STEM and Gender, Race, and Ethnic Diversity

Rick Fry, Brian Kennedy,and Cary Funk authored a Pew study documenting how STEM jobs see uneven progress increasing gender, racial and ethnic diversity.

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Retreating Christian Soldiers

Emma Green writes in the Atlantic about how Christians are retreating from the diversity of today's general society.

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Diverse Viewpoints

Tom Bartlett writes about diverse campus viewpoints and the presentations at the Open Mind Conference .

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National Diversity Day

October 6 has been labeled National Diversity Day .

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A Return to Artisanal Goods

Allan Metcalf celebrates the diversity in present consumer offerings . He notes that a generation ago artisanal goods were rare, and most consumer goods were mass produced by a few conglomerates.

I appreciate Metcalf's positive spin on our current world, as our time is so often condemned for lacking diversity and embracing environmental degredation.

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Where Good Ideas Come From

Steven Johnson's thesis in Where Good Ideas Come From is that interactions amid diversity causes new ideas to be applied. Throughout the book he uses the image of a vibrantly alive reef amid an ocean desert to represent the colonies of thinkers in cities (or now connected on the World Wide Web). Johnson extended Stuart Kauffman's concept of biological evolution to "adjacent possible" niches, applying the concept to technological evolution.

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