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...maps the globe on a rectangular, flat surface which stretches vertical distances. Conversely, the Dymaxion map, developed by former Harvard poetry professor and visionary, R. Buckminster Fuller, projects Earth’s surface onto a polyhedron, minimizing distortion. Not only do Dymaxion maps more accurately represent geography, they also avoid placing countries in accordance with the north-is-good, south-is-bad formula implicit in the tendentious original Mercator. In fact, in 1974, Dr. Arno Peters developed a new projection specifically in response to the inherent racism he saw in the Mercator projection, which disproportionally represents the Northern hemisphere with...
...spring arriving earlier, and invasive species moving into new, warmer areas. According to the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, “The world will have to end its growth of carbon emissions within seven years and become mostly free of carbon-emitting technologies in about four decades to avoid killing as many as a quarter of the planet’s species from global warming.” These tragic effects, however, in a twist of cruel irony, will likely impact most strongly those who have had the smallest hand in bringing them about. The wealthy, industrialized West, meanwhile...
...examination of one boy’s life in a repressive unnamed country. Dragomán presents the reader with a world in which Djata’s father is taken away without notice, his house is entered without a warrant, his friend breaks his ankle in order to avoid going to school, and principals threaten that any children not in their seats will “be impaled and hung in the schoolyard.” Djata, of course, does not realize the totality of the situation; it is up to the reader to fit together the facts...
...That creates a sort of use-it-or-lose-it situation where we might be tempted to make appointments that otherwise might not have been made,” he said. “And that’s a consequence...that we’d want to avoid...
...There is no way to ignore or avoid the fact that this money came from the labor of others,” Manegold said. “It engages the notion of how much America has forgotten about slavery here in the North...