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The tribe has spoken – reality TV’s new reality
“In the future, everyone will be world-famous for 15 minutes.” Andy Warhol A man with a mop of curly blond hair stood at the corner of the street next to a Los Angeles gas station, smoking a cigarette while the woman he was with pumped gas. A Volvo pulled up next to him, the brakes…
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Board of the mountains, snowboarders take to the streets
It feels like the beginnings of a heist. We’re sitting outside a museum mid-afternoon, waiting, in a car full of equipment, for bystanders to clear the area. “People scouted it the night before,” says Alex Kyle in the passenger seat. “But there’s so many variables. Sometimes there’s no security, other times there’s a police car…
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Climate change could sap life from maple syrup industry
It’s a crisp spring morning at Rolling Ridge Maple Farm, and Jay Robson is demonstrating how he gets maple sap out of a tree. Wearing rubber boots and coveralls, Robson points to a piece of tube running from a maple tree. “For gathering sap, we are on a pipeline and tubing system under a vacuum…
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Media not inoculating anti-vaxers’ fears
Dr. Paul Offit has spent his career researching and advocating for vaccine safety. As director of the Vaccine Education Centre at the Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia, he sees at least one child die every year of a vaccine-preventable disease. “At the heart of it is people don’t fear the disease,” Offit said. “As a consequence,…