Blue Zone

Immortality, Inc.
by Chip Walter
Published 7 Jan 2020

When asked the inevitable question about her secret to such a long life, she would say with a wizened grin, “Cigarettes, chocolate, and a shot of whiskey every day. And all the sex you can get!” Some funny bon mots like that. Well, scientists, too, wanted to know why the world’s 316,000 centenarians were still drawing breath. In 2011, author Dan Buettner had come across an extraordinary story when updating his book The Blue Zones: 9 Lessons for Living Longer. “Blue Zones” are areas of the world where Buettner noticed that people seem to live an unusually long time. One was the Greek island of Ikaria, located in the Aegean Sea not far off the coast of Turkey. According to Greek myth, Ikaria was the place where Icarus had plummeted to the sea when he flew too close to the sun, thus the name of the island.

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He expanded the house so his kids could visit, and lived 35 more years, utterly cancer free. No drugs. No treatments. Just the sun, clean air, and good vibrations of Ikaria.15 The media loved this story, and so did readers of Buettner’s Blue Zones books. Clearly, this place delivered some sort of elixir that fortified the bones and blood, and laid disease to waste. At least that seemed to be the headline. But the idea of a longevity elixir was not Buettner’s takeaway. Moraitis’s story was a fine yarn that helped reveal the joys of Blue Zone living, but he knew there weren’t any magic potions. Mostly the reasons Ikarians lived so long (especially those who were born in the early 1900s) had to do with their lifestyle: walking for miles up and down the island’s high hills, eating fresh, organic food from their own gardens, imbibing healthy herbal teas, living by the sea with very little stress, and spending lots of quality time with their family and good friends.

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It seems centenarians aren’t blessed with any genetic silver bullets. They’re dealt the equivalent of a full house: terrific genetic cards in all the right combinations. If you happen to live a Blue Zones lifestyle, all the better; you might live even longer. But in the end, no matter how well you live, no matter how many colonics you try or heaps of kale you eat, the degradations of your genes will still get you. It wasn’t just Blue Zone living or Pearl’s whisky and cigarettes that kept centenarians going. It was the absence of lousy genes. After all of HLI’s thousands of genomes were compiled, and after the machine-learning algorithms had done their work, this meant the company was getting a ringside view of what unraveled human youth.

Fiber Fueled: The Plant-Based Gut Health Program for Losing Weight, Restoring Your Health, and Optimizing Your Microbiome
by Will Bulsiewicz
Published 15 Dec 2020

We eat meat thirty-two times for every single time a person in India sits down to have it in their meal. Yet there are fad diets out there trying to convince you to double down on this trend. That it’s not enough; we need more. The Standard American Diet (SAD) stands in stark contrast to the people who live in the Blue Zones as described by Dan Buettner. These are the regions of the world where people are living much longer compared to the rest of us. There are five Blue Zones: Okinawa, Japan; Sardinia, Italy; Nicoya, Costa Rica; Icaria, Greece; and . . . *drumroll* . . . Loma Linda, California. Wait, what? Cali? Yes, right here in our own country lives a group of people who use the same health care and the same food systems and they live ten years longer than most Americans on average.

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Remember, the source of our protein matters, and when you replace animal protein with plant sources you find that people are healthier and live longer. Consider that Costa Rica outperforms the United States in life expectancy on a diet centered around beans and rice while spending a mere fraction on health care. They’re not the only ones! Legumes and whole grains are celebrated in the diets of all five Blue Zones. These are longevity foods, and they are the foundation of gut health. It all comes back to the Golden Rule—Diversity of Plants! Would you agree that a healthy diet is one that maximizes nutrients in terms of achieving optimal amounts for bodily function? This is the concept of “nutrient density,” meaning that we want as many nutrients as possible per calorie that we consume.

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Strive for 90 percent I don’t want you to feel burdened by the lifestyle changes I’m suggesting—I want you to feel excited about the possibility you have for growth! But it’s good to have a goal. Otherwise you may just be wandering around aimlessly eating blueberries and hoping for the best. So let’s strive toward becoming 90 percent plant-based. Not necessarily today, but that’s our big-picture goal. Why 90 percent? Well, this is what we see in the Blue Zones population—they are 90 percent plant-based, so we know it’s a diet that will give you enormous health benefits. Plus, having a little leniency helps avoid the pressure of being “perfect.” That 10 percent is your sandbox. You get to make what you want of it. Whatever your vice, it can fit into your 10 percent flex account so you don’t have to feel guilty about it.

The Passenger: Greece
by The Passenger
Published 11 Aug 2020

‘I can’t live without it!’ she says. Buettner appreciates the irony. He has been studying the diets of the various blue zones he’s visited for clues to a healthier lifestyle that can be transported to post-industrial Western societies. Cigarettes and Coca-Cola were not meant to be part of the programme. * The term blue zone was first coined by Buettner’s colleague, the Belgian demographer Michel Poulain. ‘He was drawing blue circles on a map in Sardinia and then referring to the area inside the circle as the blue zone,’ Buettner says. ‘When we started working together I extended it to Okinawa, Costa Rica and Ikaria.

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‘“Ikaria is still an isolated island, with few tourists, which means that, especially in the villages in the north where the highest longevity rates have been recorded, life is largely unaffected by the Westernised way of living.”’ Stranded in Athens for the night, I discover that a fellow thwarted passenger is Dan Buettner, author of a book called The Blue Zones (National Geographic, 2012), which details the five small areas in the world where the population outlive the American and western European average by around a decade: Okinawa in Japan, Sardinia, the Nicoya Peninsula in Costa Rica, Loma Linda in California and Ikaria. Tall and athletic, 52-year-old Buettner, who used to be a long-distance cyclist, looks a picture of well-preserved youth.

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THE GOOD LORD HELPS THOSE WHO HELP THEMSELVES In a sunny corner of California, a hundred kilometres east of Los Angeles, is the community of Loma Linda, where life revolves around the Seventh-Day Adventist Church, which was founded in 1840 and accounts for around ten thousand of the world’s longest-living people. As in other blue zones, areas of the world where people live longer than average, the longevity of the Californian Adventists is down to many factors, which, in this case, are linked to their faith. Their doctrine emphasises health: most Adventists follow a vegetarian diet, do regular physical exercise and avoid smoking, alcohol and fast food.

The Village Effect: How Face-To-Face Contact Can Make Us Healthier, Happier, and Smarter
by Susan Pinker
Published 30 Sep 2013

While the rest of us slather on sunscreen, down fistfuls of vitamins, sweat it out with hot yoga, and practice mindfulness meditation, the residents of Villagrande are the ones who are living to tell the tale.4 These Sardinian hilltop villages comprise one of the world’s exceptional Blue Zones—a handful of mountainous regions where more people live to the age of one hundred (and beyond) than anywhere else.5 I wanted to know why. Sardinia is Italy’s second largest island, after Sicily, and sits smack dab in the middle of the Mediterranean, with Corsica to the north and North Africa to the south. It has nearly the landmass of Switzerland but less than a quarter of its population. Just a million and a half people live in the towns dotting its rugged shoreline and the pastoral mountain villages in the Ogliastra region, the epicenter of the Blue Zone. Centuries of invaders and regular attacks from North African pirates drove residents away from the coast and inland, beyond the rugged Gennargentu mountain range, which formed a natural barrier against invasion (as well as coastal malaria).

