Ryan Lumbert, Author at My TJ Now

SAGE’s Transgender Week of Visibility success, with Starbucks and more

Ryan Lumbert

For its 2022 Transgender Week of Visibility, Winthrop's Sexuality and Gender Equality club partnered with the campus Starbucks through Sodexo to create Winthrop's exclusive, limited-time Pride & Joy drink: A…

Art history meets the future with virtual reality

Ryan Lumbert

In the last year, the Department of Fine Arts at Winthrop acquired an HTC Vive, one of the latest pieces of virtual reality hardware, with the goal of giving its…

US PIRG releases report on the fixability of tech products

Ryan Lumbert

A recent report released by the U.S. Public Interest Research Group ranked several technology companies on the repairability of their products. Modeled after reports done by France under the European…

Russia moves to disregard copyrights

Ryan Lumbert

As the Russian invasion of Ukraine continues, several countries and international corporations have implemented sanctions against Russia. Technological sanctions have included Apple suspending all of its product sales, as…

Calculators and monopolies

Ryan Lumbert

Despite arriving on the market nearly 20 years ago, Texas Instruments' TI-84 Plus is still the standard calculator for mathematics courses across the country. Boasting specs that make your grandpa's…

Nuclear energy on the Catawba River

Ryan Lumbert

Situated on a peninsula in Lake Wylie, Catawba Nuclear Station has been providing York County and its surrounding districts with power for over 25 years without major incident. Both of…

A review of “Capital is Dead” by Mckenzie Wark

Ryan Lumbert

In the 1980s, western capital owners moved to defeat the rising labor movements in the United States and Europe through the process of globalization, the opening up of global trade…

The prevalence of “Zoom fatigue” and its causes

Ryan Lumbert

As the United States enters its third year of grappling with the COVID-19 pandemic, students and employees across the nation have been plagued by a digital affliction of the mind:…