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Strategy vs. Tactics: What’s the Difference and Why Does it Matter? Strategy and tactics are two terms that get thrown around a lot, and are often used interchangeably in numerous contexts. But what exactly do they mean, what is the difference, and why is it important? In this article, we will look at the contrast…

Massive Fire Destroys Brazil’s 200-Year-Old National Museum and Its Collection Brazil’s National Museum, one of Latin America’s most important museums, was completely destroyed by a fire. It housed over 20 million items related to the history of the Americas. India Pushes Back Against Tech ‘Colonization’ by Internet Giants For some Indian political leaders, it is as…

Air pollution reduces global life expectancy by more than one year Air pollution shortens human lives by more than a year, according to a new study from a team of leading environmental engineers and public health researchers. In Antebellum America, Infrastructure Was Bad For Your Health How it is that so many people living in…

The Not-So-Invisible Labor Prisoners Do in Cities In cities across the country, it’s the incarcerated who are doing some of the invisible labor of keeping them running, often for little or no pay. How Chinese Technology Grew to Rival Silicon Valley Despite starting years behind the U.S. in developing a technology industry, China now boasts…

Should Rivers Have Rights? A Growing Movement Says It’s About Time Inspired by indigenous views of nature, a movement to grant a form of legal “personhood” to rivers is gaining some ground — a key step, advocates say, in reversing centuries of damage inflicted upon the world’s waterways. What would cities look like if they…

500 global city, thought leaders to explore urban issues at CityLab Detroit summit About 500 mayors, city innovators, urban experts, artists and activists from cities around the world are expected in Detroit in October for a summit on urban issues. Latin America’s cities are ready to take off. But their infrastructure is failing them By…

Explore Every Construction Project in New York City with this New Interactive Map The New York City Department of Building has created a real-time interactive mapdetailing every major construction project currently underway in the Big Apple. Greece was never bailed out – it remains locked in an EU debtor’s prison Punitive conditions attached to the ‘rescue’ package mean the…

Nearly one trillion dollars of US real estate is threatened by rising seas, and the risk is already affecting home values The projections are staggering: By 2100, the homes of 4.7 million Americans could be vulnerable to rising sea levels, posing a threatto nearly one trillion dollars in coastal real estate. NYC is the capital of a booming artificial…

The Geography of Urban Violence A new online mapping tool allows you to track long-term trends in violence across dozens of U.S. cities. The surprising story of ex-Mexican president Vicente Fox, who started as a Coca-Cola delivery worker and worked his way up to run Coca-Cola Mexico Former Mexican president Vicente Fox led Coca-Cola‘s charge in…

There’s Nothing Wrong With Black English Accepting it as an alternative form of the language, and not a degraded one, requires being open to artists employing it in their work, even if they didn’t grow up speaking it. A timescale for the origin and evolution of all of life on Earth A new study has…