Laura Bliss
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Carlos Osorio / AP The Most Segregating School-District Borders in America
A new report identifies 50 places where schools are geographically adjacent but resourcefully juxtaposed.
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Waggonner & Ball New Orleans Learns to Love Water
A city that’s long struggled to stay dry embraces its inner swamp.
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Courtesy of the Vatican Observatory / CityLab The Nuns Who Charted the Stars
At the Vatican Observatory, these women were part of a global attempt to map the night sky.
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Lucy Nicholson / Reuters Innovation Is Overrated
An obsession with disruption has obscured the work that goes into just keeping everything up and running.
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Mark Byrnes / CityLab The Forgotten History of Female Mapmakers
Looking back at a few of the women who quietly made their mark on cartography
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Dutch Boy Paints An American History of Lead Poisoning
Flint is the latest outbreak in the country’s longest-running child-health epidemic.
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Max Whittaker / Reuters Can Drought-Ridden California Keep Growing?
As the population of the San Joaquin Valley swells despite city-planning and water-system crises, it’s the poor, rural communities that tend to be worst off.
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Gregory Bull / AP The California Towns Without Safe Drinking Water
Bitter disputes in the municipal politics of California’s drought-ridden San Joaquin Valley have kept the poorest areas from consolidating water systems.
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Shutterstock When Race Leads to a Call to 311 Instead of a Neighbor
In NYC, calls about noise and blocked driveways are most frequent in zones between racially homogenous neighborhoods.
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Dave Martin / AP Hurricane Katrina's Uncharted Diaspora
The storm displaced hundreds of thousands from their homes, and there is still no comprehensive picture of where they ended up.
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AMC/Fox/The Atlantic Previously On: In Praise of the Television Recap Sequence
As plots become more and more complex, the humble summation has risen to an art form.
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A Submarine That Crosses the Pacific in Two Hours? Don't Hold Your Breath
Supercavitating technology could dramatically improve underwater travel, but the super-speeds being promised don't hold water.
