Kickstarter Urbanism: Why Building a Park Takes More Than Crowdfunding
Dan Barasch, the co-founder of the Lowline, gets calls all the time from people who think his underground “culture park” already exists. In fact, the project’s successful 2012 Kickstarter campaign was only the first step in the old-fashioned process of politicking, fundraising and engineering. A year later, a look at the renderings versus reality, and…
We are not the boss of natural selection. It is unpwnable.
Last week, David Attenborough told The Guardian that humans “have put a halt to natural selection,” and with it our genetic and physical evolution. In this expertly crafted rebuttal, University of Rhode Island anthropologist Holly Dunsworth explains why he’s wrong. https://gizmodo.com/sir-david-attenborough-says-the-future-is-going-to-tota-1284214476 Top photo by Ricardo Moraes, via Reuters. It should come as no surprise that…
