A few days bouncing around Asia – a day in Singapore, a weekend in Beijing, back again in Singapore, and then a late night flight …
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Imagine this with self-driving cars and the rules of the road.
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It might seem counter-productive to travel half way across the world to observe or take part in an activity that we would otherwise try to …
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By all counts it shouldn’t be place where people linger: it’s mid-block between two busy intersections and is hemmed in by a tight pavement on …
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The South Korean penchant for posting phone numbers to cars to make it easier for boxed-in neighbours to find a way out. Contact information supplied …
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A Japanese phone user (in the shadows, center) conducts a call facing the wall – the body language of making a phone call. The pockets …
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When you run a shared taxi service and customers step into and out of your ride at different points of the journey – how to …
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Straight out of college I spent 6 months signing on for unemployment benefit – breathing space before entering the job market. In the intervening years …
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Futons aired on only one floor of a housing estate in Higashi Yama – the extent to which our assumptions about behavioural norms are framed …
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