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  • Jurassic World

    The fourth installment in the dinos-run-amok series isn’t a reboot but might as well be, given the years elapsed since 2001’s third installment and the even greater cultural distance that’s opened up since Netscape Navigator introduced us to an internet festooned with…

  • Paris Through the Night, Part 2

    My most surreal / memorable travel experiences: #5 See full map I couldn’t stay under the Eiffel Tower, that was for sure. (Once back in class my French teacher Frédéric was alarmed when I told him what I’d done, given…

  • Paris Through the Night, Part 1

    My most surreal / memorable travel experiences: #5 See full map I was studying abroad for a summer in Compiègne, France. It was an idyllic time, with days devoted solely to French lessons at the local university and evenings spent…

  • The Wood House, Mali: Part 2

    My most surreal / memorable travel experiences: #6 See full map One man whom we visited frequently had a house just off the main road, where we could sit and watch people coming and going. His livelihood was gained through…

  • The Wood House, Mali: Part 1

    My most surreal / memorable travel experiences: #6 See full map I was in Mali for five weeks in the summer of 2001 to participate in a training program run by my university’s engineering school. We spent several weeks providing…

  • Bicycling to Oxford, part 2

    My most surreal / memorable travel experiences: #7 See full map There are a few moments in life when you realize that you’re really in over your head. Lying on the M40 in the middle of nowhere sometime after midnight…

  • Bicycling to Oxford, part 1

    My most surreal / memorable travel experiences: #7 See full map I was spending part of a summer in London, and towards the end of my stay had yet to explore much beyond the city itself. I knew Oxford and…

  • Moonlight Mafia, Khetri Fort, October 2009: part 2

    My most surreal / memorable travel experiences: #8 See full map Pilani and its surroundings are scorchingly hot during the day, but the desert quickly gives back its heat when the sun goes down. The night was becoming quite cool….