GOOD MORNING, UPPER VALLEY!
And welcome to CoffeeBreak. This is the stand-in for Daybreak until Aug. 23—just a playful little diversion until the grownup version returns. Thanks for hanging with it so far... Just a couple more weeks!In the mood for summer? Consider vacationing in Vermont, which has "a surprisingly low crime rate." No, not satire. It's a piece in Britain's Travel Weekly. It ran a couple of years ago, but articles that get things slightly wrong just never go out of date. Like, around Stowe there are "hundreds of hectares of rolling green pastures and lush woodland – a veritable feast of Canadian sugar maple." Stowe, Jay, the Mad River, Burlington... It's pretty refreshing to see the state through someone else's eyes, but maybe they should keep their voices down when talking sugar maple..."If you have fish photos, I'm swiping left." We don't want to ignore the eastern side of the river, either. A while back, the fantastic NHPR podcast Outside/In did an episode on online dating and how de rigueur it had become on the New Hampshire scene to be outdoorsy -- or is that outdoorsesque? "Eighty percent of profiles, the first thing you see is hiking," says one guy. "Makes me wonder how there aren't massive traffic jams of human beings on every mountain in New Hampshire every weekend." Oh, and also, guys posing with fish. And women, as that first line suggests, who aren't interested in guys who fish. It's a dating jungle out there.Wait. He's putting Titan ahead of Enceladus? Neel V. Patel is the space reporter for MIT Technology Review, and back in June he set out to rank the top ten prospects in the solar system where life might be found. Sure, it's a bit of space geekery...but it's also a really intriguing tour of various planets and moons, from the sulfur dioxide frost on Io to the underground ocean on Ganymede that might contain more water than all the oceans on Earth.
Growing up, English sisters Emily, Jessica, and Camilla (known as Milly) Staveley-Taylor figured they'd try to create a sketch-comedy troupe together. Instead, they turned into the indie folk trio The Staves. Back in 2012, in the middle of a US tour, they found themselves on a Manhattan rooftop on a biting December night,
It works in the middle of the summer, too.
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