Why is the Sarajevo Haggadah different from all others?
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 […]
Category Archives: Fun stuff & Cool people
Longform: Searching for Walter
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? […]
Vibrating dog vest may let you ‘talk’ to your pup without saying a word
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 […]
Cruise to Russia: An Easy, Affordable Way to Soak Up St. Petersburg
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 […]
Saving the neck of Rothschild’s giraffe
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. […]
Rescuing Sea Turtles From Fishermen’s Nets
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 […]
The Hot New Musical Trend In Zanzibar Is From The ’80s — The 1880s
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 […]
Geothermal Energy Grows in Kenya
New York Times February 23, 2018 HELL’S GATE NATIONAL PARK, Kenya — Verdant hills stretch into the distance at Hell’s Gate National Park, where zebras, buffalos, antelopes, baboons and other […]
Wharton MBAs Find Their Calling Amid Pineapples Of Ghana
NPR December 8, 2017 Jerry Parkes stands in a vast field of spiky leaves and peers at a pineapple that is larger than usual. “Wow, look at the size of […]
The Power Plants That May Save a Park, and Aid a Country
New York Times August 30, 2017 VIRUNGA NATIONAL PARK, Democratic Republic of Congo — On the verdant savanna of Virunga National Park, a herd of elephants clustered near an umbrella-shaped […]
