The southeast Asian country, formally known as Burma, is now officially open to tourists and ready to welcome the world. However, as visitors, we must keep in mind that the years the country spent …
WATCH: Our society is so afraid of aging, but this 91-year-old woman is telling it like it is
PBS IS RUNNING A VIDEO series called ‘Brief but Spectacular,’ in which interviewees offer a little bit of insight into the issues that affect us all, like creativity, work, aging and te…
Banksy travel guide to NYC
Banksy is a British street artist, that you’ve probably heard of. His artwork can be found all over the world including NYC. To make it simpler to find his art in the Big Apple, CheapFlights …
6 things about being a woman
1. We do a lot of emotional labour.Part of the reason this doesn’t get talked about that much is because many women don’t identify what they do as “emotional labour”. Read t…
Corporate logos in National Parks
AMERICA’S NATIONAL PARKS WILL TURN 100 years old this August. The parks, famously called by author Wallace Stegner “America’s best idea,” have been one of the nation’s…
Two thirds of Mexican women over the age of 15 have experienced gendered violence. The #NoTeCalles campaign is making sure that changes
THE NATIONAL INSTITUTE of Statistics and Geography estimated that 63% of Mexican women over 15 have experience gendered violence. A 2010 United Nations report named Mexico one of the most dangerous…
Fleeing Trump? Try MapleMatch
ONE OF THE MORE IRRITATING PHRASES THAT pops up every time there’s a US Presidential election is, “I’m going to move to Canada if (insert candidate name here) wins.” There a…
Even Brazilians don’t think their country is ready for the Olympics
The 2016 Rio Olympic park photographed on April 25.GlobalPost / Ueslei Marcelino/Reuters Several people plunged onto the rocks and waves below. At least two men died in the accident, their bodies p…
Tracking Flights, Finding Hotels and More with Kayak and Amazon Echo
If you own an Amazon Echo, Tap or Echo Dot (pictured above), there’s a fairly good chance you have a love/hate relationship with Alexa, the platform’s voice-controlled “personal a…
Airbnb is raising the rent
STAYING AT AN AIRBNB IS A PRETTY COOL way to see a new city. It allows you to stay in a local’s home rather than a character-less hotel or a loud, cut-rate hostel, and it’s often as aff…