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Taking a day off from the lab, he and his wife, Sandra, her brother, Peppuccio, and Francesco, Gianni’s graduate student, drove in a convoy to lead me from Alghero to Sardinia’s Blue Zone. Eva and I brought up the rear in our battered rented Smart car. The extraordinary social support network that allows its seniors to live well beyond their “best by” date could well be tied to how hard it has always been to get to these villages. There’s an ocean to cross, then miles and miles of macchia, or pastured scrubland. Finally, barricaded behind a forbidding mountain range, the villages of the Blue Zone rise into view. The ancestors of the roughly 3,500 people currently living in and around Villagrande have inhabited this spot since the Bronze Age.

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Resveratrol has extended the lifespan of yeasts, worms, fruit flies, and a fish with an average lifespan of two months, but it has not been shown to have a beneficial effect on mammals, including mice, rats, and humans. For evidence (based on aggregate data) on the minimal, if any, impact of diet on longevity in the Blue Zone, see Giovanni Mario Pes et al., “Lifestyle and Nutrition Related to Male Longevity in Sardinia: An Ecological Study,” Nutrition, Metabolism, and Cardiovascular Diseases 23, no. 3 (2013). 23. Dan Buettner, The Blue Zones: Lessons for Living Longer from the People Who’ve Lived the Longest (Washington, D.C.: National Geographic, 2008). 24. David Snowdon, Aging with Grace: What the Nun Study Teaches Us about Leading Longer, Healthier and More Meaningful Lives (New York: Bantam 2001). 25.

Together
by Vivek H. Murthy, M.D.
Published 5 Mar 2020

Another person who’s actively pursuing a third-bowl solution to disconnection is Dan Buettner, author of The Blue Zones: Lessons for Living Longer from the People Who’ve Lived the Longest.18 Buettner has spent years identifying the areas of the world known as “blue zones,” which have the statistically highest life expectancy or rate of people who live to the age of one hundred. And while he believes that most of their longevity is a function of an environment that nudges them into eating plant-based foods and moving naturally all day long, Dan has found that they also enjoy an unusually high degree of social connection. In the blue zone of Okinawa, Japan, Buettner discovered an inspiring social system called the moai.

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Craig attributes this to the strong emotional connections that are encouraged, where people talk to one another and share honestly and openly on a regular basis. This type of sharing is the connective tissue within moai culture, as kindness was in Tom Tait’s Anaheim. Inclusive communal values like these are key to the creation of third-bowl cultures. To see if the blue zones can be used as models for our own culture, Dan Buettner has established the Blue Zones Project in more than two dozen cities throughout the US. While I was surgeon general, my team reached out to him, and he was gracious enough to walk me through the work they were doing. His idea for American moais was to bring people together around a common interest or activity, like cooking, or walking, or gardening.

Walkable City: How Downtown Can Save America, One Step at a Time
by Jeff Speck
Published 13 Nov 2012

Jane Jacobs put it this way: “Lowly, unpurposeful, and random as they may appear, sidewalk contacts are the small change from which a city’s wealth of public life may grow.”● About now we could use some good news, so let’s turn to Dan Buettner, the charismatic National Geographic host and bestselling author responsible for The Blue Zones: Lessons for Living Longer from the People Who’ve Lived the Longest. After a tour of the world’s longevity hot spots, Buettner takes us through the “Power Nine: the lessons from the Blue Zones, a cross cultural distillation of the world’s best practices in health and longevity.” Lesson One? “Move Naturally.” He explains: “Be active without having to think about it.… Longevity all-stars don’t run marathons or compete in triathlons; they don’t transform themselves into weekend warriors on Saturday morning.

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City 2.0: The Habitat of the Future and How to Get There
by Ted Books
Published 20 Feb 2013

Ironically, it is the places shaped around automobiles that seem most effective at smashing them into each other. The walking cure About now we could use some good news, so let’s turn to Dan Buettner, the charismatic National Geographic host and best-selling author responsible for The Blue Zones: Lessons for Living Longer from the People Who’ve Lived the Longest. After a tour of the world’s longevity hot spots, Buettner takes us through the “Power 9: the lessons from the Blue Zones, a cross-cultural distillation of the world’s best practices in health and longevity.” Lesson 1: Move naturally. Buettner quotes Robert Kane, M.D., the director of the Minnesota Geriatric Education Center, who says, “Rather than exercising for the sake of exercising, try to make changes to your lifestyle.

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Ride a bicycle instead of driving. Walk to the store instead of driving …. Build that into your lifestyle.”20 Like most writers on the subject, Buettner and his sources neglect to discuss how these lifestyle choices are inevitably a function of the design of the built environment. They may be powerfully linked to place — the Blue Zones are zones, after all — but there is scant admission that walking to the store is more possible, more enjoyable, and more likely to become habit in some places than in others. It is those easily walkable places that hold the most promise for the physical health of our society, because they teach us how we can make all American communities more welcoming to pedestrians.

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“Cost of Asthma,” Asthma and Allergy Foundation of America. 15. J.F. Wasik, The Cul-de-Sac Syndrome (New York: Bloomberg Press, 2009), 68. 16. “10 Worst Cities for Asthma,” WebMD. 17. C. Siegel, Unplanning (Berkeley: The Preservation Institute, 2010), 30. 18. Lutz and Lutz Fernandez, 91, 182. 19. Frumkin, Frank, and Jackson, 112. 20. D. Buettner, The Blue Zones: Lessons for Living Longer from the People Who’ve Lived the Longest (Washington, D.C.: National Geographic Society, 2008), 220. 21. “Prevention/APMA 2008 List of Best Walking Cities,” America Walks. Ground-level sensors, aircraft, and a massive laser scanning device atop Mount Wilson combine measurements to continuously gauge the Los Angeles basin’s greenhouse gas emissions.

Pocket London Travel Guide
by Lonely Planet

Diplodocus Skeleton Central Hall It’s hard to match any of the exhibits with the initial sight of the overarching Diplodocus skeleton rising up when you enter the Central Hall just ahead of the main entrance. A herbivorous quadruped, Diplodocus (double beamed lizard) was one of the longest dinosaurs to have lived and weighed in at around twelve to sixteen tons. Dinosaur Gallery Blue Zone Children immediately yank their parents to the fantastic dinosaur gallery (Blue Zone). With an impressive overhead walkway past twitchy-looking Velociraptors, it culminates in the museum’s star attraction down the ramp: the awesome roaring and tail-flicking animatronics T. rex. Make your way back via hands-on exhibits on dinosaurs, including a skeleton of a triceratops (a vegetarian, despite his fearsome appearance).

