Tag: Slow

Sometimes being abroad makes you feel a little fragile. Life feels a little more fleeting when you’re so far away from all your friends and the quality of life in the countries you visit are not always what you’re used to back home. That feeling became ever more present a couple da...

The spring of 2022 brought hope to people who had served time for drug offenses and who wanted to start a state-sanctioned marijuana business. A year after legalizing pot, the state’s Office of Cannabis Management began offering those previously convicted of a cannabis-related offense, or thei...

Two days ago, about 40 San Franciscans took to the streets to make a point — on two wheels. The bicyclists pedaled across the Mission, Excelsior, Glen Park, and other neighborhoods to highlight some of the city’s lesser known slow streets and draw attention to a hearing, later today, ...

There’s an exact moment in the woods when the sun first yawns its early morning strands of light through the trees. Branches and trunks split in two — one side blazing gold, the other a deep umber. Shadows and peaks of fire undulate through the ground; the troughs of turned soil compete ...

The greatest sign of a failed attempt to implement an overly dramatic business idea was a simple fact. Under whose authority was EcoCash copied or fabricated into the Zimbabwean monetary system? Why would a solution for the poor and underprivileged be accepted as a measure by everyone. All classes h...

There’s a lot of talk about how boys and men are faring with all this feminist equality-seeking malarkey. In the UK a few months ago, there was quite a buzz around the topic following the launch of author and writer Caitlin Moran’s latest book. Previously a writer for and about women, th...

I have traveled to India, have many Indian-American friends; the country is close to my heart. This film addresses rapes in India, which is an enormous problem. It follows the story of a 13 year-old girl who was gang-raped in her small village and the journey to a trial in the city. The young woman&...

Psychedelics and dementia are an unlikely pair. Psychonauts in the 1960s and 1970s were young anti-establishment hippies and freethinkers, not older adults in the early stages of Alzheimer’s. Yet psychedelic researchers are testing the possibility that a hallucinogenic trip — with all it...

Psychedelics and dementia are an unlikely pair. Psychonauts in the 1960s and 1970s were young anti-establishment hippies and freethinkers, not older adults in the early stages of Alzheimer’s. Yet psychedelic researchers are testing the possibility that a hallucinogenic trip — with all it...