by Diane Slawych | Oct 31, 2016 | Columnists, Featured, Profiles
Pssst! Want to learn how to pick a lock? Actually there’s no need to whisper or hide in the shadows, not anymore. Some security experts in Canada are teaching anyone who is interested how to open a variety of locks without using a key. If this is all news to you,...
by Diane Slawych | Oct 7, 2016 | Featured, Profiles
One of the rituals during the Jewish Thanksgiving (Sukkot), which happens from Oct. 17 to 25, involves the building of a temporary shelter. The sukkah is a hut-like structure designed to replicate the type of fragile dwellings that Jews lived in during 40 years of...
by Diane Slawych | Aug 26, 2016 | Featured, Profiles
It’s no exaggeration to say they live on the other side of the tracks. On a street in the Old Quarter of Hanoi, Vietnam, a railway line runs just a few feet away from the front doors of local homes and shops. It’s a shockingly tight squeeze! Twice a day, a train comes...
by Diane Slawych | Aug 3, 2016 | Featured, Profiles
Their home was a one-room hut made of wattle and daub with a thatch roof. At night, they slept on a dirt floor or, if they were lucky, a coarse bag made of jute stuffed with leaves from the sugar cane plant. This was a typical home for many slaves in the Caribbean...
by Diane Slawych | Jun 22, 2016 | Featured, Profiles
In Coober Pedy, South Australia, people don’t live in houses. They live in “dugouts,” – or at least, that’s the reality for about half the population. Going underground is nothing unusual in this town – billed as the “Opal Capital of the World” – where digging up dirt...
