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Prolific scholar and activist remembered for academic influence and personal warmth
Marshall D. Sahlins, an eminent cultural anthropologist of the Pacific known for sparking lively academic debates, died April 5. He was 90.
Renowned for his prolific contributions to anthropology, Sahlins was the Charles F. Grey Distinguished Service Professor Emeritus at the University of Chicago. For decades, he studied the history and ethnography of communities in Hawaii, Fiji and other islands in the South Pacific during the period of European contact engaging his research with indigenous political structures, modes of kinship and conceptions of nature.
For Sahlins, anthropology was both a privilege and an adventure, offering an opportunity to “reproduce within one’s mind the way the world is put together for other people,” he said during a 2014 appearance at the Chicago Humanities Festival.
If you put on Victor Kossakovsky’s immersive new documentary
Gunda hoping to “oooh” and “awww” at a farrow of adorable little baby piglets, allow us to reset your expectations. It’s not that the movie doesn’t offer those moments. It’s just that, as A.A. Dowd wrote in his review, along with naturalistic soundscapes and gorgeous monochromatic lensing, Kossakovsky’s film has a clear-eyed view of life on the farm a place where animals are both nurtured and slaughtered.
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With that giant blinking caveat in mind, if an “arty pastoral mood piece” that plays like a “wordless documentary
March 4, 2021
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Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates has one goal for the world: Reach zero carbon emissions by the year 2050. During a virtual discussion for the Chicago Humanities Festival, he proposed that, in order to achieve this, everyone including governments and corporations will need to work together through initiatives and innovations that will leave a greener footprint.
Gates said new innovations of decarbonized steel and cement, green hydrogen and safe nuclear power are needed to combat climate change, in addition to expanding upon existing innovations such as the beef replacement Beyond Meat.
“If you told me we couldn’t innovate, I would be pessimistic,” Gates said.