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A Good Place for Everyone to Walk
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Potato, Interrupted: Genetic Engineering for Disease Resistance
By Nicole Miller, From On Wisconsin Magazine
The Trans Revolution: Fighting for Transgender Rights
By Vanessa Baird, From New Internationalist
Auxiliary Languages: An International Type of Guy
By Joseph Skibell, From My Father's Guitar
Film Review: A Poem Is a Naked Person
By Abby Olcese
Spring 2015 Utne Reader Table of Contents
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Potato, Interrupted: Genetic Engineering for Disease Resistance
By Nicole Miller, From On Wisconsin Magazine
The Trans Revolution: Fighting for Transgender Rights
Tracking the course of transgender rights and their liberating potential for us all.
Auxiliary Languages: An International Type of Guy
Is an international auxiliary language enough to truly bring people together?
Film Review: A Poem Is a Naked Person
A Poem is a Naked Person is a free-flowing film that cuts between concert recordings, interviews with Leon Russell, his bandmates and friends, and slices of life from Russell’s neighbors in and around Tulsa, Oklahoma.
Holocaust Humor
By Shai Oster, From Moment
The Art of the Police Report
A Los Angeles cop writes “just the facts” and still tells one helluva story...
In Praise of Fast Food
We need a culinary ethos that comes to terms with industrialized food...
The Rich Get Richer, the Poor Go Hungry
Starvation is often the result of inequity and politics, not a shortage of food...
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Holocaust Humor
By Shai Oster, From Moment
The Art of the Police Report
By Ellen Collett, From The Writer's Chronicle
In Praise of Fast Food
By Rachel Laudan, From The Book The Gastronomica Reader
The Rich Get Richer, the Poor Go Hungry
By Sharon Astyk And Aaron Newton, From The Book A Nation Of Farmers
Arts
The Slow Death of Creativity in Sound
Without evolving creativity and changes, new music will become a lost art.
The Summer of Dead Birds: A Memoir of Love and Loss
Ali Liebegott’s new book circles death like a buzzard.
Old Hollywood’s Forgotten Filmmaker
Take a closer look at James Stuart Blackton, a revolutionary filmmaker in old Hollywood who has received little credit.
The Nile Project: Bringing the River Basin Together and to the World
Think watershed, act local.
Community
How to Turn Neighborhoods Into Hubs of Resilience
Three places showing how to make the transition from domination and resource extraction to regeneration and interdependence.
An Economy of False Profits
Our national allegiance to the monetary bottom line threatens to negate other measures of personal and communal wealth. What’s being sacrificed to the cult of money?
Can Blockchain be Used to Achieve Racial Equity?
Achieve racial equity through checks and balances a blockchain network provides by connecting everyone as nodes while still providing anonymity.
Stop Trying to Understand Neutrois
Julia Eff talks about the daily struggles of life as someone without a gender.
Mind And Body
Growing Up Hippie
Maybe it was the earnest meditation practices or the homemade cardboard lunch box that caused me to rebel. As the adult daughter of flower children, I crave structure, tidiness, and lots of sugar....
Into the Rafters
Reflections on a football dream cut short.
Football Helmets and Concussions
Take a look at the concussion epidemic plaguing football players.
The Will-to-Live-Until Phenomenon
Sometimes, the human body fends off death for reasons we don’t yet fully understand.
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