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In New York, people speak fast. In the American South, they speak slowly. Both of them are a form of politeness, understood in a different way. In New York, you speak quickly because you respect the value of the other person’s time and you don’t want to take up too much of it. In the South, you speak slowly because you want to respect the person by... See more
Adam Grant • Are We Too Impatient to Be Intelligent?
Ieshia Evans protesting the shooting of Alton Sterling and Philando Castile
Simply to suggest so many nondrivers exist forces a conversation about how our mobility needs are discounted as unimportant, secondary to the “real” people who can drive where they need to go. It’s the conversation we need to be having, but it is a challenging conversation for everyone who is benefiting from the status quo.
Anna Zivarts • Op-Ed: Recognizing Nondrivers Can Spur a Revolution in Transportation and Housing - The Urbanist
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The Spomenik at Kozara commemorates 70,000 people killed in resistance fighting or sent to concentration camps by the Nazi Germans in July, 1942. Designer Dušan Džamonja said the tower represents “the antagonism between life and death and between life and heroism.”