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The Future of Food, As Seen From Puerto Rico

In reporting on Puerto Rico after the intense destruction caused by 2017's Hurricane Maria, the U.S. press has repeatedly used the...

Alicia Kennedy
Apr 16, 2019 8 min read

Cómo Alimentar Una Isla

Hay mucha confusión en torno a qué cultivos pueden considerarse auténticamente puertorriqueños. Siglos de gobierno colonial y de agricultura corporativa, especialmente...

Alicia Kennedy
Apr 16, 2019 10 min read

How To Feed An Island

There's a great deal of murkiness around what crops can be considered authentically Puerto Rican. Centuries of colonial rule and corporate...

Alicia Kennedy
Apr 16, 2019 9 min read

Reconstruyendo a Puerto Rico a través del cultivo de alimentos

La Isla importa el 85 por ciento de sus alimentos y, tras el paso de María, sus granjeros, chefs y activistas...

Alicia Kennedy
Apr 16, 2019 11 min read

Growing Food To Rebuild Puerto Rico

The island imports 85 percent of its food–and as people rebuild after Hurricane Maria, Puerto Rico's farmers, chefs, and activists want...

Alicia Kennedy
Apr 16, 2019 8 min read

Isla del Encanto

Puerto Ricans have always found opportunity in the limits placed upon them. Exploring the island's agricultural future–from community gardens to research...

Alicia Kennedy
Apr 16, 2019 51 sec read

Watch: The Ideal Workweek, According to Science

Many of history's greatest minds worked less than four hours per day–and so should the rest of us.

How We Get To Next
Apr 12, 2019 33 sec read

The Roots of an Epidemic

From apartheid labor policies to everyday sexism, socio-political issues influence the spread of TB disease and the effectiveness of health responses....

Paula Akugizibwe
Apr 11, 2019 38 sec read

How Gender Affects the Global Tuberculosis Epidemic

From risk factors to treatment, an illustrated exploration of how the patriarchy shapes TB, the world's leading cause of death from...

Paula Akugizibwe
Apr 11, 2019 52 sec read

In Praise of SETI@home

The screen saver helped scientists search for extraterrestrial life-and made the early web feel like a more idealistic, collaborative space.

Caroline Crampton
Apr 5, 2019 3 min read

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