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Interior of the Natural History Museum KIMBERLEY COOLE/LONELY PLANET IMAGES © Green Zone The galleries here are stuffed with fossils and glass cases of taxidermic birds. Ponder the enormity of the extinct giant ground sloth and visit the excellent Creepy Crawlies room. The thoughtful Ecology section is also here, explaining the delicate relationship between humans and the world they inhabit. Blue Whale Blue Zone Hanging from the ceiling, this life-size mock up of a blue whale is one of the museum’s star attractions. Even bigger than the dinosaurs, the Blue Whale (Balaenoptera musculus) is the largest creature to have existed, weighing two tons at birth, while adult Blue Whales consume over four tons of krill daily!

Lifespan: Why We Age—and Why We Don't Have To
by David A. Sinclair and Matthew D. Laplante
Published 9 Sep 2019

That’s what people have been doing for centuries—without even knowing it—in centenarian-heavy places such as Okinawa, Japan; Nicoya, Costa Rica; and Sardinia, Italy. These are, you might recognize, some of the places the writer Dan Buettner introduced to the world as so-called Blue Zones starting in the mid-2000s. Since that time, the primary focus for those seeking to apply lessons from these and other longevity hot spots has been on what Blue Zone residents eat. Ultimately this resulted in the distillation of “longevity diets” that are based on the commonalities in the foods eaten in places where there are lots of centenarians. And overwhelmingly that advice comes down to eating more vegetables, legumes, and whole grains, while consuming less meat, dairy products, and sugar.

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But the good news is that the epigenome is malleable. Since it’s not digital, it’s easier to impact. We can control the behavior of this analog element of our biology by how we live our lives. The important thing is not just what we eat but the way we eat. As it turns out, there is a strong correlation between fasting behavior and longevity in Blue Zones such as Ikaria, Greece, “the island where people forget to die,” where one-third of the population lives past the age of 90 and almost every older resident is a staunch disciple of the Greek Orthodox church and adheres to a religious calendar that calls for some manner of fasting more than half the year.16 On many days, that means no meat, dairy products, or eggs and sometimes no wine or olive oil, either—for some Greeks, that’s just about everything.

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Suh, “Impaired IGF1R Signaling in Cells Expressing Longevity-Associated Human IGF1R Alleles,” Aging Cell 10, no. 3 (June 2011): 551–54, https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/j.1474-9726.2011.00697. 16. One in three Ikarians reaches the age of 90, and most do so free of dementia and many other chronic diseases of aging. “Ikaria, Greece. The Island where People Forget to Die,” Blue Zones, https://www.bluezones.com/exploration/ikaria-greece/. 17. The fasting extends to 180 days in the year and requires abstinence from primarily dairy products and red-blooded animals and fish, which means that octopus and squid can still be eaten. In the run-up to Holy Communion, fasting encompasses all food.

Overwhelmed: Work, Love, and Play When No One Has the Time
by Brigid Schulte
Published 11 Mar 2014

Emily Alpert, “Happiness Tops in Denmark, Lowest in Togo, Study Says,” Los Angeles Times (World Now blog), April 2, 2012, http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/world_now/2012/04/happiness-world-bhutan-meeting-denmark.html. Dan Buettner’s Blue Zones highlights Denmark as a “blue zone,” where people are healthier, happier, and live longer than in other areas: Buettner, Thrive: Finding Happiness the Blue Zones Way (Washington, D.C.: National Geographic Society, 2008), excerpted in “Lessons from Denmark,” Blue Zones, February 7, 2012, www.bluezones.com/2012/02/lessons-from-denmark/. 28. “Happiest in the World,” Official Website of Denmark, http://denmark.dk/en/meet-the-danes/work-life-balance-the-danish-way/happy-danes/. 29.

The Lonely Century: How Isolation Imperils Our Future
by Noreena Hertz
Published 13 May 2020

Philips and Stewart Wolf, ‘Social readjustment and illness patterns: Comparisons between first, second and third generation Italian-Americans living in the same community’, Journal of Psychosomatic Research 16, no. 6 (October 1972), 387–94, https://doi.org/10.1016/0022-3999(72)90063-3: ‘The first generation reported more changes in family life, the second generation experienced more change in their personal lives and third generation reported more changes with respect to work and financial matters.’ 31 Nicole Spector, ‘“Blue Zones”: 6 secrets to borrow from people who live the longest’, NBC News, 20 October 2018, https://www.nbcnews.com/better/health/blue-zones-6-secrets-borrow-people-who-live-longest-ncna921776. 32 Ibid. 33 See for example Joan B. Silk, ‘Evolutionary Perspectives on the Links Between Close Social Bonds, Health, and Fitness’ in Sociality, Hierarchy, Health: Comparative Biodemography (National Academies Press, 2014), p.6; Zack Johnson, ‘The Brain On Social Bonds: Clues From Evolutionary Relatives’, Society for Personality and Social Psychology, 29 June 2015, http://www.spsp.org/news-center/blog/brain-social-bonds; Mary E.

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By then, the death rate in Roseto had climbed back up to the average due to the ‘erosion of traditionally cohesive family and community relationships’ from the late 1960s and beyond.29 As the wealthiest amongst them started to display their riches in ever more ostentatious ways, as local stores closed down due to the arrival of larger ‘big box’ stores out of town and as single family homes with fenced yards sprung up replacing the multigenerational living set-ups, so did the protective health benefits of their community dissipate.30 Other examples of cohesive communities protecting their members’ health include the lifetime residents of Sardinia and Japan’s Okinawa island, as well as the Seventh-Day Adventists in Loma Linda, California. Their geographies are known as ‘Blue Zones’: places where it is not only diet that accounts for the especially long life expectancy but also the fact that social ties are strong and enduring.31 Places like Bnei Brak or Roseto in the 1950s where, as Dan Buettner, the National Geographic Fellow who coined the term, has said, ‘You can’t walk outside your front door without bumping into somebody you know.’32 It is important not to overly romanticise community.

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Breathtaking: Inside the NHS in a Time of Pandemic
by Rachel Clarke
Published 26 Jan 2021

The first patients with coronavirus arrived in Oxford’s John Radcliffe Hospital in February. They presented to the ED with severe pneumonias only subsequently diagnosed as Covid. Three weeks later, by the first week of March, the entire first floor of the hospital had been dissected into red and blue zones. One Monday morning, the trust’s divisional director responsible for ED, intensive care, acute medicine and anaesthetics gathered his team for an emergency presentation. A particular slide in the PowerPoint leapt out, an architect’s drawing of the reconstructed first floor, with a thick line neatly segregating red from blue.

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How can we do this when Covid tests are currently taking four or more days to come back from a laboratory, yet new patients pour into A&E every hour? As it stands in early April, the UK’s pitiful testing capacity, when compared to similar European countries like Germany, makes a mockery of the red and blue zones which the hospital moved mountains to create in days. By definition, we cannot separate Covid from non-Covid until we know which is which. Yet in the days it takes for a test to be turned around, a single patient could have infected the rest of their ward. I choke down a sudden surge of bitterness and anger.

