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A good predictor of your birth weight, for instance, is your mother’s weight at her birth.

aluminium in fizzy drink cans

while questions like ‘Who gets to make decisions over the management and use of land? And who benefits from those uses?’ must be front and centre in the discussion on how land is used and its benefits distributed, the question of how we construct a normative idea of ‘public interest’ must also figure strongly.

We just wanted to educate people about other experiences

Brave: The Chrome extension works in Brave, but (as of November 2018) must be manually installed.

A tax on the value of a site is really a tax on productive potential, which is a result of improvements to land in the area. Henry George’s proposed tax on one piece of land is, in effect, based on the improvements made to the neighboring land.

Donna Haraway

almost like the golden snitch in quidditch

Instead of the arguably dysfunctional system dominated by “career politicians” and big campaign donations, you’d get a system in which individuals without any experience at all in politics could potentially get elected.

Individually selecting titles for nearly 2,000 people can be time-consuming

people trafficking and prostitution

In the past two decades numerous large-scaleinformal markets have emerged on the fringes ofEuropean cities in the wake of global geopoliticaltransformations.

Matias Viegener explores the links between aesthetics and informality.

increasing popularity of everything informal within the fields of creative production.

It’s not just about an economic issue—clearing the streets of street vendors and restoring economic order—but it’s precisely because these market environments, these commons, escape institutional control and, by that, they also escape political control.

a contemporary commons

We’ve come to the conclusion that established economic powers have an enormous interest in trying to integrate and modify informal economies, precisely because they constitute a market environment.

these new economies are not only about the creation of a community but it actually becomes the creation of neighbourhood. So often you have very coherent communities, if you will, emerging that take over whole segments of a city. And markets can play a huge role in that. So the hipster markets become the nucleus. That’s why a lot of regeneration projects that operate with these aspirations are favourable to the culture of street markets , be it an organic farmers market or whatever. These supposedly alternative or self-initiated markets become an initiating focal point for a new, urban fabric to emerge around it. Now I’m just thinking about whether there might be a relation between the religious movements that also aim to form cleansed environments, if you will, but also foster a particularly coherent community.

The one Africa-oriented observation I wanted to make is that religious institutions and networks have always been very profound across the continent, and with this notion of markets and their social functioning you might describe them as counter publics expressed in associational life. I was curious how to read that from an African perspective, in terms of the position of these rapidly mutating religious formations with the ability to fashion these social relations, including economic opportunity and the sharing of intelligence. The question of religious formations is something we almost don’t want to contemplate, but I think they are deeply implicated by the themes that you explore. I’d be curious what your reflection would be on that.

Sometimes political events at a particular location have an impact on how an economic situation evolves. That was the case after the demise and dissolution of the Soviet Union. Its cargo containers were not adapted for international trade. These decommissioned containers have been used as infrastructure in container markets.

Defining a situation as informal increasingly serves as a precursor to political intervention

University of California, San Diego

Mass production was giving way to “flexible specialization” or, in some contexts, reverting to sweatshop production

Standard jobs were being turned into non-standard or atypical jobs with hourly wages but few benefits,

General Michael Flynn, once mooted to become Trump’s vice-presidential candidate, remains an adviser; he has been a regular contributor to the Russian-funded news channel RT and was a paid guest at an RT gala where he was seated next to Putin—odd behavior for a former Defense Intelligence Agency director with the highest security clearances

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is perfectly adapted to dissemination on the internet and, unlike novels, for reading on small screens

That friend had a friend and that friend had a friend, and now when you go to dinner at Kathy and David’s house on Thursday night there might be 15 to 20 teenagers crammed around the table, and later there will be groups of them crashing in the basement or in the few small bedrooms upstairs.

Though the Dalai Lama has yet to use a computer, the 1990s ‘‘Think Different’’ ad is a reminder that he was a mascot of globalization in its early phase, between the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989 and the terrorist attacks of 9/11. In that innocent era, the universal triumph of liberal capitalism and democracy seemed assured, as new nation-states appeared across Europe and Asia, the European Union came into being, apartheid in South Africa ended and peace was declared in Northern Ireland. It could only be a matter of time before Tibet, too, was free.

In old photos, you can see the 9-year-old who’d received the gift of a Patek Phillipe watch from President Franklin Delano Roosevelt.

For annotation to succeed as a business and a concept, it will have to move beyond its current status as something of a niche function that most casual internet users aren't exposed to.

"To me, comments sections — at least in political news stories — have failed," he says. "They are filled with name-calling, bullying and spamming. For me, Genius’ annotator allows a more edifying and organic conversation about a piece of content. It also doesn’t allow a few loud/nasty voices to discourage other people from joining the conversation."

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Sheraton, who likes Wells and values his discernment, cares little for his column. “A lot of reviews now tend to be food features,” she said.

Using Twitter has also reduced the need for some jobs.

In his asceticism, Benjamin echoed the life of his hero, Baudelaire, and more generally the ethos of early Christianity, born as it was out of ascetics living in the desert (in the tabula rasa, the place to start again).

Automation isn’t a neutral, inevitable part of capitalism. It comes about through the desire to break formal and informal systems of workers’ control—including unions—and replace them with managerially controlled and minutely surveilled systems of piecework.

Mason’s model for this free and voluntary form of production is Wikipedia, which he views with the same starry eyes with which Hegel watched Napoléon march victoriously through Jena, the sign of Spirit moving through history.

This sublimely ridiculous image, which in principle unites anti-Putinist Pussy Riot with fracktivist Mark Ruffalo, suggests that nearly any person—whether a factory worker in Shenzhen or a middle-class hater of Dilma Rousseff—could be the bearer of revolution.

The attacks seemed likely to derail, at least temporarily, talks in Vienna on ending the civil war in Paris.

Nobody likes living there.

they may find themselves living like illegal immigrants,

“What’s potentially a problem for Turkey,” says Anita Fabos, the former director of the Forced Migration and Refugee Studies program at the American University in Cairo, “is resentment breeding not just in the short term but over the long term.”

Others operate like ad hoc cities but without the advantage of a government.

Semen was here with a team to check on how it was going — well, seemed to be the assessment. “It’s effective,” she began, “it’s cost-effective, it’s faster” — more so than, say, shipping food to storage centers, transporting it to camp distribution centers and having people wait in line to pick up bland rations, as the W.F.P. does in some other countries.

But “in the future,” Semen said, “anywhere we can do this, we will.”

free treatment

Each of the camp’s sections has a leader, and Alito is the leader of the leaders (he was elected a year ago). He meets with his constituents when they have problems: fixing a damaged trailer or getting a pregnant woman to the hospital.

Gratitude for the host country pervades the camp.

Behind the laundry room is an activities center. One room has 10 enormous looms; the Turks provide cotton and weaving lessons. Another houses a sewing workshop — it was packed when I visited — and yet another functions as a beauty salon.

The Turks may have built as good a refugee camp as it is possible to build. But a camp is still a camp. And if a camp becomes a shelter not just for a few months but for years, a substitute — even a deterrent — to a real solution, how much does it matter how nice it is?

of the 15.4 million refugees globally, most have been in camps for at least five years