Mon: Maintaining proper circadian rhythms is a vital sign of well being in both the young and the elderly.
Tue: Tiny Carabane island at the delta of the Casamance river is being swallowed by the Atlantic ocean, a wave at a time.
Wed: Using remodeled trash collection trucks as mobile reading rooms around Ankara puts recycling books at a whole new different level.
Mon: What to say about telemedicine? Another sign of the economic crisis or facilitating access to medical care for isolated people? Xenius cannot make up their mind.
Tue: Flooding in Indonesia, melting of Yakutia’s permafrost, drought in the Sahel; it all adds up but to the most common delusion: denial of inconvenient empirical facts.
Wed: Anthony Bourdain culinary trip to Senegal, mainly Dakar and St. Louis, excels at portraying a country with its urban population aiming at a higher standard of living and ready for the attached effort.
Thu: Les femmes de Himalaya, an intimate report of living conditions in the village of Sking on the Zanskar region of Jammu-Kashmir, leaves the spectator in awe at what the human spirit can endure.
Fri: Hindu tower temple complex in Madurai is a maddening cacophony of attacks on all your senses, touch included.
Mon: Are nanoparticles that big of an enviromental problem? So far data seems to dismiss it.
Tue: Rose de Luxembourg activism brought her a nasty demise.
Wed: Dak’Art biennale in Dakar, quite a coup for an African city.
Thu: Mayako islands in the Okinawa prefecture are as ideal as any tropical paradise.
Fri: Rangoon golden pagoda surrounded by well kept gardens is a jewel in an otherwise busy capital.
Mon: Xenius praises the benefits of urban forests releasing volatile terpenes for improving human well being.
Tue: Industrial espionage by China is rampant. Whoever is clean throw the first indictment.
Wed: Water mismanagement in Iran, as elsewhere, is just a sign of human overpopulation and industrial greed.
Thu: Hard to believe we are contemporary with the way of life of novice monks at the Phugtal monastery in Ladakh.
Fri: Daitoku-ji Zen temple in Kyoto, with its stone gravel garden, is the perfect counterpoint to the frenetic pace of life just behind its doors.
Wed: Xenius tries equine therapy for autism disorder and the pet business industry keeps growing.
Thu: The landscape of Hokkaido island in the fall is a reminder of the autumn leaves beauty we enjoyed in south Korea.
Fri: The mighty Amazon delta, with Belem and its fish market right in the middle, is a very fragile ecosystem encroached by humans more than ever.
What I learned last week is ... 