Beyond Bigger Leaner Stronger: The Advanced Guide to Building Muscle, Staying Lean, and Getting Strong
by Michael Matthews
Published 15 Jun 2014

THE PROBLEMS WITH PALEO The first big problem with Paleo is the stance that one singular way of eating is superior to all others. The longest living populations on the planet are the peoples of Okinawa, Japan; Sardinia, Italy; Nicoya, Costa Rica; Ikaria, Greece; and the Seventh Day Adventists in Loma Linda, California—the Blue Zones, as these geographical locations have been labeled. These people are quite un-Paleo—they don’t eat much animal food and instead live on starch-based diets. To quote an extensive review on their dietary patterns: “…dietary patterns associated with longevity emphasize fruits and vegetables and are reduced in saturated fat, meats, refined grains, sweets, and full-fat dairy products.”247 Equally notable is the wide variation in other aspects of healthy diets, particularly macronutrient intake.

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Borgstrand, J. Soffman, Kerstin Sjöström, and Bo Ahrén. “A Palaeolithic diet improves glucose tolerance more than a Mediterranean-like diet in individuals with ischaemic heart disease.” Diabetologia 50, no. 9 (2007): 1795-1807. 247. Appel, Lawrence J. “Dietary Patterns and Longevity Expanding the Blue Zones.”Circulation 118, no. 3 (2008): 214-215. 248. Heaney, Robert P. “Dairy and bone health.” Journal of the American College of Nutrition 28, no. sup1 (2009): 82S-90S. 249. Josse, Andrea R., Jason E. Tang, Mark A. Tarnopolsky, and Stuart M. Phillips. “Body composition and strength changes in women with milk and resistance exercise.”

The 100-Year Life: Living and Working in an Age of Longevity
by Lynda Gratton and Andrew Scott
Published 1 Jun 2016

A Study of Trends in Workplace Stress Across the Globe’, Regus Research Institute (November 2009). 22Wolfram, H. J. and Gratton, L., ‘Spillover Between Work and Home, Role Importance and Life Satisfaction’, British Journal of Management 25 (1) (2014): 77–90. 23Gratton, L., The Shift: The Future of Work is Already Here (HarperCollins Business, 2011). 24Buettner, D., ‘Blue Zones: Lessons for Living Longer from the People who’ve Lived the Longest’, National Geographic (2008). 25liminality (from the Latin līmen, meaning ‘threshold’). 26Ibarra, H., Working Identity: Unconventional Strategies for Reinventing Your Career (Harvard Business Review Press, 2004). 27Schein, E., ‘Organizational Learning: What is new?’

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Gender diversity at the top of corporations: Making it happen (McKinsey, 2010). 20Bertrand, M., Goldin, C. and Katz, L., ‘Dynamics of the Gender Gap for Young Professionals in the Financial and Corporate Sectors’, American Economic Journal: Applied Economics 2 (2010): 228–55. 21Goldin, ‘A Grand Gender Convergence: Its Last Chapter’. 22‘Women and the Future of Work’, ILO (International Labour Organization) (2015) http://www.ilo.org/wcmsp-132/groups/public/@dgreports/@dcomm/documents/briefingnote/wcms_347,950pdf 23Law firms such as Clearspire in the US or Obelisk in the UK are already developing an online platform that enables home-based lawyers to practise their skills in a more flexible way. 24Coltrance, S., Miller, E., DeHaan, T. and Stewart, L., ‘Fathers and the Flexibility Stigma’, Journal of Social Issues 69 (2) (2013): 279–302. 25Cherlin, A., Marriage, Divorce, Remarriage (Harvard University Press, 1981). 26Buettner, P., The Blue Zones: lessons for living longer from the people who have lived the longest (National Geographic, 2008). 27Ruggles, S., ‘The Transformation of American Family Structure’, American Historical Review 99 (1994): 103–28. 28Kohli, M., ‘The World We Forgot: An Historical Review of the Life Course’, in Marshall, V.

The Mini Rough Guide to Lisbon (Travel Guide eBook)
by Rough Guides
Published 5 Apr 2023

Speed limits are 120km/h (75mph) on motorways, 100km on roads restricted to motor vehicles, 90km/h (56mph) on other roads and 50km/h (37mph) in urban areas. Minimum speeds are posted (in blue) for some motorway lanes and the suspension bridge across the Tagus. Most motorways have tolls. Parking. Unless there’s an indication to the contrary, you can park for as long as you wish. Certain areas are metered. In ‘Blue Zones’, you must buy a ticket from a machine for a designated time period; the ticket should then be displayed on the dashboard of the parked car. Car parks and garages are also available. There is a large car park at Gare do Oriente, if you don’t want to bring your vehicle into the centre of the city.

Berlin Like a Local
by Dk Eyewitness

If you’re out after dark, ensure you have working lights and don’t ride under the influence – having a blood alcohol level above 1.6 (the equivalent of two or three beers) could cost you your driver’s licence. Bike-sharing schemes are a saviour for visitors. Nextbike is the top provider, with tons of docking stations around town. Renting one will set you back €1 per 15 minutes or €10 for the month, and you simply leave it anywhere within the app’s blue zone when you’re done. www.nextbike.de By public transport Berlin’s transport network is a well-oiled machine of 24/7 trains, buses and trams. There are three fare zones: A and B are within the city limits, and C covers parts of surrounding Brandenburg. The easiest way to buy a ticket is on the BVG app; if you opt for a paper ticket, you’ll need to validate it at a time-stamping machine.

Canary Islands Travel Guide
by Lonely Planet

If you are exploring the more mountainous interior of La Palma or Gran Canaria, consider a car with at least a 1600cc engine for smooth handling of those steep winding roads; they are generally among the islands’ most scenic, as well. See the boxed text ‘Pack a Picnic’ (Click here) for one suggested route. Aside from the main coastal resorts, street parking is usually easy to find and often free; blue zones are metered with a limit of up to four hours. If you’re planning to rent a car on the smaller islands of La Gomera and El Hierro, book well in advance, especially in peak season. if you like... Top of section Beaches Deciding on a beach (and there are many) depends on what you want from your sand-between-the-toes experience.

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Bus 1 (€8.35, two hours) departs hourly for Las Palmas. Ferries also run between the port and Puerto Rico (see Click here). CAR There are two underground car parks; the cheapest is on Calle La Mina, signposted as you come into town (€5 maximum per day), and there are generally spaces. There is blue-zone street parking throughout the centre (€3 per four hours). Mogán Just as Puerto de Mogán is a relief from the south coast’s relentless armies of apartments, bungalows and Guinness on tap, so the GC-200 road north from the port is another leap away from the crowds. As it ascends gradually up a wide valley towards Mogán, just 8km away, you pass craggy mountains and orchards of avocados, the main crop in these parts.

