#bulfighting

[NEWS] Five cultural links: astronauts learning Chinese, hitchhiking, Catalonia, Croatia, Georgia

The BBC reports on how astronauts from Europe are starting to learn Chinese, the better to interacting with future fellow travelers.

MacLean’s takes a look at the practical disappearance of hitchhiking as a mode of travel in Canada, from its heights in the 1970s. (No surprise, I think, on safety grounds alone.)

PRI notesthe practical disappearance of the quintessentially Spanish bullfight in…