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Biology, Lifes Fragility – and Its Affirmation

Having learned more and more of biology has made me fairly anxious. Getting older isn’t helping, either. What, Me Worry? Most people live as if the world simply were as it is, as if a body – their body – just functioned. If anything h...

The Normality of 2020

2020 has felt far from normal. Yet, it is not a break with normality. It is a break with recent baselines and a return to what has been normal. The Not-Normal Lockdowns, social isolation and stressful interaction on social media are not the usual. Mask...

Playing with Wolves

… in run-photography fashion, with the wolves sculptures by Liu Ruowang in front of Palazzo Pitti. When I last visited Florence, this piece of public art was installed there – and I could not resist a bit of fun with it, on a morning run. A...

Microexploration: World (Food) Travel In Your Kitchen

The very idea of traveling somewhere just for the food – a rising category not long ago – seems rather decadent right now. At the same time, though, we should remember and (micro)explore the connections that food represents! “Strange&...

Microexploration: Learning and Teaching by Travel

Or, Does Travel Blogging Have to Be Influencer Marketing? Travel restrictions and #StayAtHome have taken the shine off the travel influencer and blogger business; rising interest in the local outdoors threatens worrisome crowding and pollution. It all ...

#LookCloser, Different: Returning One’s Gaze Closer

Our expanded circles of connection and attention are praised continuously. No longer are we only, parochially, concerned about our families and villages, but the whole world. Is that really a good …

Microexploration and the Need to #GetAtHome in Times of Coronavirus

A new virus going around, impacting lives everywhere… It is exactly the kind of thing that makes people wish they were not a part of this world. But, well…

The One Travel Destination You Need to Go!

These sorts of posts are everywhere and oh-so-popular. The ones to tell you the countries you must visit, the cities and sights you must see, the five things to eat and ten things to do.

MicroExploration: See the World – and Study

We have this story in our heads – or actually, these stories – of adventurers and explorers on the one hand, bookworms on the other. Ideally, though, the two stories actually go togethe…