The standard European itinerary packs five cities into ten days. Most people find it exhausting and forgettable. The slow travel movement argues that depth beats breadth – and the economics often work out better too.
Kanazawa has the preserved samurai districts that Kyoto lost to tourism. Naoshima is a small island turned into a living art installation. Yakushima inspired Princess Mononoke. Japan has so much more than the highlights.
The Instagram version is a laptop on a beach. The honest version involves unreliable Wi-Fi, time zone math, complex taxes, and loneliness that travel accounts do not photograph. A real account of two years working remotely abroad.
Business class seats retail for 3000 to 8000 dollars. The business class cabin is rarely full of people who paid that. Here is the miles and points system that gets experienced travelers into premium cabins for almost nothing.
Overtourism has transformed Santorini, Venice, and Barcelona. But Europe is vast and most of it has not been overrun. These are the cities where restaurants are still priced for locals and the neighborhoods still have soul.
Spotify pays between 0.003 and 0.005 dollars per stream. To earn minimum wage from streaming alone, an artist needs 4 million streams per month. So where does the real music money go?
From Squid Game to Crash Landing on You, Korean television has conquered the world. We explain why its storytelling is fundamentally different from Western TV — and where to start watching.
From Nicolas Cage’s career-best performance to Jane Campion’s Oscar-winning western, these ten films were praised by critics, loved by audiences, and seen by almost no one. Until now.
From a reported 50 million for a single Netflix film to backend deals worth hundreds of millions, the gap between celebrity earnings and public imagination is staggering. Here is how the money actually works.
From a razor-sharp political thriller to a Korean period creature horror, these are the Netflix shows that audiences loved but the algorithm buried. Your watchlist just got better.
We put the three biggest AI assistants through 30 identical tests covering writing, reasoning, coding, and accuracy. Here are the honest results.
Smart speakers, cameras, thermostats, and TVs are collecting far more data than most people realize. Here is what your devices know about you and how to take back control.