Are there fewer robberies in urban areas where the streets are quite steep? A question investigated in a 2020 research project by Professor Cory Haberman and Professor James Kelsay entitled : The Topography of Robbery: Does Slope Matter? Journal of Quantitative Criminology volume 37, pages 625–645. “Steeper street blocks may have fewer robberies because they make the physical […]
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A snail clad in graffiti
Biology and art join almost as one, in this example of graffiti on the shell of a living, city-dwelling snail. It appears in the blog Inner City Snail. (Thanks to investigator Norma Inman for bringing it to our attention.) BONUS: The artist, named Slinkachu, has a blog called “Little People“, filled with artificially (thus the […]