Facts, Conjectures, and Improvements for Simulated Annealing Jess L. Wilcox Cowing Browne challenges readers to follow

Browne challenges readers to follow the archipelagic sensibilities of the Caribbean to look beyond black death and apprehend the inherent optimism and beauty of arrival

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Zug uses the Federal Highway Act to argue for a foundational reassessment of Eisenhower's legacy as highway founder

Factory farms create public health hazards such as antibiotic-resistant bacteria due to the overuse of antibiotics in livestock

an aesthetic dissent rooted in critically reframing informal urbanism as Indigenous-a move that enabled the possibility of recognizing the political potential of informal settlements as spaces that produce belonging

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