week 82

 

Mon: Who knew that chewing gum is made out of byproducts from the oil industry. Better listen to the Xenius advice on how to make it from pine resin.

Tue: The bazaar of Tehran still looks very much integrated into the city fabric and not a tourist trap like elsewhere in the Middle East.

Wed: The Museum of Old and New Art in Tasmania has put Hobart on the contemporary art route map for good reason.

Thu: What are memories made of? Scary how easily one can implant false ones on unaware bystanders.

Fri: Cape Horn lighthouse keeper family seems content with a life of brutal isolation.

 

week 81

 

Mon: Astonishing what people with a knee prosthesis can do, even participate in highly competitive sports.

Tue: Istanbul bazaar is becoming gentrified by the tourist hordes from all over the world. Time to move east!

Wed: After a century of the suffragette movement, half of society has become more attuned with the other half; yet no denial that the issue of gender inequality is still with us.

Thu: Busting the millennials myth of multitasking does take much; just try driving and tell out loud the abecedary … in reverse.

Fri: Tackling food waste in Copenhagen where restaurants are offering their refuse for close to nothing is a step in the right direction.

week 80

 

Mon: Xenius takes on the ancient and very modern art of making mirrors.

Tue: Gutenberg had a hard time selling his printing method to the market, but got a break with the Bible book.

Thu: The bazaar of old town Cairo still breaths orientalism for westerners.

Fri: The conflict between chaldons and kanaks remains unsettled even after the referendum.

 

week 79

 

Mon: Xenius teaches the basics of cartography just in case the car GPS decides to stop working and orienting a paper map is a must.

Tue: Building for obsolescence is such a sin of our capitalism that future generations will despise us… if only for that.

Wed: The nonsense of pseudo-nutrition reaches a new high (actual low) point with a “chocolate for loosing weigh” diet after a predatory scientific journal publish their fake study.

Thu: The Inhotim garden in the brazilian state of Minas Gerais shows that, even after mining ore, a region can be brought back to a healthy cerrado lansdscape.

Fri: The parisian cemetery of Pere Lachaise, where immortals such as Chopin, Piaf or Morrison lie, is a green island in the center of the city where birds and small mammals find refuge.