by Global Sherpa | Oct 19, 2010 | Cities & Countries, Countries, France
Love them or hate them, you have to respect the French and their moxy for trying to stop time dead in its tracks. Try to visit that great family-run bistro on your long-awaited summer vacation to Paris anytime in August and there’s a good chance you’ll find a closed...
by Global Sherpa | Oct 19, 2010 | Environment, Food
If you live in Chile, Japan, Taiwan, or S. Korea, chances are pretty good that it once had fins and gills (or maybe still does). Chileans and Japanese consume more than 150 pounds of seafood per person annually according to a study called Seafood Print supported by...
by Global Sherpa | Oct 18, 2010 | China, Cities & Countries, Countries, GS Features, Oddly True
Despite recent events, China has somehow managed to maintain a fairly impressive air safety record, especially for a massive country growing at warp speed near or above 10 percent annually. This post began as an excuse to showcase an old, entertaining article by...
by Global Sherpa | Oct 15, 2010 | Aid & Development, Australia
A new aid game App from Save the Children Australia gives users the chance to experience what it’s like to try to respond to a natural disaster in real time with peoples’ lives hanging in the balance, according to a recent Reuters article. On the organization’s...
by Global Sherpa | Oct 7, 2010 | Cities & Countries, Countries, Health, Japan
If you want to live forever, try moving to Japan and living like the Japanese. More than 77,000 missing Japanese residents are at least 120 years old according to government records. In an eye-opening case of bureaucratic oversight, Japan’s Justice Ministry recently...