Brentoni Gainer-Salim

Date of Birth: February 4, 1990
Hometown: Frankenmuth, Michigan
Current location: Paris, France
Institution: American University of Paris (2012)
Blog: brentonigainersalim.blogspot.com
E-mail address: bsalim@imagineermagazine.com

Articles

• In Vitro Meat: Steak of the Future?
   Winter 2010 (with Alexander D. Farris)
  "In more and more laboratories around the world, the concept of creating meat from stem cells is being studied and tested. Many scientists envision in vitro meat to be a more cost-effective and less environmentally taxing replacement for meat currently manufactured in the factory farming system. In less than five years, it is likely that large food manufacturers will start creating industrial prototypes and shortly thereafter introduce this new meat substitute to the market. . ." (read more)
• Somali Piracy: This Summer, It's No Movie
  Summer 2009
  "In a nation where the importance of a functional fly screen far exceeds that of the latest release on the silver screen, the glorified image of piracy the United States has recently developed after the release of the popular Pirates of the Caribbean films would be almost laughable if not for the dire circumstances at hand. Throughout the past year, a handful of incidents involving these “Somali pirates” have passed the international filter and found themselves on the frontline of American cable news. However, the American understanding of this situation is quite limited. . ." (read more)

Other

• The Drinking Poem: Part One
  Summer 2009
  "The blinking lights met my fragile morning eyes with a slap. My roommate was already awake. I could see his slow, deliberate hand movements on the other side of the pale, off-white curtain that separated us. He was doing it again… Every morning since I arrived he had played his hand games. Perhaps this was to exercise his frail old fingers…perhaps to provide a brief escape from the immense boredom. Rock to paper…paper to scissors…rock to rock…again and again. It was a limited pastime in many ways. . ." (read more)