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You’d think that Hualien, perched against the Pacific Ocean and separated by mountains from the concrete jungles of Taiwan’s West Coast, would be as

Whenever Darwin encountered a “published fact” or “new observation” that contradicted one of his beliefs, he forced himself to “make a memorandum of

Do you find it difficult to keep up with all the links I post to Facebook or Twitter? Well, since the start of the year I’ve been contributing my

for instance; derived from the Portuguese ‘balde’, it probably referred originally to ship’s buckets: today, no Indian

To scan the lines of his face, or feel the bumps on the head of this Leviathan; this is a thing which no Physiognomist or Phrenologist has as yet

It is, however, a standard tactic of the people at the top in China to attribute the ordeals of the populace to misbehavior by lower officials and

Towards the end of Please Don’t Beat Me, Sir! there is an interview with two boys who had written a play about the Budhan Theatre library: Harry and

I thought, as I looked out to the sea, this island that turned in on itself, and from which water had been banished. The

I love Treme, Season 3 seems to have found a kind of groove that is unlike anything I’ve ever seen before on TV. Narrative as improvisational jazz.

describes a group of young Amis people who try to convince their elders to name them “La Michael” so as to commemorate

The NY Times reports some on some “really alarming trends in life expectancy” among poor whites: The decline among the least educated non-Hispanic

…the Schmittian concept of the political in reality participates in one of the most venerable illusions of the Western metaphysical tradition:

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