By Janita Le Grange. Across the street, an old house is being torn down to the ground. For years, it stood there as a quiet shadow of whatever it used to be. Once, it might have been someone’s childhood home—a place filled with warm dinners, loud laughter, and small feet running down the hallway. Then…
This week’s editorial, by Janita Le Grange. This week’s editorial arrived with its own set of challenges. My mind is bursting with so many things to talk about that I feel like I simply don’t have enough paper to write it all down. Lately, I’ve found myself thinking a lot about the twin forces of…
By Sylvie, France. Some adventures need a plan. Some only need trust. And sometimes curiosity is simply waiting to see what happens next. If I had a lot of money, I think I would only travel. There are so many places I would like to discover, especially other cultures. Friends are preparing for a safari…
Wuppertal, Germany. I had seen pictures of the Wuppertal Schwebebahn before, but standing underneath it is something else entirely. It opened in 1901, which means people here were travelling through the city in a suspended railway two years before the Wright brothers made their first powered flight. Somehow, after 125 years, it still looks slightly…
By Manfred, Germany. What years of software development taught me about quality, curiosity, ego—and knowing when to try another path. Imagine installing a software update by asking a robot to chisel the new code into a stone slab. My first thought is simple: the chisel will break. It sounds ridiculous, but it reminds me of…
The Human Bit, by Frank Peters. Last week my wife flew to the UK. Shortly after arriving, her phone received a message pointing her towards a French government service that could warn her about security risks while travelling. Apparently Britain has become a very dangerous place. She survived the airport. The message itself was perfectly…
By Fabrice, France. The world once pulled me towards unfamiliar countries and dangerous work. These days, adventure can be much closer to home—but I still need something that takes me beyond the routine. There are places in the forest near my home where you can sit down and hear almost nothing except the animals and…
Labskaus is one of those dishes that you should probably taste before you judge — although, to be fair, the appearance does not always make this easy. A Northern German Sailor’s Dish. Labskaus is an old seafaring dish associated with northern Germany, particularly Hamburg and the coastal regions. Its origins are practical: on long sea…
By Ismar, Brazil and Ritesh, India. From shared schoolbooks and battery radios to AI companions, Ritesh and Ismar trace what happens when finding an answer becomes easy—and judgement becomes the harder part. There was a time when finding an answer could mean walking for an hour, asking an older relative, waiting for a newspaper, listening…
By Alexander, Germany. After a 4–1 win, an offside thought experiment and a difficult team discussion, one question became harder than it first looked: when is a rule useful, and when are we simply used to it? On Monday morning, I was not really ready for difficult questions. Everything hurt. My head was still somewhere…
