Tag: Around

When I was a high school teacher, I had challenges with the arrangement of the desks and chairs. No matter how I arranged the classroom, some students would end up in the back of the class — furthest away from my desk. Even if the students were arranged in a circular manner, some students w...

Ever since I started doing research for my blog on street art, I got more and more curious about the people who were the ‘big names’ that defined what street art is today. Going through many pieces of content on the internet related to the above question, I came across 7 names that fi...

As soon as I landed in this along the shore of the Adriatic Sea, and close to the Mount Etna, the cacophonous, crowded, and messy airport with no Wi-Fi hit me with a surprise. It was unexpected to find myself in a European airport that was not squeaky clean, with few people and fast internet. I took...

Jogging down the steps of Berlin’s Jannowitzbrücke U-Bahn (subway) station, I hear the whirring noise of a train pulling up and my steps accelerate, heart rate rises. I push through rowdy teenagers, skirt an elderly woman, and pile into a cramped car as blinking-red doors close behind me....

Doyle’s introduction is followed by a complication. Harvard has already expanded across the Charles River, into the nearest neighborhood in Boston: Allston, located just across the Charles River. Harvard Business School, Harvard Innovation Labs complex, and the university’s athletics com...

My commute is about 25 miles from “North Suburban” Boston to Metro West. I take Route 128 (you might call this I-95) and The Pike (I-90). I drive alone in my little EV while thousands commute into Boston on the underfunded MBTA and Commuter Rail. Traffic on Boston area highways has cr...

 Welcome to a whole new world by joining our Old Friends Reunion Istanbul event with the topic of Web3 Games & Applications at Ciragan Palace, Kempinski, Istanbul from 9:00 AM to 6:00 PM on 14th November. Click Here(Official Website) and register to get your tickets! ...

Healthy travel produces the least pollution, moves your body, and reduces risk to yourself and others — including exposure to air pollution. A recent study reported on by Felix, on air pollution in the London Underground stated that levels of airborne particulate pollution were ...

On the day I arrived in New York, it was drizzling all day long. Contrary to expectations, rainy New York was so chilly, and there were many puddles of dirty water on the road that I wanted to avoid. I went inside the coffee shop, ordered hot chocolate to warm up, and just looked outside. The peo...

The beautiful city of Sydney is a popular destination for travellers, and is constantly rated as one of the best cities to run in. Whether you’re a local or a visitor, these running routes are for everyone. Manly to North Head Run Photo by Kim / Creative Commons 2.0 ...

There are rungs on the ladder of belonging in Taiwanese society. Last month, we continued our slow ascent by climbing another: we ate hotpot in someone’s house. While hotpot is one of the preferred social gathering activities in Taiwan, we’ve actually eaten it only a handful of times &md...

My dear friends, in this cycle of life, all of us have good and bad in us. Also, there is good and bad in everything we do, talk and think. So today I am going to talk about the concept of Karma, that involve with good and bad actions. Karma is a belief that intentional actions have conse...

Do you believe in magic? Earlier this year, I started watching a lot of reruns of Charmed. And despite the cheesy old school 90s vibes, there are so many great messages in it. It’s what has really inspired me to look around and see the magic everywhere. And to look within and explore w...

I don’t watch television anymore. It’s been several years now since we ended our cable service. The quality of programming just wasn’t worth the price Spectrum Communications wanted. Instead, I rely on a plethora of news websites to ferret out what is left of the truth. I read y...

My husband and I had to go to court yesterday. In the ongoing saga of dealing with the consequences of my neighbor’s grandson shooting a bullet through my house, the case was heard. It turns out that the boys were shooting at a dilapidated playhouse in the backyard. Our house is not far ...

December 2018. An empty field somewhere in France. The nearest house is one kilometer away. It’s freezing cold. What am I doing here? Every place has a memory. Perhaps dreams. This one has nightmares. Nearly a hundred people were massacred right on this spot. I am possibly the very last ...

Botany is weird, and I think the clearest example is to look at the common vegetable Brassica oleracea. Cultivars of this single species include broccoli, cauliflower, kale, collard greens, cabbage, Brussels sprouts, kohlrabi, broccolini, romanesco, and gai lan (Chinese broccoli). The...

Baseball is a sport steeped in tradition and history, and the practice of throwing the ball around the horn is a perfect example of this. But where did this tradition come from and why do baseball teams still do it today? The origins of throwing the ball around the horn can be traced back to the ...

Being the official language of mainland China, Taiwan, and Singapore, Mandarin Chinese is by far the most spoken language in the world in terms of native speakers. It is also one of the six official languages of the United Nations. Mandarin is a tonal and analytic language. The meaning of the word a...