Today’s shave comes courtesy of a back alley barber in a nearby village. I would never have found this place were it not for my …
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The field study is completed and the team has headed its separate ways. There are a few days rest before the next study starts and …
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Today’s office is not supposed to be. It’s Sunday and I’m not due back in the Tokyo lab until the middle of the week. But the …
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Ferry commuters support themselves by grabbing ceiling mounted handles. If the body beomes a network capable of sending and receiving data, will we need to …
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An advertisement close to Xiamen University for an apartment with 2 bedrooms, kitchen and washroom space for1500 RMB (150 Euro) a month. I’ve not managed …
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An investigation of the dense back alleys of one of the poorer and oldest districts of Xiamen. Prior to a massive investment in the 90’s …
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This week’s office is a weathered 1930’s guesthouse on a Gulangyu Island situated off the coast of the South China. Sail a junk south west …
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Today’s taxi driver from the airport doesn’t like the silence and borrows my headphones for a couple of songs. He pretends to enjoy Public Enemy, …
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Reviewing photos taken in the last month came across one that evokes many postive feelings. It shows two of our team sitting in garden in our …
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Graffiti/sign stencilled close to many of drains in Hilo make it harder to ignore/easier to understand the consequence of inappropriate dumping. Fast forward, same situation, but …
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