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“City Smell” Mappers Want Urban Planners to Use Their Noses

Originally posted on The Urban Sustainability Laboratory:
Jenn Stanley Next City June 8, 2015 This “smell map” of London shows emission odors in red and natural scents in green. (Credit: Daniele Quercia, Rossano Schifanella, Luca Maria Aiello, and Kate McLean)…

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Bhungroo: Manna from Heaven to end water woes

Originally posted on Development Central:
-By Biplab Ketan Paul Sami Taluka in Patan district of Gujarat witnesses a nature’s bizarre phenomenon. Though it is considered to be a semi-arid region, strangely, large patches of land here remain submerged in water.…

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Computing the human

Originally posted on Open Geography:
Nice piece by Sam Kinsley on computing the human, referencing a piece by Kelly Gates at Aeon. There’s a lot of interesting material right now on algorithmic lives, as I call it, and I’ll be…

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Position Paper on Higher Education: Academics for Creative Reform

Originally posted on KAFILA – COLLECTIVE EXPLORATIONS SINCE 2006:
“The manner in which the state is intervening in higher education is causing concern and even alarm in the academic community. Both the unlamented UPA—II regime and the current NDA government have…

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