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The Cultural Ramifications of Gentrification in New Orleans
Blights Out
Environmental Ethics in a Post-Natural World
By Steven Vogel
A Clash of Paradigms
By Eric Utne
Song Premiere: Chadwick Stokes - Mother Maple
By Special To Utne Reader
Microbial Me: A Look Inside Microbiome Research
By Lydialyle Gibson, From University Of Chicago Magazine
As You Come Home: Immigration, Reunion, and the Continuity of Power
By Chris Shorne
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Environmental Ethics in a Post-Natural World
By Steven Vogel
A Clash of Paradigms
Two new books offer very different ways to address climate change.
Song Premiere: Chadwick Stokes - Mother Maple
Utne Reader is proud to premiere the song "Mother Maple" by singer-songwriter Chadwick Stokes.
Microbial Me: A Look Inside Microbiome Research
Scientists performing microbiome research are discovering how microbes not only make us sick, but also keep our bodies working.
Fish To Eat Always, Never, and Sometimes
By Taras Grescoe, From Bottomfeeder
Slow Seeing
How a 'rephotography' project taught me to go beyond looking
Holocaust Humor
Will jokes about the Holocaust ever be funny?...
The Stigma of Fast Food Work
When a young father starts working nights in the fast-food industry while his wife finishes school, he recieves stigmatic reactions and wonders why someone should be shamed for trying to make an honest living.
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Fish To Eat Always, Never, and Sometimes
By Taras Grescoe, From Bottomfeeder
Slow Seeing
By Rebecca Solnit Orion
Holocaust Humor
By Shai Oster, From Moment
The Stigma of Fast Food Work
By Joey Franklin
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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