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🦀 15 things I learned this summer
It’s been a while. I spent the summer walking absurdly long distances and tinkering with new projects, including launching an online course on…
Aug 21
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Elia Kabanov
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July 2025
🗿 From the mountain to the grave: How 3D is changing the way we see stories
Thanks to Mark Zuckerberg’s awful avatars, 3D storytelling has always felt like a gimmick to me. But I recently came across two pieces from The New York…
Jul 9
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Elia Kabanov
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🔥 Welcome to the warm-up act
Europe’s heating up again. Not in a lazy summer holiday way, but in a “who turned the thermostat to apocalypse” sort of way. Let’s take a look at what’s…
Jul 3
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Elia Kabanov
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June 2025
🚢 11 things I learned last week (Issue 013)
This week we’ve got sinking ships, vanishing sheep, boiling oceans, and a Roman concrete comeback. Plus, magpies named Margaret and dinosaurs with…
Jun 23
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Elia Kabanov
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💀 We finally know what Denisovans looked like!
Turns out Dragon Man and Denisovans were the same species after all. One ancient mystery solved, more to go!
Jun 20
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Elia Kabanov
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🐐 7 things I learned last week (Issue 012)
Here’s what I learned last week: goats can hear your mood, naps sharpen your brain, languages bend time, and building a civilisation takes 2,500 years.
Jun 16
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Elia Kabanov
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🏗️ Do cities really need more buildings? My conversation with Francesco Pomponi
In our Urbi Atlas interview, Francesco Pomponi, a professor at the University of York, explained why true sustainability in cities means rethinking…
Jun 12
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Elia Kabanov
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🏢 Why sustainable cities start with better data: My interview with Rokia Raslan
AI won’t build sustainable cities for us, but it can help us figure out how. In our Urbi Atlas interview, Rokia Raslan, a professor at UCL, explains how…
Jun 5
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Elia Kabanov
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🏔 7 things I learned last week (Issue 011)
Toothaches predate teeth, climate change boosts satellite collisions, and ancient wine tasted like vanilla. What a week, what a world!
Jun 2
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Elia Kabanov
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May 2025
🚗 What it takes to build sustainable urban transport: My interview with Jonas Junk
When I asked Jonas Junk of Oliver Wyman how to future-proof urban mobility, he didn’t mention apps or flying cars. He talked about parking tariffs…
May 30
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Elia Kabanov
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✍️ 9 things I learned last week (Issue 010)
This week: semicolons are dying, the deep sea remains unseen, and your name lights up your brain like fireworks.
May 28
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Elia Kabanov
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🌆 30 things I learned from a year of covering urban sustainability (Issue 009)
Over the past year, working as editor-in-chief of Urbi Atlas, I’ve discovered more than a few surprising facts about how cities work and how they could…
May 20
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Elia Kabanov
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