Lonely Planet Panama (Travel Guide)
by Lonely Planet and Carolyn McCarthy
Published 30 Jun 2013

Santa Catalina Inn HOTEL $$ ( 6872-3117; www.santacatalinainn.com; d US$55; ) While the roadside location won’t grab you, these good, clean doubles are nonetheless a decent value and the air-con provides needed respite from the heat. A thatched restaurant serves meals. Hot water and private room balconies are a perk. It’s across from Surf and Shake, about 200m from the bus stop. Blue Zone HOSTEL $ ( 6458-5305; www.bluezonepanama.com; campsite per tent US$5, dm/s/d US$10/18/20; ) This attractive adobe hostel has a cluster of dark cement rooms arranged around circular spaces. There’s also a campsite and long-term rates are offered. There are hot showers , free coffee and homemade goodies too.

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Transcend: The New Science of Self-Actualization
by Scott Barry Kaufman
Published 6 Apr 2020

“We’ve gone against our instincts, and we have fewer and fewer moments together,” notes Emma Seppälä. “There is something we are doing here that is profoundly unnatural yet is going against what we really desperately need, which is connection.”77 Maybe we can learn something from cultures that prioritize high-quality connections over belonging and acceptance. BLUE ZONES OF CONNECTION In cultures that foster face-to-face interactions, people tend to be highly satisfied and live long lives. Author and explorer Dan Buettner investigated groups around the world, including the people of Ikaria, a Greek island in the Aegean Sea.78 Living to one hundred is common among the Ikarians.

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Retrieved from http://healthland.time.com/2013/06/03/more-satisfaction-less-divorce-for-people-who-meet-spouses-online. 76. Kross, E., et al. (2013). Facebook use predicts declines in subjective well-being in young adults. PLOS One, 8(8): e69841, https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0069841. 77. Emma Seppälä, personal correspondence, July 1, 2016. 78. Buettner, D. (2017). The blue zones solution: Eating and living like the world’s healthiest people. Washington, DC: National Geographic; Buettner, D. (2012). The island where people forget to die. The New York Times. Retrieved from http://www.nytimes.com/2012/10/28/magazine/the-island-where-people-forget-to-die.html. 79. Buettner, The island where people forget to die. 80.

WTF?: What's the Future and Why It's Up to Us
by Tim O'Reilly
Published 9 Oct 2017

This is the possibility that Keynes foresaw when he wrote: “The strenuous purposeful money-makers may carry all of us along with them into the lap of economic abundance. But it will be those peoples, who can keep alive, and cultivate into a fuller perfection, the art of life itself and do not sell themselves for the means of life, who will be able to enjoy the abundance when it comes.” Research on what demographers Gianni Pes and Michel Poulain called “blue zones”—areas with the highest percentage of centenarians, so-called because they originally marked them with blue circles drawn on a map—identified the key characteristics that lead to longer, happier lives. There were a number of dietary factors (an approach that author Michael Pollan summarized as “Eat food.

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Destiny Breaks It Down,” Dot Esports, April 21, 2015, https://dotesports.com/general/twitch-streaming-money-careers-destiny-1785. 317 get other people to approve of and support your creative projects: Cory Doctorow, Down and Out in the Magic Kingdom (New York: Tor Books, 2003). 318 “something you turned into money”: Hickey, Air Guitar, 45. 318 “Eat food. Not too much. Mostly plants”: Michael Pollan, In Defense of Food (New York: Penguin, 2008). 318 in family and social life: Dan Buettner, The Blue Zones, 2nd ed. (Washington, DC: National Geographic Society, 2012). 319 “something we haven’t seen yet, something we have to invent”: Jennifer Pahlka, “Day One,” January 21, 2017, Medium, https://medium.com/@pahlkadot/day-one-39a0cd5bd886. CHAPTER 15: DON’T REPLACE PEOPLE, AUGMENT THEM 320 Markle Foundation Rework America task force: For more information, see “AMERICA’S MOMENT: Creating Opportunity in the Connected Age,” Markle Foundation, https://www.mar kle.org/rework-america/americas-mo ment. 320 transition from wartime to peaceful employment: Claudia Goldin and Lawrence F.

The Climate Book: The Facts and the Solutions
by Greta Thunberg
Published 14 Feb 2023

Meanwhile, from pavilions just metres away, some Indigenous people are talking about the destruction of their homes; a scientist is explaining the unprecedented melting of Greenland; and a protester, without formal permission to protest, is being ‘debadged’ and escorted out of the ‘Blue Zone’. All go virtually unreported, witnessed only by a few individuals socially distanced around their respective rooms. Thirty-one years after the first IPCC report on climate change, the Blue Zone – the formal, gated venue where negotiations take place and governments showcase their ‘climate action’ – is a microcosm of three decades of failure: of rapidly rising emissions, of climate denial, of expedient technical optimism, of ‘negative emissions’ and, today, of ‘net zero, but not in my term of office’.

I See You Made an Effort: Compliments, Indignities, and Survival Stories From the Edge of 50
by Annabelle Gurwitch
Published 6 Mar 2014

We see a plastic night guard container, a pair of tweezers, a jumbo-sized half-empty bottle of over-the-counter acid reflux medication. The top is gone, having been misplaced during the mad rush to get the bottle open. An assortment of reading that includes: You Can’t Sell Your Teenager on eBay, So Don’t Even Think About It; The Blue Zone Diet—Eating Your Way to a Longer Life; Anger Management for Couples—Yes, You Need it, Too, Not Just Your Partner. Two pairs of reading glasses resting next to each other. A package of AA batteries. OPEN WIDER TO REVEAL: His nightstand. History books. Nazi: A New History of the Third Reich; Nazi: A New History of the Third Reich, Part II; and How the Third Reich Has Been Reinterpreted in New Historical Accounts.

100 Plus: How the Coming Age of Longevity Will Change Everything, From Careers and Relationships to Family And
by Sonia Arrison
Published 22 Aug 2011

In a 1908 article, the New York Times wrote about Metchnikoff’s ideas with great enthusiasm, saying, “Elie Metchnikoff declares human existence may be indefinitely extended—There are realms of life in which death is not natural.”57 Yogurt may not be a miracle drug, but it is a commonly accepted notion that what people eat affects their health. Today, there are tons of books on the market that purport to have the answer to eating for a long life, such as The Longevity Diet, The Okinawa Diet Plan, The Blue Zones, Beyond the 120 Year Diet, The Advanced Mediterranean Diet, and The CR Way. Although most diets cannot prove they actually help to fight aging, there is some evidence to suggest that caloric restriction can have an impact on life expectancy, the science of which we will explore in the next chapter.

Trumpocalypse: Restoring American Democracy
by David Frum
Published 25 May 2020

That’s this book’s grand theme—and I would plead with you to consider this theme as relevant in the hard days ahead as it was when those hard days existed only in my anxieties. Now I feel another anxiety. Trump’s negligence and fecklessness are inflicting unimagined grief and suffering on the United States. The disease will strike harder in the Blue-voting cities than the Red-voting empty spaces, and many in the Blue zone may blame the Red for the miseries ahead. In the next political chapter, there will be little patience for those earnest anthropological expeditions into MAGA-land that once engaged so much media energy. How do you listen to people if you blame their votes for killing your mother before her time?

