Land art in the time of climate change.
Aaron Gilbreath
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Liz Phair Taught Me Everything About Being a Grown-Up
Twenty-five years after releasing her debut album Exile in Guyville, Liz Phair’s early music is still helping define peoples’ lives, dudes included.
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Watermarks
Water, water everywhere in the new issue of Lapham’s Quarterly. Read the prelude.
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Where Your Stuff Goes When You Lose It in Tokyo
If you lost your umbrella in Tokyo, don’t worry. It’s probably among the thousands stored inside the Metropolitan Police Department’s six-story lost and found center.
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Lost: Struggling to Cope with Millions of Unclaimed Items in Tokyo
When things get lost in the world’s largest city, they often end up at the Metropolitan Police Department’s lost and found center. So which one of these 3,000 umbrellas is yours?
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Can This Tech Company’s Digital Border Wall Secure it More Government Defense Contracts?
Looking inside the new tech company who is building a cost-effective digital wall along the U.S.-Mexico border.
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Inside Palmer Luckey’s Bid to Build a Border Wall
A company named Anduril Industries is testing a sophisticated digital wall, called Lattice, to prevent unauthorized crossings along the US-Mexico border. Instead of using a fence and barbed wire, Lattice uses cameras, virtual reality and radar. If the system works, Anduril hopes to become a major player in the defense industry. But are the politcal values of its […]
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How Amazon Exploits Chinese Workers to Crank Out Its Products
How Jeff Bezos, the world’s richest man, exploits Chinese workers to manufacture Kindles and smart speakers.
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Underpaid and Exhausted: The Human Cost of Your Kindle
At a recent awards ceremony, the world’s richest man, Jeff Bezos, said, “I’m very proud of our working conditions and very proud of the wages we pay”. So why do the temporary Chinese “dispatch workers” who make Amazon Kindles and smart speakers earn barely $2 an hour, have to ask permission to use the toilet, […]
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The Myth of the Stanford Prison Experiment
Despite its unscientific methods, the Stanford Prison Experiment continues to influence the way we understand human behavior.