H. Pike Oliver

Safwat Saleem Safwat Saleem is a multidisciplinary American artist of South Asian and Muslim descent. His art gives visibility to immigrant narratives.

The Unrequited Love Institute

An exhibit at the Phoenix Art Museum

ARES Urbanexus Update #177 The American Real Estate Society (ARES) distributes a periodic compilation of real estate-related news and information curated by H. Pike Oliver.

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Mannheim and the network state — Urbanexus Karl Mannheim was born in Hungary in 1893. He was the son of a Hungarian father and a German mother. He developed much of his early sociological work in Germany and then settled in the UK after fleein...

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From The Economist

The Decline of Deviance Where has all the weirdness gone?

Adam Mastroianni makes a case for the fact that weirdness is on the decline www.experimental-history.com/p/the-declin...

Rewriting What’s Possible in the Mountains Kilian Jornet wanted to summit 72 of the tallest peaks in the contiguous United States. He gave himself a month to do it.

After 31 days and 72 summits, Kilian Jornet’s project was complete. He covered 629 miles on foot and biked an additional 2,568 miles. And he did all that while burning about 9,000 calories per day and amassing 403,691 feet of elevation gain. www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

Learning curves: What does it mean for a technology to follow Wright’s Law? Technologies that follow Wright’s Law get cheaper at a consistent rate, as the cumulative production of that technology increases.

Technologies that follow Wright’s Law get cheaper at a consistent rate, as the cumulative production of that technology increases.
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Paul Krugman on the rise of renewable energy paulkrugman.substack.com/p/the-rise-o...

YouTube video by Robert Reich Is Your Grocery Store Ripping You Off?

Firms that own and operate over half of the grocery stores in the USA engage in deceptive pricing practices.

What to pack in a go-bag for emergency evacuations Having items already packed in an emergency kit can mean the difference between life or death.

It's a good idea to have a Go-Bag on hand in case of a disaster or even a less severe event, such as an extended electrical power outage.

Opinion | Burnin’ Down the House

Maureen Dowd’s perspective on the East Wing of the White House. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/25/o...

Most Americans Don’t Share the MAGA Vision Reflections on PRRI's 16th Annual American Values Survey

Most Americans agree that empathy is a moral value that is a foundation of a healthy society, rather than a dangerous emotion that undermines society.
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Funding from HR-1 of 2025 (so-called One Big Beautiful Bill) for immigration and border security as outlined by the American Immigration Council www.americanimmigrationcouncil.org/fact-sheet/b...

The master-planned City of Irvine, CA, ranks #2 in the Trust for Public Land's ratings of park systems across the USA www.tpl.org/parkscore/ra...

Unpack the Compact Movement Call: Resisting Trump's Latest Attack on Higher Ed · No Kings Trump’s new “Compact to All Higher Ed” is a direct attack on students, faculty, and academic freedom. **Join Public Citizen and national partners, for a timely discussion on Trump’s new “Compact to Al...

I'm attending Frontline for Freedom's event, “Unpack the Compact Movement Call: Resisting Trump's Latest Attack on Higher Ed” - sign up now to join me! www.mobilize.us/nokings/even...

In the UK, sexually transmitted infections are increasing amongst older people and decreasing among the youngsters.
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The Economist reports that seniors are the biggest screen timers--not teenagers www.economist.com/internationa...

Four Experts on Why So Many Jobs Are Bad Their new report classifies only 40 percent of U.S. workers as having "quality" jobs

Too few people have jobs that meet five criteria of "quality." petercoy.substack.com/p/four-exper...

There have been significant swings in net migration into the United States since 2000.

There was great musical accompaniment at the October 18, 2025, NO KINGS event in Scottsdale, AZ.