Museum of Science and Industry

The true definition of an engineer changes depending on the person defining it. For an infant in the depths of the Saharan desert, an engineer is the person who fixes the pump that brings water to her village; for a teenager hooked on video games, an engineer is the messiah who reboots his virus-stricken computer right back up to normal. Amongst this variety of definitions, however, lies a singular fundamental linking factor: an engineer is someone who makes a positive impact in your life by…

“The Tragedy of the Commons" is a term used to describe what happens to common resources as a result of human greed. It was first coined in an article in Science in 1968 by Garrett Hardin. The commons dilemma was seen long before Hardin, but he brought widespread attention to it and described it in a common-sense fashion that made it easily accessible.” For instance, “at its core, the Tragedy of the Commons…

Abraham Maslow is a humanistic psychologist whose contributions to psychology emphasize more of Humanistic approach to modern Psychology. One of his greatest contributions primarily is on the subject of the human needs. In 1943, Maslow developed a theory of human motivation, which is commonly identified as ‘Maslow’s Hierarchy of Needs’ which includes the full range of human requirements to be lead a healthy life (SSI, 2016). Abraham Maslow proposed that most people have a particular number of…

The government already has the power to tax companies through the constitutional interstate commerce clause, so a push to tax these industries harder to clean the environment might not require such wholesale changes. Taxing industries creates incentives to find cleaner energies, like the cap-and-trade system. Instead, more focus should be placed on the energies that do not have so many negative externalities. States like Florida that…

Green Dining Room (figure 2) commissioned for the South Kensignton Museum (now the Royal Vitoria and Albert Museum). This was also echoed in the broader German movement to produce fine crafts on an industrial level that could compete with those seen in England. Here an important distinction must be made between Morris and Gropius: While Morris condemned machine made goods, Gropius wanted to integrate the arts and crafts with industry. After serving in the Great War, Gropius desired to “tame…

Bride’s in London. Posters were collected by the new applied art museums and museums of decorative arts that began to open in Europe from the mid-19th century on. The collection of less significant material is more recent. Some of the great ephemera collections today were started by single individuals. After the first collections of printed ephemera, which were often motivated by the quality of the wood engraving or lithography, museums of social and cultural history began collecting…

Lee Alexander McQueen was a British fashion designer who was born on March 17,1969 in Lewisham, London, to Ronald, who was a cab driver and Joyce McQueen, who taught as a social science teacher. He was the youngest of six children. He attended Carpenters Road Primary School and started creating designs for his three sisters to wear at a young age. At a young age e identified himself as a homosexual but did not come out to the public until he was 18. He was teased a lot as a child by students.…

Kristin Armstrong Idaho. The City of Boise, Idaho, renamed one of the city’s oldest and most popular parks after 43-year-old mother and full-time career woman Kristin Armstrong, who recently won her third-straight gold medal in the women’s cycling individual time trials at the 2016 Summer Olympics in Rio de Janeiro. After overcoming a diagnosis of osteoarthritis in 2001, Kristin is now the most decorated female cyclist in U.S. history and a leader in her community. The Kristin Armstrong…

Think back to the last vacation you had overseas and how many American companies you may have seen in that foreign country. Whether it was McDonalds or a JW Marriott, western culture is an overarching presence in Latin America. Not only can it potentially interfere with the current culture of the country, it also exploits the land and resources in the area. In Through the Arc of the Rainforest, Yamashita discusses the globalization process through overarching American corporations westernizing…

In fact, McKercher and Du Cros state that in many places, cultural heritage management and the torusim industry are often at odds with on another, and in fact, remarkably little dialogue occurs between the two even though they both share mutual interests in the ‘management, conservation and presentation of the culture and heritage assets’. Richards (2007)…