As early '90s science fiction films go, there are few more terrifying than Jurassic Park. How else would we have learned not to trust science, dinosaurs, lawyers, Jeff Goldblum, any Attenborough, jeeps, fathers, embryos, Samuel L. Jackson, large plants, shaving cream, and history?

The 22 June match between Greece and Germany at Euro 2012 gave pundits who like to explain the complex global economic system by way of over-wrought sporting analogies another chance to explain the complex global economic system by way of an over-wrought sporting analogy.

Drew Gough gets out of Hanoi, the city of scams and grief. In part two of The Long Road to Bangkok, he explores the sea and the rails, winding up somewhere near Danang on the Central Coast of Vietnam.

Not all travel is easy, nor should it be. Drew Gough found that reflecting on and writing about travel isn't necessarily easy, either. In this, part one of a four-part series, he recounts the difficulty of looking back at an overland journey from Hanoi to Bangkok. Not to mention the difficulty of being ripped off at every turn.

Drew Gough finally got his hands on a copy of Lapham's Quarterly (all 200-plus pages of the Future Issue) and -- that's right! -- read it. Now he can't stop thinking about how, in the year 2525, if we are still alive, if humans can survive, we may find...

It's been a week of reflection here at Thought Out Loud. As Remembrance Day draws near, the editors try to make sense of our military history and, generally, of remembering.

We've all been there. And by "we," we mean "the editors of Thought Out Loud." And by "there," we mean "living abroad," but also that hard-to-define moment when, while living abroad, something familiar has triggered an unpredictable onrushing of emotions: homesickness, absence, loss, longing. Often, these triggers are brands. Why do we connect ourselves to brands? We try to think it out.

Shanghai: the Paris of the East. A legendary city of myth and legend. And expectations. Travelling in Shanghai -- and China, in a larger sense -- is half about trying to fulfill the expectations of what travelling in Shanghai should be, writes Drew Gough.

As the Home Issue draws near its close, Drew Gough revisits the time he spent living abroad and argues that once you leave, you're always gone. He calls this modern, privileged affliction the nomad's curse.