Sean Duffy
@ProfDuff
I’m an experimental psychologist at Rutgers, an amateur photographer, and touring cyclist.
Just as an aside, last year I spent the summer in Paris, and I spoke with dozens of talented young students interested in coming to the United States to study. This year, I have not heard that from a single student. The impact on higher education is incalculable. @moorehn
It’s like this Paris metro map fan was made for me specifically. It even features my favorite station Barbes Rochechouart! @SEPTA_SOCIAL you should make these for your store!
The Viaduct Des Arts is a linear park on an abandoned train line in Paris 12e that was the inspiration for New York’s High Line and Philadelphia’s yet to be realized Viaduct. I filmed the whole length so you can see how extraordinary it is! Cities can have nice things!
Rue de Crimieux - Paris’ most colorful street. The woman in the last photo even dressed for the occasion!
If you’re ever at Place de la Bastille in Paris, look DOWN! Those circles on the ground are not infrastructure for the blind but the outline of the Bastille prison itself! So you can go storm it yourself by simply walking over the “wall”!
I teach a course on this (Culture and Food) and it’s a fascinating topic. Tomatoes didn’t reach Italy until the 1700s. In fact the history of the tomato deserves its own book. Here are my suggestions for two good reads.
I would love to read a general interest book about how pretty much every major world cuisine as we know it was completely reinvented over a period of 50-100 years in the wake of the Colombian exchange--chilis coming to India and China, tomatoes to Italy, etc. etc.
Honestly this was the worst decision I ever made. I stood up Rick Steves in like 2003 in Kyoto to go on a date with a woman who if I remember correctly stood me up that night anyway. Ended up getting a sandwich at the circle K. Don’t make the same mistake!
I was 25 at the time and 50 year old me would like to go back in time and yell at myself - how stupid can you be! - but she was attractive and I was 25. And dumb. Of course it led nowhere, she might have even stood me up, I don’t remember. But I missed out on meeting Rick Steves!
So this is a replica of the torch of the Statue of Liberty in Paris. Also Princess Diana died in a crash on the highway underneath this near the Iena metro station in 1997. I remember that day clearly - I was living in Chicago and my neighbor was wailing.
Happy Bastille day to those who celebrate (from a roof in the 7th Arrondissement)!