Tag: Place

Make America Great Again. If you’re like me, this phrase hits you with the same visceral force as a badly swung golf club to the face. We recognize it at a glance as the slogan of Donald J. Trump, the ex-president currently facing a mountain of legal troubles. I’ll bet that yo...

I hope this message finds you well. YOU ARE RIGHT WHERE YOU’RE SUPPOSED TO BE! Lately it feels like all you’ve done is sacrifice. Whether you’re burning bridges there or tanking ships over there — Your trajectory hasn’t changed. The Universe has been hard at work in rem...

Yesterday, a hummingbird hovered in front of me as I sat on our balcony and looked past the hanging baskets and across the valley at the hills and the mountains beyond the hills. As he worked the red Petunias and pink Sweet Williams, he moved to face me, his wings beating rapidly, creating the illus...

A lot of the problems with Millennium as an event is just how disjointed everything feels. It frequently doesn’t feel like a lot of creators really tried to do anything interesting with the first three weeks of crossovers, while the main book has acted as a greatest-hits mark for the past two ...

Amsterdam is known all over the world for the most happening late night parties, large number of coffee shops and tourist attractions. As there are many venues, dance parties, club festivals that include taste of most probably every tourist or native. DRINK N SINK: BEST BAR/PUB IN AMSTERDAM ...

As I’m about to go on a 17-day holiday, what’s on my mind is that I’ll miss Amsterdam. It’s been years since I left the city for so long. I’m happy to go explore the world, but I also know that I’ll miss my happy place quite soon. Missing something makes ...

Amsterdam, the capital of the Netherlands is located in the region of North Holland. (Fig 1) The purpose of the paper is to provide an overview of the unique confluence of environmental and social conditions that led to Amsterdam’s current urban and social form. Amsterdam has been responsive t...

A full-time job, family life, writing and podcasting takes up pretty much all of my time. I’m rather content, I don’t really crave for anything else. My head was turned, however, in July by a WhatsApp message which simply showed tour dates for The Lemonheads. 30 years after the rel...

I am a member of a group that consists of people who like to talk about philosophy. A few days ago, the group prepared a small historical tour for us. The target was focusing on a small part of Istanbul , whereas I saw a number of different places I haven’t seen before and I listened to plenty...

In contrast to these grand and gleaming buildings, Estrela Park feels intimate and a bit wild. Its main features are the exotic plants and trees from around the world that grow tall and lush within its gates. The park was designed in 1842 as a place for the working classes of Lisbon to relax and for...

Why build in Miami? Are you curious why people are gravitating to South Florida? Led by our super-talented summer intern  Anastasia Sirytsyna , our team outlined the basics for you below on why we think this region continues to prove a worthy host for innovation and ingenuity. Flori...

Are you a first-timer planning to visit the USA soon? America is a vast country with endless experiences to offer. From beautiful landscapes and diverse culture to world-class cities and delicious cuisines, there’s so much to explore. But with so many options, it can get overwhelming to ...

We live in a car culture. I was reminded of this recently when a potential landlord in the small town of Moab, Utah raised doubts about my ability to make it here without an automobile. I pointed out that I had walked from one end of the town to the other several times already and could always rent ...

Palestine will be free in this lifetime & we all have a part to play in the struggle to get there. We need to be organizing for a liberated, decolonized & autonomous Palestine from the river to the sea. We also need de-zionize Jewish communities: thoroughly uproot and destroy zionism individ...

We have been reading that Eighth is One of Dussthan of Your Horoscope. It is also one member of Trik house, it is also 2nd Moksha sthan of Your Horoscope. 8th house is house of secrecy, occult knowledge, longevity, transformation, death and re-birth, In laws family...

His body was found about 9:30 p.m., the reports said. He had a heart attack or stroke. We had talked about 8:30 p.m. Perhaps I was the last person he talked to. I told him he had influenced my career and my life, and he had. I worked in social justice organizations, and non-profits, for twenty ye...

The world is currently a rather gloomy place. I scrolled through the news last evening, and it felt like an unending barrage of negativity. Will there be an end to all of this? It’s hard to say; perhaps it’s an ongoing saga. It feels like a contemporary kind of hell — a hell ...

There are few things we can conceive of that are as mind-bogglingly large as space is. Our observable Universe, out to the deepest recesses of space that we can possibly see, takes us out some 46 billion light-years in all directions. From the Big Bang until now, our Universe has expanded while grav...

If both mountains are measured from sea level, Mount Everest is at roughly 9 kms high (about 29000 ft), whereas Mount Chimborazo is about 6.2 kms (about 20500 ft). However, Mount Chimborazo is closer to space because it is located on the equator in Ecuador. The map below shows where that is. The ...

Sure, per secular square inch, some billionaire’s Bluetooth is effectively pretty valuable. Taylor Swift’s brain and even her cat’s boxes might scratch out inconceivable wealth by the second. Many would speculate Dubai may have the world’s most massive stash at some casino, o...

The lore and myths of the center of the Earth have been a topic of discussion in fiction, science, and beyond since time immemorial. Let us go back to 1692 AD. It was just 10 years after a mysterious unidentified comet flashed across the night sky. Astronomer Edmond Halley hasn’t yet identifie...

This image is from a video I found on youtube that describes the relative potency of pain medications. The content creator sets hydrocodone (and oral morphine) as the basis for his comparison. For example, aspirin (“ASA”) has 1/360 the pain relieving efficacy of hydrocodone. Fentanyl has...

Ittakes us a moment to notice that we lost Kyle. He stopped, rummaging for something in his backpack, taking out his lunch packet and giving it to a homeless guy, sitting on the pavement. They exchange some words, and the homeless man smiles. Kyle closes his backpack again and catches up to us as if...

In his 1989 book, sociologist Ray Oldenburg coined the term the ‘Third Place’ as the one outside home (your first place) and work/school (your second place) where people get through there day, but one that also becomes an opportunity to foster community and civility. Starbuc...