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Yield to Pedestrian
http://yieldtopedestrian.com
After years of working abroad, a former diplomat comes back to the U.S. to rediscover its culture, its people, its politics, and its science. Featuring biting humor and beautiful photography, Yield to Pedestrian sorts through the stark contrasts between life in the U.S. and overseas.
- Added on: Sep 19th, 2008
- Country: United States
- Language: English
- Author: Yield to Pedestrian
- Listed in: Culture Photo Blogs
- Tags: travel politics science Photography history space
Recent Posts
Bringing You the Boffinry
Image via Wikipedia The Royal Society has put together a fantastic interactive timeline with all sorts of random, esoteric scientific history and discovery. Obviously, I have wasted a lot of time on this site, since, as YTP readers know, I lo...
Second Careers in Profile: Art Installer
Image via Wikipedia I was wonderfully surprised this week by an email from a reader who noticed that my Careers in Profile series lacked information on what it was like to work as an artist. Here are her interesting responses: 1. My name is: A...
Ask the Large Hadron Collider
Image by Image Editor via Flickr Last night the YTP Spouse posed an interesting question: if the Large Hadron Collider is, indeed, being plagued by time traveling forces that dislike what it is trying to do – a situation that some notabl...
Good Second Careers Take Some (Soul) Searching
Image by kevindooley via Flickr I was reflecting today on how many different side roads I have explored professionally in the past two and a half years. I left my very intense career in April 2007, and since that time I have physically moved t...
The Science of Language
Image via Wikipedia One of the biggest trends in education today, especially elementary education, is language immersion. People tout the political, cultural, and intellectual benefits of learning another language almost constantly with claims...
My Foray Into Qualitative Analytical Methods
Image via Wikipedia I have been reading several methodology texts on qualitative analysis, and am amazed at how there is no discussion of the underlying assumptions in qualitative analysis itself. For instance, the notion of “social jus...
