Hearing aids usually bring to mind images of ugly, ineffective devices mainly worn by the elderly. But this ill repute is quickly changing, as they’ve recently taken a turn thanks to two innovators, Dr. Marco Vietor and Paul Crusius, who now lead the fastest-growing hearing aid company in...
The resulting data set consisted of 11 built environment indicators: dilapidated buildings, 2 or more cars, chain link fences, street signs, streetlights, green spaces, crosswalks, non–single family homes, single-lane roads, visible wire, and sidewalks. The data set covered 72 311 census ...
It is a few weeks shy of the election, so there are lots of “Obama / Biden” signs posted on small front lawns or taped to casement windows. I remember walking up this block On the other side of Lenape, looking down toward Sorrento Rd. many times in my childhood days, or maybe bei...
to the continued existence of the universe itself. But that also makes him, and those who come to hear him access his memories of the text, the target of murderous government forces. It is a wonderful meeting of the glory of past achievements and the horrors of a post-apocalyptic totalitari...
road-free Corrour railway station down into Glen Nevis; it seemed a romantic way of reaching Fort William, especially since the train journey to Corrour started at Ribblehead in the Yorkshire Dales, itself not the most metropolitan of railway stations: only I joined the train at Ribblehead; on...
This sign is humorously reminiscient of Niel Armstrong’s famous words when he first stepped onto the surface of the moon in 1969, “One small step for man, one giant leap for mankind.” The literal meaning of this sign is almost identical to what Armstrong said, but used here in a rat...
the parcels began to suspect. When the waterline was lowered on the surrounding lakes, they grew nervous. When the clear-cutting began, it was a fait accompli. When property lines were hastily scrawled on a map, they knew the meaning of division. They would have to make it on their own...
of Hanoi, Vietnam’s national capital and the oldest capital city in Southeast Asia. Vietnamese like to name their streets after what they consider to have been ‘acts of foreign aggression’, and in greater Hanoi no fewer than 119 streets are named after ‘acts of Chinese and French ...
It changed its routing to offer more trollies, eliminate layovers at the end of the line to get the trolley back in motion as soon as possible, and ran later hours. Not to be outdone, the Jitney drivers formed their own political organization, the Auto Transit and Welfare Society. On ...
This year I’m a milk seller complaining about how the city folk make money off of our product by jacking up the prices, among other things. And we get nothing. Anne is the tea-seller serving us as we gather in the village to gripe about the problem. Here’s the final clip – ...