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Vanity Height: Behind the Scaffolding of the World’s Tallest Buildings

Daniel Safarik
Art & Literature, Arts & Culture, Science, Science & Medicine
For tall, iconic buildings, height is often a revered quality, but how is it measured and what is the impact?

Demolition Style: Big Art, Small Architecture, and the Dust of Daily Life

Peter M. Wheelwright
Art & Literature, Arts & Culture
In January 2014, The Museum of Modern Art presented its design plans for its latest growth spurt along 53rd St. in New York City. The hue and cry that has ensued since the presentation has been significant for not only questioning the museum's obligation to artistic practice, but, more importantly, its responsibility to the cultural life of the city.

Academia’s Dirty Little Secret

Gordon Haber
Art & Literature, Arts & Culture
Editor's Note: Gordon Haber explores a controversial topic in academia today — the use of non-tenured, adjunct faculty. He recently published a novella, "Adjunctivitis", detailing the misadventures of one...

Walk This Way: How Walking Increases Empathy and Awareness

Kaitlin Solimine
Art & Literature, Arts & Culture
In May 1862, The Atlantic Monthly posthumously published Henry David Thoreau’s seminal essay, “Walking.” Thoreau’s central premise seemed that humanity should experience nature “as an inhabitant”...

Travel Writing in the Twitter Age

Sarah Tory
Art & Literature, Arts & Culture, Psychology
Six months ago, Paul Salopek walked out of Herto Bouri, Ethiopia, heading northwest across the parched expanse of the Great Rift Valley.  He will be walking for the next seven years. Salopek, a Pulitzer...

Cat Named Sobaka

Josip Novakovich
Art & Literature, Arts & Culture
A Hippo Reads Exclusive Reprint, Courtesy of Prairie Schooner (winner of The Glenna Luschei Prairie Schooner Award) An Essay and Fable On the coldest day of the year, in St. Petersburg, Russia, as my...
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