Author: barry.belmont
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Marginalia from Zoom University
In trying to teach an introduction to biofluid mechanics for students during the pandemic (BIOMEDE 331, Fall 2020 at the University of Michigan), I tried to teach a little more, scribbling as much as I could into the margins. Though often forgotten, much can be learned from the marginal. This series of vignettes represents those…
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There is a certain look
There is a certain look one can catch in the eyes of those performing scientific experiments. If one is lucky enough to see it, I submit that moment is a high drama comprising at least five distinct acts: preparation, anticipation, (un)expectation, revelation, and understanding. Having had the opportunity to teach my fair share of youngsters…
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Shanghai
It will always be presumptuous of the visitor upon their return home to say they understood a locale, and to claim capture of a jewel as gleaming as Shanghai within the ornate crown of China is certainly brazen, but after 99 days in Shanghai I feel I understood something of the locale. Sensations, too fleeting, words, too…
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Dayton, Tenn., July 10 – 21
Thirty-five thousand sixty-four days after The Rev. Cartwright opened the proceedings at Rhea County Court House one Friday morning with a prayer (“Oh, God, our divine Father, we recognize Thee as the Supreme Ruler of the universe, in whose hands are the lives and destinies of all men”), I began reading “A WORD-FOR-WORD REPORT” of the State…
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A march in March in Ann Arbor
About three dozen people walked from the steps of Hatcher Graduate Library through downtown Ann Arbor and back to the Diag on March 13 to call attention to systemic racism in policing and the mattering of black lives. The march began at about 2:45 p.m. local time. The participants walked through E. William St. up…