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Ida Showed the Fossil Fuel Industry Has Left Louisiana Defenseless
The sun was about to set at the Leeville boat launch when a family began packing up their car with redfish they had caught just an hour prior. Above us was LA-1, an elevated highway nicknamed the “Gateway to the Gulf” because it is the only connector between what can still be considered mainland Louisiana…
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New Orleans’ Lower Ninth Ward Is a Food Desert, But Residents Are Bringing It Back to Life
Calvin Alexander bought his two-story home in New Orleans’ Lower Ninth Ward back in 1978. He and his wife raised five children there, only to nearly lose it all 15 years ago when Hurricane Katrina hit. Still, the family rebuilt. In the Lower Ninth Ward, Alexander remains.
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Inside a Vaporwave Carnival Ball in New Orleans
It was on a friend’s floor that Clairissa Mulloy found the laser disc she wore tied above her head like a charming sunhat – better than a CD. “More coverage,” she explained. And looking out over those dancers from an upper balcony, Nisey Shanks fluttered her eyelashes so they glowed blue – the deep cobalt…
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The World As Seen By A Self-Driving Car
For self-driving cars to work safely, we need better maps — much better maps. These maps will not only need to know where the roads are. They will need to show real-time details as general as traffic patterns and as specific as the number of centimetres to the curb. They will also need to cover…