Mindblown: a blog about philosophy.

(And yes, that’s still a big deal to the French.) Get up to speed with French clothing vocabulary by visiting the website for a major department store. Our recommendations: Galeries Lafayette or Le Printemps. (Be sure to choose “versione français”!)

What catchy song is buzzing in our ears this week? Belgian-Rwandan hip-hop star Stromae has us dreaming of happy hour.

We want to take the foreign out of foreign travel. Foreign travel is wonderful. New places, new people, new foods, new horizons. Foreign travel also changes us. It makes us reconsider what is “normal.” Yet, every single international traveler I’ve met has a story to tell about something that went wrong on their trip.