I’ve always loved reading literature or watching TV-series/movies about cities and places where I have been/are. When attending high school in Italia, it was a special treat reading a novel in Italian where the protagonist would explain that his mother was from Trieste, and his father from Milano… I lived close to Trieste, and I […]
I have only visited New York once before, a few days in the summer a few years ago. Both then and now my time was spent trying to meet up with a few friends living here, and pounding the sidewalk in Manhattan to get an idea of the city. This time I was hoping to […]
During the making of a little homevideo project, I did some shots of the University of Toronto, both downtown and Scarborough. While the movie isn’t meant for public consumption (email me if you are my friend, and I might send you a link), I chopped out the UofT part and put it on Youtube. My […]
I had the chance to work with the CitizenLab at the University of Toronto for a few months in my first year at UofT, helping them test the censorship systems in China (because I speak and read Chinese). I even did a translation of operating regulations for Internet cafes in China. The guys there are […]
I really should be studying, but I made my first bookmarklet. The problem I tried to solve: When students of University of Toronto sit at home using Google Scholar to search for, say, information on the text book publishing industry in Swaziland, they often arrive at articles that are subscription only. However, usually they do […]
I came across an interesting collection of photos of high-density housing in Hong Kong (thank you, Spacing Toronto), some very aesthetic pictures. I haven’t spend much time in Hong Kong, and don’t understand the city as I wish I did, but these pictures made me think of something. When discussing the past, present and future […]
While researching what would end up being a poorly written essay on modernization theory and Laos (don’t ask), I came across the Journal of Higher Education, a topic that interests me verily, and I read a few articles. One that stood out was a comparison between the US and Canadian university systems in terms of […]
As you might know, I love cities, and I love public transit. In fact, I was thinking about studying it, if it is possible to study. I remember telling my friend; You know how there are car magazines for people who are interested in cars? Who want to know about the latest developments, the newest […]
Ever since I came to Canada, I’ve been noticing a lot of small things about how things work, that I liked or didn’t like. One thing that annoyed me a little bit was the large amounts of change that ended up in my wallet. Partly because prices in Canada end up being so weird, because […]
Ever since I arrived in Toronto, I’ve been fascinated by the multi-culturality and the way different cultures integrate or do not integrate with each other. I’ve wanted to understand more about the process, and I was happy to come across Calculated Kindness : Global Restructuring, Immigration and Settlement in Canada published by OISE and edited […]
