Oceans and Us | Anthropology | MIT OpenCourseWare
This course explores how people have understood and encountered the ocean, cross-culturally, as a site of danger, pleasure, travel, food-procurement, commerce, and tourism. Topics include imperial voyaging, piracy, the invention of seaside vacations, the politics of fishing, the culture of onboard living in surface…
Social and Ethical Responsibilities of Computing (SERC) | MIT OpenCourseWare | Free Online Course Materials
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Science Activism: Gender, Race, and Power | Women's and Gender Studies | MIT OpenCourseWare
This subject examines the role scientists have played as activists in social movements in the U.S. following World War II. Themes include scientific responsibility and social justice, the roles of gender, race, and power, the motivation of individual scientists, strategies for organizing, and scientists’ impact within…
Loneliness and Social Connections | Our World in Data
In this topic page, we explore data on loneliness and social connections and review available evidence on the link between social connections and well-being.
Our Government – The White House
The Federal Government is composed of three distinct branches: legislative, executive, and judicial, whose powers are vested by the U.S. Constitution in the Congress, the President, and the Federal courts, respectively. Powers not granted to the Federal Government are reserved for States and the people, which are…