Tag: invisible

The Invisible Hand (Intervention of God) first appeared in Adam Smith a famous Scottish economist works “The Wealth of Nations” and “The Theory of Moral Sentiments” which is a concept that focuses on how simply a market can operate without any jurisdiction or government and t...

A Study Guide with Pen Sketches in today’s context (10 of 55 Cities included here, more to follow) The authors will interpret and illustrate each of the 55 cities through a series of blogs; this blog covers 10 Cities (Diomira, Isidora, Dorothea, Zaira, Anastasia, Tamara,...

In the second part of the book, we get introduced to Maurilia, a postcard city. Here the recurrent discussion of change, and perception of change is metaphorized through an old and new Maurilia, in fact, multiple cities with the same name, same inhabitants but different spatial & physical a...

Olivia, a city of signs is a social satire on capitalist economy and the resulting fabric of cities. Marco Polo starts describing the riches of Olivia, the filigree palaces, the mullioned windows and the manicured lawns with white peacocks. But as a wise man (Kublai Khan in this context) hears these...

Itwas an eventful week in Chicago. United Auto Workers has come to support the strike at Ford’s Chicago Assembly Plant. Our city council passed a measure that will make us the first big city to abolish subminimum wage for tipped workers. We have 17,000 Venezuelans living in makeshift shelters,...

When something grabs your heart and pulls it down. You feel the pain in every part of your body. Eyes like a cloud full of tears. It’s shit and doesn’t get any easier. This is what I call disability guilt. It’s not regretting being disabled or not wanting to be disabled. It&r...

I’m not one to sit around and stop living my life because I live with Chronic Pain, and often because pain is not visible people discount it. They think because it is not seen it’s not valid. There are aspects of my condition that are more visible than others and days when it is more evi...

Imagine a vibrant, bustling workplace. You see a flurry of activity: colleagues hustling between meetings, clusters of teammates collaborating on projects, some on the phone or Zoom calls, others typing away at their desks. It’s a typical office scene depicting motivation, engagement, and a co...

When astronauts go into space, they need to wear special suits to provide them with air, and to protect them from cold and radiation. When divers go deep in the ocean, they need special equipment to allow them to breath and to protect them from the pressure and temperature. In both these cases, n...

My disability falls into the category of “invisible”, meaning that someone can’t immediately perceive it from looking at me. And while I try to be as blatantly androgynous as possible, there’s an accepted fluidity in fashion and personal presentation extended to enbies who ar...

I begin this article with a story that some readers may find disturbing, but it gives context to this issue. This is the story of three young men — I’ll call them B, D and L — from a small rural Midwestern town. They’re all athletes who know each other from various hi...

Nearly 30 years ago today, I timidly walked behind my mother as we trotted down the jetway and took our first breaths at the San Francisco International Airport. My new backpack bobbed to my steps, my hair an unsightly mess from the 12-hour redeye flight. One hand held tightly onto my baby sister...

The story of Free Idel-Ural started in February 2018. One of the leaders of the Tatar national movement, Rafis Kashapov, and Syres’ Bolyaien’ who was a native of Mordovia and lead the Erzyan national movement conducted the press conference in Kyiv. With a small group of adherents, they p...

The protagonist of Thomas King’s novel Sufferance, Jeremiah Camp, a.k.a. Forecaster, could look into the hidden motives of humanity and see patterns that held opportunities for the uber-rich. He saw something that sent him into hiding in a small town, at an old residential school on ...

What are the symptoms of dysautonomia? General symptoms can include: Constant fatigue (despite enough sleep), dizziness and fainting, irregular heartbeat, breathing issues or involuntary breath-holding, excessive sweating, incontinence, circulatory problems, low blood pressure, sleep apnea, ex...

The dwarf planet Haumea, for example, has an equatorial radius that’s estimated to be double its polar radius, thanks to its incredibly rapid rotation. Since the poles are closer to the center of the planet — and hence, closer to the center of planet’s dense mass &md...

In 1827, botanist Robert Brown studied pollen particles' motion as they were suspended in water. These little grains seemed to jitter around randomly. Brown performed as variety of tests on them and realized that all small particles, not just pollen, exhibited the same motion when suspended in w...

Did you know that in space, sound does not propagate? This makes space the quietest place and the most dangerous in the universe. The forces at play thousands of kilometers above our heads are unimaginably powerful. However, our planet faces these forces...

Did you know that in space, sound does not propagate? This makes space the quietest place and the most dangerous in the universe. The forces at play thousands of kilometers above our heads are unimaginably powerful. However, our planet faces these forces...

How did Great Britain, a tiny island off Europe, become the world hegemon? While the island’s distance from Continental Europe made it a backwater for most of history, its insulation from Europe ultimately led to a booming economy. During the 17th century, the island country possessed a strong...

In modern societies, discussions of discrimination often focus on race, gender, or sexual orientation. However, one form of bias is largely overlooked in these debates: height discrimination. Although short men are subject to a variety of inequalities, their plight goes largely unrecognized. W...