The Blind Photographer is surprising and fascinating. These photos taken by visually impaired photographers, accompanied by a ...

Get North to Paradise. North to Paradise is Ousman Umar’s extraordinary account of his journey from a small Ghanaian village to Europe, a five-year odyssey he began as a thirtee ...

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In a darkened Las Vegas conference room, a cheering audience waves cardboard wands in the air. Each wand is red on one side, green on the other. Far in back of the huge auditorium, a camera scans the ...

I am traveling around Europe for a while now and one item I pull out daily is my packable daypack. It came across the Atlantic in my suitcase as a small pouch, but then it unfolds into something with ...

If you’re finding that using quotation marks no longer returns exact phrase matches on Google, here’s a workaround: After conducting your search, click on “Tools” under the search bar, then click on ...

(Stuff I’m interested in now, or was interested in before.) I was a long-time member of Global Business Network, a small think tank and consultancy based in Emeryville, California. Occasionally I’ll ...

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The beehive beneath my office window quietly exhales legions of busybodies and then inhales them. On summer afternoons, when the sun seeps under the trees to backlight the hive, the approaching sunlit ...

That herby smell mixed into his fur is one of my favorite smells. I travelled to Eastern Europe just after the Berlin wall fell. I was thrown back to my childhood in 70’s Paris. The Trabants, Yugos, ...