Category: Ruminations
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Yes, there is enough love in the world – A tale of politics, walking and urban lakes.
This afternoon I had beer with a friend at a local brewery. Not extraordinary – one can’t leave the house nowadays without tripping over a local brewery. The extraordinary part was her tale of what happened to her the day before. As she was walking home from a pilates class, her route took her along…
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Digitalization: Colorizing Holocaust victims makes them less abstract. “My Goal Since the Beginning Was to Individualize the Victims”
“By colorizing their photographs, they become less abstract. They are no longer just representing something old, a historical event that happened so many years ago.” For the Faces of Auschwitz project, photo colorist Marina Amaral transforms photos of Holocaust victims. via My Goal Since the Beginning Was to Individualize the Victims — Discover
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High-speed Trains
Am I the only American who thinks it’s absolutely criminal that we don’t have high-speed trains in the United States like they do in Europe? Let’s look at some times on a trip from Rome to Florence: Car: 2 hours, 56 minutes Plane: 55 minutes Regular train: 4 hours High-speed train: 1 hour, 20 minutes…
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My Obsession with Mosaics
“…but beautiful mosaics are made out of broken pieces” — Lori Jenessa Nelson Traveling through Europe there are plenty of beautiful palaces and churches to look at. For some reason though, while others are gaping at flying buttresses or speculating on who once lived in a certain palace I’m the one in the corner with…
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Church Walking
If you’re lucky enough to be spending time in a European city that allows free entry into churches then I recommend a bit of ‘church walking’. Church walking is when you’re on your way to somewhere, spot a church and decide to go in just to take a peek around. By ‘looking around’ I don’t…
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After Ada
One hundred years after Ada Lovelace – the visionary who imagined ‘the analytical engine’ – the field of software development and the opportunities for women have greatly changed. Ada was born an aristocrat – the daughter of the poet Lord Byron in fact – and as an aristocrat had the opportunity to study, write, experience…
Unfolded Maps 