Author: Ms. R.

Cindy Bick is on a mission. The University of Michigan evolutionary biologist scans her surroundings as she treks through the forested valleys on the north side of Tahiti. Most visitors come to this South Pacific island to enjoy its beaches and clear water, but Bick is here for another reason. She spots her quarry: a bean-sized dot of white on a sunlit leaf. It’s Partula hyalina, a small snail with a big story about risk and resilience in island……

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The Fort Dodge Museum, as far as historical reconstructions go, is pretty customary. This well-curated reconstruction of a pre-Civil War military fort has been around for decades. Historic additions like log cabins, a one-roomed schoolhouse, and a general store are standard fare in these places. But there is something unusual, a hidden treasure in the back of the grounds, that makes this place special. An octagonal building stands just outside the back gate of the fort with no particular……

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The Falls of Dochart run through the small town of Killin, which is situated within the Loch Lomond and the Trossachs National Park. The falls are fed upstream by Loch Tay, another site that is well worth a visit if in the area. The falls are traversed by the unsurprisingly named Bridge of Dochart, which was first constructed in 1760. Some of the best viewpoints of the falls can be seen from the bridge, or alternatively, the bridge makes……

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The night before, Ricardo Semillas and his neighbors had cooked like they were still rebels in the FARC-EP (Fuerzas Armadas Revolucionarias de Colombia – Ejército del Pueblo). They had patiently kneaded eggs, water, and salt into flour. They then carefully divided the dough into balls, and flattened them until they became translucent, like soft chiffon. When hot oil touched the dough sheets, it puffed them up like a breeze filling a curtain. Once golden, the dough had become cancharinas,……

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Found in the wild throughout Southeast Asia, milkfish is popular in Taiwanese cuisine. The silvery fish is often served pan-fried with a bit of white pepper, or gently sliced into pieces and served in a gingery porridge. It’s so beloved in Taiwan in fact, that there’s an entire museum dedicated to the fish. The Saba Milkfish Museum is located on a small island in Tainan, a city in southern Taiwan with a robust milkfish aquaculture industry. It was established……

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I’m not a soldier, I’m a filmmaker. They want to turn us as soldiers, to give us guns, but I refuse it. I have a dream, and my dream is here and is cinema.” Wareth Kwaish is checking the last details before shooting the next scene of the movie Hanging Gardens. He is the assistant director and is prepping fireworks to shoot off, and also guiding extras to where they should stand with a green laser pointer. Ahmed Yassin……

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Before the Spanish conquest of the Canaries, the islands off the coast of northwestern Africa were inhabited by the Indigenous Bimbache people, who lived semi-nomadically on the island with their livestock, moving twice a year between their summer and winter settlements. Originally these settlements were located inside juaclos, or lava tubes, but later moved to more traditional housing, turning the tubes into storage spaces as European influence started taking hold. The ethnographic museum of Guinea shows this evolution and preserves……

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