Archive for August, 2007

Elderly Americans outsourced to India?

Sure, everyone knows about outsourcing technical and telemarketing services to India, but outsourcing nursing home care? That was the grudging decision made by Steve Herzfeld when, running short of money and energy after three years of nonstop caring for his ailing parents, he moved with them to India and arranged for all-day medical and nursing home [...]

August 7, 2007 how we live 0 Comments

Traveling in Arctic Norway

Tom Haines of the Boston Globe, one of the country’s better travel journalists, is currently wandering about in the Arctic regions of Norway. He’s blogging about his experiences for the Globe, and also just did an online interview with World Hum: World Hum: Where in the world are you? Right now, at the harbor in Vardo, [...]

August 6, 2007 Europe 0 Comments

Climate change and nomads

Climate change threatens ice sheets and ecosystems, but it also threatens human cultures. So begins an interesting report on NPR about the Tuareg nomads of Mali and how their way of life is being affected by climate change. For centuries, the Tuareg people have lived as nomads, herding their animals from field to field just south of [...]

August 3, 2007 how we live 0 Comments

The food of Chiapas

One of the most interesting ways to experience a culture is through its food. For Chicago chef and tour guide Rick Bayless, the regional dishes of Chiapas are among the most interesting in Mexico. As noted in this travel story by Robin Mathers Jenkins: For Bayless, temperamentally still the curious graduate student he was when [...]

August 2, 2007 culinary cultures, Latin America 0 Comments
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