While Japan may have mastered the pod or capsule hotel concept—a tight space that serves as little more than a place to sleep for travelers on the go—the concept is picking up steam around the world.
Mexico City International Airport is the latest to tap into travelers’ desire for a convenient, affordable place to rest their head with the opening of izZzleep in Terminal 1. The facility, which bills itself as intelligent hospitality, has 40 capsules as well as a private locker area and bathrooms. Read Article: https://www.travelpulse.com/news/hotels-and-resorts/mexico-city-airport-welcomes-pod-hotel.html One of the best ways to learn about the world is to travel – but globetrotters have to understand their impact when visiting the places that they love.
With that in mind, the World Tourism Organization (UNWTO) has launched a new campaign focused on the contribution that sustainable tourism can make towards development. The campaign – ‘Travel.Enjoy.Respect’ – comes in the International Year on Sustainable Tourism for Development and promotes tourists using travel as a catalyst for positive change. Read Article: https://www.lonelyplanet.com/news/2017/08/23/sustainable-travel-world-tourism-organization/ A new European study on human behaviour suggests that people can be divided into one of four main personality types — with ‘Envious’ being the most common.
The new research, carried out by a team of researchers from Universidad Carlos III de Madrid and the universities of Barcelona, Rovira i Virgili and Zaragoza, Spain, presented 541 volunteers with hundreds of social dilemmas and asked them to report on what they would do in each situation. Read Article: http://www.huffingtonpost.ca/2016/09/19/types-of-personalities_n_12085906.html Who knew? There is actually a correct way (and several incorrect ways) to scoop ice cream! In order to overcome this knowledge shortfall, click on the link at the end of this blog. Written by the Huffington Post, it explains in helpful detail, the temperature, implements, and technique, necessary to scoop this favorite dessert of millions.
Read Article: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/youre-scooping-ice-cream-wrong_us_599dbf33e4b0a296083bd321?section=us_huffpost-partners THE TOTALITY LASTED no more than two minutes and 41 seconds, which makes the idea of spending hours driving to see it seem a bit foolish. Yet countless people did just that, simply to say they saw the sun go dark.
Photographer Rachel Bujalski joined the pilgrimage, but found herself at least as interested in the crowds as the eclipse that drew everyone together. She photographed more than two dozen sun watchers trekking up the west coast as she made the drive from San Francisco to Mitchell, Oregon, for Monday’s big show. She met all sorts during the trip, from parents toting kids to a couple in their nineties who wanted to see just one more eclipse. The portraits she posted to Instagram convey the excitement everyone felt ahead of the big event. “They’d been planning this for so long and they were just ready to see it,” Bujalski says. Read Article: https://www.wired.com/story/follow-eclipse-hunters-on-the-pilgrimage-to-totality/ In the early ’80s, when my father was a young man living in Wisconsin with three young boys and not very much money to his name, he suddenly began to have incredibly vivid visions of winning millions of dollars in the lottery. The visions were so strong and so clear and he was so convinced that a win was imminent that he made himself, and, by extension and proximity, my mother, sick with worry about what would happen if he actually did hit the jackpot. Rather than focus on all of the wonderful things our newfound wealth would offer our family, all that he could concentrate on was one cold sweat-inducing question: Could we really handle the pressures of becoming nouveau riche or would all of that money ultimately end up ruining our lives? It was the worst of both worlds ― he had fallen victim to the curse of the lottery and he hadn’t even won.
Read Article: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/winning-the-powerball-jackpot_us_599f852de4b05710aa5b5281 New research shows that people with blue eyes have a single, common ancestor. Scientists have tracked down a genetic mutation which took place 6,000-10,000 years ago and is the cause of the eye color of all blue-eyed humans alive on the planet today.
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