Work Optional: Retire Early the Non-Penny-Pinching Way
by Tanja Hester
Published 12 Feb 2019

And study after study has shown that those who live lives that feel purposeful are happier than those who simply seek happiness. In Okinawa, Japan, an island known for the extremely long life spans and happiness of its inhabitants, a concept originated called ikigai, which translates roughly to “reason for living,” or the idea that you have a purpose in life that gets you out of bed every day. Dan Buettner, author of Blue Zones: Lessons on Living Longer from the People Who’ve Lived the Longest, says that each place known for its extreme longevity has a similar cultural idea, even if they don’t have a word for it: having a personal purpose focused on playing a role in your community. Truly living your ikigai means being free to engage spontaneously in acts that align to your values, connect you to others, and provide you with a way to feel that your life matters in the grand scheme of things.

The Heart of Business: Leadership Principles for the Next Era of Capitalism
by Hubert Joly
Published 14 Jun 2021

How much of themselves they invest in their work is directly related to how much they feel respected, valued, and cared for, which happens to be what friends do for each other. We cannot exist without connecting with others. In fact, a study has identified that human connections are one of the reasons why people in Blue Zones—five areas around the world, including Okinawa, Japan, and Sardinia, Italy—live a longer and better life.1 Human connections, in this context, include a sense of belonging, putting family first—parents, partners, and children—and supportive social circles. Okinawans, for example, have something known as moais, which are groups of close lifelong friends.

Happy Inside: How to Harness the Power of Home for Health and Happiness
by Michelle Ogundehin
Published 29 Apr 2020

Do it four or five times and you’ll likely save money as well as significantly support your wellbeing. Nevertheless, a diet that contains a degree of good-quality grass-fed meat, fish (small, middle-of-the-food-chain species to limit exposure to mercury), organic eggs and a little dairy produce can be perfectly healthy too. After all, even in the blue zones of the world – those areas where the occupants markedly outlive the rest of us – while their diet is 95% plant-based, on average they also regularly consume small portions (2–3 oz) of meat up to five times a month; eat fish three times a week, and add an egg into their meals about three times per week.

Switzerland
by Damien Simonis , Sarah Johnstone and Nicola Williams
Published 31 May 2006

Getting Around Buses and trolley buses service most destinations (Sfr1.80 up to three stops, Sfr2.80 unlimited stops in central Lausanne for one hour, Sfr8 for 24-hour pass in central Lausanne). The Métro connects Ouchy with Gare (train station) and Flon (same prices as the buses). A second line is being built from Ouchy to Épalinges, in the northern suburbs. Parking in central Lausanne is a headache. In blue zones you can park for free (one-hour limit) with a time disk (see p330). Most white zones are meter parking. Costs vary but can rise to Sfr2 an hour with a two-hour limit. The lower end of Ave des Bains is one of the few streets with some free parking spots. If you need a taxi, call %080 080 58 05 or %084 481 08 10.

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Urban Parking Street parking in the centre (assuming traffic isn’t banned, as it often is) is controlled by parking meters during working hours (8am to 7pm Monday to Saturday). Parking costs around Sfr1 to Sfr1.50 per hour, with maximum time limits from 30 minutes to two hours. Central streets outside these metered areas are usually marked as blue zones, allowing a 1½-hour stay during working hours, or as (increasingly rare) red zones, with a 15-hour maximum. In either of the latter two cases, you need to display a parking disc in your window indicating the time you first parked. Discs are available for free from tourist offices, car-rental companies and police stations.

The Four: How Amazon, Apple, Facebook, and Google Divided and Conquered the World
by Scott Galloway
Published 2 Oct 2017

It’s easier, and more fun, than to turn to the killjoy brain for a predictable cost-benefit analysis, where the answer to “Should I buy this?” is usually “No.” The heart is also powered by the greatest force in history: love. We feel better when we love, nurture, and care for others. We also live longer. The Okinawa Centenarian Study examined the lives of people on the southern Japanese island, one of the world’s blue zones for centenarians. The researchers found that these old folks ate a lot of beans and drank every day (good news) in moderation (bummer).3 They also exercised daily and were social animals.4 Finally, they loved and cared for large groups of people.5 Recent research from the Johns Hopkins University Center on Aging and Health found that caregivers had an 18 percent lower mortality rate than noncaregivers.6 Love keeps you alive.

Listen, Liberal: Or, What Ever Happened to the Party of the People?
by Thomas Frank
Published 15 Mar 2016

She has proposed to build a “Rhode Island Innovation Institute”; to guide the young with “entrepreneurial training”; to set up what her economic plan calls a “concierge service” for startups; to take all the great ideas bubbling up in the state and “commercialize” them by “partnering our world-class colleges and universities with the private sector and philanthropic ventures.”2 Another blue zone that might be worth studying is the extremely Democratic city of Chicago under its current mayor, Rahm Emanuel, who was a close adviser to Presidents Obama and Clinton. Emanuel followed a similar trajectory to Raimondo’s: a fancy education, a brief but lucrative spell at an investment bank, conspicuous battles with public employees (in his case, teachers), and various feats of privatization, such as turning over the cleaning of public schools and the collecting of bus fares to contractors.

Devil Take the Hindmost: A History of Financial Speculation
by Edward Chancellor
Published 31 May 2000

In most cases, White Zone spaces are time-limited. If your space is numbered, key that number into the machine, then pay. Sometimes that’s enough; other times, you must press another button to get a ticket to display in your car. If your space isn’t numbered, then just pay and display your ticket. You can park in Blue Zone spaces if you have a special parking disc, supplied in the glove-box of all rental cars (also available for free from tourist offices, car rental agencies, police stations and banks). Spin the wheel round to show your time of arrival and leave it on your dashboard: this usually gives you ninety minutes’ free parking if you arrive between 8 and 11.30am or between 1.30 and 6pm.

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Destinations Baden (twice hourly; 1hr 10min); Basel (every 30min; 1hr); Biel/Bienne (4 hourly; 30min); Brig (hourly; 1hr 5min); Burgdorf (3 hourly; 15min); Fribourg (every 30min; 20min); Geneva (every 30min; 1hr 45min); Interlaken West & Ost (every 30min; 55min); Langnau (4 hourly; 40min); Lausanne (twice hourly; 1hr 10min); Lucerne (twice hourly; 1hr); Neuchâtel (2 hourly; 35min); Solothurn (every 30min; 45min); Thun (4 hourly; 20min); Zürich (4 hourly; 1hr). By car Most of the centre is off-limits to traffic. Unless you can find a blue-zone space, parking (parkingbern.ch) is expensive; try the large car park at the station (bahnhofparking.ch). Others are at Waisenhausplatz, Casinoplatz and behind the Rathaus. Tourist office Bern’s friendly tourist office is on the upper level of the train station (Mon–Sat 9am–5pm; 031 328 12 12, bern.com).

