The Silent Crisis of Modern Shipwrecks We picture shipwrecks as ancient wooden hulls. But a new environmental threat is emerging: the systematic failure of container ships built during the rapid expansion of global trade in the 1990s and early 2000s. Constructed with higher-strength steel that is more prone to fatigue and cracks, these vessels are […]
« Peak Shade »: The New Urban Planning Crisis City planners are now battling « peak shade »—the time of day when skyscraper shadows completely engulf public parks and plazas, rendering them cold and unusable for hours. In dense, fast-growing cities from Toronto to Sydney, new developments are casting ever-longer shadows due to taller, slender designs. This isn’t just […]
The Underground Trade in « Ghost » AI Training Data Behind the race to build powerful AI models lies a dirty secret: a thriving black market for « ghost data. » This is proprietary, personal, or copyrighted information—private chat logs, defunct social media archives, pirated book libraries, internal corporate memos—scrubbed of identifiers and sold clandestinely to train AI systems. […]