The big craze in online retail over the last year has been “smart content,” defined as the ability to use Internet cookies to serve up content that, theoretically, is more suited to what specific visitors…
This Week In Travel And Health
Monthly Archives For June 2012
Smoking Around The World
If Don Draper was dropped into present day, it’s fair to guess that he’d have a pretty hard time adjusting to American life in 2012. And one of the new realities that would surely make…
Book Review: 1,000 Places to See Before You Die (Second Edition)
Patricia Schultz’s New York Times Bestseller 1,000 Places to See Before You Die was recently updated with 200 new places and reprinted in full-color. This monumental travel publication provides travelers with a thorough check sheet…
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As the Global Village has become more global than ever before, the number of expats has increased in recent years. Whether driven by overseas business assignments or an increasing number of retirees in search of…
Greece Is The Word
As the world watches with trepidation, Greece spirals downward. The Greek economy is in a scary position and, as you no doubt have heard, the potential global repercussions could be devastating. But forget about that – at…
The Three Most Polluted Countries in the World
Think it’s dirty where you live? Truth is, the scattered cigarette butts, candy wrappers, and whatever other miscellaneous garbage you may see lying around the ground is nothing compared to the cleanliness issues that some…
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We love to travel, but we hate to fly. It seems like I’m having more and more conversations with people who detest the process of getting on a plane. And that – dealing with the…
World Blood Donor Day 2012 – Every Blood Donor Is a Hero
Unless you’re specifically traveling on an aid mission, there aren’t many of us who would travel somewhere with the singular goal of donating blood in a foreign land. However, wherever you are this week, and…
Japanese Team Creates Functioning Liver from Stem Cells
In what has to be considered one of the most remarkable medical developments of the past ten years, Japanese researchers announced on Friday that they were able to generate a functional human liver from stem…
The Social Travel Craze – A Quick Look At 15 Social Travel Websites
Whether or not you want to invest in social networks, I’m almost certain that you’re spending at least some time on them. And you’re probably even doing some travel planning on Facebook, Twitter, Pinterest and…
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