The Rough Guide to Switzerland (Travel Guide eBook)
by Rough Guides
Published 24 May 2022

In most cases, White Zone spaces are time-limited. If your space is numbered, key that number into the machine, then pay. Sometimes that’s enough; other times, you must press another button to get a ticket to display in your car. If your space isn’t numbered, then just pay and display your ticket. You can park in Blue Zone spaces if you have a special parking disc, supplied in the glove-box of all rental cars (also available for free from tourist offices, car rental agencies, police stations and banks). Spin the wheel round to show your time of arrival and leave it on your dashboard: this usually gives you ninety minutes’ free parking if you arrive between 8 and 11.30am or between 1.30 and 6pm.

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Destinations Baden (twice hourly; 1hr 10min); Basel (every 30min; 1hr); Biel/Bienne (4 hourly; 30min); Brig (hourly; 1hr 5min); Burgdorf (3 hourly; 15min); Fribourg (every 30min; 20min); Geneva (every 30min; 1hr 45min); Interlaken West & Ost (every 30min; 55min); Langnau (4 hourly; 40min); Lausanne (twice hourly; 1hr 10min); Lucerne (twice hourly; 1hr); Neuchâtel (2 hourly; 35min); Solothurn (every 30min; 45min); Thun (4 hourly; 20min); Zürich (4 hourly; 1hr). By car Most of the centre is off-limits to traffic. Unless you can find a blue-zone space, parking (parkingbern.ch) is expensive; try the large car park at the station (bahnhofparking.ch). Others are at Waisenhausplatz, Casinoplatz and behind the Rathaus. Tourist office Bern’s friendly tourist office is on the upper level of the train station (Mon–Sat 9am–5pm; 031 328 12 12, bern.com).

Legacy of Empire
by Gardner Thompson

In place of Ottoman rule, there would be ‘protected’ Arab states, both north and south of the line. These would be subject to, respectively, French and British influence (financial, economic, political). Moreover, as illustrated on an accompanying coloured map of the region, within each sphere there were to be special zones, for ‘direct administration or control’: a blue zone in the north (including Alexandretta, the north-east Mediterranean port, and Damascus) for France; and a red zone in the south (the northwestern shores of the Persian Gulf and extending north through Basra to Baghdad) for Britain. The signatories agreed that no changes in these arrangements should be made by one party without the prior consent of the other.

Life Inc.: How the World Became a Corporation and How to Take It Back
by Douglas Rushkoff
Published 1 Jun 2009

How else to know you’re in a good neighborhood, or that you’ve “made it”? It wasn’t enough for a house to provide shelter and comfort in the real world; it also had to be a good growth investment in a manufactured one. It wasn’t enough for a neighborhood to provide good schools, water, parks, and neighbors; it also had to be a racially stable “blue” zone, with very little income variation and, ideally, some good press. We behaved like corporations ourselves, extracting the asset value of our homes and moving on with our families, going into more debt and assuming we’d have the chance to do it again. As long as prices went up, it seemed as if everyone was simply doing better.

The Rough Guide to Prague
by Humphreys, Rob

You must also give way to trams, and, if there’s no safety island at a tram stop, must stop immediately and allow passengers to get on and off. The other big nightmare is parking. There are three colour-coded parking zones, with pay-and-display meters: the orange zone allows you to park for up to two hours; the green zone allows you up to six hours; the blue zone is for locals only. Illegally parked cars will either be clamped or towed away – if this happens, phone T 158 to find out the worst. If you’re staying outside the centre, you’ll have no problems; if you’re at a hotel in the centre, they’ll probably have a few parking spaces reserved for guests, though whether you’ll find one vacant is another matter.

The Rough Guide to Vienna
by Humphreys, Rob

Bicycles can be taken on the U- and S-Bahn from Monday to Friday between 9am and 3pm and after 6.30pm, and from 9am on Saturdays and Sundays. You must buy a half-price ticket for your bike. Cars are really not necessary for getting around Vienna. If, however, you arrive in the city by car and need to park, it’s as well to know the parking restrictions in a blue zone (Blauzone), or short-term parking zone (Kurzparkzone), which will be marked by a “beginning” (Anfang) and an end (Ende). In general, the maximum length of stay in the first district (Altstadt or Innere Stadt) is ninety minutes (Mon–Fri 9am–7pm, Sat as indicated on sign); in the second to ninth districts (inner suburbs or Vorstädte), and in the twentieth district, you can park for up to two hours (Mon–Fri 9am–8pm, Sat as indicated on sign).

Canary Islands Travel Guide
by Lonely Planet

Bus 1 (€8.75, two hours) departs hourly for Las Palmas. Ferries also run between the port and Puerto Rico (adult/child €6.50/3.50, 30 minutes) . Car There are two underground car parks; the cheapest is on Calle La Mina, signposted as you come into town, and there are generally spaces. There is blue-zone street parking throughout the centre (€1.80 per hour). Mogán Pop 1415 Just as Puerto de Mogán is a relief from the south coast’s relentless armies of apartments, bungalows and Guinness on tap, so the GC-200 road north from the port is another leap away from the crowds. As it ascends gradually up a wide valley towards Mogán, just 8km away, you pass craggy mountains and orchards of avocados, the main crop in these parts.

Lonely Planet Switzerland
by Lonely Planet

Train You can travel by train to and from Geneva (Sfr22.40, 35 to 50 minutes, up to six hourly), Geneva Airport (Sfr27, 45 to 50 minutes, up to four hourly) and Bern (Sfr33, 65 to 70 minutes, one or two hourly). 8Getting Around Remember to collect your free Lausanne Transport Card for unlimited use of public transport during your stay. Car & Motorcycle Parking in central Lausanne is a headache. In blue zones you can park for free (one-hour limit) with a time disk, which you'll find in your rental car. Most white zones are meter parking. Costs vary, but max out around Sfr3 an hour with a strict two-hour limit. Public Transport Lausanne is the smallest city in the world to have its own fully fledged metro system, and its 28 stations make it a cinch to get around.

Ireland (Lonely Planet, 9th Edition)
by Fionn Davenport
Published 15 Jan 2010

There is music at the weekends; check the website. John Benny’s ( 066-915 1215; Strand St) Lively trad, set dancing and singing are on offer from 9.30pm Monday, Wednesday, Friday and Saturday. An Droichead Beag (Small Bridge Bar; 066-915 1723; Lower Main St) Traditional music kicks off at 9.30pm nightly at this raucous pub by the bridge. Blue Zone ( 066-915 0303; Green St; 6pm-1am Tue-Thu, to 2am Fri & Sat, to 12.30am Sun) Late-night hang-out with Corona, San Miguel and pizzas on the menu and live music on Tuesday and Thursday. Shopping Amid Fungie flotsam there are shops with beautiful goods by local artisans. An Gailearaí Beag ( 066-915 2976; Main St) A showcase for the work of the West Kerry Craft Guild, selling ceramics, paintings, wood carvings, photography, batik, jewellery, stained glass and much more.

