by Tom | Oct 7, 2011 | Hong Kong / China, Reading
Huaxi: the village that towers above China takes a look at a city in Eastern China that has gone from “a small village to a multi-billion dollar conglomerate” in 40 years and is now looking to industries such as tourism to support its continuing growth. As...
by Tom | Oct 6, 2011 | Government, Reading
Really interesting summary: the war on drugs has been lost despite falling rates of drug use in many countries. Let’s legalise and regulate just as Argentina, Mexico, Portugal and Spain have. Doesn’t have to lead to increases in drug taking or drug...
by Tom | Sep 30, 2011 | Reading
Rampant cheating at Chinese games In perhaps the most far-fetched example of cheating, however, a male team at the 2006 Ethnic Minority Games put on wigs to try to win the female dragon boat racing competition. If only we’d thought of it!
by Tom | Sep 16, 2011 | Business, Hong Kong / China, Reading
Tiger vs. Dragon: A Demographic Comparison of India and China. A welcome reminder that China is ahead at present, but may not be for all time.
by Tom | Sep 10, 2011 | Reading, Science
This is something we all need to understand, and to check whether studies use it or not. You can’t just compare differences in outcomes between two populations, you need to compare the difference in differences. This tends to reduce the size of the effect and...
by Tom | Sep 9, 2011 | Reading, Tech
Apparently old technology doesn’t die and new technology is still too hard to get our heads around.
