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NY Parks Lawsuit Challenges Privatization of Public Spaces - Tate Williams
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Science & Environment. Arts & Culture. 8212; Main Menu —. Science & Environment. Arts & Culture. NY Parks Lawsuit Challenges Privatization of Public Spaces. July 2, 2015. Originally published July 2, 2015 on Inside Philanthropy. When news broke about Barry Diller’s plan for a new park and entertainment venue to hover over the Hudson River, we were among the voices saying that it goes too far. Now the plan is headed to court, and the plaintiffs pose big questions about the nature of public space. In other...
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Arts & Culture Archives - Tate Williams
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Science & Environment. Arts & Culture. 8212; Main Menu —. Science & Environment. Arts & Culture. The Prosthetic Eyeball Is a Work of Art. Originally published at TheAtlantic.com. Making a realistic eye takes more than technical skill: an Object Lesson. The eye is about the size of a quarter, resting gently in Kurt Jahrling’s hand as he adds faint washes of yellow and blue to [.]. July 16, 2016. What Exactly is Christmas Tree Flocking? March 4, 2016. Best Music of 2015. December 16, 2015. October 31, 2015.
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Geek Archives - Tate Williams
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Science & Environment. Arts & Culture. 8212; Main Menu —. Science & Environment. Arts & Culture. In an otherwise unremarkable room at MIT, the published history of science fiction overflows. Originally published in The Magazine, June 19, 2014. [.]. September 3, 2014. Origins of the Gabble Ratchets'. Origins of the Gabble Ratchets' Blue Ant Origins of the Gabble Ratchets. June 9, 2014. Uber is Driving Us to Thunderdome. March 16, 2014. Rattan bone grafts, or cyborg sheep with wooden legs'. For all of tech...
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Blue Line Archives - Tate Williams
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Science & Environment. Arts & Culture. 8212; Main Menu —. Science & Environment. Arts & Culture. Blue Line 15: Pep Pep. Mix of mostly instrumental, electronic, ambient music, and other sounds. An homage to the free-roaming chihuahuas of southern Arizona. https:/ s3.amazonaws.com/TWPodcastBucket/BlueLine15.mp3Podcast: Play in new window DownloadSubscribe: iTunes Android RSS [.]. March 28, 2016. Blue Line 14: Hartland. November 30, 2015. A Very Special Blue Line Halloween. October 30, 2015. Mix of mostly i...
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Mad Scientist Club - Tate Williams
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Science & Environment. Arts & Culture. 8212; Main Menu —. Science & Environment. Arts & Culture. September 3, 2014. In an otherwise unremarkable room at MIT, the published history of science fiction overflows. Originally published in The Magazine, June 19, 2014. Founded in 1949, the MIT Science Fiction Society. MITSFS, pronounced mitsfiss ) had been hoarding sci-fi and fantasy hardcovers, paperbacks, comics, and sprawling sets of pulp magazines dating back to the 1920s with a ferocity of attention you’d ...
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Eradication Nation - Tate Williams
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Science & Environment. Arts & Culture. 8212; Main Menu —. Science & Environment. Arts & Culture. April 8, 2015. Originally published in American Forests Magazine, Winter 2015. What Boston’s battle with the Asian longhorned beetle can teach us about stopping an invasive pest in its tracks. Clint McFarland didn’t want to believe the pictures he was looking at on his smartphone. A SLOW, QUIET BURN. But as with all invasive pests, the real problem is us. Just as they first hitchhiked here from overseas i...
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Washed Away - Tate Williams
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Science & Environment. Arts & Culture. 8212; Main Menu —. Science & Environment. Arts & Culture. December 3, 2014. Beneath the water lie memories of vibrant villages. Originally published in The Magazine. September 11, 2014. If you walk past where Norcross’s house used to be, past where her grandfather lived, through a field and then some trees, you hit water. And that water leads to even more water: the Quabbin Reservoir, 412 billion gallons of water. The map of the dead. If you look at a map of Massach...
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The New Golden Age of Urban Parks Philanthropy (And Its Controversies) - Tate Williams
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Science & Environment. Arts & Culture. 8212; Main Menu —. Science & Environment. Arts & Culture. The New Golden Age of Urban Parks Philanthropy (And Its Controversies). September 28, 2014. Originally published at Inside Philanthropy, September 19, 2014. Private funding is pouring into parks lately, and not everyone is happy about it. Regardless, cities are putting together creative projects with massive backing from wealthy donors, and it’s not all happening where you might expect. In which the middle- a...
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In the Garden Cemetery: The Revival of America’s First Urban Parks - Tate Williams
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Science & Environment. Arts & Culture. 8212; Main Menu —. Science & Environment. Arts & Culture. In the Garden Cemetery: The Revival of America’s First Urban Parks. June 16, 2014. First published in American Forests magazine. In the 1820s, America’s cities had a problem: People kept dying, and church burial grounds were filling up. THE RISE AND FALL OF THE GARDEN OF GRAVES. King’s Chapel burial ground in Boston, 1929; Credit: Boston Public Library. The time was ripe for these parks’ rise over the cemeter...
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Best Music of 2014 - Tate Williams
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Science & Environment. Arts & Culture. 8212; Main Menu —. Science & Environment. Arts & Culture. Best Music of 2014. January 4, 2015. I was kind of down on 2013 in general when I did a roundup last year, but I have to say that 2014 is the best year for music I can remember, since maybe 2007. Which makes me think maybe there’s some kind of math thing that creates a surge of great music every seven years, although more likely it means I have some kind of brain disorder. 15 Thom Yorke Tomorrow’s Modern Boxes.
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