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This year’s Burning Man Festival in Nevada has been washed out and 70,000 attendees are stuck in the mud.
A wooden effigy of a man is erected each year in Nevada’s Black Rock Desert and later burned down.
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In Nevada, people create a makeshift city toward the end of summer and later burn it down. What’s behind this event, and what makes it meaningful?
A playground bench is colorfully decorated at the new Sandy Hook Elementary School, which replaced the one torn down after a gunman killed 20 first graders and six educators in 2012.
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An anthropologist explains the power of purification rituals, such as bringing down a building following a tragic occurrence in it, and why they help reduce our anxieties.
Bicycles are the main form of transport around the Burning Man Festival and are recycled or gifted afterwards.
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The annual Burning Man Festival creates a temporary city in Nevada’s Black Rock Desert. In many ways, it’s an innovation lab for rethinking cities.