Last week I asked five people of varied age groups, genders, and social, and economic backgrounds, their definition of success. So, there was the pretty, young college student who told me that her idea of success was to get that job in the media house that would pay her well and give her good exposure. Or, the 40-year-old artist who …
Making a maintenance trip in Gaza now literally means taking your life into your own hands. Ahmad’s tale has become almost routine among the 750 PalTel staff in Gaza who, despite living through bombing, displacement and death, risk life and limb to keep the telecoms network running. PalTel’s Gaza network was built during Israel’s siege of the enclave, which requires …
In addition to the Olympics and Paralympics, there’s another epic celebration of human fortitude: The Cybathlon, otherwise known as the Cyborg Olympics. According to Max Ortiz-Catalan, a bionics engineer at the Chalmers University of Technology in Sweden, it’s “the Olympics for cyborgs, where technologies are used to overcome disabilities.” Unlike the other events, the Cybathlon commemorates new prosthetic technologies and …
