In NYC more than 1.6 million workers, a staggering 45% of the local labor force, are underemployed. They are struggling because their employers do not give them enough hours in the work week.
Alejandro Cartagena takes photos of construction workers in Mexico packed into the backs of pickup trucks, doing what it takes to earn enough to get by.
Zero gravity flights and head spinning sessions in a centrifuge – creating gravitation forces eight times those on Earth – might have been enough to deter lesser citizens.
"There is no limit to the human capacity for language except for things like having time to get enough exposure to the language," says Suzanne Flynn, a psycholinguist at MIT. Harvard psycholinguist Steven Pinker agrees.
Gliese 581 is one of just nine stars at that particular distance which astronomers have searched with high enough precision to uncover a planet in the habitable zone.
Roughly the same goes for Gliese 581d, which has a stronger presence in the habitable zone on its far side, but may not be hot enough for liquid water - opinion is not 'completely settled' on this matter.
Gliese 581c skims the near side of the habitable zone, but scientists suggest that it does not have enough of a toehold in this zone to provide a stable infrastructure for organic formations.
Architecture on Antarctica is challenging. Shelter must be formidable enough to insulate inhabitants from unsurvivable weather, yet negligible enough to be taken away without leaving a trace.
In 2011, 9.5 million Kenyans were affected by severe drought. Few people dreamt that two years later enough water to supply the entire country for seventy years would be discovered beneath the sun-scorched, cracked earth.
Architecture on Antarctica is challenging. Shelter must be formidable enough to insulate inhabitants from unsurvivable weather, yet negligible enough to be taken away without leaving a trace.