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Category Archives: Fun stuff & Cool people

Conservationists Confront City Street Problem: Not Everyone Likes Trees

January 28, 2022by amyyeewrites Leave a comment

Community groups hope to improve the canopy in minority neighborhoods through education and outreach. Bloomberg Businessweek October 28, 2021 Trees beautify neighborhoods, provide shade, and help combat sometimes deadly heat […]

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Environment, Fun stuff & Cool people, Inequality, Public health, Race & Ethnicity

The Weight of the World

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2021 kicks off the United Nations Decade on Ocean Science. Meanwhile, a local conservation group in Watamu, Kenya races to save endangered sea turtles—by enlisting human allies. Terrain.org December 10, […]

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Africa, Animals, Environment, Fun stuff & Cool people, Longform & Narrative, Rural poverty

In Rwanda, Learning Whether a ‘Smart Park’ Can Help Both Wildlife and Tourism

November 24, 2020by amyyeewrites Leave a comment

Atlas Obscura November 24, 2020 Emmanuel Kalisa helped kill a lion, one of the last in Rwanda’s Akagera National Park, around 2002. Lions often mauled cattle owned by local herders such […]

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Africa, Animals, Environment, Fun stuff & Cool people, Travel

Why is the Sarajevo Haggadah different from all others?

April 16, 2020by amyyeewrites Leave a comment

The Economist April 16, 2020 GO TO THE ARTICLE Why, Jewish children asked at the Passover meal last week, is this night different from all others? The question is stipulated […]

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Arts, Culture, Fun stuff & Cool people, Travel

Longform: Searching for Walter

March 17, 2020by amyyeewrites Leave a comment

BY AMY YEE March 17, 2020 Massachusetts Review http://massreview.org/sites/default/files/10_61.1Yee.pdf A 61-year-old man from Harbin, China, a retired truck driver who spoke zero English, was solo backpacking in the Balkans. Why?  […]

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Arts, China, Culture, Fun stuff & Cool people, Longform & Narrative, Travel

Vibrating dog vest may let you ‘talk’ to your pup without saying a word

July 9, 2019by amyyeewrites Leave a comment

National Geographic July 9, 2019 Designed for working dogs, the haptic vest may one day also help pet owners with speech impairments or dogs that are hard of hearing. GO […]

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Animals, Fun stuff & Cool people, science

Cruise to Russia: An Easy, Affordable Way to Soak Up St. Petersburg

May 25, 2019by amyyeewrites Leave a comment

Wall Street Journal, Off Duty (Travel) May 25, 2019 For a quick, rather kitschy trip from Helsinki to St. Petersburg, board this cruise Photo: Amy Yee, somewhere on the Baltic Sea […]

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Fun stuff & Cool people, Travel

Saving the neck of Rothschild’s giraffe

October 26, 2018by amyyeewrites Leave a comment

The Economist October 27, 2018 A relocation programme spreads a rare subspecies to new habitats GO TO ARTICLE TO A FOREIGN tourist, a giraffe is an extraordinary and elegant beast. […]

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Africa, Animals, Environment, Fun stuff & Cool people, science

Rescuing Sea Turtles From Fishermen’s Nets

October 16, 2018by amyyeewrites Leave a comment

New York Times October 15, 2018 WATAMU, Kenya — The young hawksbill turtle was accidentally caught in a net in the Indian Ocean off Kenya’s coast. GO TO ARTICLE The fisherman […]

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Africa, Animals, Environment, Fun stuff & Cool people, Kenya, Rural poverty, Water

The Hot New Musical Trend In Zanzibar Is From The ’80s — The 1880s

September 29, 2018by amyyeewrites Leave a comment

NPR Students at the Dhow Countries Music Academy, dedicated to preserving the music known as “taarab,” play on a balcony overlooking Zanzibar’s port. Amy Yee for NPR Amy Yee September […]

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Africa, Arts, Culture, Fun stuff & Cool people

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