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An Gailearaí Beag ( 066-915 2976; Main St) A showcase for the work of the West Kerry Craft Guild, selling ceramics, paintings, wood carvings, photography, batik, jewellery, stained glass and much more. Brian de Staic ( 066-915 1298; www.briandestaic.com; Green St) This local jewellery designer’s exquisite modern Celtic work includes symbols, crosses and standing stones. Dingle Record Shop ( 087 298 4550; Green St) Tucked under jazz venue Blue Zone, this crammed and jammed music store has all the good stuff you can’t download yet. Lisbeth Mulcahy ( 066-915 1688; Green St) Beautiful scarves, rugs and wall hangings are created on a 150-year-old loom by this long-established designer. Also sold here are ceramics by her husband, who has a workshop at Louis Mulcahy Pottery, west of Dingle.

Lonely Planet London City Guide
by Tom Masters , Steve Fallon and Vesna Maric
Published 31 Jan 2010

The V&A also has an excellent program of talks, workshops and events, plus one of the best museum shops around. NATURAL HISTORY MUSEUM Map 7942 5000; www.nhm.ac.uk; Cromwell Rd SW7; admission free; 10am-5.50pm; South Kensington; This mammoth institution is dedicated to the Victorian pursuit of collecting and cataloguing. Walking into the Life galleries (Blue Zone) in the 1880 Gothic Revival building off Cromwell Rd evokes the musty moth-eaten era of the Victorian gentleman scientist. The main museum building, with its blue and sand-coloured brick and terracotta, was designed by Alfred Waterhouse and is as impressive as the towering diplodocus dinosaur skeleton in the Central Hall just ahead of the main entrance.

Pauline Frommer's London: Spend Less, See More
by Jason Cochran
Published 5 Feb 2007

The commodious NHM, good for several hours’ wander, has all that, of course, and more. Organization is a cut above, since pathways through exhibits are clearly marked and plenty of plain-speaking signs and hands-on exhibits for kids are placed at their eye level. Even the dinosaur bones (in the Blue Zone) are supplemented by scary robotic estimations of how they sounded and moved. The mock-up of an average middle-class kitchen infested with various vermin (the Green Zone) is a visitor favorite, as is the Red Zone (the Earth Galleries), a multimedia display about how the planet works. It could all take hours, and that’s before you consider the welcome new addition of the Darwin Centre (% 020/7942-5011; free admission; 45-min. tour; ages 8 or older).

Lonely Planet Iceland
by Lonely Planet

Car and camper hire for the countryside are available at both airports, the BSÍ bus terminal and some city locations. City speed limits are usually 50km/h (30mph) unless posted otherwise. Seatbelts are required. It is illegal to use a mobile phone while driving. Parking Street parking in the city centre is limited and costs kr250 per hour in the 'Red Zone', kr125 per hour in the 'Blue Zone' and kr90 per two hours in the 'Green Zone' (coins and ATM or credit cards with PIN only); you must pay between 9am and 6pm from Monday to Friday and from 10am to 4pm Saturday; outside those hours it's free. Parking outside the city centre is free. Vitatorg Car Park ( GOOGLE MAP ; 1st hour kr80, subsequent hours kr50; h7am-midnight) Covered parking lot.

Seveneves
by Neal Stephenson
Published 19 May 2015

A compulsion for privacy was hardly unusual for a Julian living and working in Blue. The Julian part of the ring, centered on the Tokomaru habitat, was the least populous of the eight segments. Ninety-five percent of it lay on the Red side of the turnpike. Only a tiny sprinkling of habitats projected east of Kiribati into the Blue zone, and in those the Julians had been diluted by the more numerous and aggressive Teklans, whose segment lay just on the far side of the Hawaii boneyard. Thus the Julians had maintained enough of a presence in Blue that they could live and work in it without being seen as aliens, or immigrants. Many of them were “dukhos,” playing approximately the same role in modern society as priests had done pre-Zero.

Central Europe Travel Guide
by Lonely Planet

Other tickets, including day (€5) and week (€12.80) passes, must be bought from the automatic machines at stops or Tabak shops. Car & Motorcycle The majority of the Old Town is pedestrianised. The nearest central parking area is the Altstadt Garage under the Mönchsberg. Attended car parks cost €1.40 to €2.40 per hour. On streets with automatic ticket machines (blue zones), a three-hour maximum applies (€0.50 for 30 minutes) between 9am and 7pm Monday to Friday and 9am and 4pm Saturday. AROUND SALZBURG Schloss Hellbrunn A prince-archbishop with a wicked sense of humour, Markus Sittikus built Italianate Schloss Hellbrunn (www.hellbrunn.at; Fürstenweg 37; adult/child €9.50/4.50; 9am-5.30pm, to 9pm Jul & Aug) as a 17th-century summer palace and an escape from his Residenz functions.

The Rough Guide to Ireland
by Clements, Paul
Published 2 Jun 2015

Mon–Thurs 10.30am–11.30pm, Fri & Sat 10.30am–12.30am, Sun 10.30am–11pm. An Droichead Beag At the bottom of Main St 066 915 1723. A cosy, popular spot, “The Small Bridge” has great sessions just about every night at 9/9.30pm, usually followed by a DJ. Mon–Thurs 3pm–late, Fri–Sun noon–late. The Blue Zone Above the Dingle Record Shop on Green St 066 915 0303. For something completely different, head for this late-night wine bar, which offers jazz (Thurs & Fri in winter, most nights, though not Sat, in summer) and tasty pizzas. Daily 5.30pm–late.

The Rough Guide to England
by Rough Guides
Published 29 Mar 2018

Natural History Museum Cromwell Rd, SW7 5BD • Daily 10am–5.50pm • Free • 020 7942 5000, nhm.ac.uk • South Kensington Alfred Waterhouse’s purpose-built mock-Romanesque colossus ensures the status of the Natural History Museum as London’s most handsome museum, both an important resource for serious zoologists and a major tourist attraction. The central Hintze Hall is dominated by a full-size, 25m blue-whale skeleton, dramatically suspended from the ceiling. The rest of the museum is divided into four colour-coded zones. The Blue Zone includes the ever-popular Dinosaur gallery, with its fossils and grisly life-sized animatronic dinosaurs. Popular sections over in the Green Zone include the Creepy-Crawlies, and the excellent Investigate centre, where children aged 7 to 14 get to play at being scientists (you need to obtain a timed ticket; reserved for school groups in term-time mornings).

Spain
by Lonely Planet Publications and Damien Simonis
Published 14 May 1997

PARKING Most of Madrid is divided up into clearly marked blue or green street-parking zones. In both areas, parking meters apply from 9am to 8pm Monday to Friday and from 9am to 3pm on Saturday; the Saturday hours also apply daily in August. In the green areas, you can park for a maximum of one hour (or keep putting money in the metre every hour) for €1.80. In the blue zones, you can park for two hours for €2.55. There are also private parking stations all over central Madrid. Should your car disappear, call the Grúa Municipal (city towing service; 91 787 72 92). Getting it back costs €138.70 plus whatever fine you’ve been given. Cercanías The short-range cercanías regional trains operated by Renfe (www.renfe.es/cercanias in Spanish), the national railway company, go as far afield as El Escorial, Alcalá de Henares, Aranjuez and other points in the Comunidad de Madrid.