Morning Links: China, Tibet, What Matt Harding Believes and More
Travel Blog • Michael Yessis • 03.30.09 | 9:24 AM ET
- Matt Harding believes “globalization is forcing our brains to evolve.” He explains in a “This I Believe” essay for NPR.
- World Hum contributor Leigh Ann Henion walks in the footsteps of toreros and Hemingway.
- Travel + Leisure Australia divulges 20 travel secrets you need to know.
- Elle profiles “Eat, Pray, Love” author Elizabeth Gilbert.
- The Washington Post chronicles the love fest for Gilbert and “Eat, Pray, Love” at the National Cathedral.
- China says it will allow foreign tourists back to Tibet on April 5.
- The Washington Post plays its story about “a potentially historic bill to lift the travel ban” to Cuba on the front page of its print edition.
- Fernanda D’Arienzo wants to save you from Rome’s predatory restaurant owners.
- Pittsburgh to conventioneers: Come visit, we’re glamorless.
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Michael Yessis is the cofounder and coeditor-in-chief of World Hum.
Ling 03.30.09 | 10:09 AM ET
Globalization is also causing our muscles to atrophy, since we’re all in the same place on the internet, without having to move an inch. :)
Julia Ross 03.30.09 | 10:37 AM ET
Saw a copy of the “Eat, Pray, Love” parody at DC’s Kramerbooks last week and had a good laugh.
http://www.amazon.com/Drink-Play-Anything-Ireland-Thailand/dp/0802170528/ref=pd_bbs_sr_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1238423788&sr=8-1
Michael Yessis 03.30.09 | 5:16 PM ET
Nice, Julia.
According to the Elle story, we’ll also soon see a parody by Sarah Silverman called “Eat, Pray, Fart.”