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These days, town halls tend to equate unsanctioned graffiti with vandalism, identifying it as a costly “problem” or eyesore. All too often local administrations prioritize the quick removal of graffiti, following the lead of the now defunct broken windows theory, proposed by James Q. Wilson and George Kelling in 1982, which claims that visible disorder such as graffiti encourages further crime. It’s a theory which anti-graffiti warriors love to quote ad infinitum, particularly followers of the Keep America Beautiful movement, and its ex-sidekick Graffiti Hurts, as well as similar organizations which have popped up throughout the world. In response to the officially sanctioned whitewashing of graffiti which appeared in Cuenca during the October 2019 indigenous protests in Ecuador, I worked on a research project for the University of Azuay in southern Ecuador evaluating graffiti management strategies being used in different cities across the globe. The aim was to understand other ways in which the Municipality could have reacted. In essence the project was an attempt to answer a question posed by Dr. Richard Clay in the BBC FOUR documentary A Brief History of Graffiti: “Should we always succumb to the knee-jerk reaction of scrubbing it off?” Cleaning graffiti which states “Solo el Pueblo Salva el Pueblo” (only the people can save the people) from the façade of the National Institute of Cultural Heritage (INPC) in Cuenca on October 10, 2019. (Cecilia Bogaard) Read moreSection: ArtifactsAncient WritingsNewsGeneralWeird FactsHistoryPreviewRead Later 

Billions of years ago Earth was bombarded with meteorites of all sizes and shapes. Approximately 3.26 years ago, the biggest of these, which is known as S2, hit the planet in an area of what is now South Africa with such force that it radically altered the global environment. Scientists estimate this object was the size of four Mount Everests, which is why its destructive power was so vast. But new research suggests that this meteorite impact event may have helped spur the development of life on the planet, creating changes that jump-started evolution and ultimately allowed complex lifeforms to appear. In a study just published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS), a team of scientists led by early-Earth geologist Nadja Drabon from Harvard University describe a scenario that explains why a gigantic meteorite striking the planet so long ago might have had a creative impact. "We think of impact events as being disastrous for life," Drabon stated in a Harvard press release. "But what this study is highlighting is that these impacts would have had benefits to life, especially early on … these impacts might have actually allowed life to flourish." Read moreSection: NewsEvolution & Human OriginsHuman OriginsScienceRead Later 

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