Editor’s Note: Space tourism is on the horizon, but while SpaceX and Blue Origin contemplate our new space home, Robert Hazen tells us a little bit about what makes our current home unique. By Robert Hazen Few topics in science command as much attention as the discovery of extrasolar planets – those as-yet-unseen worlds, light years beyond […]
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Living Local: On Home Exchanges and Friendships
By Stephanie Schroeder I arranged my first home exchange in 2006. The deal was that my partner at the time and I would give up our Jersey City, NJ, apartment for a couple who had a house in Alkmaar, North Holland in The Netherlands. It was all very new to me, this home exchange adventure, […]