Parsley is one of those underrated herbs that you use in your kitchen. In most dishes, it is used as garnish at the end of the cooking process, and therefore, it is often neglected. Compared to its close cousin, the celery, the Italian parsley or flat leaf parsley has a milder taste and aroma that is not too overpowering. …
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img { border: 10px solid #FFFFFF; } I’m glad to share the preprint of a new study where we propose “A time interval metric for cumulative opportunity accessibility”. check the abstract below. If you’d like a non-academic summary, here is a Twitter thread summarizing the key findings of the paper. Tomasiello, D. B., Santos, D….
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Image: “urban farming,” by Elizabeth Lloyd on Flickr, CC BY 2.0. Growing food in urban and peri-urban environments has many documented and diverse benefits, including enhancing food sovereignty and building community. But the high market value of city parcels means that finding and staying on land is a top challenge for urban farmers, according…
How often do you use the warranty tied to products you purchase? In my personal life, I seldom buy big-ticket items and rarely think about the warranty associated with them, unless it’s something like an automobile or major appliance. Why? Because when I try, the manufacturer often makes the process so difficult or costly that…
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In September 2013 John Dolan staged a blockbuster show at Howard Griffin Gallery where he worked in collaboration with over 50 of the worlds most recognisable street artists. Dolan drew the skyline of Shoreditch, a screen print of this was produced and copies sent all over the world for artists to work directly onto Dolan’s…
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This joint-essay was wriiten by Aushaf Widisto (aka Oswald / Oz), an urbanist, writer, and cultural researcher based in Melbourne, and Ann Guo, an urban anthropologist based in Seattle and Istanbul. Part I: Melbourne Into the Library Photo by David Iliff on Wikimedia Commons. In The Image of the City (1960), urban theorist Kevin Lynch…
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Miscarriage: Life after loss. I don’t really know why I am writing this. I think it’s mostly because I have always been someone who needs to write their feelings down to really understand them. I don’t know if I’ll share this but if I do, I hope whoever is reading this finds some comfort knowing…
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Editor’s Note: This is the second post in The Metropole’s theme for February 2025 “Celluloid City” which explores the role of and interplay between cities and film. You can see all posts from the theme here. By Grace Gillies The Rome in both Gladiator films is a landscape of monumental architecture subtly but pervasively inflected…
Humus — what’s created when soil microorganisms break down raw organic matter — is an essential component for good garden soil. It acts as a “glue” to hold soil aggregates together and creates what growers call “tilth” (good soil structure). Humus gives garden soil a wonderful loose crumbly feeling, and it doesn’t completely collapse into…
This is your first of three free stories this month. Become a free or sustaining member to read unlimited articles, webinars and ebooks. Become A Member We’ve never done anything big in this country without little banks. Yet the number of community banks in the U.S. has been steadily declining for decades, giving way to…
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