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Working (and Not Working): Updating Studs Terkel for the Recession

We took inspiration from Studs Terkel and spoke with 10 people-five with full-time jobs and five without-about what work means to them in 2010.

Thomas Golianopoulos
By Thomas GolianopoulosOct 21, 2010
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Illustrations by Will Etling.

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A pairing of old-school archeological study techniques with modern technology has led to a bounty of successful discoveries in Peru. Professor Masato Sakai led a joint team consisting of members of Yamagata University’s Institute of Nazca and IBM to uncover and identify geoglyphs, ancient massive desert floor carvings, along Peru’s coastal desert. With the use of IBM’s A.I. technology, they were able to find 303 previously undiscovered geoglyphs within less than six months, doubling the number of known Nazca Lines (as they are called) in the area.

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