The inherent paradox of cars
The model showed a phenomenon anyone who’s driven in a city is surely familiar with: This choice creates an inherent paradox. If more people decide that driving is quicker, there…
Strategic Knowledge
While companies feign ignorance about marginalized users on their sites, these savvy users flip the script, developing strategic knowledge about the platforms they frequent. Strategic knowledge is an imaginative praxis…
Prioritizing Survival: Why Climate Action Is Our Most Urgent Concern
That’s what the struggle against climate change is about: fighting to maintain some form of organized human life on our planet. And as we are seeing now, working people are…
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The Pain Reliever – PoetryNow
After an artist residency at Chicago’s International Museum of Surgical Science, Carrie Olivia Adams celebrates the lives of pioneering women in medicine during the nineteenth century.
How the Delta Variant Affects Whether You Should Wear a Mask or Not
As the latest version of the new coronavirus gains ground around the world, the WHO is advising that everyone go back to wearing masks
The Utility Repossessed Their City’s Streetlights. Now They’re Re-Lighting the Night
A grassroots group is installing solar-powered streetlights to replace the hundreds taken away in 2011.
Heaven or High Water: Selling Miami’s last 50 years
Who of us behaves as if we were in immediate trouble? We work, and at the end of the day, if we think at all, all we have time to…
Conservative Attacks On Critical Race Theory Are An Attempt To Cancel MLK
To rally their dying and dwindling base (Republicans have won one majority in a presidential election since 1988), the right has decided that they should distort what critical race theory…
New Zealand to ban most single-use plastics by 2025
The new bans were an important step, but still missed many of the largest producers of plastic waste in New Zealand, said Assoc Prof Terri-Ann Berry, the director of Environmental…