Tag: newpost
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Tipping Point within a Tipping Point within a Tipping Point
Right now in 2020, there are three epidemics co-existing in the United States. In the poignant non-fiction The Tipping Point written by Malcom Gladwell, you can understand how epidemics ignite through “Tipping Points”: The point at which a series of small changes become significant enough to cause a larger, more important change. The first was […]
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Cremation Over Casket? How About Neither.
Each year around 50,000 people die in New York. While cremation and traditional burials are still the dominant methodologies of handling the dead, a third option has been gaining traction: green burials. Yet the ways in which New Yorkers are being laid to rest aren’t recorded. “States do not, on death certificates, distinguish between a […]
Katherine Hoey 