BY: DUSTIN BATTY Social media provides many benefits to its users. It allows us to keep in touch with friends from high school that we would have lost contact with. It lets us communicate with people on the other side…
How talking to strangers could benefit us all
By: Jocelyn Schwalm Talking to my friend the other day, an interesting topic came up. She told me that an unfamiliar woman had tried to talk to her on the bus, and her immediate reaction was to simply ignore…
Welcome to this Japanese scarecrow town where dolls outnumber living people three to one
BY: SINEAD MULHERN A classroom is clean but bleak. Students slump in chairs. A mum teacher delivers no lesson. It’s not a lively scene, their insides are straw. Head to a bus stop, fruit stall or lonely corner in the…