, as well as the required processes for the certification, characterization & verification that will enable these capabilities to become institutionalized via ground-based and ISS demonstrations

Technology and responsibility: a discussion of underexamined risks and concerns in Precision Livestock Farming

Implications Precision Livestock Farming (PLF) promises to replicate at scale, the care usually provided by farmers who know their animals. This suite of current and developing technologies has the potential to address many problems facing modern farms. Many underexamined concerns still exist around PLF, some of which are common to many new technologies, and others of which are more specific to these technologies being implemented on farms with humans and nonhuman animals. Though these concerns are not a sufficient reason to abandon PLF, they ought to be considered more carefully by everyone working on developing, implementing, or legislating these technologies

Three-Dimensional Printing in Zero Gravity

The 3D printing in zero-g (3D Print) technology demonstration project is a proof-of-concept test designed to assess the properties of melt deposition modeling additive manufacturing in the microgravity environment experienced on the International Space Station (ISS). This demonstration is the first step towards realizing a 'machine shop' in space, a critical enabling component of any deep space mission

In-Space Manufacturing: Exploration thru Innovation

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