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Before the 21st century, stories became popular because people talked about them in other publications or shared magazine and newspaper clippings with friends.

~Annalee Newitz

Topics: About Became Because Before Century Friends Magazine Newspaper Other People Popular Publications Shared Stories Talked Them 21St Century

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A hard-hitting investigative report that uncovers a nugget of genuine truth is the ultimate viral hit.

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Topics: Genuine Hit Investigative Report Truth Truth Is Ultimate Viral

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To share a story is in part to take ownership of it, especially because you are often able to comment on a story that you are sharing on social media.

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Topics: Able Because Comment Media Often Ownership Part Share Sharing Social Social Media Story Take You

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In many cities, it's become popular to hate 'gentrifiers,' rich people who move in and drive up housing prices - pushing everyone else out.

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Topics: Become Cities Drive Else Everyone Everyone Else Hate Housing Many Move Out People Popular Prices Pushing Rich Rich People Up Who

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Gentrification is a form of immigration, though almost nobody calls it that.

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Topics: Almost Calls Form Immigration Nobody Though

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People who gentrify are usually new transplants to a city, changing it to suit their particular cultural needs and whims.

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Topics: Changing City Cultural Needs New Particular People Suit Who

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Cities are not static objects to be feared or admired, but are instead a living process that residents are changing all the time.

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Topics: Admired Changing Cities Feared Instead Living Objects Process Residents Static Time

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Cities might become biological entities, walls hung with curtains of algae that glow at night and sequester carbon, and floors made from tweaked cellular material that strengthens like bones as we walk on it.

~Annalee Newitz

Topics: Become Biological Bones Carbon Cities Curtains Entities Floors Glow Hung Like Made Material Might Night Strengthens Walk Walls

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Fifty years ago, historians advised politicians and policy-makers. They helped chart the future of nations by helping leaders learn from past mistakes in history. But then something changed, and we began making decisions based on economic principles rather than historical ones. The results were catastrophic.

~Annalee Newitz

Topics: Advised Based Began Catastrophic Changed Chart Decisions Economic Fifty Future Helped Helping Historians Historical History Leaders Learn Making Making Decisions Mistakes Nations Past Past Mistakes Politicians Principles Rather Results Something Than Then Were Years Years Ago

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In the 1970s, as historians became enchanted with microhistories, economists were expanding the reach of their discipline. Nations, states and cities began to plan for the future by consulting with economists whose prognostications were shaped by investment cycles rather than historical ones.

~Annalee Newitz

Topics: Became Began Cities Consulting Cycles Discipline Economists Enchanted Expanding Future Historians Historical Investment Nations Plan Rather Reach Shaped States Than Were Whose 1970S

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Journalist

Born: Unknown

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