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The Equinox Ablaze: How Fire Remakes Time at The World's Most Fiery New Years Festival
The Kurdish mountain town of Akre ignites Nowruz, the Persian New Year, into the Middle East's largest fire festival, a blazing celebration where people…
May 25
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April 2025
The Ghosts of Iraqi Jews: Tracing the Last Remnants of a Biblically Old Civilization
My journey through Iraq aimed to document the vanishing traces of its once-thriving, ancient Jewish community before neglect erases any sign of their…
Apr 15
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A Journey to Babylon: The Ancient City That Defined Modern Civilization
The largest city of the ancient world, and the first to reach a population of 200,000, was now an archeological site that I had all to myself
Apr 5
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A Journey to Babylon: The Ancient City That Defined Modern Civilization
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March 2025
The Bhutanese Blueprint: The World’s Most Architecturally Consistent Country
Bhutan offers an unmatched visual experience: a kingdom where architectural unity, from capital to remote village, reflects its harmonious soul.
Mar 4
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January 2025
The World's Largest Pyramid Isn't in Egypt, but in the Americas' Oldest City
The Great Pyramid of Cholula, Mexico is a layer cake of history whose pinnacle is no longer a Mesoamerican stairway to the heavens, but a Spanish…
Jan 8
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The World's Largest Pyramid Isn't in Egypt, but in the Americas' Oldest City
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December 2024
If the Lorax Ruled a Country: How Bhutan Became the First and Most Carbon-Negative Country in the World
Bhutan is a literal breath of fresh air and blueprint for sustainability in a world that desperately needs one.
Dec 19, 2024
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If the Lorax Ruled a Country: How Bhutan Became the First and Most Carbon-Negative Country in the World
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Island Dwarfism: The World's Smallest Primate, With Giant Evolutionary Adaptations
Within their final refuge, the Philippine tarsier, a creature with eyes the size of its brain and a head that can swivel almost 360 degrees, clings to…
Dec 11, 2024
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Island Dwarfism: The World's Smallest Primate, With Giant Evolutionary Adaptations
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November 2024
A Tale of Two Belfasts: Crossing The Largest Divided City in the Western World
The haunting legacy of the Irish Troubles (1968-1998) showed me that bullets don't use travel through distance; they also travel through time
Nov 12, 2024
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October 2024
Eight Thousand Years in a Bottle: Harvesting Grapes Where Wine Was First Fermented
Joining Rtveli, the annual autumn grape harvest in Georgia, transported me back to the origins of winemaking
Oct 22, 2024
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Eight Thousand Years in a Bottle: Harvesting Grapes Where Wine Was First Fermented
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From Gori to Gulag: The Unassuming Childhood Home of the 20th Century’s Most Powerful Man
The humble beginnings of the man who ruled one-sixth of the planet with a three decades-long iron grip: Joseph Stalin
Oct 17, 2024
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September 2024
The World Nomad Games: The Largest Olympics with No Sports You'd Recognize
No soccer, tennis, diving, or track & field can be found at the world's largest sporting event representing a quarter of a billion nomadic and…
Sep 18, 2024
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The Real Big Apple: Tracing the Botanical Origins of the World's Most Foundational Fruit
Every apple you've eaten originates in the Tian Shan mountains near Almaty, Kazakhstan — the first and now perhaps last frontier for the ancestor of the…
Sep 12, 2024
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