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July 2008

Vladimir Keilis-Borok

 By Nicole Whelan
 

On the heels of our conversation about predictions with earthquake sensitive, Cal Orey, we now speak with Vladimir Keilis-Borok, professor in residence at UCLA’s Institute of Geophysics and Planetary Physics. Keilis-Borok, who is also the research group leader at the International Institute for Earthquake Prediction Theory and Mathematical Geophysics, Moscow, discusses complex systems, prediction algorithms, and forecasting the 2008 presidential election.

[published: July 29, 2008]

June 2008

Issue 7 Editors' Note

 By Last Exit Staff
 

The Subterraneans

[published: June 18, 2008]

Narco Non-News

 By Lito Elio Porto
 

When a plane linked to the CIA crashed in the Yucatan jungle last year, it suggested the drug trade and its vast profits are not necessarily relegated to the underworld. (Photo by Andrew W. Sieber)

[published: June 18, 2008]

Back Underground

 By Philip Henken
 

When New York City music subcultures find new rocks to crawl (and thrive) under. (Photo by Nate Dorr)

[published: June 18, 2008]

Off the Beaten Path

 By Sandra Koponen
 

In the last strip of wilderness left in Manhattan, a handful of outsiders eke out a primeval living off the radar.

[published: June 18, 2008]

In the Dumps

 By Danny Gold
 

While the emerging tourism trend of “poorism” has come under attack by critics, a glimpse of Phnom Pen’s garbage village unavoidably leaves Westerners with their priorities challenged.

[published: June 17, 2008]

Cal Orey

 By Nicole Whelan
 

Cal Orey describes herself as earthquake sensitive, and claims to have successfully predicted quakes in California and Nevada by studying her seismically intuitive pets and her own physical reactions to underground activity. The author of The Man Who Predicts Earthquakes: Jim Berkland, Maverick Geologist talks to us about syzygy, animals behaving bizarrely, orgasmic ear tones, and the (sometimes) friendly competition between earthquake sensitives and predictors.

[published: June 17, 2008]

Against the Stream

 By David Grocott
 

Welcome to Appleby Horse Fair, the temporal favela which establishes itself once a year in northern England as the epicenter of the British Gypsy life.

[published: June 17, 2008]

How We Are

 By Paul Menchaca
 

Photographer Joseph Rodriguez has spent his career seeking out the world that exists in the shadows of where we feel comfortable.

[published: June 17, 2008]

The Subterranean Democrat

 By William Bryk
 

A rabble-rousing militant and foe of corruption, Hon. Mike Walsh was the city’s most successful radical politician before the Marxists perverted American left-wing politics into a parlor game.

[published: June 17, 2008]