Category / 2018 / Environments
Articles from November 2018’s issue, “Environments.”
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St. Louis’s Lacking Investment Environment
Foreign direct investment, or FDI, can provide great growth opportunities for cities, providing a new influx of capital—and usually jobs—in regions that sometimes desperately need it. Two good examples of the benefits of FDI could come from the St. Louis region and Louisville, Kentucky. St. Louis is, according to the World Trade Center St. Louis,…
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MSD Project Clear: A Step In What Direction?
Underground sewage tunnels tend to get relegated to the back of our mind—lumped in with all those chase scenes in Marvel movies. But they are very real, and St. Louis is built over a wide swath of them, along with natural caves and artificially filled in caves just waiting to collapse. Owing to Missouri’s karstic…
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Nice To Meet You, Clean Meat
In front of you sits a harmless-looking plate of luxurious foie gras. You wish you could savor the rich, buttery, and decadent taste of goose liver, but your conscience prevents you from digging in. Which unfortunate goose was force-fed this time so you could enjoy this sinful delight? Just as you start to feel sick,…
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Holding His Narrative Hostage
His name was mentioned in over 12,000 journal articles. Early descriptions of his brain were the first attempts at memory research. After his autopsy, his brain was sliced into 2,401 70-slices and uploaded to create a three-dimensional model of his brain while 400,000 viewers watched on a livestream. After his brain was sliced up, there…
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Growing In New Direction
The only plants my family can keep alive are succulents and vines. They require little water and nurturing and lots of light, making them perfect for a busy family in drought-prone California. I have always felt a simultaneous love and resentment towards these vines that spilled over the fence in the backyard—they looked beautiful, but…
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The Breakdown Of Boycotts
In early 2011, the New York Times reported that college students across the country were calling for the removal of Chick-fil-A restaurants on campuses, in response to one restaurant donating food to a local Pennsylvania anti-LGBT group. Over the course of the next year, further investigations revealed that Chick-fil-A donated millions of dollars to strictly…
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Tropical Trump: The Rise Of Jair Bolsonaro
Before October 8, most people outside of Brazil had never heard of Jair Bolsonaro. An undistinguished seven-term congressman before this election cycle began, Bolsonaro was most famous among Brazilians for his history of misogynistic and anti-black comments, around which he built his brand as a politically incorrect outsider fighting for Conservative values in Congress. However,…
