Development
Development’s Debris: China’s Secret Battlefields
China’s cities are strewn with hidden rubble fields, vast apocalyptic landscapes that terminate abruptly at the thresholds of bustling neighborhoods. The skeletons of houses show what once existed there. Onlookers say it resembles the aftermath of a...
Determinism and Its Enemies Are Still Waging War Over the Soul of Science
Academics are fighting a battle over determinism that goes back to Darwin's bastardizers, the eugenicists.
A Bike Ride to the Top of Rio's Oldest Favela
In preparation for the upcoming World Cup and Olympics, the Rio de Janeiro city government is in the process of evicting thousands of residents of Providência, the oldest favela in Rio de Janeiro. Favela is the Brazilian word for a neighborhood that is...
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