Global – Strangers Guide

Global

The destruction of rainforests—which cover just six percent of the Earth’s surface—is not only eradicating vital habitat for half the earth’s species, some of...

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Global

Can We Hold Hands Here?

Exploring LGBTQ travel safety

by Ed Salvato

That gorgeous ad of a couple holding hands on the beach in the lush, mountainous Caribbean...

Global

Believe it or not, architecture was once an Olympic sport. International Olympic Committee founder Pierre de Coubertin, a historian with a love for...

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Africa

Known as the African Camelot, Fasil Ghebbi, now a UNESCO World Heritage Site, is a fortress in Gondar, Ethiopia, built by the Emperor Fasilides...

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Moscow

Dead and Kicking

Writer's haunts—and haunting writers—in Moscow

by Olga Voronina

Moscow is a city of dead writers. No matter where you look, they are everywhere. Over...

Russia

The Renovation of Moscow

While Russia and the West drift further apart, Moscow looks more and more like a western city

by Alexander Baunov

The most Western city in Russia has long been considered St. Petersburg, ever since its founding...

Global

“The memory of going to the beach every New Year’s eve Is one I share with...”

Readings

Global

“Black lake, black boat, two black, cut-paper people. Where do the black trees go that drink...”

Readings

Global

In the face of rising sea levels and climate change, how do you future-proof man’s place on this planet? Floating islands. That’s the idea...

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Global

Wallace J. Nichols knew that for centuries man had believed in the healing power of the ocean. The problem was, nobody had done much...

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Global

“In Los Angeles I grew up watching The Three Stooges, The Little Rascals, Speed Racer, and...”

Readings

Founded in 1683, the Ashmolean Museum in Oxford, England, is the world’s oldest university museum. To put it in perspective, the year it first...

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