Daily Archives: August 14, 2020

While it often seems like the US government lets environmental issues fall through the cracks, Congress has just taken a huge step toward preserving our national parks. The Great American…

In March, international travel shut down, and demand for domestic flights grinded to a halt. With thousands of trips canceled due to COVID-19, there’s no doubt the country is itching…

Ever laughed when setting up camp as some random dude puts a worn acoustic guitar next to his chair? “He’s not actually going to sing and play campfire songs on…

It doesn’t takes a cultural anthropologist to know that the United States is an extremely culturally diverse country. In his book American Nations: A History of the Eleven Rival Regional…

While most zoos and aquariums are still closed to the public, the animals that inhabit them are living their lives like nothing’s going on, entirely unaware of the chaos of…

The in-flight seating experience has been a rollercoaster. First there was luxury, and the high price tag that comes with it, followed by airline cost cutting and increasingly smaller legroom…

The Caribbean is not Little Europe. Over time it’s been shaped by Indigenous groups, colonizers, generations of islanders, and millions of annual visitors. There’s nowhere else on Earth like the…

The past few months have seen many monuments taken down in the name of racial justice and support of the Black Lives Matter movement. Now, world-renowned artist Janet Echelman is…