What is the relationship between biopower and governmentality? In the context of neoliberal governmentality, biopower operates through mechanisms—specific sets of techniques and procedures for exercising power (Foucault, 2003: 32)—that administer life based on 'natural and economic “laws” that provide human beings with security and subsistence' but at the same time leave them free ... What is Foucault's ideology? Foucault views Ideology much as Marxism does, but he: b) Shifted attention from economic relations to include all relationships between people. c) Shifted attention from the Marxist focus on economics/means of production to power, in more general, universal terms. What is the...

What happened at Lac Megantic? In the early hours of July 6, 2013, a train carrying petroleum crude oil crashed into the centre of Lac Megantic, a small town in Quebec. The downtown core erupted in flames; 47 people perished, 2,000 people were evacuated from their homes. The tragedy marks one of the worst rail disasters in Canadian history. How many people died in the Lac Megantic train accident? 47 Lac-Mégantic rail disaster/Number of deaths In the early morning of 6 July 2013, a runaway train hauling 72 tankers filled with crude oil derailed as it approached the centre of...

Is HB11 fusion legitimate? HB11 Energy has launched its experimental program developing a new source of clean, safe and reliable electricity using the fusion hydrogen and boron-11 (the HB11 reaction). How soon will we have fusion power? And we are likely to need fusion well beyond 2050, too: as a source of large-scale power to extract the carbon dioxide we've already put into the atmosphere, and because it's the only feasible way we can explore space beyond Earth's immediate vicinity. Why is boron used for fusion? Successful aneutronic fusion would greatly reduce problems associated with neutron radiation such as damaging...