Ruins
Remembering How Greece Used HIV to Terrorize Sex Workers
In April 2012, the Greek police carried out a massive operation in downtown Athens, arresting drug users and sex workers, forcing them to undergo HIV testing and charging them with prostitution. A year later, that provision was reinstated.
Google Street View Is Coming to Machu Picchu, Other Incan Sites
Soon you'll be able to visit Peru's most popular tourist site online.
'Detropia': Prelude and Prophecy
In the opening scene of 'Detropia,' a new documentary by Heidi Ewing and Rachel Grady, a house is demolished with an excavator, the bucket crashing through a roof that once provided a family's shelter. A television news correspondent out front...
Never Forget the Abandoned Waterparks of the Great First World Drought
The water of our blue planet was mostly an ill green as I recall based on 1980s memories of sliding around the lesser waterparks of South Dakota, Kansas, Nevada, and other places that made their way onto the itineraries of childhood vacation road trips...
Dry Sliding
The waterpark is an amazing symbol of water in the first-world — and of human’s marvelous ability to engineer our future away.