As Minneapolis and St. Paul dominate the state’s economic, cultural and political life, most people live either in or around the two cities. While some suburbs are very calm and quiet, downtown and its other more central neighborhoods are much livelier and have thriving arts, culture and ni...
But perhaps no creature is more blindly savage than a small fish of South America’s inland waters—the piranha. At first glance, the piranha seems harmless enough. Deep-bellied and flat, it looks like a sunfish a youngster might catch on a lazy Sunday afternoon. It is actually a close ...
I’ve been writing for forty years, and I would say that, in the past, location did actually have an impact on success. But with the internet, that has completely changed – as I said, I spoke face-to-face(ish) to high schoolers in South Africa. In the last few months I’ve tak...
Despite rules requiring advertising slogans in English to be sub-titled, French manufacturers still borrow English words. France’s fashion press is another cross-dresser, writing of “Vive la fashion attitude“. In a post-modern twist, teenagers are importing American slang via the heavily north ...