Review: \u27Flights of Imagination: Aviation, Landscape, Design\u27

The advent of powered flight in the early part of the twentieth century brought profound changes to society and culture globally. In her work Flights of Imagination: Aviation, Landscape, Design, Sonja Dümpelmann explores how it influenced the perspective and work of architects, landscape architects, and urban planners and designers, primarily in the United States and Europe. Specifically, the book “deals with those moments during the twentieth- and early twenty-first centuries when these professionals developed an aerial imagination and an epistemology based upon aerial vision, and when they realized the opportunities that the new technology offered them in shaping the land” (1). In addition to airport design, Dümpelmann examines such topics as the impact of aerial photography on both urban and landscape design, the development of the art and science of camouflage, and the relationship between aerial views and environmental thought

An Entire Generation of Americans Has No Idea How Easy Air Travel Used to Be

As someone who has studied the history of airports in the United States – and someone old enough to remember air travel before 9/11 – I find it striking, on the one hand, how reluctant the federal government, the airlines, and airports were to adopt early security measures. On the other hand, it’s been jarring to watch how abruptly the sprawling Transportation Security Agency system was created – and how quickly American air travelers came to accept those security measures as both normal and seemingly permanent features of all U.S. airports

How Some People Can End Up Living at Airports for Months – Even Years – at a Time

In January, local authorities arrested a 36-year-old man named Aditya Singh after he had spent three months living at Chicago’s O\u27Hare International Airport. Since October, he had been staying in the secure side of the airport, relying on the kindness of strangers to buy him food, sleeping in the terminals and using the many bathroom facilities. It wasn’t until an airport employee asked to see his ID that the jig was up. Singh, however, is far from the first to pull off an extended stay. After more than two decades studying the history of airports, I’ve come across stories about individuals who have managed to take up residence in terminals for weeks, months and sometimes years. Interestingly, though, not all of those who find themselves living in an airport do so of their own accord

Swift as an Arrow: The Story of Thomas Benoist, Pioneer American Aviator

Review of: "Swift as an Arrow: The Story of Thomas Benoist, Pioneer American Aviator," by Melody Davis and Gary R. Liming

Iowa City Municipal Airport: Opening the West to Aviation, 1918-2007

Review of: "Iowa City Municipal Airport: Opening the West to Aviation, 1918-2007," by Jan Olive Nash

Iowa City Municipal Airport: Opening the West to Aviation, 1918-2007

Review of: "Iowa City Municipal Airport: Opening the West to Aviation, 1918-2007," by Jan Olive Nash

Elevated protein concentrations in newborn blood and the risks of autism spectrum disorder, and of social impairment, at age 10 years among infants born before the 28th week of gestation

Among the 1 of 10 children who are born preterm annually in the United States, 6% are born before the third trimester. Among children who survive birth before the 28th week of gestation, the risks of autism spectrum disorder (ASD) and non-autistic social impairment are severalfold higher than in the general population. We examined the relationship between top quartile inflammation-related protein concentrations among children born extremely preterm and ASD or, separately, a high score on the Social Responsiveness Scale (SRS total score ≥65) among those who did not meet ASD criteria, using information only from the subset of children whose DAS-II verbal or non-verbal IQ was ≥70, who were assessed for ASD, and who had proteins measured in blood collected on ≥2 days (N = 763). ASD (N = 36) assessed at age 10 years is associated with recurrent top quartile concentrations of inflammation-related proteins during the first post-natal month (e.g., SAA odds ratio (OR); 95% confidence interval (CI): 2.5; 1.2–5.3) and IL-6 (OR; 95% CI: 2.6; 1.03–6.4)). Top quartile concentrations of neurotrophic proteins appear to moderate the increased risk of ASD associated with repeated top quartile concentrations of inflammation-related proteins. High (top quartile) concentrations of SAA are associated with elevated risk of ASD (2.8; 1.2–6.7) when Ang-1 concentrations are below the top quartile, but not when Ang-1 concentrations are high (1.3; 0.3–5.8). Similarly, high concentrations of TNF-α are associated with heightened risk of SRS-defined social impairment (N = 130) (2.0; 1.1–3.8) when ANG-1 concentrations are not high, but not when ANG-1 concentrations are elevated (0.5; 0.1–4.2)

An Historian\u27s View of \u3cem\u3eThe Grapes of Wrath\u3c/em\u3e

While trying to watch Darryl F. Zanuck\u27s film of John Steinbeck\u27s novel The Grapes of Wrath with an historian\u27s eye, several things jumped out at me. First, and least important really, was a sense that the people — the actors in the movie — were too clean, too well-fed and too pretty to be realistic. They did not look like the people I imagined when I first read the book. And, even though the film was in black and white, the scenery in the early scenes set in Oklahoma seemed too green. Looking at all the grass and the trees full of leaves it was hard for me to believe that this was set in dust bowl Oklahoma. If I wanted to give my students a sense of what life was like in the agricultural midwest during the drought years of the 1930s, I do not think I would use the opening scenes from this movie as a visual aid

Dixy Lee Ray: A Life in Science and Nature

Dixy Lee Ray, in some ways, grew up with the twentieth century. Born in 1914, her childhood coincided with the early years of the mass production automobile, airplanes, and home electricity. She remembered when her family bought their first free-standing table lamp (1922) and her chores as a young child included emptying the drip pan of the family\u27s ice box. Fresh fruits and vegetables were seasonal, at best, and viewed as rare treats. In the world into which she was born, infectious childhood diseases, such as whooping cough, measles, diphtheria, and polio, were facts of life. By the time she died in early 1994, cars, planes and electricity had become so much a part of the fabric of life that they were taken for granted. Also taken for granted was the ability to find a wide variety of even exotic fruits and vegetables at any local grocery store. And medical science had advanced to the point where previously common childhood killer diseases practically had been eliminated. For Ray, there was no such thing as the good old days. The world of her adulthood was much preferable to the world of her childhood. To her, science and technology had made the world and life better—more healthy and more convenient

Ohio History 2015

https://kent-islandora.s3.us-east-2.amazonaws.com/node/10127/OH-v122-thumb.jpgOHIO HISTORY Contents for Volume 122, 2015 Contested Patriarchy: John Cleves Symmes and the Struggle for Family Control in the Post-revolutionary West Cathy Rodabaugh ...... 5 Ralph Keeler: A Delightful Arabesque of Invention and Sentiment Larry Lee Nelson ...... 29 Peace Be with You: Leftist Activism at John Carroll University, 1967–69 Michael Daniel Goodnough ...... 49 Water in the Shaping of Columbus, Ohio, 1812–1912 Mansel G. Blackford ......&nbsp; 65 &nbsp; Book Reviews ...... 89 &nbsp; On the cover: The Columbus water-treatment plant was one of the most modern in the world, and worked well in all weather. (Columbus Metropolitan Library)</p