OTHER POSTS
“Those who dream by day are cognizant of many things which escape those who dream by night.”
~Edgar Allen Poe
Why Do We Insist on Drinking Cold Water in the West?
If you’ve ever spent time living in China or traveling in China, you’ve noticed drastic differences from living in the West. One of the most fascinating differences that I noticed is that the Chinese prefer to drink their water when it is at room temperature, warm, or hot. The reasons for this probably stem from […]
What Urban Planners Can Learn From Kumbh Mela
Tom Downey describes how an Indian city balloons from a few million residents to tens of millions with ease. It was January, and I was headed 80 miles west to the Maha Kumbh Mela in Allahabad, a Hindu religious festival in which tens of millions of pilgrims come together at the convergence of two real […]