Posts tagged “China”

Berry Go Round #17

Welcome to the 17th edition of Berry Go Round!  Before you get started here, you may want to check out the 16th edition hosted at Quiche Moraine.  It’s full of exciting posts on mutualism. GrannyJ’s A garland of leaves at Walking Prescott, is a beautifully illustrated post comparing the shapes and colors of a variety […]

What I’ve Noticed

A beautiful post on hierarchies and judgement within marginalized communities. The Skeptic’s Book of Pooh-Pooh points out an awesome news story on the danger anti-vaxers create for children in their communities.  The anti-vaxers hypocrisy is also on display in their support of chemical castration for autistic boys. We can’t expect toxic products to stop coming […]

What I’ve Noticed

What gender expectations do to people. Settlers of Catan really is the perfect board game.  I should buy my own soon. China refuses to participate in an important awareness raising climate change action in order to celebrate “Serf Liberation Day” – when the Dalai Lama was kicked out of Tibet. Oh propaganda. If the Obama […]

Have you really had an English class?

I’m looking for a new housemate right now and put up an ad on Craigslist.  I’ve been emailing back and forth with a few people and am pretty sure I’ll find someone by this weekend.  I’m trying not to discriminate based on grammar and spelling, but some of the responses I get are pretty terrible.  […]

What I’ve Noticed

PZ points out the ridiculousness of Pat Boone’s article equating the attack in Mumbai with Prop 8 backlash. China and India will follow the US on climate change policy, but countries like Mexico are leading the way. Dr. Isis has an inspiring post up on being a woman in science.  And believe me, we need […]

What I’ve noticed

Beautiful liquid sculptures by Sachiko Kodama at Le territoire des sens. China sets up areas for protests, then says no one meets their requirements to have a protest.  When I lived in China, I found that no one liked to tell me “no.”  If they didn’t want something to happen they just made some sort […]

Spring Break, day 5: Lotusland part 4

The gardeners recently put in this small garden designed to attract beneficial insects so they could cut down on the insecticides they used to deal with pests. The really interesting part of this picture, though, is the tree in the center: a dawn redwood. The dawn redwood is a very interesting tree with a very […]