by Tom | Mar 11, 2014 | Reading
This is brilliant and I can't believe it has taken me over a decade to hear about it. Great exposition by Michael Crichton.Media carries with it a credibility that is totally undeserved. You have all experienced this, in what I call the Murray Gell-Mann Amnesia...
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by Tom | Feb 25, 2014 | Hong Kong / China, Reading
These are brilliant. As Wiffy says, a great window into the culture. The anarchist umbrella monk is the oddest; the slappy ghost and telephone congee are my favourites. Cantonese Proverbs in...
by Tom | Feb 2, 2014 | Reading
Looks like we should be taking this seriously now? I wonder how it will play out. http://mobile.nytimes.com/blogs/kristof/2014/02/01/an-open-letter-from-dylan-farrow/
by Tom | Jan 30, 2014 | Reading
Horrifying dissection of a Daily Mail article on immigrants to the UK. Sounds more like storytelling than journalism. Great response, too and a much longer deconstruction if you can stomach it. 13 reasons why I am taking the Daily Mail to the Press Complaints...
by Tom | Jan 30, 2014 | Reading
A heartening thought from Bill Gates and some more detailed analysis of it from Quartz. We will have to find new ways of describing the world. I already struggle with what to call China. Maybe just a country rather than a developing, partly-developed, middle-income or...
by Tom | Jan 25, 2014 | Personal, Reading, View
This is a must-read. And watch his 4,000 dollar questions and the subsequent ads. Mind officially blown. Must find out more. He participated in several arctic journeys (including a 1000-mile dogsled trip across Greenland), starred in an Oscar-winning film, wrote more...
