Avoid a travel nightmare When drawing up your packing list for an upcoming trip, one of the first line items should always be your medication. Getting that part wrong could lead to, at best, a small travel headache that you don’t need on your vacation or business trip, or, at worst, a medical emergency. Here […]
Experiments in Brazil and California also Australia has become the latest country to successfully combat mosquito-borne disease by releasing millions of sterile male mosquitoes to decimate their own populations. The experiment carried out by scientists near Cairns, Australia, last summer was a success: It has wiped out around 80 percent of mosquitoes that carry diseases […]
Smoky bays, black pools and merchants’ harbors There’s a funny idiosyncrasy on Italian maps: There are two Monacos. One is a principality on Italy’s northwestern border, the other is Germany’s third-largest city. The reason is simple. Monaco means “monk” in Italian, and both of these places were once known for the hermits who inhabited them. […]
Helicopter evacs for younger friends, but no one escapes travel nightmares Lisa Walker is a self-described “crazy grandma” on a mission. She runs endurance races. Competes in national triathlon championships. At 58, she has bested fellow climbers half her age in summiting peaks in the Himalaya. She has seen much younger friends suffer from HAPE […]
Chai, chai, cha What’s the word for onion in Hungarian? How do you say spicy in Vietnamese? When you’re ordering at a restaurant in a place where you don’t speak the language and no one speaks yours, you fumble around in a phrasebook or on your phone to find the right word. When it comes […]
