Whatever happens in Vegas, stays in Vegas goes the saying. However this is not always the case and the city has supplied lurid and incredible stories for over a century. The Hangover wasn’t based in Las Vegas by accident; it was the perfect setting for the wild stag weekend that featured in the movie. In[…]
Las Vegas Nevada really is the home to the casino world. If you have never visited but enjoy casinos, gambling and parties then you really are missing out. Located in the Nevada desert in the United States Of America it’s one of the most visited spots in the world for people wanting to visit and[…]
Houston is one of the nation’s biggest cities, and it’s also one of the most diverse metros in the country. Also called Space City, Houston has one of the most vibrant culinary scenes of anywhere else in the U.S. with more than 10,000 restaurants. It’s home to the Texas Medical Center, which is the largest[…]
Venus’s bathing. (Margate). Side way or any way., Thomas Rowlandson / Wellcome Collection, Creative Commons Fashionable seaside towns in England owe much of their popularity to the 18th-century doctors who advised their patients to take the ‘sea cure’. By Dr. Jane Darcy / 05.23.2018 Professor of Literature University College London Introduction How did the so-called ‘sea[…]
‘Liber secretorum fidelium crucis’ by Marino Sanudo with maps by Pietro Vesconte. This map of the world was made by the Genoese navigator Marino Sanudo in c. 1321. / British Library, Public Domain Medieval Europeans were fascinated by the lands that lay beyond their own continent. Josephine Livingstone looks at the real and imaginary travels of[…]
Stowaway Perce Blackborow and Mrs Chippy aboard Shackleton’s Endurance, 1914-1917. Photo courtesy Scott Polar Research Institute, Cambridge By Laura Gwen Shapiro / 04.01.2018 Novelist and Documentary Filmmaker Whatever currency drives adventure, whether fame or fortune, a stowaway trying to cash in on glory often features in the story. Sometimes, they’re escaping a bad situation; sometimes, they’re wannabe[…]
Students at Ponar Forest in Lithuania, where Nazis massacred many Jews. Daniel B. Bitran By Dr. Daniel B. Bitran / 08.16.2017 Professor of Psychology College of the Holy Cross On a beautiful summer day in 2016, as I walked with a group of college students along a well-trodden path sprinkled with needles and cones from majestic[…]
By Alexa Erickson / 12.29.2016 Quit your job, travel the world, be free. There are a lot of movements gaining steam out there that promote quitting the rat race, embracing minimalism, putting experiences before owning things, lowering your carbon footprint, and embracing sustainability, among other admirable initiatives. With countless studies revealing how the typical American diet, job, and[…]
By Chris Agnos / 12.18.2016 Could Driverless Cars Change Our Concept of Ownership? The relationship between human beings and their cars has created a dramatic shift in the way we think about possibilities. Since their introduction about a century ago, cars have given many of us the feeling that we could go wherever we wanted.[…]
12.14.2016 Heading home for the holidays may fill you with joy, as well as a little dread at the thought of the complexities of air travel at one of the busiest times of the year. The good news is that NASA is working on new technologies and concepts in air traffic management that will not[…]