By Jaliliah Williams There’s a lot to be said about the beauty of the forest. The way everything seems to fit in place and flow within everything else. Nature is serene and peacefully quiet. It was effortlessly graceful, effortlessly beautiful. It seems as though every love song and poem revolves […]
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By Sara Silva and Michael Mace At the end of March 2020, New York City was empty streets with the occasional line of people spread out along storefronts. It was delivery from resilient restaurants and visits to limited-capacity bodegas. It was apartments with rooms leased to confusion and uncertainty. My […]
Over time we’ve lost our connection to the outdoors. One of the reasons is our advancement in technology and living in a more industrial world. Urban environments are full of noises that are constant, annoying and many times affect our hearing and health. Noise pollution is something we hardly hear […]
WBC and Makeda Cheatom present Dragon Fruit Cacti music Sit, take a breath and relax. For 2 years WorldBeat Center has been researching the healing effects of sound particularly through plant music. Our research is part of the NOISE Project, a national community science project on the effects of noise […]
Community Science Collaborator Ernest Dixon (Metro Atlanta Urban Farm) shares his experience with racism and its role on his everyday life as a young man.
It is critically important for minoritized communities co-lead science projects. Communities are strong! Communities are made of people who care about the wellbeing of their community and who know what’s best for them. Communities historically excluded from the sciences are more than capable of engaging in science, if institutions create […]
The novel coronavirus pandemic has radically upended human life as we know it. From our daily routines of purchasing food at the market to the rather mundane commute to work, the world has been brought to a standstill by the outbreak. Amidst the catastrophic repercussions of the virus, a significant […]