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How a federal policy change in the 1980s created the modern food desert

A philosophy webcomic about the inevitable anguish of living a brief life in an absurd world. Also Jokes

The political designation “the left” originated during the French Revolution in 1789. In the National Assembly, those who opposed the king’s veto and supported change sat on the l…

Do they want to help writers or destroy them?

Ambos Nogales refers to the two cities of Nogales, Arizona, United States, and Nogales, Sonora, Mexico. They lie 60 miles directly south of Tucson, Arizona, divided by the Mexico–United States barrier. Though divided by the border between their respective nation states, the two municipalities have historically shared a sense of community alluded to in their description as "Ambos Nogales," as well as other sayings and phrases alluding to this camaraderie. The motto of Nogales, Sonora, is Juntos por amor a Nogales, meaning "United by the love of Nogales". Ambos Nogales has become a subject of anthropological and archaeological research due to the ways in which the material presence of the border wall has impacted the lives of those living in these cities. Investigation of community, migration, immigration, drug trafficking, gang violence, and all of the activities associated with these has occurred at Ambos Nogales due to its unique identity and geographic position.

Based on the sharp decline of the G rating, apparently not. Learn why Hollywood seems to have left the general rating designation behind.

The industry’s blame game will not end the US national health care nightmare.

Why Brian Thompson’s death has provoked such complicated reactions from the public.

DMT, “the nuclear bomb of the psychedelic family,” explained.

25 years later, Kyle Mooney’s new movie revisits the apocalypse that wasn’t.

Our earliest studies of Neanderthals were fundamentally flawed.

A brief history of how America’s public housing experiment was designed to fail.

China tightens its grip on materials necessary for US military and its proxies as Washington turns to those who squandered American advantages to fix the problem — or profit from it.

Internet-service providers must disclose prices and speeds on labels like packaged foods—but consumers can’t find or understand them.

The Strategic Petroleum Reserve (SPR) is an emergency stockpile of petroleum maintained by the United States Department of Energy (DOE). It is the largest publicly known emergency supply in the world; its underground tanks in Louisiana and Texas have capacity for 714 million barrels (113,500,000 m3). The United States started the petroleum reserve in 1975 to mitigate future supply disruptions as part of the international Agreement on an International Energy Program, after oil supplies were interrupted during the 1973–1974 oil embargo.

The Svalbard Global Seed Vault is a secure backup facility for the world's crop diversity on the Norwegian island of Spitsbergen in the remote Arctic Svalbard archipelago. The Seed Vault provides long-term storage for duplicates of seeds from around the world, conserved in gene banks. This provides security of the world's food supply against the loss of seeds in genebanks due to mismanagement, accident, equipment failures, funding cuts, war, sabotage, disease, and natural disasters. The Seed Vault is managed under terms spelled out in a tripartite agreement among the Norwegian government, the Crop Trust, and the Nordic Genetic Resource Center (NordGen).

Social murder (German: sozialer Mord) is a concept used to describe an unnatural death that purportedly occurs due to social, political, or economic oppression.

Propaganda of the deed is specific political direct action meant to be exemplary to others and serve as a catalyst for revolution.

I started to write about prediction markets in 1988, and not until 1999 about using conditional markets to make org decisions.

You don’t actually have to stay on Twitter. First, allow me to share my credentials: ▪️ I met my now-husband on Twitter. At our wedding, half the toasts mentioned me tweeting. I’m not particularly proud of this (what a sad thing to be known to be obsessed with) but I’m mentioning it for cred. ▪️ […]

A blog about making culture. Since 1999.

“The victims of History are permanently exiled from home, within and without. The practitioners or memory are also: we live as foreigners, as translators.”

Say Nothing and a history of hunger strikes

With fasting at an all-time high in popularity, here is an enlightening exploration into the history, science, and philosophy behind the practice—e...

A lack of coverage

There’s quite a few rights you give up by purchasing a digital copy of your favorite game, movie, or album! On Digital Rights Bytes we outline the differences between owning physical and digital

Outside his family., friends, and close colleagues, not many tears are being shed over the murder of UnitedHealth CEO Brian Thompson.