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Arquitectura de la Remesa

For her photo series, Aragón headed to those more remote regions, including San Mateo Ixtatán, to document the effects of emigration on the family members who stayed behind. She trained her lens on arquitectura de la remesa, structures built with money sent back from the US With the influx of capital, some families build grandiose, multi-story houses that suture together some elements of adobe homes with imagined characteristics of uniquely “American” ones. Still, some of the blueprints may seem puzzling: a staircase crawling down the outside of a house; 17 rooms with only 1 toilet; 6 light bulbs blazing in a single room. “The people who build them, they’re not architects or engineers. They don’t have any education about how to build a house; they have never even been in a house like you’d see in the city.”

Roots of civilization

At the very beginning, the people who are going to become the Mycenaean kings, the Homeric kings, are sophisticated, powerful, rich and aware of something beyond the world that they are emerging from. It isn’t the Mycenaeans or the Minoans to whom we can trace our cultural heritage since 3.45 ka BP, but rather a blending of the 2

Society of Professional Investigators

Every month in the back room of Forlini’s, an old Italian restaurant just off Canal Street, the members of the Society of Professional Investigators, or spi (pronounced “spy”), gather to dine on veal parmigiana and cannoli and to swap war stories, advice, and the latest breakthroughs from their never-dull profession.

Deadly posing

On his blog, Adventures of Justin, videos, podcasts, and photos chronicled his excursions, with Shetler’s long, sinewy frame posed artfully against spectacular backdrops: blurred, chalky stretches of shimmering desert; hulking green mountain ranges rippled with white snow. “I’m a nomad, adventurer, and ninja of sorts,” his Instagram bio read, “currently living in a cave in India.” The sporting tone of his prose drew a motley of envious followers on social media.

Suburban ennui

Another ad on a company website features a white woman wearing pearls and an apron. “The most expensive part of having kids is all the wine you have to drink,” it says above the name of the wine: Mad Housewife

Against timezones

while you are at it, dump the dumb am/pm as well.

Let us all — wherever and whenever — live on what the world’s timekeepers call Coordinated Universal Time, or U.T.C. (though “earth time” might be less presumptuous). When it’s noon in Greenwich, Britain, let it be 12 everywhere. No more resetting the clocks. No more wondering what time it is in Peoria or Petropavlovsk. Our biological clocks can stay with the sun, as they have from the dawn of history. Only the numerals will change, and they have always been arbitrary.

Future Glimpses

TV used to be the primary way for the edge-of-grid have-nots to discover what they want to have. Today it is discovering geotagged images from nearby places, sometimes 100s of km away.

Luddite fight continues

A majority of Americans would be “very” or “somewhat” worried about gene editing (68%); brain chips (69%); and synthetic blood (63%), while no more than 50% say they would be enthusiastic about each of these developments.

Women crisis promotions

In contexts as wide-ranging as the funeral business, music festivals, political elections, the military, and law firms, studies have found a tendency for women to be promoted in times of crisis. Women are given jobs that have a higher risk of failure — like, for example, cleaning up a dumpster fire. It’s called the “glass cliff,” an invisible hazard that harms women’s likelihood of success. “The only time to run a woman is when things look so bad that your only chance is to do something dramatic”.

Barbie Savior

Barbie Savior Jesus. Adventures. Africa. 2 worlds. 1 love. Babies. Beauty. Not qualified. Called. 20 years young. It’s not about me…but it kind of is. 👶🏿🌍❤️🙋🏼

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