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Book Reviews: Taft 2012 + The Fat Years
Political Thriller/Historical Fiction Double Feature I’ve never attempted to do a “double feature” book review before, but I found it only appropriate for The Fat Years and Taft 2012 given their painful »
Sustainable Social Innovation: Put People First
Social innovation is a big word. A big but important word. It has a tendency to be a hypothetical yet aspirational jargon, especially for those who are still analyzing it in classrooms. Another big word which we want »
War Never Changes
It’s a sad irony in life that the human race has advanced so much in healing as they have in killing. The two run parallel to each other and just when we find new ways to cure people from a harrowing illness, we find a way to inflict that same pain on somebody »
The Divestment Double Standard
Perhaps the most enlightening statement on Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions (BDS) thrown up by Naomi Zeveloff’s interviews for The Forward with Jewish college presidents came from Judith Shapiro, of Barnard College until 2008. In 2002, Shapiro publicly opposed BDS »
Art and Alzheimer’s Explored
Last night, Urban Times and GV Art kicked off the first in the Trauma series: a series set to explore the tale of scientific traumas via art. The first destination: Art and Alzheimer’s. Hosted by GV Art at their »
Back to the Futurist: Noah Raford
Who is Noah Raford? The third post of the Back to the Futurist series comes Noah Raford. Noah is a PhD candidate at the Department of Urban Studies and Planning at MIT, writing his dissertation on long term planning and »
Life in the Extreme
Extromophiles The conditions deemed necessary for life have been expanded & complicated in recent years, as we have found organisms living in extreme environments that we once thought were barren and even toxic. We are now looking for, and finding life in ever »
Lessons Learnt At A Pop Up Restaurant
It was a little bit chilly when my friends and I apprehensively walked into an old Citroen garage in Islington, North London. Fortunately, we were entering the cosy and fabulous Pipsdish pop-up restaurant. Friendly »
Amanda Renshaw on the World’s Largest ‘Art Museum’
Urban Times is proud to present it’s online partnership with the IQ2 If Conference. We attended this outstanding two-day talk to find our minds fully blown by an »Load more posts ▼
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