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Hi! I’d like to get to know all of you better, but there are a lot of you — and while I read every email [...]

The Taihang Mountains are a mountain range in the Chinese provinces of Henan and Hebei. (Here’s a map.) And [...]

As the summer of 2008 approached, then-30-year-old Japanese artist Yasushi Takahashi, known as “Yassan” [...]

On January 21, 2020, a 44-year-old man named Sauntore Thomas, pictured above, did something that people do [...]

Hi! Yesterday, the United States celebrated its Independence Day. And I truly appreciated having the day off [...]

It was December 2020. Asiwa was minding her own business, walking around the only home she ever knew. [...]

Sooner or later, the future will be here. But until then, all we can do is imagine what it will be like. [...]

Hi! I’m doing something very different today — I’m handing the keyboard (metaphorically) over to a [...]

Palmer, Alaska is located about a 30-minute drive from Anchorage, the state’s largest city. Palmer itself [...]

Istanbul, Turkey, is the largest city in Europe by population, with 15 million residents. It’s also home to [...]