Humanity is moving more than ever, faster than ever, around the planet. ‘It’s almost becoming the new normal,’ says Ruth Van Reken, co-author of TCK bible Third Culture Kids: Growing Up Among Worlds. Van Reken is a TCK herself: she grew up between Nigeria an...
2019 took me to the edge and back; parts of it were among the toughest of my life: Caring for an elderly parent and a feisty toddler simultaneously; adjusting to a new life after a decade away; trying to find adequate care for a child also struggling to adapt; attempting to find mysel...
Citizens of Humanity ‘Avedon’ Skinny Jeans – things I’m loving By Shea Brakefield Raise your hand if you made New Year’s Resolutions for 2013. Now keep it raised if you’re still working on those resolutions during this third week of February. I am very proud to say that I can ...
My hope is that even in this state of dependence we can retain spheres of humanity and freedom. Ironically, while this might seem like a natural project for the right, the only way small businesses will be able to thrive under modern conditions is if a whole slew of expensive and ...
It didn’t cause people who weren’t going to buy cars at all to buy them – rather it just caused people who were going to buy a car anyway to do so sooner than they otherwise would have. So a particular company, let’s say Ford, sells more cars than they would have today, but...
Kolbert has long shared great wisdomon the realities of the Sixth Extinction. Roy Scrantonshared a prescient and important wake-up call more than five years ago. Recently, trendforecaster Li Edelkoortspeculated that our experience of the pandemic could, “eventually allow humanity to reset its ...
becoming covered in water and habitable once more. This five-part series chronicles the history of our planet from its dramatic birth, through the cosmic and terrestrial forces that have shaped it. We explore the rise of humanity, reconstructing the major events that created our unique habitat, ...
are reasonable and common but often require monastic levels of patience and perseverance to receive an answer. We describe this shift in thinking towards individual and empowered healthcare as citizen engagement, which seeks to (re)introduce humanity to healthcare. It can be best described as ...
All these things would be wonderful for humanity as a whole… but they would spell doom for the current power structures who exist to control and yes, enslave humanity. If there is a “New World” by definition, there must be an “Old World.” The Americas are called “The New World....
But then, as is the nature of humanity, when the after-party ended, the fan-fair died down, and the glory in the arena faded, it was over. Just like that. To reach that level again I would need another grand slam homer, and another, and another. But it never happened. The Babe ...