At the meeting point of humans, nature, and the urban landscape, parks in five cities paint a fascinating portrait of transformed lives. MIT’s Senseable City Lab looked at park environments in five cities – San Francisco, New York, London, Milan, and Singapore. As the researchers describe it: “Parks bring together…
Maid Of Sker reviewMaid Of Sker has a creepy story and great music, but in trying too hard to be scary, it ends up less so. Developer: Wales Interactive Publisher: Wales Interactive Release: July 28th On: Windows From:Steam Price: £20/€25/$25 Maid Of Sker is a first-person survival horror game, which…
The first image on each post is a warning: here is a detailed account of sexual assault, or rape, or abuse, or coercion, or any other of the myriad forms that sexual violence can take. There are dozens of postsand more go up every day. These often harrowing, mainly anonymous…
The House on Monday approved legislation to begin the process of establishing a Smithsonian National Museum of the American Latino in Washington, following more than two decades of advocacy for a national museum honoring Latinx people, history and culture. The Latino story is an American story, and our history is…
Donald Trump Jr., the president’s very online son, got dealt a temporary suspension from Twitter on Monday after posting a misleading video about COVID-19. Trump Jr. shared a video from the far-right news outlet Breitbart filled with dangerous misinformation about the coronavirus pandemic. The video touted the unproven (and sometimes…
I have spent the past 10 minutes trying to work out how to phrase this sensitively, but Im just going to come right out with it: sunglasses with a face mask is a challenging combination to pull off. It just looks a bit odd. Even though no one disagrees, this…
The words, “person, woman, man, camera, TV,” have haunted Americans for a week, and now, thanks to a man named Jason Kravits, they will live on forever in song. For those who somehow missed this news cycle, “person, woman, man, camera, TV” are the five words that President Donald Trump…
Destroy All Humans! made me feel like an asshole. It wasnt the arson, kidnapping, mass murder, or dismemberment of livestock that did it; I enjoyed those shenanigans tremendously. But some time around the 50th derogatory utterance of pussy by a random NPC, I felt embarrassed enough to stop playing at…
(Thomson Reuters Foundation) – A video of a female lawmaker wearing a garbage bag to protest what she called “rubbish” comments on her clothes has gone viral in Australia and drawn support from across the political spectrum. In it Nicolle Flint of the ruling Liberal Party asks whether people are…