Tag: Inside

I let my guard down. I usually take the stairs because I don’t trust lifts, especially in countries like Croatia, where I’m unfamiliar with the building codes. I am a 68-year-old grandma who travels solo without my partner quite a bit, and for the most part, it is invigorating. Not to...

From the get go, we are thrust into a world where we have no idea what we’re doing. We play as a kid who emerges from a rocky wall or boulder. No clue what’s going on there. But we’re out of there alright. The controls are simple. We can only move, jump and grab things. But this...

If you’ve not read the article on Smartspacer itself, I recommend you read that first. This article will focus on how Smartspacer works, and will be quite technical. tl;dr give me the source code? It’s here As was discussed in the previous article, Smartspacer is able...

To live in a foreign country is never easy. It takes a courageous heart to defeat the longingness of familiarity, the warmth of people closest to your heart and the understanding that on the latter part you might be as well a foreigner to your own homeland. The death and rebirth while living on t...

Editor’s note: This is Part 9 of “Gladiator School: Stories from Inside YTS” — an oral history of life inside California’s most notorious juvenile prison. Youth Training School (known formally as Heman G. Stark Youth Correctional Facility) had a reputation for mayhem, v...

Founded in 1150, the University of Paris is often described as the world’s second oldest university still in existence. And with age comes a certain prestige and reverence. For many non-French people, the Sorbonne belongs in a similar category as Oxford, Cambridge and Harvard. But while I w...

The distrust of immigrants I explored in my previous article is rooted in more than just (unfounded) fear of violence. After all, violent immigrants can be arrested and imprisoned. But what about law-abiding, productive immigrants? In a way, they seem even more frightening because they can...

Thus began the era of the Silicon Valley tech shuttle bus. At the time, the BlackBerry was the hot handset, YouTube would soon be launched from a Menlo Park garage, and Gwen Stefani’s “Hollaback Girl” topped the Billboard 100. Google was the first of many tech giants to launch tech...

This is the word that I would use to describe everything that the staff and volunteers at Guandu Nature Park 關渡自然公園 do. There’s really no other word to best fits their service and level of expertise, from how they handle each visitor walking through the automatic doors at...

In the first two parts of our series, we covered the trips to Singapore and Shanghai and shared our learnings. In this part, the focus will be on the Japan leg of the Smart City tour and some insights gained from that visit. In Singapore, we saw how a small and develope...

Contrary to the stereotype of leisurely mornings, many real estate agents kick-start their day before the sun graces the sky. It’s a time for personal preparation — emails checked, schedules reviewed, and market updates digested over a steaming cup of coffee. This early bird’s catc...

I’m a feminist and I couldn’t help but see how much sense these two were making. Feminism being demonic explains a lot of the things that have changed in my life ever since I left conservative Christianity. It’s kind of concerning. Like the head spinning. I didn’t used to ...

As a foreigner learning the Spanish language, I have had my own experiences with linguistic discrimination, from seemingly innocent remarks, to downright discriminating other varieties of a certain language, by deeming them “vulgar” or “of bad taste”. With this said, the inte...

The Good News But hey, the more interesting story with legacy automakers is in the interior anyway. Besides the ongoing software battle (Polestar will have a Chinese-specific OS replacing the ROTW-Android version), tech companies today focus on autonomy and electrification. Few think about new us...

“Whoever wants that job is crazy!” That was Crystal Leonetti’s reaction when she first heard about a job opening with the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (Service) in Alaska. Crystal was already working for the Natural Resources Conservation Service (NRCS), a federal agency she&rsqu...

The Solution: To solve this problem, we are going to use something called the Ray Casting algorithm. This algorithm works by casting a line from the point we are asking about (the “Test Point”) towards the right, left, top or bottom direction. Then, counting how many times this line i...

The day dropped out of the sky he slipped on the stony steps the spiral staircase that curls the side of the lighthouse banged a knee hard enough to draw blood Late to the light, the great lantern that guides the tossing ships a first order Fresnel lens taller than a man tower of gleaming ...

Real beauty comes from within. It is about being confident in yourself and comfortable in your skin. It is about embracing your flaws and imperfections and knowing that they make you unique and beautiful. When you are happy and confident in yourself, it shows on the outside. Of course, there is n...

If you are here with some answers that you are trying to find for starting a completely brand-new chapter in your life. Which consists only of peace, a rise in your spirit awakening, and seeing only a way of what everyone calls life is the Absolute Truth of Knowledge. First, start your journey...

As a foreigner learning the Spanish language, I have had my own experiences with linguistic discrimination, from seemingly innocent remarks, to downright discriminating other varieties of a certain language, by deeming them “vulgar” or “of bad taste”. With this said, the inte...